For the last few weeks I’ve been sharing with you how Google is suppressing Conservative Web sites in the name of “authority”.

If you look at my screenshots, you’ll see that on Google News, they allow sites like The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and even TheDemocrats.org to be shown in search results, but not sites like The Blaze, Daily Wire, Epoch Times, or The Washington Times nor independent reporters like Sharyl Attkisson, John Solomon, Catherine Herridge, Bari Weiss, Matt Taibi, Alex Berenson—some of who were doing hard journalism when the current writers of the New York Times were in diapers.

There really is nothing new under the sun. In 1939, director Frank Capra made a movie called Mr Smith Goes to Washington. If you haven’t seen it, you need to go to your local library and borrow it.

The parallels to today are stunning. Spoilers ahead.

  1. Jefferson Smith (played by Jimmy Stewart) is a wide-eyes idealist whose main claim to fame is that he founded a popular boy’s camp. He had never been in politics but because of his populist appeal he finds himself in the Senate.
  2. There’s a political machine in his state that controls the other Senator, Senator Payne (played by Claude Rains) who himself was once an idealist. They believe they can control Smith too.
  3. Jefferson Smith introduces a bill to protect a piece of land that the political machine wants to build a dam on.
  4. Unable to get him to sway from his principles, the political machine tries to discredit and destroy Smith. Because they control all the newspapers and radio stations in the state, they lead all of their newspapers and broadcasts with half-truths and complete lies about Smith.
  5. Smith tries to get the word out through the only source he has: the boys who attend his camps. They try defending Smith using mimeographed leaflets, and in scenes that seem over-the-top today (but which most modern “election deniers” and “vaccine deniers” can identify with).
  6. In this final scene (forgive the graininess), Jefferson Smith is using his last tool—the filibuster—as he tries in vain to give the boys time to get the word out, not realizing that they’ve all been silenced. At his breaking point, the political machine brings in piles and piles of letters and postcards from angry citizens demanding that Smith be ousted from Congress.


Does this all sound familiar?

Senator Payne is all of the career politicians who have been entrenched in Washington for years on both the Republic and Democrat sides who may have entered politics with ideals but haven’t realized they’ve made far too many compromises.

The political machine is today’s “deep state” in the government, media, and tech companies like Google who work together to preserve their own power and destroy anyone who threatens it.

Jefferson Smith? He’s you and me.

So how does it end? Jefferson Smith collapses, but not before he gives an impassioned speech. He knows he’s fighting a lost cause. But he’s going to keep fighting for lost causes.

Jefferson Smith’s speech reminds me a lot of that moment that President Trump, with disheveled hair, no shoes, and blood streaked upon his face, raised his fist.

The moment Trump said, “Fight, Fight, Fight”, he had no idea whether another bullet would come. He saw the blood splattered and had no idea what kind of injury he’d sustained. For all he knew, those would be the last words he’d be remembered for.

To anyone reading this, whether you think Trump is on the ropes or has a commanding lead that the media is hiding…it’s your job to use your free speech to speak up for what’s right against the Googles of the world who, as you’ve seen in all the previous posts on this site, are doing everything they can to block the 99% of legitimate content that conservative and libertarian outlets report, usin the 1% of harmful content as their excuse to suppress them all.

A populist candidate relies on the populace to spread his message and defend his cause. Those in positions of power will not do anything to help him and will do everything in their power to destroy him.

No one can stand back in the cheering section anymore. It’s time for everyone to get on the field.

And if you think that no one can hear you because your voice is so small, keep speaking. “Somebody will listen”.