They Wrote It Down
Authoritarianism isn't what happens after they win the AI race. It's how they plan to win it.
Let me pitch you a movie.
A small group of billionaires, the smartest guys in the room and they know it, decide democracy is finished. Not dying. Already dead. Too slow, too stupid, too messy to survive what’s coming.
They write a plan. Not in secret, they publish it. Blog posts, podcasts, manifestos. They fund a politician who quotes it word for word. They build surveillance systems. They buy media companies. They construct detention camps.
But here’s the hook, here’s what makes it a movie:
They’re racing to build something. A technology so powerful it would make nuclear weapons look like fireworks. Artificial intelligence that thinks faster than humans, works cheaper than humans, and never stops. Whoever builds it first doesn’t just win. Everyone else loses. Permanently.
The villains know this technology could go wrong. Could end civilization instead of saving it. So they’ve bought citizenship in New Zealand. Built bunkers. Secured their exits.
The rest of us don’t have exits.
You’d tell me the script is too on the nose. Real villains don’t publish manifestos. Real villains don’t name their detention facility “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Here’s the thing: I’m not pitching you a movie.
I’m describing this week. And below is a chart from Federal Reserve looking at the options after the Singularity, the moment when AGI goes live. Keep it in mind as you read. And if you just want to skip and listen/watch a video, jump to the bottom and watch the last one listed.
THE MISDIRECTION
Every thriller opens with a fake-out.
In 2017, a group started warning about “The Great Reset”, a plot by Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum to impose a socialist new world order. Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham devoted segments to it. Steve Bannon made it a centerpiece of his messaging. Millions of people became convinced that European globalists were the enemy at the gates.
It was a conspiracy theory. But more importantly, it was a misdirection.
While the right-wing media trained its audience to watch Davos, the actual plan was being written elsewhere. Not by European bureaucrats. By American tech billionaires. Not socialism. Something much stranger.
The plan wasn’t in a smoky backroom. It was on a blog in San Francisco. A software engineer named Curtis Yarvin, writing under the name “Mencius Moldbug,” laying out a philosophy: democracy is a failed experiment. America should be run like a startup. A CEO-king with total authority. No board. No shareholders meeting. No voting.
He called it neocameralism. Most people who read it thought it was weird libertarian fan fiction.
One person who read it was Peter Thiel. He’d been funding Yarvin’s work for years. In 2009, Thiel wrote an essay:
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
Another person who read it was a young venture capitalist named JD Vance. He started appearing on podcasts with Yarvin. In one, he said the answer to courts ruling against you was to “ignore the courts.”
Vance is now Vice President.
THE BELIEF
Here’s what you need to understand: they’re not pretending.
Thiel, Yarvin, Vance—they believe democracy cannot survive what’s coming. They’ve said so. They’ve written it down.
What’s coming is AGI. Artificial General Intelligence. AI that can do anything a human can do, and do it better, faster, cheaper. The companies racing to build it think they’re three to ten years away. Maybe closer.
When that happens, the world changes. Economists have modeled scenarios where the first country to achieve AGI captures over half of global GDP. Not a bigger slice, a transformation of what economics even means.
Military analysts have modeled what happens when one nation has autonomous weapons that think faster than any human general, cyber capabilities that can penetrate any system, surveillance that can track anyone anywhere.
And some analysts, these papers exist, they’re cited in defense journals, have modeled scenarios where AGI enables a first strike that disables an enemy’s nuclear arsenal before they can launch. If that’s possible, the nuclear deterrence that prevented World War III for eighty years breaks. Permanently.
This is the prize. And they believe whoever wins this race wins everything. Whoever loses, loses everything.
THE METHOD
Authoritarianism isn’t what happens after they win.
It’s how they plan to get there.
And Yarvin told them exactly how to do it.
In his writings, Yarvin is explicit: democracy is too slow, too messy, too weak. What America needs is a CEO-king—a single executive with total authority, running the country like a startup. No board of directors. No shareholder meetings. No voting. Just one person making all the calls.
“If Americans want to change their government,” Yarvin wrote, “they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.”
In 2022, he laid out how it would work: teams of “ninjas” would “drop into all the agencies in the executive branch” and “seize all points of power, without respect for paper protections” and here’s the key part, “in defiance of court orders.”
Sound familiar?
This is DOGE. This is what Musk’s team has been doing since January. Dropping into agencies. Seizing databases. Ignoring the courts when they rule against them.
In 2017, the Muslim ban took weeks to implement and courts stopped it within days. In 2025, the same policies happen in hours, and when courts rule against them, they’re ignored.
Vice President Vance has cited Yarvin by name. In 2021, he said on a podcast: “What Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”
That’s Yarvin’s RAGE—”Retire All Government Employees.” Word for word.
If you believe you’re in a race against China for the most powerful technology in human history, you believe you cannot afford democratic debate. You cannot afford courts slowing you down. You cannot afford journalists asking questions or protesters in the streets.
You need surveillance, to see threats before they emerge. You need detention, to remove people who get in the way. You need media control, to shape what the public believes. You need legal frameworks that let you call your opponents terrorists.
You need to build the control system before you build the technology. Because once the technology exists, it will be too late. The transition will be too fast, too chaotic.
The camps aren’t for after. They’re for during.
THE CAMPS
This summer, the largest immigration detention facility in American history opened at Fort Bliss, Texas. Capacity: 5,000 people. Contract: $1.26 billion.
More are coming. Guantanamo Bay is being expanded. Camp Atterbury in Indiana. Fort Dix in New Jersey. The goal, announced publicly: 100,000 beds.
These facilities aren’t being inspected. Journalists aren’t allowed inside. What we know comes from people who survived.
Solitary confinement for weeks. Medical care denied. People dying in custody. One man’s body showed signs of being tased over a hundred times.
The administration says these are for immigrants.
But U.S. citizens are already being detained. Americans with valid passports held for days, weeks. Some deported to countries they’d never visited. One veteran was sent to Jamaica and died there.
And last week, the Attorney General sent a memo to every federal prosecutor in the country. It defined domestic terrorism to include:
Opposition to immigration enforcement
“Radical gender ideology”
Anti-capitalism
“Hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality”
Those aren’t crimes. Those are political beliefs. Beliefs held by tens of millions of Americans.
The memo orders the FBI to compile a master list of organizations matching these criteria. Deadline: January 3rd.
Immigrants are the test case.
The infrastructure works on anyone.
THE WATCHERS
To fill the camps, you need to find people.
Over the past year, The DOEGE team has been connecting databases that were never supposed to be connected. Your tax returns. Your Social Security records. Your passport application. If you’ve ever had a government job or a security clearance, that’s in there too.
The team includes employees from Palantir, the surveillance company co-founded by Peter Thiel. Palantir already runs the immigration tracking system. It follows people from the moment they’re flagged to the moment they’re deported.
Now that system is being connected to everything else.
Last week, a new rule appeared in the Federal Register. Visitors from 42 countries—Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, all close allies—will be required to hand over five years of social media history before entering the United States. Ten years of email addresses. Family information.
Think about what that means. Imagine if Britain required this of Americans—every social media handle since 2020, every email address since 2015, your family’s information—just to visit London. Americans would call it authoritarian surveillance. But this is what the United States now demands from citizens of 42 allied democracies.
This isn’t about border security. Citizens of these countries don’t need visas. This is about extending the surveillance architecture beyond our borders. Testing what’s acceptable. Keep building the database.
The watchers are watching everyone now.
THE WEAPONS
Every Bond villain builds weapons.
These villains are building autonomous drones. AI pilots that don’t need runways, don’t need GPS, don’t need human permission. The marketing language says they “organically close their own kill chains.” Translation: they find targets and eliminate them without a human ever being involved.
A company called Shield AI builds the V-BAT, a drone that can operate without any external signals. GPS jammed? Doesn’t matter. Communications cut? Doesn’t matter. It thinks for itself. The next generation of this will be the X-BAT, pictured below.
Anduril, co-founded by Palmer Luckey, builds what they call a “lattice” system—autonomous weapons networked together, making decisions faster than any human commander could.
These systems are being tested overseas. They’re being deployed at the border. The same infrastructure works anywhere.
If you’re building a control system for the AGI transition, you need force that doesn’t depend on soldiers who might refuse orders. You need weapons that follow algorithms, not consciences.
And here’s where the money tells the story.
Donald Trump Jr. joined a venture capital firm called 1789 Capital as a partner in 2024. He’s “very involved in the strategic decisions regarding where to invest.”
Since January, at least four companies in 1789’s portfolio have received government contracts totaling more than $735 million, including a $620 million Pentagon loan to Vulcan Elements, a tiny rare earths startup with 30 employees.
Before that, Trump Jr. joined the advisory board of Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company. He received 331,580 shares, worth millions, just before they won Pentagon contracts for drone motors and components.
Eric Trump sits on the advisory board of Dominari Holdings alongside his brother. Both participated in a private placement before the stock surged.
The Trump family isn’t just enabling the defense tech boom. They’re invested in it. Every contract their father’s administration awards to these companies makes them richer.
And then there’s Jared Kushner.
Six months after leaving the White House in 2021, Kushner’s investment firm Affinity Partners received $2 billion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The PIF’s own screening committee recommended against it, citing “the inexperience of the Affinity Fund management” and an “excessive” fee structure. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally overruled them.
Since then, Kushner has collected at least $157 million in management fees, $87 million from the Saudis alone. The fund has produced no returns for investors. They’re not paying for performance.
They’re paying for access, every accusation of others is what they are doing, is what they have been doing.
Now look at what Kushner has brokered.
September 2025: Affinity Partners, Silver Lake, and Saudi Arabia’s PIF acquire Electronic Arts for $55 billion, the largest leveraged buyout in history and it’s a digital game company. Kushner “brokered the initial connection” and pushed the deal forward when it stalled.
December 2025: Affinity Partners appears as a financing partner in Paramount’s $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Same deal with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi.
The same man, routing the same Gulf money, into both the AI infrastructure and the media consolidation. The same foreign governments funding both.
And Musk? You thought he was building rockets to get to Mars.
SpaceX just confirmed plans to build data centers in orbit. Not science fiction, target 2026. They’re scaling up Starlink V3 satellites to handle AI computation in space. Unlimited solar power. No cooling costs. No environmental review. No democratic oversight of what happens off-planet.
“SpaceX will be doing this,” Musk wrote on X in October. He’s planning an IPO to fund it, potentially valuing the company at over $1 trillion.
The rockets were never really about Mars. They’re about building AI infrastructure beyond the reach of any government. Any court. Any democracy.
THE NARRATIVE
Every control system needs a story.
You can build the surveillance. You can build the camps. You can build the weapons. But if people see clearly what’s happening, they resist. You need to control what they see.
The FCC regulates broadcast television—ownership caps, public interest requirements. But streaming has zero oversight. No caps, no rules. Which is why acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery, which holds no broadcast licenses, sidesteps FCC review completely.
Netflix just won a bidding war to buy WBD’s studio and streaming assets for $72 billion. But there’s a hostile takeover bid trying to grab the whole company—including CNN.
The bid comes from David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, backed by the same Gulf money financing the AI data centers, routed through the same players. The Ellisons, the Saudis, and Kushner, all together again.
Meanwhile, the FCC itself has been neutralized. In February, the president signed an executive order removing the commission’s independence. Everything it considers now requires White House approval. Ninety years of independence, gone.
And the FCC is using what power it has to threaten networks that broadcast unfavorable coverage. They’ve floated revoking CBS’s license. They’ve pressured ABC. The message to every executive: be careful what you report.
Local news is already captured. Sinclair Broadcasting owns nearly 200 stations—more than any other company. They require anchors to read scripted segments. If you watch local news in most American cities, you’re watching Sinclair.
Newspapers are collapsing. The number of working journalists has fallen by half since 2008. Entire counties have no local coverage at all.
And Musk controls the algorithm that decides what half a billion people see every day on X. The same man building the master database. The same man racing to build AGI. The same man putting data centers in orbit.
By the time the transition happens, by the time the chaos hits, they need most Americans getting their information from sources they control or sources too scared to report clearly.
THE NETWORK
This isn’t five guys with a plan.
It’s an ecosystem. Hundreds of billions in coordinated capital. Interlocking board seats and investment stakes. A pipeline from venture capital to government to judiciary and back.
The Money: Peter Thiel didn’t fund this alone. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz—a16z—went all-in for Trump in 2024. Their “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” lists enemies: social responsibility, sustainability, tech ethics. The Mercers funded Cambridge Analytica and Breitbart. Miriam Adelson has given over $100 million to Republican causes. Harlan Crow has relationships with Supreme Court justices that only came to light through investigative reporting.
The Operators: David Sacks hosts the All-In Podcast to millions and has taken a role in the administration. Vivek Ramaswamy co-lead DOGE with Musk. Stephen Miller wrote the immigration policy, the Muslim ban, and now NSPM-7, he runs America First Legal, filing lawsuits to advance the agenda through the courts.
The Judges: Leonard Leo spent decades building the Federalist Society into a pipeline for judicial appointments. Six Supreme Court justices. Hundreds of federal judges. When the administration defies court orders, they’re betting on which judges will hear the appeals.
The Amplifiers: Tucker Carlson brought Curtis Yarvin on to explain “the Cathedral” to millions. Joe Rogan platforms the network’s ideas to the largest podcast audience in the world. Steve Bannon built the ideological infrastructure through Breitbart and is still broadcasting daily.
The Pattern: Venture capital funds the startups. The startups get defense contracts. The defense contractors fund the politicians. The politicians appoint the judges. The judges enable the policies. The media amplifies the narrative. The platforms control the information. The money flows back to the venture capitalists.
It’s a machine that has been in motion for years, but now is picking up speed.
WHAT WE DO
I’m not going to tell you this is hopeless. Or inevitable.
Tristan Harris, who warned us about social media before anyone listened, makes a crucial distinction: there’s a difference between believing something is inevitable and believing something is difficult. Inevitable is a spell. It breeds paralysis. Difficult is a problem that requires action.
The people building this want you to believe it’s inevitable. That’s how they get you to stop fighting.
But humanity has broken the spell before. Nuclear testing seemed inevitable, until nations signed the test ban treaty. Designer babies seemed inevitable, until the US and China coordinated to stop germ line editing (which now the same people want to push on again). The ozone hole seemed like the end, until we passed the Montreal Protocol just before it was too late. Blinding laser weapons were about to proliferate on battlefields until 109 nations banned them in 1995, before a single soldier was blinded. It was the first time since 1868 that a weapon was prohibited before it was used.
AI is harder than any of those. But we haven’t even really tried.
Here’s what you need to understand about scale: this isn’t about one policy or one election. AGI—if it arrives—changes everything. Every job. Every industry. Every institution. The economists modeling this aren’t talking about disruption. They’re talking about a transformation of what economics means. The biggest change in human civilization since the agricultural revolution, compressed into years instead of centuries.
Look at the chart again. The Federal Reserve, not futurists, not tech evangelists, the Federal Reserve, is now modeling AI scenarios. The lines diverge wildly. One path shows modest growth (normal growth). Another shows GDP per capita going vertical—abundance beyond anything in human history. Another line just drops and stops.
Extinction.
Those aren’t the only options. There are other lines that could be drawn. Paths where the benefits are shared broadly. Paths where the transition happens with democratic input. Paths where we don’t have to choose between a handful of billionaires controlling everything and complete chaos. Oddly China sees this and is acting in that manner, while we have taking all the guardrails off.
But here’s the thing: those middle paths don’t happen by accident. They require people demanding them.
Right now, a handful of people are deciding which line we follow. Not elected officials. Not scientists debating in public. Not citizens voting on the future they want. A few dozen billionaires and the engineers who work for them, racing as fast as possible, building the control systems to manage the chaos they know is coming.
That’s the choice: either we’re part of the decision, or we live with their decision.
Harris calls the alternative “the narrow path”—between chaos and dystopia, where power is matched with responsibility at every level. It’s not guaranteed. It requires something that doesn’t exist yet: democratic participation in decisions about technology that will reshape everything.
There’s no secret room of adults who will ensure a good outcome. We have to become the adults. We could help draw other lines on that graph, ones that benefits everyone.
So here’s what we do:
We break the spell. Every time someone says “inevitable,” we say “unacceptable.” Every conversation that shifts from fatalism to action changes the odds. The architecture they’re building depends on us believing we have no say.
We demand a seat at the table. The decisions being made right now—about AI development, about surveillance, about who controls information—will determine the next century. These cannot be made by a handful of billionaires in private. We need public debate. Democratic oversight. Actual choices, not fait accompli.
We fight for the middle lines. The future isn’t binary. It’s not their utopia or everyone’s dystopia. There are paths to abundance that don’t require surrendering democracy. Paths where AI’s benefits are shared, not hoarded. Those paths exist, but only if enough people demand them.
We talk about it. Not about politics. About this. The memo. The camps. The deadlines. The philosophy. The names. Show people the sources. Make them look. The more people who see the picture clearly, the harder it becomes to finish.
We support the people fighting it. The lawyers challenging deportations. The journalists still covering detention. The researchers studying AI safety. The whistleblowers who forfeit millions in stock options to warn us. They’re under-resourced and under attack. They need money, attention, and bodies.
We make it costly. Politicians who enable this need to know it will end their careers. Companies that build the infrastructure need to know it will end their contracts. Officials who follow illegal orders need to know they’ll be held accountable.
We don’t wait. The January 3rd deadline, when the FBI delivers its master list of “domestic terrorism” organizations, is weeks away. The architecture gets harder to stop the longer it runs.
They’re building this fast because there’s a window. They know that once enough people see clearly and start demanding a voice, the project becomes much more difficult.
They’re betting you’ll believe you don’t have a say.
They’re betting you’ll let them decide for you.
They’re betting you’ll treat the biggest transformation in human history like someone else’s problem.
Don’t let them be right.
This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring AI, power, and the systems being built around us.
Videos to Watch:
This is how the people building it, not the sellers, but the engineers talk about it. Minute 40 is about what happens after. The whole video is important. And what’s sad in our world, this video, telling everyone where we really are is only getting 300k views, while someone pushing hate speech will get millions.
Other side of the aisle view, start at minute 49 to see the AI discussion. The rest you can skip if you are not into it. Really watch the language that David Sacks uses, it’s very telling.
Tristan Harris talking about what’s happening, what the public does not understand, and what can be done.
Stuart Russell is really the man behind modern AI, he helped write the book that all AI engineers and scientists use Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. If you are only going to watch one video, this is the one.
Don’t listen to the sellers of the product, listen to those who are behind the scenes helping build it.
SOURCES
The Bondi Memo (NSPM-7)
Ken Klippenstein: “FBI Making List of American ‘Extremists,’ Leaked Memo Reveals” - Full memo published December 2025
Ken Klippenstein: “Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism ‘Indicators’” - Original NSPM-7 analysis, September 2025
Democracy Docket: “Leaked Memo: DOJ To List, Target Anti-Trump Activists as ‘Domestic Terrorists’”
Detention Infrastructure
ACLU: “New Detention Camp at Fort Bliss Marks Dangerous Expansion” - $1.2 billion facility documentation
ACLU: “Detained Immigrants Detail Physical Abuse and Inhumane Conditions” - December 2025 letter with 45 interviews
Human Rights Watch: “US: Close Fort Bliss Immigration Detention Site”
Texas Tribune: “Feds plan to build nation’s biggest migrant detention center at Fort Bliss” - $1.26 billion contract details
El Paso Matters: “Human rights groups call on ICE to halt third-country deportations”
U.S. Citizens Detained
ProPublica: “More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents” - October 2025 investigation
ProPublica: “Democrats to Investigate Immigration Agents Detaining of American Citizens”
NPR: “NPR fact checks Kristi Noem on ICE detaining US citizens”
Wikipedia: Detention and deportation of American citizens in the second Trump administration
Media Consolidation
Variety: “Paramount Skydance’s Latest Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Backed by Three Middle Eastern Wealth Funds” - Saudi PIF, Qatar Investment Authority, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Kushner’s Affinity Partners
Variety: “Paramount Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery” - $108 billion bid, SEC filings
Wikipedia: Paramount Skydance - FCC bypass strategy
Brookings: “What’s the FCC’s role in regulating broadcast content?” - February 2025 executive order removing FCC independence
Marketing Brew: “How the FCC’s potential overhaul of a 20-year-old rule could affect TV advertising”
Philosophy and Statements
Peter Thiel, “The Education of a Libertarian,” Cato Unbound, April 2009 - “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”
Marc Andreessen, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” a16z, October 2023
Jacobin: “Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy”
Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) neocameralism writings - Unqualified Reservations blog archives
CNN: “Curtis Yarvin wants to replace American democracy with a form of monarchy led by a ‘CEO’” - May 2025, includes 2022 “ninjas” blueprint: “drop into all the agencies” and “seize all points of power... in defiance of court orders”
Britannica: Curtis Yarvin - “If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia”
Wikipedia: Curtis Yarvin - RAGE (”Retire All Government Employees”), Vance citations
Wikipedia: Dark Enlightenment - Neocameralism, “authoritarian CEO monarchs”
The Conversation: “Trump’s reign fits Curtis Yarvin’s blueprint of a CEO-led American monarchy” - July 2025
JD Vance 2021 podcast: “Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat... replace them with our people” - Available on YouTube
Tucker Carlson interview with Curtis Yarvin on “the Cathedral” - Available on YouTube
The Great Reset Misdirection
The Intercept: “The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie” - Naomi Klein analysis
ADL: “The Great Reset Conspiracy Flourishes Amid Continued Pandemic”
Trump Family Defense Investments
Financial Times: “Trump Jr.-backed company receives $620 million Pentagon loan” - December 2025
The New Republic: “Trump Jr.-Backed Company Cashes In on Massive Pentagon Contract”
TechCrunch: “Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract”
Popular Information: “Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan” - Details on 1789 Capital portfolio contracts totaling $735M+, Unusual Machines drone contracts, 331,580 shares
Tech Startups: “Trump Jr.-backed little-known drone company wins multimillion-dollar Pentagon contract” - Unusual Machines details
CNBC: “Dominari Holdings shares surge after Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump join advisory board”
Kushner and Gulf Money
Wikipedia: Affinity Partners - $2B Saudi investment, PIF committee overruled by MBS, $157M in fees
Fortune: “Jared Kushner suddenly emerges in the Warner brawl” - EA deal, WBD financing
Popular Information: “Jared Kushner’s double life” - EA deal analysis, CFIUS concerns, “not paying for performance, paying for access”
Bloomberg: “Kushner’s Secret Saudi Talks Paved Way for $55 Billion EA Deal” - “brokered the initial connection”
Al Jazeera: “Saudi fund, Kushner’s firm to buy games maker Electronic Arts in $55bn deal” - Largest leveraged buyout in history
Deadline: “Paramount Unveils Jared Kushner, Middle East Sovereign Funds As Backers Of Now Hostile WBD Bid” - Full financing breakdown
Senate Finance Committee: Wyden Investigation of Kushner Firm - $87M from Saudis alone, “unprecedented conflicts of interest,” “likely part of a compensation scheme”
CEPR: “Jared Kushner’s Great EA Swindle” - PIF screening committee concerns, “pay-to-play scheme”
SpaceX Orbital Data Centers
Ars Technica / NotebookCheck: “Elon Musk confirms SpaceX plans for orbital data centers” - October 2025
Data Center Dynamics: “Elon Musk says SpaceX ‘will be doing’ data centers in space”
Interesting Engineering: “Bezos vs Musk: Space race heats up with new orbital data center push”
The Narrow Path
Tristan Harris, “The Narrow Path: Why AI is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation,” TED 2025 - April 2025
Federal Reserve AI Scenarios Chart
Dallas Fed: “Advances in AI Will Boost Productivity, Living Standards Over Time” - Mark A. Wynne and Lillian Derr, June 2025
The Network
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Trump endorsement and donations - Public statements, FEC filings
David Sacks All-In Podcast and administration role - Public statements
Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society - ProPublica investigations, “We Built This Court” documentary
Mercer family / Cambridge Analytica - “The Great Hack” documentary, New York Times investigations
Stephen Miller / America First Legal - Organization filings, NSPM-7 involvement
Autonomous Weapons and Defense Tech
Shield AI V-BAT autonomous drone - Company documentation, defense contract records
Anduril “Lattice” autonomous weapons system - Company documentation, Palmer Luckey founded with Thiel funding
Palantir immigration tracking and federal contracts - Company documentation, ICE contract records
“Organically close their own kill chains” - Defense industry marketing materials
Social Media Surveillance
Federal Register, December 10, 2025 - Social media disclosure requirement for visitors from 42 allied countries
Military Deployments
Federal court ruling on Los Angeles deployment, December 10, 2025
Interior Department announcement on California border militarized zone, December 11, 2025