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Debanking Is Just a Tax on Dissent

Progressives are setting a dangerous precedent.
The JP Morgan Chase & Co. headquarters, The JP Morgan Chase Tower in Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
The JP Morgan Chase Tower in midtown Manhattan, New York. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sam Brownback has held many positions over the years—senator, governor, ambassador-at-large—but there is one that continues to elude him: Chase Bank customer. 

After serving as U.S. ambassador-at-large for worldwide religious freedom during the Trump administration, the former Kansas governor turned his attention to religious liberty at home and launched the National Committee for Religious Freedom, a nonprofit group, and opened an account at Chase.

Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.

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