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Faith, Family, and Dissent Under Surveillance

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Scott Hughes
Nov 24, 2025
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Narratives don’t launch top-down.

They propagate sideways — from media copy to NGO reports, from policy briefs to platform safety memos.

When the same language appears across institutions that don’t coordinate publicly, that’s the tell.

These five phrases are the sync points.

Each one describes behavior on the surface, but belief underneath.

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