John Thune

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) ultimately was elected to lead Republicans as they took a majority in the Senate following the 2024 election red wave. But what transpired before today’s leadership vote surrounding free speech and censorship contextualizes the direction Republicans have chosen to take on the important constitutional issue.

Did you survive the budget cuts from the last debt ceiling fight? President Joe Biden called them “draconian,” while Republicans praised the deal’s “historic reductions in spending.” But both parties conned us, as my new video explains. What they call “cuts” were just a reduction in their planned spending increase. Instead of raising spending by 7.8%, they increased it by “only” 3.9%. Only…

A new proposed bill in the Senate would make it easier for the president to ban the pro-censorship, Chinese Communist government-tied app TikTok.

Along with appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, Vice President Kamala Harris joined Wednesday’s CBS Mornings to promote President Biden’s agenda following Tuesday’s State of the Union address and, while it was plenty soft, it got even more cuddly as co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King twice tried to make sure Harris was “feeling okay” in reference to a series of hit…

Google is burying the campaign websites of its fiercest critics on Capitol Hill. 

The Republican National Committee told MRC Free Speech America that Gmail suppressed over 22 million GOP get-out-the-vote and fundraising emails Wednesday through Friday.

Republican politicians knocked Google’s newly approved email plan, suggesting it doesn’t  go far enough to ensure GOP fundraising emails reach Gmail users’ inboxes.

Republican senators are calling on Google to take quicker action after the company recently asked the Federal Election Commission to approve a pilot program to address concerns that Gmail’s spam algorithm disproportionately affects GOP electioneering campaigns.

Twenty-seven Senate Republicans led by Sen. John Thune (R-SD) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would ban email providers from using algorithms that mark certain political campaign emails as spam.

Joe Scarborough is at it again: getting fixated on a word or phrase, and repeating it ad nauseam. Joe might think he's being impactful, but eventually, people become inured and bored by his endless repetition. We've documented sad Scarborough's verbal fixations before, on everything from "bedbugs" to "toilets." Scarborough's hobbyhorse o' the day on Morning Joe was "prairie dogs." In…

During an interview with Republican South Dakota Senator John Thune on Friday’s CBS Mornings, the hosts repeatedly pressed the GOP lawmaker on his pro-life positions. At one point, fill-in co-host Dana Jacobson even suggested that the abortion debate focused too much on the rights of unborn children and not enough on women.

Congress and Big Tech are still battling it out over which will have more control over the online speech of Americans. A new bipartisan congressional bill would allow users to experience social media without the algorithms.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey of making a "false" statement "under oath" at a hearing on Big Tech censorship. The senator complained that Dorsey said the bombshell “@nypost story alleging Biden’s CCP corruption” could be tweeted. “Still blocked,” tweeted Cruz. The fallout was the perfect top to a contentious hearing. Senate Republicans had been itching to confront…