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The Whalen Report: How citizen journalists hold government power accountable [VIDEO – language advisory]
Catching Fire News & The Whalen Report

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Tom DeWeese
March 17, 2026

On the Whalen Report, we’re joined by activist and independent journalist, Gavin Seim, known to many through his YouTube channel Gavin Seim. Seim became widely known in the early 2010s for documenting police encounters and helping pioneer what many now call First Amendment auditing—turning the camera on government power and educating citizens about their rights. A former Washington state congressional candidate and longtime liberty activist, Seim joins us to discuss the evolution of activism, citizen journalism, and what it takes to hold public officials accountable in an age of digital media.
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WHAT IS CATCHING FIRE NEWS?
The purpose of Catching Fire News is to present truth and provide knowledge rarely available from other sources, combined with an agenda to help local activists organize and take back their own communities.
Catching Fire News is the place where we share strategies and tactics for fighting and winning in our local community whether it’s the city council, school board, county commission, or state legislature. The focus is on government overreach, attacks on property rights, private business, and personal liberty.
Catching Fire News will become your most reliable source for the real news and – most importantly – your source for renewal of hope and reports of victories from the front lines, as local activists succeed in setting those brushfires of freedom.
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Tom DeWeese
Tom DeWeese is one of the nation's leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education, and American sovereignty and independence...
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Tom DeWeese is one of the nation's leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education, and American sovereignty and independence.
A native of Ohio, he's been a candidate for the Ohio Legislature, served as editor of two newspapers, and has owned several businesses since the age of 23. In 1989, Tom led the only privately-funded election-observation team to the Panamanian elections. In 2006, Tom was invited to Cambridge University to debate the issue of the United Nations before the Cambridge Union, a 200-year-old debating society. Today, he serves as Founder and President of the American Policy Center and editor of The DeWeese Report. Tom also heads up an Internet news site called Freedom21.com.
For 40 years, Tom DeWeese has been a businessman, grassroots activist, writer, and publisher.
As such, he has always advocated a firm belief in man's need to keep moving forward while protecting our constitutionally-guaranteed rights.
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