Friend,

If a police officer searched your home without a warrant, that officer would be in serious legal trouble. But the federal government searches your digital life — your emails, your texts, your communications — without a warrant, without probable cause, without a judge from a real court ever signing off.

And Congress keeps voting to let them do it.

Friend, I have fought relentlessly against secret surveillance courts that were never meant to be turned on American citizens. The Fourth Amendment is not a suggestion. It is the law. 

And right now, Washington is trampling it with both feet while calling it national security.

Here is what makes it worse: Congress has had every opportunity to fix this permanently. Instead, they keep passing short-term extensions — 90 days here, six months there — kicking the can down the road and hoping you stop paying attention. 

No real reform. No long-term fix. Just enough runway to keep the surveillance state humming until the next deadline, when they do it all over again.

I have voted no every time. I will keep voting no. But I cannot force a REAL solution without you by my side.

The government should have to get a warrant. A real warrant. From a real court. Based on real probable cause. That is not a radical idea. It is the Constitution.

Rush in now to help me end the extensions and fight for a permanent fix.

In liberty,
Rand Paul

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