America is waking up to what patriots have been warning about for years: a powerful media and tech establishment that reflexively mocks dissenting views as “conspiracy theories” until those views become inconvenient facts. On their new BlazeTV show Rufo & Lomez, two smart, hard-charging voices are taking apart that propaganda machine and showing how the same institutions that once derided skeptics now scramble to rewrite history.
Take the Hunter Biden laptop scandal — a story smeared as foreign disinformation and suppressed by social platforms during a presidential campaign, only to be treated much later as legitimate reporting by many outlets and investigators. Ordinary Americans who followed the facts saw the censorship and lies in real time, while legacy outlets spent years defending the gatekeepers instead of holding power to account. The episode is a stark example of why skepticism of media proclamations is not paranoia but prudence.
The same pattern played out with COVID origins: anyone who raised the possibility of a lab leak was dismissed as fringe, while evidence and intelligence assessments later pushed the theory back into the realm of plausible explanation. In Washington and across the world, intelligence agencies and policymakers have had to confront uncomfortable realities that the media once buried under ridicule. Americans deserve transparency and truth, not reflexive deference to official narratives.
The release of the internal Twitter documents known as the “Twitter Files” further exposed how content decisions were made behind closed doors, reinforcing what conservatives have long suspected about bias and selective enforcement. Those documents showed that social platforms did not act in a vacuum, and they vindicated the belief that private censorship can wield enormous political power. The lesson is clear: concentrated media power plus unchecked tech platforms is a recipe for institutional propaganda.
That realization has produced real pushback in the halls of power, with lawmakers and even members of the Republican-led Congress moving to dismantle or reform governmental units that blurred the lines between countering foreign influence and policing domestic speech. These are not partisan stunts; they are necessary fixes to restore a free marketplace of ideas and to stop taxpayer-funded pressure on platforms to silence inconvenient facts. The American experiment depends on open debate, not curated silence.
If you’re a hardworking American tired of being lectured by elites who decide what counts as “truth,” take heart: voices like Rufo and Lomez are fighting back, and the revelations piling up prove the value of skepticism. It’s time to stand for free speech, demand accountability from Big Media and Big Tech, and insist that our institutions serve the people rather than shield the powerful. The battle for honest information is a fight for the soul of the republic, and patriots must not shrink from it.

