This month, Gail Slater, Roger Alfred, and the rest of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in federal court that should have every American cheering. In plain terms, it slammed the media–Big Tech cartel and declared that this partnership cannot silence people who are exercising their free speech rights.

Let that sink in. After years of government pressure campaigns, algorithmic blocking, and behind-the-scenes collusion to muzzle dissent, the Trump DOJ just declared, in court, that Americans have the right to speak freely online, even if that speech makes powerful people uncomfortable.

It is a bombshell moment for free speech, and a clear sign that the Trump DOJ is doing what Biden’s DOJ never would: defending the Constitution instead of shredding it.

I speak with authority on this subject as I was one of the plaintiffs — one of the voices they tried to silence.

During the COVID pandemic, I raised basic questions about lockdowns, mandates, and the origins of the virus. For that, I got shadow-banned, censored, and blocked. Alongside others like Children’s Health Defense, founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit, I joined a lawsuit exposing the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), where legacy media giants like the Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, and the Associated Press banded together with Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

Their stated mission is to “combat misinformation,” but in my view, their real goal is to protect their power, influence, and media enterprises, which are worth........

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