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Review: When Banks Do the Government's Bidding

Transaction Denied explains how the feds pressure banks to punish disfavored groups like the NRA.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | From the August/September 2026 issue

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Financial institutions have become a tool for suppressing speech.

Rainey Reitman learned this in 2011, when PayPal froze the account of a group she was working with to help free whistleblower Chelsea Manning. After negative publicity, PayPal reinstated the account—but Reitman's interest in what she calls "financial........

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