HoldingTheTorch
Holding The Torch is a newsletter about truth, openness, and liberation — messages that cut through the noise.
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Before You Walk In, the System May Already Know Your Car (opens the original)
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323 paid subscribers. The goal is 350.Until we reach 330 paid subscribers, every new yearly subscriber gets all of my currently released ebooks free, plus 50% off my next ebook.Subscribe nowIf investigations like this—the kind that require digging through corporate privacy policies, SEC filings, government records, vendor documents and reporting most people never put together—are worth supporting, consider becoming a paid reader.<h
SAVE Is Back: What the Supreme Court’s 6–3 Order Actually Allows 39 Days Before the Midterms (opens the original)
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The Court revived DHS’s expanded citizenship-verification system after two lower courts refused to do so. Texas screened 18 million registrations and flagged 2,724 people — but 578 later demonstrated they were citizens. The ruling is significant, but it does not authorize everything some headlines imply.THIS ARTICLE IS FULLY FREE. is still at 323 paid subscribers, with the immediate goal of 330. Until we reach 330, every new yearly subscriber gets all of my current e-books free, and my next rele
Trump Banned CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO From the White House. A Judge Ordered Them Back In. (opens the original)
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The television press pool stopped normal coverage. The White House launched Trump TV. The administration invoked national security. Then a Trump-appointed judge found the credential revocations likely violated due process. The reporters are back — but the constitutional fight is nowhere near finished.Quick personal update: I recently had my wisdom teeth removed, so I’ve been recovering and haven’t been publishing at the pace I normally want to. Sorry for the slowdown.I’m getting back to it.There
120,000 CAMERAS. 20 BILLION PLATE SCANS A MONTH. (opens the original)
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Marci Bakely thought somebody had put a tracker on her car.She checked her home.Installed cameras.She reportedly took her vehicle to mechanics multiple times looking for a hidden tracking device.There wasn’t one.According to records reviewed by The Washington Post, her former boyfriend—a police chief—had access to something considerably more powerful.Flock.The Post reported that he searched license plates connected to Bakely an
THE AI BOOM HAS A POWER BILL. CONGRESS IS FIGHTING OVER ONE WORD. (opens the original)
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The House voted 417–3 to protect electricity customers. Twenty-four hours later, the Senate stalled. The dispute exposes something much bigger: who actually pays for the infrastructure behind the AI race?Paid investigation. Opening section free.Something unusual happened in Washington this week.The House of Representatives voted 417–3.Not on a ceremonial resolution.Not on naming a post office.On artificial intelligence.<
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