America’s founding generation did not take up arms merely over unreasonable taxation.They understood ceding their rights to the government for promise of security was a bad deal.
They believed risking death to live free was better than subsisting under tyranny.They fought back against unchecked tyranny across an ocean.The crown planted spies in their taverns, rifled through their papers without cause and intercepted their private correspondence.Today, unchecked deep-state bureaucrats are treating themselves as kings, putting their interests ahead of American liberty. The "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (FISA) has decomposed into a modern incarnation of the general warrants and writs of assistance that ignited our American Revolution.
Created as a tool to track foreign threats, FISA has evolved into a domestic surveillance machine: sweeping up Americans’ communications, hiding behind secret courts and treating the Fourth Amendment like a roadblock instead of the supreme law of the land.PROTECTING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN OUR 250TH YEARA court found the FBI improperly searched in a database of foreign intelligence 278,000 times over several years.FILE: An FBI agent and a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer arrest a man near the White House at Farragut Square Path in Washington, D.C., on Sept.
15, 2025. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk /Anadolu via Getty Images)The rattlesnake on the Gadsden flag is issuing a new warning: Don’t Spy on Me.On June 12, our colleagues in Congress will face another deadline to renew a key FISA authority, Section 702.The intelligence community wants a "clean" reauthorization without changes to its unconstitutional infrastructure.
However, the American people expect us to reassert American liberty.That is why some members of the House Freedom Caucus and the Senate Steering Committee have made it clear that meaningful reforms are the only pathway to a long-term extension here.This position is not opposed to natio...