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The Luciferian alliance of big government, mainstream media and Silicon Valley.

I heard on the internet, and you won't hear it on major Marxist media outlets (not reported or even discussed), that:

• More than 9 million children in America face hunger with no food — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them
• Thirty-four thousand veterans in America are homeless — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them
• Eight million Americans are working two jobs to afford inflation — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them
• The U.S. southern border is being overrun, and Border Patrol can't keep up with record numbers — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them
• Sixty-one percent of Americans can't afford to buy a house to raise a family — Biden hasn't asked for an aid package for them.
• The U.S. tax system is nothing but a giant bank for everyone except Americans. How much longer can we sustain this?

Those straightforward and truthful observations are coming from Twitter account Travis, who happens to be about 50 miles up the road from us here at Church Militant. He's a good dude.

Major media, Giant Tech and Big Social Media can't let those kinds of discussions break out, because they evolve into further more-pressing questions, which, in the end, lead to the unraveling of the carefully constructed Marxist narrative, a narrative whose sole purpose is to keep people dumb so they can be controlled.

Marxism is from Hell because its single starting point, its foundational principle, is denying the inherent God-given dignity of every human being. Marxism is atheistic by its very nature. There's no escaping that. And since its author is the Devil, we know, as Our Blessed Lord told us, "There is no truth in him"; He was [a liar and] a murderer from the beginning."

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America is fracturing under immorality and corruption.

America is breaking apart. In some respects, it already has.

People are fleeing blue states at an increasing rate and taking up residence in red states. That often means leaving family, jobs and comfort behind. They don't want their children being raised in a tyrannical environment where immorality and corruption are exalted as goods, so, as has happened throughout human history, they flee.

The entire American experience, in fact, is predicated on that very reality — from the War of Independence to the waves of mostly Catholic immigrants a century or so later, normal average people wanting to be left alone to live their lives and raise their families in decency and honesty, not threatened with tyranny and all its associated limits on freedom (its phony justice system, prison and even executions).

Pushed far enough and inspired by protecting those they love, people start shooting at some point. That's why the findings of not one but two recent public surveys are so telling, that near majorities, 43% and 46%, believe there will be a civil war in the United States within the next 10 years.

Personally, given the trajectory, I don't believe it will be that long — again, if affairs continue at this pace. But that's just my personal opinion. People will only take so much for so long, especially when their children are in harm's way. But before the blood potentially flows, other avenues must be pursued. Whether they will be fruitful remains to be seen, and it is the proverbial case of crossing that bridge when we come to it.

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Power in your hands.

Despite various court rulings in cases touching on government censoring free speech, the reality remains that private companies do it left, right and center. And private includes social media as well as Big Tech companies.

What many people don't stop and think about is that the First Amendment only protects against the government stifling your speech. It says nothing about companies doing so. And so companies do. Routinely.

They also simply refuse to do business with you if the censorship gang gets to them and accuses you of anything they don't like. That has happened to us here at Church Militant too many ways to count, from Amazon Smile crossing us off their "acceptable charities" list (even though Planned Parenthood is still on) to video hosting service Vimeo bouncing us a few years back, to our own long-time business insurance company dropping us because of our conservative output. Our former accounting agency did the same, as the list just goes on, from direct mail companies to billboard advertising to internet advertising — one by one, across the board.

The stifling of Church Militant has truly been something to behold. It's an enforcement of the woke brand, without it being done by the government.

But since corporate America, including social media giants, all see eye to eye with the Marxist swamp in D.C., they do the politicians' bidding because they are in perfect lockstep with them. In fact, this is actually more effective than the government trying to do it, because the companies are essentially bulletproof, proving the old adage that there's more than one way to skin a cat.

They can deny service and they don't have to tell you why. And that's just the way it is. If you don't like it, sue 'em. But after a few years as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars, don't be surprised if you lose anyway.

So political conservatives, including many orthodox Catholics, have been relegated to the land of "make it up as you go along." We've sort of been forced to. There are various topics and various words you simply cannot say out loud on major social media platforms or you'll get shut down, get a strike against you, canceled, whatever.

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Catholic bishops' dirty money is funding Biden's border invasion.

As Church Militant continues hammering on the U.S. bishops' full-throated support for policies that undermine both the republic and the Church, word is really starting to get out. Last week in D.C., we had private discussions with various people on Capitol Hill about not just the illegal immigration issue the bishops are completely down with, but also their support for the economically unsound agenda of rabid environmentalism which is chock-full of phony science and economic destruction for the nation.

The claim that man changes the weather is totally unfounded scientifically, but with the Marxist control of every major institution, it is virtually accepted as scientific fact. It is not. On Tuesday, Nov. 14, in Baltimore, Church Militant, along with our other partners in the Deposit of Faith Coalition, will be holding another press conference like we did in D.C. in July. This time, the topic is on challenging the phony claims about the environment.

Our last press event on illegal immigration garnered more than 25 million impressions from politically conservative media outlets who attended and reported the story, and then others who later picked up the story (including The Epoch Times, Media Research Center and PJ Media). Steve Bannon as well as Info Wars were also happy to talk about the effort of the coalition in advance.

So we'd like to ask for your help in financing this important event. Catholic media outlets never report on this political connection, with the bishops helping to undermine the nation by supporting the Democrat–communist agenda.

Likewise, just as with immigration, the bishops pull down all kinds of tax money and incentives pushing part of the Marxist agenda as well. Appearing on stage and presenting to the media the Deposit of Faith Coalition will be Nobel laureate Dr. John Clowser, who will show why all of this is a total scam and phony science.

Likewise, another presenter to the media will be award-winning international journalist Alex Newman, who will discuss the weaponization of religion to push scientific alarmism.

So please click on the provided link to make whatever donation you can. We are gaining the momentum and cannot let up.

And if you doubt for an instant that Church Militant is not the leader in spearheading pushback and change against a corrupt hierarchy complicit in the phony environment claims, as well as the horrors of illegal immigration, just look for yourself at how the powerhouse politically conservative media are starting to pay attention to our message.

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Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) blows the lid off massive migrant scandal.

I'm Michael Voris coming to you from Washington, D.C., where the U.S. bishops will very likely soon be experiencing a type of demand for accountability normally reserved to the Holy See.

The issue is the bishops' communist-minded social justice agency, Catholic Charities, and its drawing down of billions in U.S. tax dollars to help undermine southern-border security and, of course, by extension, the entire republic.

During Biden's nearly three years in the White House, somewhere between 5 to 7 million — 5 to 7 million — illegal immigrants have swarmed across the border, and they've been assisted every step of the way by Catholic Charities.

What you're seeing is exclusive Church Militant video of that very thing, with Catholic Charities organizing all of it. The U .S. bishops' agency pretends their work is somehow about Church teaching and following the gospel mandate, but that's just not true. It's merely the cover story for refilling their coffers with billions in taxpayer money they lost in child sex abuse payouts.

Add to that how Catholic Charities has been and continues to be led by extremely liberal so-called Catholics who have no love for the republic or the Church and you have a perfect storm. But now various members of Congress want Catholic Charities and other operations to get up here on Capitol Hill, under oath, and answer some very pointed questions.

So Church Militant has come here to D.C. to interview some of the leading members pushing for this accountability.

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Rep. Lance Gooden calls out immigration cash cow.

I'm Michael Voris coming to you from the nation's Capitol, where the Catholic bishops' social justice arm — Catholic Charities — is about to come under intense congressional scrutiny.

For a number of years now, as longtime followers will attest to, Church Militant has been chasing down the story of the U.S. bishops' Catholic Charities' undermining of national security by its role in the illegal immigration crisis — up to and including child sex trafficking.

Two years ago, Church Militant went to the Texas–Mexico border and spoke directly with U.S. patriots who pointed the finger squarely at the U.S. bishops as one of the largest provocateurs in this fiasco — owing to the billions the bishops get from D.C. to supposedly help with humanitarian relief.

Well, that information has finally reached the halls of Congress where quite a few members are now demanding answers and an accounting from Catholic Charities on what exactly is going on with the billions they get in taxpayer dollars.

So Church Militant has come directly to D.C. to sit down with various members and see what their inquiry is all about and what questions they want answered by the bishops and their appointees.

One of the sharpest critics of all this is Texas congressman Lance Gooden, who is fed up with the open-borders policy of the Biden administration, the Democrats and their allies on the religious left — most especially Catholic Charities.

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Are the US bishops inadvertently responsible for this?

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Now, as we've covered repeatedly in multiple Vortex episodes, the communist path to power in Western democracies has been and is being accomplished through elections, which does contain within itself its own irony, since the goal of communism ultimately is to seize complete and total power and destroy fair elections in the process. But there is a backstage game going on, a clever disguise whereby first institutions were overrun, so minds could be controlled through propaganda, so they would vote for policies which made sense to the brainwashed.

Once a sufficient number of voters are compiled over a few decades — again, convinced by the propaganda that the Left loves and cares for them — the scales would tip, the Left would win majorities and then nothing would be left to stand in their way. That's happening right now, as we sit here.

The propaganda machine, in high gear on college campuses and mainstream media networks throughout the nation for decades, has been inculcating in people's minds a slew of false flags so they can create a narrative that death and destruction will shortly follow if their agenda is not implemented immediately.

Of course, the not-so-underlying theme is they must be elected to save the immigrant, save the poor, save the earth, and a host of others causes in which they cast themselves as noble "savior." When it comes to saving the immigrant in particular, things are beginning to reveal themselves which upend their narrative about the southern border. And the challenge to their propaganda is not coming from the Republican establishment but from what you could style "new breed" Republicans, beholden much more to principles than party it seems.

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One of the first things on the agenda for multiple members of Congress once business resumes is grilling Catholic Charities and the bishops over this whole illegal immigration industry they have going on. And with the wild success of the box office blockbuster Sound of Freedom, you can bet that child sex-trafficking will also be on the docket. And as we all know, when it comes to child sex abuse, that is a topic the bishops do not want to have come up again.

The whole "save the immigrants" narrative of the Democrats is beginning to unravel, and when it does, the bishops are going to once again be found to be de facto on the side of the Left, undermining the republic, not to mention cashing in on the backs of children.

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A political earthquake erupts in a Catholic stronghold.

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Now, little by little and, occasionally, like November three years ago, big by big, the Left advances relentlessly. And by "the Left," we mean specifically communism. It goes by those multiple names of "globalism," "socialism," "Marxism" — call it whatever you want, but, in the end, it's communism.

And the latest showpiece for them? Poland. Yep, Catholic Poland, quickly on its way to becoming formerly Catholic Poland.

When John Paul was elected in 1978, almost the entire nation identified as Catholic, over 95%. But that was then, almost half a century ago, while the nation was subjected to forced communism by the Kremlin and its puppet regime in Warsaw. Today, that number has dipped significantly, to just 70%.

And while that's obviously a majority, you've got to wonder, based on this past Sunday's election results for the Polish Parliament, if there's a case of nominal Catholicism there, like all other formerly Catholic populations in multiple countries.

The election results, which are still rolling in, indicate a measurable move away from conservative politics — a definitive shifting to the left. Remember, unlike here in the United States, the parliamentary system largely relies on more than just two parties forming coalitions to seize a majority-type control. So while one party, in this case the Conservative Law and Justice Party, did get a plurality of votes, the most cast for any single party, it did not get the majority.

When you add together all the nonconservative, meaning left-leaning, meaning pro-socialist, that coalition won the majority of seats. And that is a political earthquake in Poland. Yes, they will have policy differences among themselves, just like the Democrats here in the United States do, but make no mistake, they are in lockstep when in comes to their worldviews. What divides them is tactics, not ideology.

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The martyrs of the Roman persecutions were the exception, not the rule. In fact, whenever the people are faced with a choice, they almost always vote to save their own butts first, so they go along. Just look at Reformation England if you need a case example. Not only did the people fold under the persecution of Henry and, eventually, Elizabeth, his daughter; the entire exodus of apostasy was led by the bishops.

Sound familiar?

The communist movement has made itself as clear as any force in history that its goal is world domination through democratically elected governments' political processes. Once you vote them in, as the saying goes, the only way out is to shoot your way out.

It's as clear as crystal that the world is careening toward something huge, colossal. There are simply too many forces all converging for something foundation-altering not to happen. You can feel it in your bones.

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Perhaps it's inevitable.

I'm Michael Voris on our final day aboard the Fall Retreat at Sea off the New England coast.

Revolution sprang from these shores 250 years ago. Civil war erupted within these shores 160 years ago. And many citizens are thinking civil war is on the way again. Those are the findings of two recent polls that say a large plurality of Americans believe Americans will be killing each other within 10 years. A Zogby poll puts the number at 46%. An Economist/YouGov poll puts it as 43%. In neither poll did more Americans think there would not be a civil war. Those are trend lines that have ratcheted up considerably in the past decade.

Interestingly, even the Left, the commies, are beginning to comment on all this in agreement, that yes, civil war is a distinct possibility in the foreseeable future. Of course, they blame it on an overreaction by one of their favorite bogeymen, "Christian nationalists," whatever that means exactly. The calm, progressive, mild-mannered states are the victims, while the mean, religious, gun-toting crazies are the villains.

Whatever you might think about the possibility of a civil war, it is extremely telling that almost half of Americans think the likelihood of it happening is pretty darn good. Why would so many Americans think civil war is possible, even likely? Well, the commies guess that since we are "losing," we will resort to violence more readily and quickly. But what they don't seriously address is why so many Americans think the country is being lost.

See, for communists, children being killed in the womb or sexually transitioned or taught perversion in schools, that's all perfectly normal, and to think otherwise or oppose it makes you a bigot or a homophobe or a racist or a white nationalist. The irony is completely lost on them that the very act of labeling normal people as all that is what normal people are sick of. In short, the commies have pushed too far, and people are done; they've had enough.

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The bottom line is that huge numbers of Americans are looking down the road and asking, "Where does this all end?" And a huge number of them are answering that question, "It concludes at the end of a gun barrel." Right or wrong, necessary or not, as long as the commies keep pushing, the scales are going to keep tipping.

No war ever just starts out of the blue. There are always precipitating factors and multiple dynamics that prepare the way for it. The only thing commies and Christians seem to agree on today is that many of the necessary factors and dynamics are falling into place more and more. And all of this on the eve of what may be the most hotly contested election in U.S. history, a history that began in violence right here on these shores.

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It's a dead civilization.

A woke civilization is no civilization at all; there is nothing civil about it, in fact. One of the central tenets of wokeism is that white males are the enemy because they are the oppressors. And who are the oppressed? The victims? Well, essentially, everyone else, more or less.

An oddball exception is made for elite white males. Think Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden and John Kerry, for example, who go along with the narrative publicly, but privately surrender nothing of their so-called white privilege. In fact, hypocrites like that, far from surrendering their influence, actually enhance their wealth and power in such an environment. So there is a strange set of rules governing all this.

Old white males — Soros, Fauci, Gates, most of Congress — are constantly preaching and financing an insurrection against who? Old white males and the patriarchy they portray it to be. If you're not a white male but still a male and you don't go along with this, then you get pounced on by the like-minded. But again, the weird set of rules here.

A few days ago, black Republican Sen. Tim Scott was talking about his distaste for wokism and the damage it causes. Right on cue, Obama attacked him, but the irony here is that Obama is half white, enjoying all the "privilege" of that half, while Scott is all black. Obama has three spacious mansions: Martha's Vineyard, Kalorama and a beachfront difficult-to-get-to property in Hawaii — not bad for making just 400K a year as president.

It seems whatever the rules are here in the land of the woke don't follow any organized pattern. Old, wealthy white males lecturing blacks or Hispanics about how they should rise up and seize control from old, wealthy white males? Wouldn't it be easier for the old, wealthy white males to just give up their wealth and then try and conjure a revolution? I mean, if they feel that strongly about it, that would be the easy solution.

But the reality is this has nothing at all to do with white males, per se. It's just that it's mostly white male fingerprints all over Western civilization. And since the object of their scorn is Western civilization and the Church that built it, they are fighting a phony war against white males — when the real war is against God and His Catholic Church. Western civilization is just something standing in the way.

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