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Every morning, Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez says she checks her email “to see if I’m going into work.” She’s the last remaining Democrat at the now two-person FCC and has been touring the country to speak out about actions by President Donald Trump and FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who she says seek to censor and control Americans’ speech. Gomez has accused her own agency under Carr’s leadership of “weaponizing” its authority “to silence critics,” and opening “sham investigations” into news outlets like NPR, PBS, ABC, CBS, and NBC.