Steve Deace vs. Big Tech censorship — the battle everyone should be following



One of the keys to success in digital content creation is mastering search engine optimization — a powerful strategy that boosts a creator’s visibility. SEO involves using targeted keywords in video titles, descriptions, and tags, along with engaging thumbnails and captions, to help search engines like Google and YouTube rank content higher in search results, driving more viewers to discover it.

Here’s how it works: A YouTuber films a cooking video demonstrating a pasta recipe. To reach a wider audience, she applies SEO by crafting a keyword-rich title and description with phrases like “easy dinner ideas” and “quick pasta dish” and adding relevant tags to her video. If she does this well, she increases her video’s chances of ranking higher in YouTube search results, attracting more viewers in a competitive digital landscape.

But what happens when Big Tech shadow cabals in collaboration with federal entities decide to erect virtual barriers that prevent certain topics from appearing on search result pages — regardless of how adeptly the creator used SEO and other content-optimizing digital tools?

BlazeTV host Steve Deace has been living out the reality of that question for years.

Topics — especially “controversial” ones — YouTube, Apple iTunes, and Google have deemed problematic are quietly buried under an avalanche of other content. This censorship has been happening for years, so conservative content creators got smarter and found loopholes around the algorithms by avoiding key words and phrases they knew would be flagged and squashed.

However, Big Tech companies are now “transcribing everything that's said on podcasts,” meaning creators cannot avoid the consequences of discussing forbidden topics.

“So let's pretend we spend an entire entire show just debunking the demonic ideology of transgenderism, but we market it in a way that it says nothing about trans in order to try to get around the algorithm. Well, now that they're transcribing that for us, we can't get around that,” says producer Aaron McIntire.

Creators can appeal YouTube’s decision to demonetize their show, but success is rare. “There's basically no recourse whatsoever,” says Aaron.

“I would venture a guess we are the largest show in America with by far the most anemic YouTube traffic,” says Steve. “They're making it so we can't connect with our audiences, and if we can't connect with you, we can't hit the numbers we want to get the monetization we need to keep even doing this at all.”

Steve has been battling Big Tech censorship behind the scenes for years now. Recently, however, his fight experienced a new development when he contacted First Liberty — “the leading constitutional conservative political advocacy organization in the country” — which determined that Steve, indeed, had grounds to file a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

To hear where Steve is at in the process of fighting Big Tech censorship, watch the episode above.

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The ‘demonically influenced’ seek out those suffering. Here’s how to stop them.



We’ve been told our whole lives to “trust the experts,” but what happens when those experts — even the religious ones — lead us astray?

In a recent segment of "Ask Deace Anything” on the “Steve Deace Show,” one man came to BlazeTV host Steve Deace with this question after his girlfriend, who has PTSD and bipolar disorder, was hospitalized during a bad episode.

While his girlfriend was in the hospital’s care, the hospital chaplain told her she was an “empath” and had “psychic abilities,” before going on to baptize her.

She not only feels “spiritually empowered” and has “doubled down on New Age mysticism,” but refuses to listen to criticism since it came from a chaplain — someone she sees as a religious authority.


“That’s demonic,” Deace responds. “The most important thing that you could do, if you’re not doing it already, is to get yourself, and her with you if you can, into a faithfully witnessing, Bible-believing and -preaching church.”

“That is the most important thing that you could do,” he continues.

“This heretic gave her an idol, and because that idol gave her meaning in her suffering that, whatever her church experience up until this point, sadly has not offered for her.”

“And we greatly need and desire to have meaning in our suffering, purpose in it. And unfortunately, much of the modern Christian church will teach you suffering is to be avoided, frankly, or worse, will play into victimology,” he adds.

This, Deace explains, turns the one suffering into “a mark for the one who comes along and finds purpose and meaning for her in her suffering.”

“So you need to get the two of you, but at least you, into a church that teaches the full counsel of God. Because ultimately,” Deace continues, “your relationship will not survive a question of authority between you and this occultic guru, demonically influenced individual.”

“You’re going to lose, because this individual gave her something you can’t ever give her: purpose in her suffering,” he adds.

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The ‘spirit of the age’ PERFECTLY illustrated in one photo



The terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, not only left eight Americans injured — but it also left a message warning of the path Western civilization is going down.

And within that message was a photo from the attack, where a white shirtless man is seen in front of a government building. On the ground is a firebomb, and hanging over the doors to the government building is a rainbow flag with the black, brown, light blue, and light pink triangle added.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace finds the photo to perfectly encapsulate the spirit of the age.

“When we discuss on our show, worldview is destiny,” Deace says, “there may be other photos we could show you that would encapsulate as well what that means, as this photo does, but they would not do a better job than this photo does.”


“This is the gravestone of a civilization is what this photo is,” he adds.

“I want to start actually in the back with that flag over the government building, because see, that’s where it begins,” Deace says, further analyzing the photo. “It actually starts there, because someone will always rule, and something will always be worshiped.”

“This idea that we were going to take the cross away, that we were going to take the Ten Commandments away, that we were going to take the biblical imagery of our founding and the citations thereof and therein. We were going to take those things away and create some kind of a neutral place was a lie from the beginning,” he continues.

“That’s a backdrop, that’s a watermark, that is the sign, ‘You are a conquered people,’” he says. “It has been common from time immemorial for conquerors to hoist their flag in exchange for the flag of the people whom they just conquered.”

Deace notes that while the suspected Muslim terrorist was taking a stand against what he sees as oppressive, the reason he’s doing it on American soil is because Americans have already proven they’ll take it.

“That’s why, because we’ll let it. That’s why,” Deace says. “I am not sure I have seen a photo in my career, we just celebrated 25 years that I’ve worked full time in broadcasting, and I am not sure I have seen a photo that better encapsulates how the last generation of Americans just completely went to sleep than this one.”

“No other previous generation of Americans would have tolerated this, until this one,” he adds.

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BOMBSHELL: Senator PROVES Biden administration’s loyalty to pharma



Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) dropped a bombshell report about the Biden administration’s knowledge of the COVID-19 vaccine side effects — and what officials didn’t do to fix the problem.

“After facing four years of the Biden administration’s efforts to undermine the public’s access to information, my oversight work, I immediately issued a subpoena to HHS when I became chairman of this committee,” Johnson said.

“The subpoena records I’m releasing today, which are discussed in the interim report, do not contain FOIA redactions and will finally provide the public a more complete understanding of the Biden administration’s awareness of the risks of myocarditis following COVID-19 injection,” he continued.


According to his records, Israeli health officials notified the CDC on February 28, 2021, of “large reports of myocarditis particularly in young people following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine.”

Then, on April 12, 2021, a DOD consultant raised concerns to the CDC and FDA officials about their “ability to monitor and track cardiac-related adverse events.” Around the same time, Johnson reported that “CDC officials discussed safety signals for myocarditis” with mRNA vaccines based on DOD and Israeli data.

The response from the government was to do nothing.

“By the end of April 2021, just four months into COVID injection, Vaers was already reporting 2,926 deaths worldwide within 30 days of injection, with 46% of those deaths occurring on day zero, one, or two following injection,” Johnson explained.

Johnson went on to explain that he was being censored when he attempted to talk about it, and when he finally had a meeting with the head of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, he asked about the deaths.

Collins reportedly admitted that six deaths were caused by the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but then told Johnson of the other few thousand, “Senator, people die.”

BlazeTV host Steve Deace is horrified.

“If you were given complete choice and autonomy in this transaction,” Deace says, “you could just look at it that way and say, ‘Well, hey, I’m in a high-risk group for COVID, 92% chance, and within that, I won’t have any adverse event.’ Then you can look at the individual strata and say, ‘Well, how many people died, how many people were hospitalized, how many people had a debilitating condition that has continued on?’”

“But were we treated that way? Were we treated as individuals so we can make such decisions and calculations?” Deace asks, answering, “We were not treated that way. We were treated like numbers.”

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The MAHA fear of the ‘psyop’ and why for the sake of the future — it must end



President Donald Trump surprised the country with a new pick for surgeon general this week, announcing that he is now nominating Dr. Casey Means for the coveted position.

“Casey has impeccable MAHA credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans,” President Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

“Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History,” he added.

Means and her brother, Calley Means, have risen to mainstream fame after playing a significant role in shaping the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda. Before skyrocketing to fame, the Stanford-trained physician became a wellness influencer and co-wrote a book about the chronic disease epidemic with her brother, “Good Energy.”


Despite her long list of credentials and advocacy for a truly healthy America, conservatives are skeptical of the nomination — accusing Means of being a “psyop.”

“I first heard about Calley Means through Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson,” Steve Deace of the “Steve Deace Show” says of Casey’s brother. “If Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are now places where the CIA goes to drop psyops, by the end of today, close of business, you guys are all going to be receiving a ‘goodbye cruel world’ note from me.”

“I saw a lot of those posts in my social media feed yesterday. Now, I’m not against investigating these people, vetting these people, but you know, we’ve talked a lot about vindication and the thirst trap of vindication,” Deace continues, noting that he understands why people are suspicious.

“When you’ve been marginalized for as long as people like you guys have, you kind of have an embedded identity because of that, and the temptation is to view bandwagon jumpers as suspicious and traitors,” he explains.

And unless the MAHA movement can realize they don’t need to be so afraid of everything and everyone, the MAHA movement won’t last long.

“At some point, you have to move beyond perpetually grieved and frustrated. I’m just telling you, in this world, you cannot govern without aligning with people who weren’t there with you from the start, and you’re going to have to risk being betrayed,” Deace explains.

“Just like, ‘Hey, if you want to get married, if you want to find the right one, you’re going to have to risk getting your heart broken,’” he adds.

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Superman surprises at the White House: Steve Deace’s epic chat with Dean Cain



Earlier this week, Steve Deace was in Washington, D.C., at the White House to commemorate President Trump’s first 100 days in office. During his visit, he interviewed a number of key insiders, including Ronald Vitiello, Customs and Border Protection senior adviser; Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency; and Kaelan Dorr, White House deputy communications director.

However, there was another interview he did that wasn’t in the books.

“When you're having lunch in the White House mess hall, you never know who you're going to run into,” says Steve.

Like Superman, for example.

“Being the Superman slappy that I am, I had to carve out time for Dean Cain,” says Steve.

“Why are you here — other than, you know, the future of the country is at stake?” he asked candidly.

Cain explained that he was in D.C. for a film he’s working on called “End the Wait,” which raises awareness about the need for kidney donors.

“We want to partner somehow with the government to say, ‘You can save thousands upon thousands of lives,'" he told Steve.

On the subject of films, Steve then brought up the latest movie he saw, “The Accountant 2,” starring Ben Affleck.

“Here's the plot of the movie: They are cracking a human trafficking ring of a network of drug runners and corporations who claim they really care about illegal aliens but are really just using them for human traffickers and to smuggle drugs into the country,” he explained. “At the end of it, I looked at my wife, and I said, ‘That is not a script that would have been filmed 10 years ago.’"

“There has been some major vibe shift here. Do you sense it as well?” he asked.

“Oh, tremendously!” was Cain’s answer.

“Gavin O'Connor, who directed that, is a friend of mine, a great director, and he's got a good edge to him. It feels like a real truth that's going on. Yeah, the vibes shift is clear,” he added.

He went on to list several of the factors playing into the cultural shift, including “Elon purchasing X and reviving free speech," the exposing of “the prior administration and things they were doing,” and real talk with “podcasters like Joe Rogan.”

“People are waking up,” Cain continued. “They don't control the media anymore, so the real messages are getting out.”

To hear more of Steve and Dean Cain’s conversation, watch the episode above.

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Steve Deace in the White House: Unpacking Trump’s first 100 days with key insiders



As part of President Trump's first 100 days commemoration, Steve Deace, Todd Erzen, and Aaron McIntire — hosts of the “Steve Deace Show” — had the immense privilege of visiting the White House.

“The Trump administration came out like a force of nature from day one — basically launched an all-out amphibious land, sea, air assault against the spirit of the age on every issue conceivable,” says Steve, standing in front of the White House.

One issue the administration began tackling just moments after President Trump was sworn into office is immigration. To get more information on the state of the border and what's next in the fight to restore the nation's sovereignty, Steve interviewed Customs and Border Protection Senior Adviser Ronald Vitiello.

Steve’s most pressing question was, “Where’s Congress?” While the Trump administration has made excellent moves to secure the border, if codification doesn’t happen, the next Democrat president could usher in another era of open border policies and undo all the work Trump has accomplished.

Vitiello shared Steve’s frustration at Congress’ slow pace in codifying border security measures and contrasted it with the rapid executive actions taken by President Trump. He argued that not only does Congress need to fill resource gaps in the budget, which is based on Biden's framework, so that they can continue to support Trump’s border priorities, but it also needs to reinforce executive orders, such as ending catch-and-release and limiting district judges’ rulings, to ensure these policies endure beyond the current administration.

Despite delays, he’s hopeful codification is on the horizon.

Another burning question Steve had was, “What’s the endgame?”

Vitiello explained that the overarching goal for the border issue is to maintain and enhance current physical border security and interior immigration enforcement, scaling up efforts with more resources and policies for greater impact. He emphasized sustaining measures like the border wall, which is durable and resists policy reversals by future administrations.”

If the Trump administration can accomplish this, and he’s confident it will, it will be “a win for not just this presidency but for the American people for generations,” he said.

In Steve’s next interview, he met with Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to find out how President Trump is working to make homes affordable again.

“The housing market has taken a major tumble between COVID and the last four years, so how do we rebound that given it's one of the key sectors of our economy?” Steve asked.

“There's probably only one person and that's President Trump who could fix this problem,” said Pulte, noting that what Trump is doing with inflation is “nothing short of miraculous.”

However, as chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Pulte knows he has his work cut out for him, as historically, the companies have been rife with corruption.

“We're turning [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] around, Steve. ... Basically nobody was working for the most part in these offices. We ordered people back to work,” he said, adding that the agencies are now being “run like businesses” and are utilizing the Department of Government Efficiency to root out waste and abuse.

“The unnecessary redundant bureaucracy is going away, and we're also focused on mortgage fraud — getting rid of fraud in the system,” said Pulte. “We're tightening the whole ship and making sure that we don't ever have a 2008 again.”

Pulte has already signed “over 50 orders” that impact federal housing in Trump’s first 100 days and expects the next 100 days will see the elimination of even more corrupt bureaucracy.

In Steve’s final interview, he met with White House Deputy Communications Director Kaelan Dorr to discuss the multifaceted, flood-the-zone strategy of the communications team and what they’re working on next.

“What you're doing right now and you being here has been really important to us because we've opened up the door to all sorts of alternative media outlets that maybe don't have a day-to-day touch point with the White House,” Dorr told Steve. “For far too long, the American people had to come begging and pleading for scraps of information about what was going on.”

He emphasized the importance of alternative media outlets, like Blaze Media, given mainstream outlets come to press meetings with an agenda and a strong bias, preventing citizens from getting the straight facts.

“We're trying to restore that customer service ethos to everything that we do,” said Dorr.

“What’s the biggest difference here on day 100 compared to day one when you guys came in?” Steve asked.

“The gloves are completely and totally off,” said Dorr. “The social media content we put out — it's a little spicy in all the right ways.”

And it’s paying off.

“On YouTube and some of these other platforms, we've already in 100 days 4-Xed our audiences from the Biden administration,” said Dorr. “We’re going to continue to play offense on everything across the board.”

To hear Steve’s full interviews, as well as watch his surprise bonus interview with Dean Cain, watch the episode above.

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Vaccine mandates ‘unlawful’: Pete Hegseth rights Joe Biden’s wrongs



Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has taken it upon himself to right the wrongs of the Biden administration, which unlawfully kicked service members out of the military after they refused to shoot themselves up with the COVID jab.

“We all know that the previous administration issued unlawful orders on mandatory vaccines, on an experimental vaccine — COVID-19. You know it. We know it. We’re doing everything we can, as quickly as we can, to reinstate those who were affected by that policy,” Hegseth said in a statement.

“It hasn’t been perfect, and we know that. We’re having an ongoing conversation with you to get it right, working with the White House as well. We want anyone impacted by that vaccine mandate back into the military. People of conscience, warriors of conscience — back in our formations,” he continued.


Hegseth then announced that he signed a memorandum that directs the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness to “provide additional guidance to the boards that are reviewing these cases concerning the review of requests from service members and former service members adversely impacted by COVID-19 vaccine mandate.”

“The guidance also will facilitate the removal of adverse actions on service members solely for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, including discharge upgrades and less than fully honorable discharges for individuals separated for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine,” Hegseth explained.

Steve Deace of the “Steve Deace Show” is thrilled that Hegseth is declaring the mandate unlawful and getting those brave enough to refuse it back into the military.

“I want to say thank you to Pete Hegseth, man,” Deace says. “The key phrase for people, that you need to understand why it’s key, that Pete Hegseth said, ‘This was an unlawful order.’”

“Him saying that, and saying it on the record,” he continues, “that is essentially the secretary of defense saying, ‘I am tired of working through bureaucratic channels, and I’ve got too much to handle,' because what these bureaucrats do is take every one of these 8,000 service members and little by little try to bog them down and prove that the devil is in the details.”

“This is him testifying as a witness in any form of a proceeding, or in any filing, in court on behalf of those 8,000-plus military members. That’s why that is so key and vital,” he adds.

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Demonic influence or political folly? Democrats war for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return



Let’s review everything we know thus far about the Democrats’ new pet, Kilmar Abrego Garcia:

  • He entered this country illegally in 2011.
  • In 2019, ICE detained him based on suspected MS-13 gang affiliations.
  • In 2021, his wife filed a temporary domestic violence protective order against him after he gave her a black eye in a dispute.
  • During a traffic stop in 2022, he was suspected of human smuggling.
  • Ample photo and video evidence shows him proudly displaying symbols affiliated with MS-13.
  • El Salvador’s own president, Nayib Bukele, called Garcia a terrorist and said he would not release him in El Salvador.

And yet – Democrats across the country are fighting tooth and nail for Garcia’s return to the U.S. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen (D) even traveled to El Salvador earlier this week on the taxpayer’s dime to speak with Garcia, whom he calls his “constituent.”

Steve Deace, who’s “never seen anything like this in [his] career,” says that at its roots, this war for Garcia’s return is not political; it’s spiritual.

Democrats are once again proving that the American people are at the bottom of their priority list. Not only is their fight to prevent the deportations of illegal immigrants ensuring violent crime, drug peddling, and human trafficking will continue to afflict the American people, but it’s also bucking the will of Americans.

Steve points to a recent CNN polling analysis that found that an increasing number of American citizens support mass deportation of illegal immigrants.

“Four separate polls found deportation support ranging from 55% from the New York Times poll to 64% in a Marquette poll,” says a recent Blaze News article.

“There's not any doubt where the American people are at on this,” says Steve, and yet the Democrat Party is essentially “[running] head first and naked and without a weapon into that tailwind.”

To champion and fight for the return of an illegal immigrant gang member when the majority of the country wants mass deportations of illegal immigrants goes against human nature, says Steve.

“No one does that naturally,” he explains. “Maybe one or two people are this dumb, but collectively, an entire political party is not.”

“What they're doing doesn't benefit them on any level at all; it just simply doesn't, and there's only one reason human beings don't act in self-interest, good or bad,” says Steve.

That reason is “supernatural forces.”

“Human beings will not act out of self-interest at this extent minus supernatural forces. You won't be a lonely nun in Calcutta minus the Holy Spirit, and you won't take on ... without any cover whatsoever all this level of darkness without demonic influence and oppression.”

“You are literally watching Romans 1 play out here,” he says.

To hear more of Steve’s analysis, watch the episode above.

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Beyond politics: NEW survey shows SICKENING trend growing among leftists



The nationwide attack on Tesla has reached a fever pitch. From car bombings to doxxing Tesla owners, the radical leftist stand against Elon Musk is dangerous and getting more so by the day.

A new report from Network Contagion Research Institute, however, is perhaps more indicative of the left’s vitriol for Musk than any singular incident of domestic terrorism against Tesla.

Steve Deace, BlazeTV host of the “Steve Deace Show,” reviews the results of the following poll question: Is murdering Elon Musk and President Trump justified?

The number of left-leaning people who answered yes is grotesque.

Forty-eight percent of people who self-identified as left of center voted yes in varying degrees ranging from somewhat to completely justified for the murder of Elon Musk, while 55% voted yes for President Trump.

Steve is hardly shocked. The left has become the party of violence.

To further illustrate this point, he speaks with Iowa state Representative and Moms for Liberty activist Samantha Fett (R), who is a Christian, about her experience being harassed and threatened by radical leftists.

Fett tells Steve that protesters are “hunting [her] down at [her] church,” displaying signs that read “send her out so we can have our way with her” — a direct reference to Genesis 19, when the men of Sodom demanded Lot overturn the visiting angels so that they could have sex with them.

When Iowa's gender identity bill that sought to remove gender identity protections from the state's civil rights code was being debated, Fett, who played a significant role in the bill’s advancement, had to be accompanied by special security. She was even offered a “soft armor vest to wear” after numerous threats on her life were made.

It’s a “spiritual battle on display,” she says.

Steve argues that so many people don’t understand “how depraved what we're up against really is,” but things like these survey results and Fett’s experiences should be a rallying cry for Christians.

“The level of seething that Samantha has faced is demonstrative of the fact and confirms: This is not about a political ideology; this is a spiritual war,” he says. “Mere political policy differences don’t engender that level of hostility.”

To see more of Steve and Samantha’s conversation, watch the episode above.

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