Dave Troy

@davetroy.com

Publisher and Editor, America 2.0. Baltimore/Washington. Pilot, chef, coder. america2.news Signal: davetroy.69

EXCLUSIVE: Every week, Russia's Security Council reports what the Kremlin thinks. And they're not just fighting for territory in Ukraine — they are fighting to remake the world order by winning over hearts and minds globally. america2.news/what-russia-...

What Russia Believes: Weekly Reports Reveal the Kremlin's Distorted Worldview

The Kremlin's internal security bulletins reveal a fight not over territory but a metaphysical contest — one waged, and slowly won, through information warfare the West largely ignores.

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EXCLUSIVE: Every week, Russia's Security Council reports what the Kremlin thinks. And they're not just fighting for territory in Ukraine — they are fighting to remake the world order by winning over hearts and minds globally. america2.news/what-russia-...

What Russia Believes: Weekly Reports Reveal the Kremlin's Distorted Worldview

The Kremlin's internal security bulletins reveal a fight not over territory but a metaphysical contest — one waged, and slowly won, through information warfare the West largely ignores.

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Endlessly frustrating, ever-far from perfect, America will always be worth fighting for as long as there are those inspired by our founding ideals. 250 years is worth celebrating, but it’s the next 100 that will test our character and resolve. 🇺🇸

🛑 ICYMI: Our deep dive on "Dialog," which has been hyped as Peter Thiel's "secret society," finds that it is large and not especially secret — but it is a part of a larger web of influence networks designed to find "heretics" within the world's elite. america2.news/exclusive-pe...

Exclusive: Peter Thiel’s Least Secret Network Is Just One Small Part of a Global Influence Machine

Dialog has been cast as Peter Thiel’s ‘secret society,’ but the invitation-only network is only part of much more significant Thiel-backed power web which draws far less attention.

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"Hereticon... bills itself as... convening 'persecuted weirdos' on the premise that 'dissent is worth protecting.' "Where Dialog’s edginess ends, Hereticon picks up with sessions on UFOs, immortality, doomsday, natalism, parapsychology, genetic modification, 'sex, God' – and 'existential risk.'"

Dave Troy@davetroy.com · last mo.

🛑 ICYMI: Our deep dive on "Dialog," which has been hyped as Peter Thiel's "secret society," finds that it is large and not especially secret — but it is a part of a larger web of influence networks designed to find "heretics" within the world's elite. america2.news/exclusive-pe...

🔴Peter Thiel’s Least Secret Network Is Just One Small Part of a Global Influence Machine – @davetroy.com Peter Thiel's Dialog is cast as a 'secret society' of global elites – but the invitation-only network is just one part of a much more significant web of power. bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/p...

Peter Thiel’s Least Secret Network Is Just One Small Part of a Global Influence Machine

Dialog has been cast as Peter Thiel’s ‘secret society’, but the invitation-only network is only part of much more significant Thiel-backed power web which draws far less attention, reports Dave Troy

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🛑 ICYMI: Our deep dive on "Dialog," which has been hyped as Peter Thiel's "secret society," finds that it is large and not especially secret — but it is a part of a larger web of influence networks designed to find "heretics" within the world's elite. america2.news/exclusive-pe...

Exclusive: Peter Thiel’s Least Secret Network Is Just One Small Part of a Global Influence Machine

Dialog has been cast as Peter Thiel’s ‘secret society,’ but the invitation-only network is only part of much more significant Thiel-backed power web which draws far less attention.

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Many of you have seen the viral clip wherein Steven Bartlett says that '3 glasses of wine' disabled him for three days, and his Whoop fitness sensor says so. It's an ad. Here's the backstory of a complex influence campaign funded by major tech investors. america2.news/the-anatomy-...

The Anatomy of an Influence Operation

The popular podcast Diary of a CEO has become a hit, but most people don't know it is part of a sophisticated influence network.

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📄 NEW: “Diary of a CEO” is now the #2 podcast on Spotify, but our investigation reveals a web of undisclosed conflicts of interest, questionable health claims, conspiracy content, and interlocking investments backed by Peter Thiel and his allies. america2.news/the-anatomy-...

The Anatomy of an Influence Operation

The popular podcast Diary of a CEO has become a hit, but most people don't know it is part of a sophisticated influence network.

america2.news

Been hard at work on tools that can be helpful for journalism and research. If you use Signal on a Mac desktop, check out SignalRAG, a new library for full text searching Signal messages w/RAG support + integrated into Claude Code. github.com/davetroy/sig...

GitHub - davetroy/signalrag: Turn your Signal Desktop database into a searchable intelligence store. Local-first RAG + graph analysis. macOS only.

Turn your Signal Desktop database into a searchable intelligence store. Local-first RAG + graph analysis. macOS only. - davetroy/signalrag

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1/One overlooked Epstein figure is Sigal Mandelker, who negotiated his 2008 deal with Acosta and Barr. In 2017, she was named Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intel, but faced scrutiny for missing FinCEN reports in Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe. www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/de...

Democrats protest Treasury division nominee over missing Trump financial documents

They claim the Treasury Department is too slow in furnishing records related to probes of alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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"When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate & moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics, writes Tamsin Shaw."

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

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1/One overlooked Epstein figure is Sigal Mandelker, who negotiated his 2008 deal with Acosta and Barr. In 2017, she was named Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intel, but faced scrutiny for missing FinCEN reports in Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe. www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/de...

Democrats protest Treasury division nominee over missing Trump financial documents

They claim the Treasury Department is too slow in furnishing records related to probes of alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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Withdrawal from NATO. Abolishing the Federal Reserve. Terminating aid to Ukraine. These are the positions of both Vladimir Putin and Rep. Thomas Massie. Epstein transparency is good — Massie is not, and shouldn’t be given power. america2.news/thomas-massi...

Thomas Massie Is No American Hero

Rep. Thomas Massie has gained a following thanks to his pursuit of transparency with the Epstein files, but his track record reveals a strong alignment with Vladimir Putin.

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📄 NEW: Thomas Massie has gained a following for his dogged pursuit of Epstein transparency, but few have examined his longstanding alignment with Russia's policy agenda, and why Putin is a big winner in this exposure operation. america2.news/thomas-massi...

Thomas Massie Is No American Hero

Rep. Thomas Massie has gained a following thanks to his pursuit of transparency with the Epstein files, but his track record reveals a strong alignment with Vladimir Putin.

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Required reading. The victims deserve justice and the paper trail Dave Troy continues to uncover leads to Epstein running a large “controlled burn operation” for both the criminal and civil claims against him and a lot of lawyers are involved. Their greed and apparent misogyny needs accountability.

Dave Troy@davetroy.com · 6mo ago

📄 EXCLUSIVE: Did Jeffrey Epstein Try to Sabotage the Lawyers Fighting Him? Soon after Epstein tried (and failed) to infiltrate Brad Edwards' database system, Stan Pottinger, an old Epstein partner, and David Boies waltzed in to “help” victims. america2.news/part-seven-d...

📄 EXCLUSIVE: Did Jeffrey Epstein Try to Sabotage the Lawyers Fighting Him? Soon after Epstein tried (and failed) to infiltrate Brad Edwards' database system, Stan Pottinger, an old Epstein partner, and David Boies waltzed in to “help” victims. america2.news/part-seven-d...

Part Seven: Did Jeffrey Epstein Try to Sabotage the Lawyers Fighting Him?

Was Jeffrey Epstein part of Russia's broader war on the West? In this multi-part series we examine his obsession with nuclear scientists, eugenics, transhumanism, and influence. What we found will lik...

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For those who have mirrored the entire EFTA dataset locally on a Mac, here's a hack: use Claude Code with 'mdfind' to identify relevant documents, and then query and summarize that dataset. Insanely helpful.