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Firebombed Wisconsin Pro-Life Center Has Not Heard From FBI Since May
A Wisconsin pro-life organization set ablaze and vandalized with the message “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t either” says it has not communicated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the horrifying attack since May, when the attack originally occurred. Wisconsin Family Action, the 501(c)(4) arm of Wisconsin Family Council, said earlier this year… -
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Liberal Media Spin Rising Violent Crime as Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Violent crime remains intolerably high, but the left wants you to think that perception is just a concoction of right-wing media. After more than a decade of violent crime decreases with just a few interludes, crime has shot back up to levels not seen since the early 1990s. When the left acknowledges this fact, it… -
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‘Guns Pointed at Me’: FBI Arrests Father of 11 in Front of His Children for Pro-Life Work
The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week arrested a pro-life father of 11 children, charging him with “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act, and committing FACE Act violations.” Paul Vaughn of Centerville, Tennessee, told The Daily Signal in a Friday phone interview that FBI came to the door of his home, “guns pointed… -
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Congresswoman Seeks DOJ Review of Missing Data for 3.1M New York Voters
As New York state struggles with allegations of election fraud, a new review of its voter lists shows that basic personal identification information is missing for 3.1 million registered voters, in apparent violation of federal law. States vary, but the general standard for voter registration information is to include either a Social Security number or… -
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Conservatives Accuse DOJ of Targeting Pro-Life Activists
Conservatives are condemning the Department of Justice’s targeting of pro-life activists, accusing the Justice Department of ignoring scores of attacks on pro-lifers. President Joe Biden’s Justice Department recently arrested Catholic father and pro-life activist Mark Houck, who allegedly pushed a pro-abortion activist for allegedly harassing his son. On Wednesday, the Justice Department charged 11 more pro-life activists… -
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FBI Won’t Provide Updates, Say Whether It Has Arrested Anyone Over Attacks on Pro-Life Organizations, Centers, Churches
The Federal Bureau of Investigation will not share whether it has made any arrests related to attacks on pro-life centers, organizations, and Catholic churches following the leak of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. At least 83 Catholic churches and 73 pregnancy resource centers or pro-life organizations have been attacked since the draft… -
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FBI Reportedly Raid Home ‘Guns Drawn,’ 11 Pro-Life Activists Charged for Blocking Abortion Clinic
Amid accusations that it is targeting pro-lifers to silence and intimidate, the Justice Department has charged 11 more pro-life activists with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act for blocking the entrance of an abortion clinic in 2021. The 11 activists were charged with FACE Act violations stemming from their 2021 “blockade”… -
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‘Never Had FBI Agents Show Up on the Sidewalk Before’: Pro-Life Group Claims FBI Questioned Volunteer By Planned Parenthood
A pro-life sidewalk counseling group warned members Tuesday that President Joe Biden's Justice Department is determined to intimidate pro-life organizations, claiming that two FBI agents showed up to question a pro-life activist praying outside Planned Parenthood – St. Paul – Vandalia Health Center. In an email obtained by The Daily Signal, Pro-Life Action Ministries Executive… -
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Pro-Life Father Arrested by FBI Pleads Not Guilty
Mark Houck, a pro-life, Catholic activist arrested last week by the FBI, plead not guilty to federal charges on Tuesday related to an October 2021 incident wherein he allegedly pushed an abortion clinic volunteer. Authorities have charged Houck with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which criminalizes the use of force… -
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FBI, Justice Department Twist Federal Law to Arrest, Charge Pro-Life Activist
In an early morning raid Friday in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, about two dozen FBI agents with weapons drawn pounded on the door of Mark Houck’s home, where he lives with his wife and seven children. The FBI agents arrested Houck based on a federal indictment. Sounds serious, right? Is Houck a domestic terrorist, an American jihadist, a… -
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Mastriano: Biden DOJ ‘Trying to Intimidate’ Conservatives Through Arrest of Catholic, Pro-Life Father
Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Doug Mastriano warned Monday that President Joe Biden’s administration sought to “intimidate” anyone “on the political opposition” through the arrest of a Catholic, pro-life father last week. Mastriano referred to the early Friday morning arrest of Mark Houck, whose wife told Life Site News that 25-30 FBI agents entered their home around… -
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‘Abuse of Power’: Lawmakers Tear Into DOJ for Arrest of Pro-Life Father in Front of Screaming Children
Republican lawmakers tore into the Department of Justice on Monday over the sudden and reportedly dramatic arrest of a pro-life father. Members of the GOP reacted to reports that the FBI sent a “25-30 person swat team with guns drawn to target Mark Houck, a pro-life father of seven, for allegedly shoving a guy in… -
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FBI Agents Raid Home, Arrest Pro-Life Advocate in Front of Wife and Children
Mark Houck, a pro-life advocate and father of seven, woke up Friday morning to a team of FBI agents raiding his home in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie, told Life Site News that 25-30 FBI agents entered their home around 7 a.m. “The kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and… -
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To Corporate Media, Some Criminals and Victims Are More Equal Than Others
It’s been said that paranoia isn’t pretty. That much is clear from a fatal hit-and-run in the early morning hours of Sunday involving a North Dakota man who admitted to hitting a teenager with his car, killing him. Shannon J. Brandt, 41, said he did it because he thought the teen was part of a… -
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Congressmen, Conservative Groups Defend Eagle Forum From Justice Department’s ‘Chilling’ Subpoena
All six Republicans representing Alabama in the U.S. House signed on to a legal brief opposing the Justice Department’s broad subpoena of records from a small conservative group in their state, Eagle Forum of Alabama. The friend of the court brief, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, also… -
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Justice Department Harasses Citizens for Exercising First Amendment Rights
The Justice Department has hit Eagle Forum of Alabama with a voluminous subpoena that violates the organization’s First Amendment rights to speak freely, engage in the political process, and talk to its elected representatives. It’s an intimidation tactic, pure and simple, and shows just how partisan the Justice Department has become. This out-of-control behavior should… -
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Senate Republicans’ Bill Would Make It Felony Murder to Distribute Deadly Fentanyl
Sen. Marco Rubio and 13 other GOP senators are proposing legislation that would make dealing fentanyl linked to a death a felony punishable by life in prison or a death sentence upon conviction. “Fentanyl is killing Americans at a record high,” Rubio, R-Fla., said in a prepared statement. “This deadly drug is widespread throughout… -
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‘Outrageous’: GOP Lawmakers Slam DOJ Official for Smearing Legal Defense Organization as ‘Hate Group’
Republican lawmakers are sounding the alarm after a senior Justice Department official labeled a prominent religious liberty organization, Alliance Defending Freedom, as a “hate group.” “Alliance Defending Freedom is one of the nation’s foremost champions of religious liberty and the constitutional rights of all Americans,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a statement provided… -
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‘Troubling’: Justice Department Hides Biden’s Voter Registration Plan
The Justice Department has refused to release its mandated strategic plan about ways to champion voter registration and participation, according to the Foundation for Government Accountability. President Joe Biden’s March 2021 Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting required every federal agency head to submit a plan within 200 days outlining methods the agency could use to promote… -
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DOJ Subpoenas Conservative Group for Documents in Alabama Transgender Case
The Justice Department is pursuing a conservative group’s documents going back five years as part of a lawsuit challenging an Alabama law that prohibits sex change treatments for minors. The group, Eagle Forum of Alabama, had been a public supporter of the state’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. The organization filed a motion in…