Big Tech has been waging war on conservatives for years.
They thought they could get away with it forever.
But Google just got caught red-handed doing something that will make your blood boil.
Google caught filtering Republican fundraising emails as "dangerous spam"
For months, Republican campaigns have been screaming about something that should outrage every American who believes in fair elections.
Google’s Gmail platform has been systematically filtering Republican fundraising emails from WinRed into spam folders while letting Democrat emails from ActBlue sail right through to inboxes.
And now Google finally admitted they’ve been doing exactly what conservatives have been accusing them of all along.
The smoking gun came in a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson that The Daily Wire obtained on Friday.
Google’s head of federal government affairs Anne Wall tried to play innocent, blaming a third-party company called SURBL for putting Republican fundraising links on an "abuse list."
But here’s the kicker – they only used this excuse for Republican emails while Democrat fundraising messages never faced the same scrutiny.
"The label appeared after a third-party company, SURBL, placed that fundraising organization on its abuse list," Wall wrote, as if Google had no control over their own email filtering system.
Right.
The convenient excuse falls apart under scrutiny
Google wants you to believe this was all just an innocent mistake caused by some Dutch company’s spam database.
But let’s think about this for a second.
Google – the company that processes billions of emails every single day and has some of the most sophisticated algorithms in the world – wants us to believe they couldn’t figure out that Republican fundraising emails weren’t actually dangerous spam?
The Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory exposed this scheme last month, warning that "if Gmail is allowed to quietly suppress WinRed links while giving ActBlue a free pass, it will continue to tilt the playing field in ways that voters never see, but campaigns will feel every single day."
They weren’t wrong.
This wasn’t some glitch in the system – this was election interference dressed up as spam filtering.
Trump administration puts the heat on Big Tech
Here’s where things get interesting.
Chairman Ferguson didn’t just take Google’s word for it when reports surfaced about the biased filtering.
He sent a letter directly to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, making it crystal clear that this kind of election manipulation might violate federal law.
"If Gmail’s filters keep Americans from receiving speech they expect, or donating as they see fit, the filters may harm American consumers and may violate the FTC Act’s prohibition of unfair or deceptive trade practices," Ferguson wrote.
Translation: Fix this now, or face the consequences.
And suddenly, Google discovered they didn’t need SURBL’s spam list after all.
Wall claimed that Google "promptly evaluated whether we could protect Gmail users from unwanted spam without reliance on the SURBL signal, and determined that our own advanced protections are the most effective way to protect users."
Funny how they figured that out right after getting called out by federal regulators.
The real story behind Google’s convenient excuse
Google wants everyone to believe this was just a technical glitch with their spam filters.
But seasoned observers of Big Tech know better – this follows the exact same playbook we’ve seen from these companies for years.
When Facebook throttled conservative news sites, they blamed algorithm changes. When Twitter shadow-banned Republican accounts, they cited "quality filters." And now Google claims a Dutch company’s database forced them to label Republican fundraising as dangerous spam.
Every time one of these companies gets exposed, they roll out the same defense strategy – blame the algorithms, blame third-party vendors, blame anything except their own decisions.
Meanwhile, these same "technical glitches" somehow never seem to affect Democrat communications the same way. Republican donors who signed up for WinRed updates found their emails buried in spam folders, while ActBlue messages sailed through without a problem.
Google picked sides, got caught, and now they’re scrambling to cover their tracks with bureaucratic double-talk about third-party companies and "signals."
The reality is much simpler: Google was helping Democrats and hurting Republicans, period.
For Republican campaigns trying to raise money from their supporters, this kind of systematic suppression is devastating.
How many donations never happened because emails never reached inboxes?
How many grassroots supporters never got mobilized because they never saw the calls to action?
The answer is we’ll never know – and that’s exactly how Google wanted it.
This is the kind of behind-the-scenes election manipulation that Democrats and their Big Tech allies have perfected over the years.
They can’t win fair fights, so they rig the system and hope nobody notices.
Well, somebody noticed.
And now that President Trump is back in office with people like Chairman Ferguson willing to hold Big Tech accountable, these companies are finally facing real consequences for their election interference.
Google’s promise to stop using SURBL’s list is just the beginning.
It’s time for a full investigation into how many other ways Big Tech has been tilting the playing field against conservatives.
The American people deserve to know the truth about how deeply the system has been rigged against them.
¹ Leif Le Mahieu, "Google Promises Change After ‘Abuse List’ Labeled GOP Emails ‘Dangerous’," The Daily Wire, September 22, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ Ibid.
