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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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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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Thanks, Obama and Biden.

Just a brief reminder, Church Militant is on the ground in Rome bringing you every bit of what you need to know about the synod every weekday. Our Rome correspondent Jules Gomes reviews the day's happenings on Church Militant's rome dispatch, hosted here in Detroit by our own Brad Eli. There's a link here in the Vortex every day for the month of October to their discussion and breakdown of the synod. Don't miss a single episode of rome dispatch, a one-stop shopping for you each day on all the news from the synod, concise and straightforward.

Now, as of this recording on Friday afternoon, there are knife attacks in China and France, hundreds marching on the Israeli border in Jordan and Americans fearful of sending their kids to school, all due to Muslim terror group Hamas' promised "day of rage."

A point to note: It is in America's large exclusively-Democrat-run cities where fears have run most high and police departments are on extra high alert — New York, for example. Now why would that be? The Democrats have styled themselves as the open-borders party, because they are.

Since Biden took office, an estimated (because no one really knows, which is scary all by itself) 5–7 million illegals have crossed over. And no one really knows where or who they are. There are simply no controls in place, and what few there are, are routinely ignored.

As the war in Gaza kicks into high gear, captured documents by Israeli soldiers reveal a massively coordinated and well-planned attack by Hamas — and get this, two years in the planning, coinciding with Biden's becoming president.

It would be politically nuts to think that among those millions, there are not a few thousand (at the minimum) that are Muslim terrorists. Heck, isn't that the entire reason a nation has borders to begin with, to keep out those it does not want in?

But the Democrats have thrown the doors wide open, and anything that happens as a result is on them. It's true the GOP has been lackluster, despite all the bluster about the borders, in closing them down.

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Republicans being persecuted by Attorney General Dana Nessel?

Today's Vortex features an interview with attorney Kevin Kijewski recorded on Oct. 9. Kijewski is currently defending Clifford Frost — accused by Michigan's Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel of forging documents relating to the 2020 election. Kijewski holds that Nessel's attacks are political and defamatory.

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A Democratic plan to create hell on earth.

The effects of communism or Marxism are not confined to the spiritual realm — far from it.

While the spiritual consequences are the most devastating, because they are everlasting, there are material world effects as well. Take, for example, urban America, the once great cities dotting the American continent: Nothing in history had ever been seen like this before, sprawling prosperous cities bolstering a giant economic engine that was the envy of the world.

But today, owing to a century-long plan hatched even as that prosperity was dominant, those same cities are in ruins, not even rising to shadows of their former glory. Perhaps the leading example of that is right here in Detroit, which was so high and fell so fast. The question is, "Why?"

America's urban rot has been a valuable tool for the Marxist Democrats. While it is that their policies have kept this the status quo for 60 years, they claim to champion the "little guy" — the oppressed, minorities, the impoverished.

But they are the very ones responsible for the oppression, the impoverishment — because they want it that way. It helps keep them in power. They are taking a page right out of Karl Marx's playbook.

For three days, The Michael Voris Show toured around Detroit, interviewed residents, peeled back the propaganda to show you the present-world effects of Democrats and their Marxism. And while Detroit is the focus because it's our own backyard, this sad story, this soul-crushing reality, is present in big cities all over America thanks to the communist agenda.

So we invite you to watch all three parts by clicking on the link here.

Ejecting God from daily life obviously has hellish consequences in the next world, but that hell begins right here in this world.

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When they take the reins, there's not much left.

I'm Michael Voris, coming to you from our autumn Retreat at Sea on this feast day of St. Michael.

Speaking of St. Michael, who, St. John informs us, drove Lucifer and his minions from the celestial realm, we need him in a dire way now. The same St. John informs us as well that Satan has come down to earth in great fury knowing his time is short.

Throughout all of human history, Satan has made use of government and politics to strike at the people of God. The political system, in fact, seems to be one of the "go-tos" in his arsenal. It's unsurprising really, when you think about it, because of the vast power a state exercises over its citizens.

Perhaps no other form of government has been as instrumental to the great dragon than communism, with its phony promise of "heaven" on earth. What communism really is, as well as its true cause, is best summed up by Ven. Abp. Fulton Sheen: "Communism is the scavenger of decaying civilizations. It makes its way into a country and into a culture only when that culture begins to rot from the inside."

As the old saying goes, truer words were never spoken. What Bp. Sheen may have omitted, however, because when he said that in the 1950s it might not as yet have been so apparent and manifest, is this: Communism not only arrives to finish off a dying civilization but, actually, heavily contributed to the death.

Communism was a major contributor to the decay of the American republic because of its plan of attack launched against the family. Communist architects of globalism understood that a nation rises and falls on the strength of the family.

Healthy families produce good citizens who uphold the Republic. Unhealthy families speed the deterioration. The best way to attack the family would be to attack the moral fiber that provided the environment for a healthy family. Poison the environment and you would weaken the family, which would set in motion the collapse of the culture and, in short order, the republic.

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Now go destroy communism with the Rosary.

In 1917, the Queen of Heaven came to earth to warn her children about communism and its awesome destructive power.

It is, in no uncertain words, the Death Star of the demonic, with its treacherous anti-human, anti-God ideology that has plagued humanity for over a century. And here, in the United States, it has taken over not just multiple institutions but also a political party, the Democrats.

There is a link, a connection, between America as we traditionally understand the concept and its being fought violently against by the Democrats. Communism ultimately rails against humanity and God's creation — even God Himself.

That is how, in one glance, you know its origin is the pits of Hell. The Dems have adopted the Communist Manifesto as their party platform. Period.

They detest and devalue human life at every turn, beginning with the weakest — the elderly, the preborn. Then they implement their race-baiting policies, keeping down African Americans and wiping out the family in that community, making a large portion of them completely dependent on the State.

Democratic Party policies are communist. Period. No matter what they call themselves — globalists, environmentalists, social justice warriors, socialists — they are all the same. They detest religion. They hate American exceptionalism because that exceptionalism is based on Catholic principles of the dignity of every human being created in the image of God.

They hate God, just as Satan does, and they hate humanity, just as Satan does. (Humanity is why Lucifer was cast out of the angelic realm, after all.)

That's why so many of their policies are aimed at depopulation, no matter how they get at it — "health crisis," controlling the weather, abortion, contraception. They employ them all. Communism is a sinister force that seeks to undermine and destroy the very fabric of Western civilization, our freedom and our Faith.

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Americans must change it for the better.

As we continue to highlight the bishops' malfeasance toward those in their charge, even in the realm — perhaps especially in the realm — of politics, we should ask, why does it really matter?

Here's why: People live their day-to-day lives in a culture, a society, like fish live in water. It's impossible to swim through the water and not be impacted by it. If it's dirty or the temperature changes, the fish are impacted.

By analogy, we can say the same thing about humans swimming through the culture. And for the moment, we are confining the analogy to simply the natural world, not the supernatural role of grace and so on.

No human society is even close to perfect, but some are better than others in creating an environment where man's better angles can be encouraged — a love of arts, philosophy, friendships and so forth. The stuff of a culture, the cult.

There is an entire psychological reality that springs forth from a healthy culture. When the culture gets sick (think of the water getting polluted), that psychology starts to be invaded, weakened, and becomes susceptible to being taken over.

I don't want to make this a Democrat versus Republican thing, because it's really not. But at the end of the day, one of those two parties promulgates a psychologically sick society. The other doesn't push back, or at least not enough.

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A long road back.

For the first time, perhaps ever, the U.S. bishops are finding themselves in a dogfight on Capitol Hill when it comes to them getting and using your tax dollars to destabilize the border.

The press conference in Washington, D.C., last week (which Church Militant covered at length) spoke about the need to end the unfettered, unaccountable access the bishops have to these funds and their use of them. That was, in fact, the entire point of the press conference.

It turns out that segues right into an effort by a conservative congressman to also cut off the flow of some of those dollars, and the bishops are none too happy about that.

The leader of the move is Texas congressman Lance Gooden, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee. He has written a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying Biden is "allowing non-governmental organizations ... the freedom to aid and abet illegal aliens." The letter was also signed by Congressman Jake Ellzey of Texas and Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin.

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Movement has begun in the nation's capital, that's the bottom line here, and the main culprit from an NGO viewpoint has been identified — and as Church Militant has been reporting for years, it's the U.S. bishops and their Marxist-minded outfit, Catholic Charities.

Now all of this detail only makes sense if it's couched in the larger picture of the penetration of the Church by Freemasonry and their shock troops, worldwide communism. The Church leaders are quick to portray their work at the border as "living out the gospel" or some other spiritual-sounding crap. Well, of course they have to paint it like that. They aren't going to go put up billboards that say "Give us your tax money so we can weaken the republic."

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