'The Best Fundraising Text I've Ever Seen': Graham Platner's 'Grassroots' Campaign Is Funneling Money to Influencers To Fawn Over Him

Left-wing Democrat Graham Platner's "grassroots" campaign for Senate in Maine has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a left-wing consulting firm that pays a "network of powerful online messengers"—better known as influencers—to promote Democratic candidates and causes on social media, campaign finance disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. One of the firm's featured influencers has showered Platner with praise for attacking billionaires and accusing Israel of genocide and solicited donations for Platner's campaign without disclosing any financial connection.

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30 people arrested per day ‘for WORD CRIMES’: Journalist BANNED from the UK exposes dystopian agenda



A few years ago, journalist Ezra Levant received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for defending freedom of expression after refusing to “bend the knee” and publishing Danish cartoons of Muhammad.

Now, the prime minister of the United Kingdom has banned him from the country.

“To have the prime minister of the United Kingdom ban me, a journalist … I’ve never done anything illegal in my life. I’ve never even had a parking ticket in the U.K. When I go there, it’s to do journalism,” Levant tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck.

“Glenn, your radio and you would be shut down within a week; I’m sorry to say it,” he continues. “Your First Amendment in America is more important than almost anything else, because with that, you can fight for all your other freedoms. Never give up your First Amendment.”


While everyone assumes other Western countries have the same First Amendment rights, Levant explains that they’re different.

“In the United Kingdom, according to the Times of London, a very prestigious newspaper, on any given day, on average, 30 people are arrested for what they post on social media. 30 a day. I’m not a fan of Russia, but even they don’t arrest 30 people a day for word crimes,” Levant says.

And the government doesn’t go after those who are actually harming others.

“They’re targeting people who criticize the government, especially on the issue of mass immigration. And the number-one thing that they’re scared about talking about is the rape gangs of largely Pakistani Muslim men targeting white girls,” Levant explains.

“When people have a march or a rally against these rapes, the government goes into freakout mode because it challenges the entire multiculturalism and immigration structure of the U.K.,” he says.

“So,” he continues, “never give up your free speech, Glenn, because you can see it in real time in the U.K.”

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European Author Of Banned Book: ‘It Is Christianity They Are Trying To Censor’

European authorities are not only banning Christians from writing about the Bible, but trying to keep the world unaware they have done so.

Democrat twerks for votes, posts her own mug shots, and celebrates being the ‘enemy’ of white men



James Talarico and Graham Platner are two of the most controversial Democrats running for office this year, but one new ridiculous Democrat star is now joining their ranks — and her name is Shelby Campbell.

Campbell, who is running for Congress in Michigan, is using a different campaigning method.

That is, she’s posting videos of herself twerking on social media.

“She’s 32 years old. She is apparently a law student. She’s a single mom. Gosh, who would have thought the woman twerking on social media would be a single mom? And she has four mug shots on her campaign website,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales explains.

“This is the absolute state of the Democrat Party,” she adds, before playing a TikTok video Campbell posted.


“It’s our time: the wine-mom gang,” Campbell says in the video while dancing around in a big T-shirt and disheveled hair.

“White ladies, I'm glad that we are becoming the enemy to the white man as well. I’m proud of you. Now, let’s get it, girls,” she adds.

But that’s not the worst of it.

“Let me present to you: Shelby Campbell mocking people who pray for child gunshot victims,” Gonzales comments, before playing another clip.

“Sky Daddy, please, please save the children from being shot with guns. Not by reforming the laws, but just by praying to you. Please, Sky Daddy. Dumb. Idiotic,” Campbell says in the video, again looking disheveled.

“At a certain point … we just need to come to terms with the fact that this is their best and brightest,” Gonzales says.

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'Everything on the internet is fake': Social media marketers reveal that most online trends are fabricated



Much of the internet is advertising in disguise, according to digital marketers who have worked with some of the biggest names in entertainment.

The information backs the popular Dead Internet theory, which alleges that most of what is seen online is populated mostly by bots, not actual human accounts.

'Popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once.'

A recent interview with Joe Lim revealed the disturbing truth about the online marketing industry. Lim told Vulture that he ran a company called Floodify, which positioned itself as an agency that spreads content "organically."

However, Lim told the outlet that 90% of online content is advertising, a lot of which he did himself. At his company's peak, he controlled 65,000 dummy accounts on social media in order to fake trending content for paid clients.

Lim said he promoted music for all the major record labels and worked with top celebrities, saying that he garnered 40 million views for an artist who only had 100,000 followers.

A Billboard interview from late March revealed much of the same. Co-founders of digital promotion agency Chaotic Good Projects Jesse Coren and Andrew Spelman said they promoted artists' songs by getting them plugged into fan pages, meme pages, and sports clips as the background music.

Spelman called the tactic "trend simulation" and used the motto "everything on the internet is fake."

At the same time, Coren added, "I don't know if this will make anyone feel better, but a lot of what we do on the narrative side is controlling the discourse. ... That first comment [users] see becomes their opinion, even when they haven't heard the whole album."

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New York Magazine noted that a writer named Lane Brown has been monitoring paid campaigns for artists like Justin Bieber. Lane said the idea or the "feeling" that everyone is talking about or seeing the same thing organically is a product of online manipulation.

"On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that 'everybody' is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas," Brown said.

According to Vulture, these campaigns come from the labels or studios and even political operatives; it could be anyone. They hire a company to turn their content into clips by sending it out to a network of editors, who then push the material out to "normal-looking accounts."

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All of this lends credence to the Dead Internet theory, which has its basis in the fact that internet traffic from bots surpassed human traffic in 2016. That view has been perpetuated well into the modern era, with some now stating that simple bots have been taken over by AI bots, with AI bots reportedly growing by more than 8,000% since 2025.

As for Lim, he shut down his company after he accidentally posted the same video to 7,000 accounts, which he said got them all banned.

Lim said people will soon stop trusting social media — he claims in three to five years — and his plan is to start distributing content through AI, which he believes will find a way to convince humans of what they want.

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Democrats love free speech — until conservatives get some



A major media company wants to expand while making a clearer commitment to free speech. You would think that would cheer any American who still believes in the First Amendment.

Instead, Democrats are furious.

That authoritarian impulse, not Ellison's support for Trump, is the real free-speech crisis in America.

In April, Paramount CEO David Ellison hosted a dinner celebrating the First Amendment. That was no coincidence. Paramount, and Ellison in particular, have long signaled support for free expression. Yet Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) responded by branding Ellison an “oligarch” and vowing to break up “anti-consumer” media companies “into pieces.”

Apparently, supporting free speech while maintaining ties across the political divide now qualifies as anti-consumer.

The real source of Democratic outrage is not some abstract concern for consumers. It is Paramount’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. That deal could create a stronger competitor to Netflix and other streaming giants while opening more space for content that does not conform to left-wing orthodoxy.

That possibility has set off alarms on the left.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), fresh off the permanent closure of Spirit Airlines after helping sink its proposed merger with JetBlue, posted on X last week that “we need to block this merger and break up monopolies everywhere.” Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) both members of the House Financial Services Committee, tried to pressure Paramount out of the deal. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office would launch a “vigorous” investigation into Paramount and WBD.

None of this should surprise anyone. Democrats routinely use regulatory power to punish people and companies that support free speech.

The Biden administration pressured Facebook and what was then Twitter to suppress content that challenged Democratic talking points. Censored subjects included election integrity and the origins of COVID-19.

Elon Musk bought Twitter, renamed it X, and made it more open to speech the left dislikes. Democrats came after him too, including efforts to strip him of federal contracts. Meanwhile, criminals set Tesla vehicles on fire and torched dealerships in several states. This is the same Tesla that, as the Associated Press noted, “was once the darling of the left.”

The pattern extends well beyond social media and corporate regulation.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry complained that the First Amendment is “a major block” to stamping out so-called disinformation.

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On college campuses, the divide is even clearer. A 2017 Cato Institute study found major differences between Democrats and Republicans on allowing controversial or offensive speakers to appear on campus. Even on issues where Republicans might be expected to take greater offense, Cato found that Democrats were still more likely to support canceling the speaker.

That result fits the broader Democratic instinct. Free speech is welcome only when it serves the approved narrative. Once it threatens left-wing control over public discourse, it becomes dangerous, irresponsible, or anti-consumer.

That is what this fight over Paramount and WBD is really about.

If the merger succeeds, Paramount Skydance could become a more serious rival to the dominant streaming platforms. That competition could improve content and lower prices. But none of that matters to Democrats if Ellison is politically aligned with Trump and if the merged company might distribute material that leans right.

The left does not fear monopoly in principle. It fears losing its monopoly on the narrative.

Democrats have been losing ground at the ballot box and in the arena of ideas for years. Rather than examine why, they blame “disinformation” and target companies that refuse to toe the line.

That authoritarian impulse, not Ellison's support for Trump, is the real free-speech crisis in America.

The ‘no-contact’ epidemic: Why so many adult children are cutting off their parents



The “no-contact" trend has exploded in recent years. Popularized primarily on social media, it refers to adult children deliberately cutting off all communication with their parents or family members (often at the instruction of a therapist), typically to protect their mental health from perceived toxicity or because of ideological differences.

This isn’t some fleeting fad either. According to a New York Post survey, 38% of Americans have gone no contact with a friend or family member; Reddit’s “EstrangedAdultChild” community has skyrocketed in membership in recent years; and TikTok has roughly half a million posts (with well over a billion total views) featuring #nocontact.

Severing ties with one’s family has become an epidemic.

On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey addressed this movement through a biblical lens.


Allie argues that the no-contact trend is a branch of “therapy culture,” which tends to elevate the self above all else.

“[No contact] is one particular manifestation of what I call the cult of self-affirmation, which tells you if you learn to find fulfillment and love and satisfaction within yourself, if you go on this road of self-discovery, you will go so deeply inside yourself that you will unlock the manifestation of all of your dreams,” she says, noting that this mindset and practice have ties to the New Age as well.

But Jesus, Allie says, clearly instructs us to take the focus off of ourselves.

“Remember Jesus' words: If you want to find yourself, you lose yourself. If you want to live, you must die. If you want to gain what I offer you, you must lose all of these things,” she says.

But the mindset behind the no-contact movement is the antithesis of Christ’s instruction.

“It's not that you have to deny yourself; it's that you have to deny others. If you want to gain, it's not that you have to lose yourself in what you have. You have to lose others,” says Allie, calling it “the worshiping of the god of self.”

Allie acknowledges, however, that boundaries are sometimes necessary in a parent-adult child relationship.

“If you're talking about actual harmful, hateful actions and words, OK, like that's one conversation to have,” she says. “The problem with this is that this category of justification for going no contact is so large, and it encompasses everything from petty offense to political disagreements to not liking your parents' tone to your parents in your mind just being too judgmental.”

“There are so many reasons that are covered under this that I think are awful reasons to cut off your parents,” she adds bluntly.

So what’s the Christian response to the no-contact movement?

To answer this question, Allie begins by playing an old clip of Charlie Kirk addressing the issue of having difficult parents.

“Even if your parents share values and views and a worldview that you do not have, you are biblically obligated to honor them, which means to spend time with them and to love on them and to go visit them. ... If you are incapable in this case of honoring your earthly father, you will never honor your heavenly Father,” he declared.

Scripture corroborates this repeatedly. Allie displays several verses that explicitly instruct children to honor their parents.

There are no caveats to this either.

“There's nothing there that says [honor your mother and father] as long as they're still nice to you, as long as they agree with you, as long as they're not emotionally immature, as long as they don't do anything to you that makes you angry ... as long as you can't think back in your life to any time that they didn't treat you fairly,” says Allie.

But she acknowledges that this is no easy journey — especially for those whose parents were genuinely abusive or neglectful.

“It takes a lot of the power of God to say, ‘Even if you didn't treat me well, I am going to treat you well,”’ says Allie. “That's what Christians are called to. That is the radical kind of love that the world who says they know what love is does not understand.”

We are called to this sacrificial, unconditional love, she says, because that’s the kind of love Christ extends to us.

“Even when we were spitting on Him and mocking Jesus, even when our sin placed Him on the cross, He said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,”’ says Allie. “That's the craziness that Jesus brought forth.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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‘Dump him’: Dave Ramsey sparks outrage by telling nurse to ditch boyfriend making $250K over student debt ultimatum



A recent clip from finance guru Dave Ramsey’s podcast is blowing up all over social media, racking up millions of views in just days.

In the video, Ramsey advises a 26-year-old nurse to break up with her boyfriend for making her debt a contingency for marriage. According to the girl, her boyfriend of six years makes $250K+ per year and pays most of their bills. However, he refuses to help with her large sum of school debt and refuses to propose before she pays it off herself.

“Dump him,” was Dave’s blunt advice.

“You’re having to buy your way into this relationship. Nope. You’re a princess, and you deserve more than this,” he added.

Calling the couple’s issue a “money fight,” he went on to warn that financial disputes are the top cause of divorce in the country and suggested that their living together meant that they were “already married,” giving the boyfriend “no real incentive to propose.”

Ramsey’s advice has ignited intense debate online, with many viewing it as contradictory of his “debt-free” messaging and unfair to a fiscally responsible man, and others defending Dave for calling out a transactional, controlling relationship dynamic.

On this episode of “The John Doyle Show,” Doyle weighs in on the controversy.

Doyle agrees with the critics calling Ramsey’s advice hypocritical considering his decades-long anti-debt crusade.

“To see this man fold immediately when a 26-year-old woman in $90,000 of debt just bats her eyelashes a little bit was a little disheartening and frankly a little pathetic,” he says.

Doyle speculates that this 26-year-old woman is “not as much of a princess as maybe Mr. Ramsey would like to believe.”

“There was data, I think, from Ashley Madison, which is the affair website, literally like cheatonmyspouse.com. ... They surveyed something like 1,000 people. The number one job field for cheating women, like 23% of all those surveyed, was in health care,” he says.

“And even beyond that, the type of women she’s around are not exactly going to be women who are stellar influences on her. You know, they’re not going to really cultivate or encourage princess-like behavior,” he adds.

Doyle does, however, call Ramsey’s claim that the couple is essentially already married because they live together a “truth nuke.”

“They are effectively married, but Dave is still going to advocate that, what, she breaks up with this guy?” he says. “Which is more or less like advocating that she gets a divorce. Because look, she’s already 26, starting to get past her sell-by date, right? ... At a minimum, you know, she should be treated as a clearance sale perhaps.”

A breakup after six years, he argues, wouldn’t be as simple as Ramsey seems to insinuate.

“You can’t rip off a six-year band-aid cleanly. She’s going to have rebounds. She’s going to be doing whatever. She’s not exactly going to land on her feet right away,” he comments. “But girl-dad Dave is so lost in the words of this hapless little princess, he can’t even imagine why a guy might not want to marry a girl with $90,000 in debt.”

“His entire show is about how you should be debt-free, but only if you’re a guy. If you’re a girl, you’re just a princess, and it’s not your fault. If you’re a guy, ‘Yeah, bucko, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.’”

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Social media scams are up 700%. Here’s how to stay safe.



Online scams are nothing new, yet they still account for a rising degree of theft year over year. According to new numbers released by the Federal Trade Commission, social media users in particular were tricked out of a staggering $2.1 billion — eight times higher than in 2020 — and these losses could get even worse as criminals tap into AI to execute more sophisticated cyberattacks. Here are the biggest social media scams to look for and what you can do if it happens to you.

Biggest social media scams of 2025

The FTC’s report identified three main traps that tricked social media users out of billions of dollars:

Investment scams accounted for half of the total losses last year. These scams usually involve get-rich-quick schemes where “influencers” sell courses that show victims how to make money by investing in the stock market. In some cases, scammers create chat groups filled with other supposed investors who all proclaim the benefits of the program, when in reality, they’re part of the scam too. Ultimately, victims end up paying for these courses, or even provide funds to be invested on their behalf, with no real payoff on the other side.

Don’t click on social media ads. Ever.

Shopping scams came in second place, accounting for 40% of the reported losses on social media. These scams typically feature an ad to a product that’s too good to be true — either the price is lower than usually advertised, or the link clicks away to an unknown third-party site instead of a trusted retailer. From here, scammers convince users to provide their payment information, stealing the money while leaving shoppers with a cheaper product than they thought they were getting, or in many cases, no product at all.

Romance scams, also known as catfishing, involve users who create fake online accounts so that they can target other users and foster a false relationship. Once the victim falls head over heels to the point that they would do anything for their supposed lover, the catfisher will request money for some kind of unexpected crisis, typically involving a broken-down car, a shattered phone, or a family member suddenly passing away. The victim sends the cash, the catfisher pockets the money, and they’re never heard from again — or worse, they try to get more money later.

How to protect yourself from social media scams

Luckily, there are several ways to avoid these scams as you surf your favorite social media sites.

First, limit who can see your posts and friends on social media. Most platforms let you set your profile as “private” or limit public access by making adjustments to the settings page. Some social media apps also bar strangers from sending you private messages. Once your account is locked down, both scammers and AI agents will have a harder time finding you to execute targeted scams.

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Second, be careful who you trust online. It’s OK to form friendships with people you meet on social platforms, but refrain from sharing personal information or buying products, services, or courses from anyone you don’t know in person. Many online scammers make their careers out of falsely befriending or romancing unsuspecting users just to squeeze them for cash. As a general rule of thumb, don’t trust anyone on social media unless you can verify they are the person they claim to be and that they are worthy of that trust.

Third, don’t click on social media ads. Ever. Especially avoid ads that showcase expensive products sold for a staggeringly large discount. Instead, go to the manufacturer’s webpage or find the same product in a trusted online store. If the manufacturer is actually hosting a deal, you should see the same discounted price on an official page, and if the price doesn’t match, chances are even greater that the unknown store with the great deal is trying to deceive you. To be safe, always buy from a trusted online retailer or the manufacturer itself.

Fourth, never provide personal information to anyone online, even if it seems harmless — that includes your mother’s maiden name, first pet, hometown, first car, etc. All of these are typically answers to the security questions that protect many of your online accounts that a criminal would love to hack.

Finally, if you do run into a scam online, stop what you’re doing and report it to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov. This way, you can help them track down fraudsters and protect other users from losing hundreds or thousands of dollars to social media thieves.