Thread by @Eric_Schmitt

This is one I'm especially excited about. Sarah Rogers is a free speech champion—and we've worked together on some of the big anti-censorship fights of the past few years.

Another sign that this State Department is serious about dismantling the censorship-industrial complex.

Today, Sarah had her confirmation hearing for Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy at the State Department.

Under Biden, that position effectively served as a U.S. "censorship czar."

Sarah is going to help this administration transform it into a "free speech czar" role instead.

This is a big issue for me—going back to my days as Missouri AG. We filed the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit that exposed how the last administration was wielding agencies like the State Department to build a vast global censorship enterprise:

https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1899826920419664131

Sarah and I fought in the trenches together on a lot of those battles. We first connected when she was representing @charliekirk11 in connection with a web of censorship efforts that sought to silence him and other Americans—a conspiracy I challenged in the Supreme Court.

She represented the NRA in challenging Letitia James' corrupt “de-banking” campaign at the Supreme Court—and won a 9-0 victory. She supported Texas' efforts to curtail tech censorship. She's going to be a champion for free speech—not just in America, but across the Western world.

This is just another example that—for the first time in a long time—conservatives are winning on the big fights that matter. We've got momentum in our sails. We've got a rockstar team in the Trump administration. And the Left is on the run.
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