Here's my interview from yesterday with Ukrainian outlet Guildhall about the relationship between Mykhailo Fedorov and Elon Musk, where it may be going, and what it may mean for Ukraine. Here's our English-language translation, with the original video. america2.news/a-war-over-w...

A War Over Worldviews: My Interview with Guildhall on Musk, Fedorov, and “the Mechanism”

My interview with the Ukrainian outlet Guildhall on Mykhailo Fedorov, Elon Musk, and why a convergence of worldviews might serve Russian aims.

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I did an interview with the Ukrainian outlet Guildhall yesterday about Mykhailo Fedorov's close relationship with Elon Musk, where it may be going, and what to watch for. People need to be more aware of Musk's influence on tech and geopolitics. ghall.com.ua/2026/08/20/a...

Американский журналист Трой: РФ может использовать совпадение интересов Маска и Федорова для дестабилизации Украины

Россия способна использовать в своих интересах не только напрямую контролируемых агентов и прокси, но и независимых политических и технологических акторов, чьи взгляды и интересы объективно

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Good background here from Chris Kremidas-Courtney on the emergent left-right "antiwar" alliance the Kremlin is using to fracture Western coalitions and alliances. Must read! medium.com/the-geopolit...

The Kremlin’s new opportunity to split the West

As a growing antiwar movement on the American right turns its anger from failed wars toward alliances themselves, the Kremlin has every…

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📻 NEW PODCAST: Midterms, AI, and MAGA: Jen Golbeck studies data surveillance by day and the far right by night — what she describes as one phenomenon rooted in both power and belonging. We discuss implications for the midterms and beyond! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Midterms, AI, and MAGA with Dr. Jen Golbeck

Podcast Episode · Dave Troy Presents · S4 E4 · 1h 11m

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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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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. 🇺🇸

📻 NEW: A divided, atomized society is a soft target for information warfare. Historian Scott Reich joins me to make the case why national service could be how we rebuild trust and repair our frayed democracy. america2.news/podcast-the-...

Podcast: The Case for National Service with Scott Reich

Historian Scott Reich makes the case that the idea of national service may be one way to repair our fractured democracy.

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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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"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 · 3mo ago

🛑 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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Great exposé of the shady elite networks linked to Peter Thiel.

Dave Troy@davetroy.com · 3mo ago

🛑 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...

🛑 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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💥⚠️ LISTEN 🎧 UP: “If millions of our citizens are being manipulated by algorithms flooded with disinformation and propaganda, and are addicted to social platforms that push division for profit, who’s really in charge?” H/T @davetroy.com, thanks:

Joe Trippi@joetrippi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please take the time to watch my TED Talk on Why X is a Skinner Box youtube.com/watch?v=KLcb...

Watch this important new talk from @joetrippi.bsky.social — technology is moving faster than democracy can react. We need to revolt and find pathways out of the box that tech is building for all of us.

Joe Trippi@joetrippi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“the very tools that we in open societies once thought would liberate the world are now being turned against the freedom of all of us” my TED Talk explains: youtu.be/KLcb9cf2ArE?is… via @YouTube

Predictions are all about power. I'm super excited to share this new episode of 'Dave Troy Presents' with Carissa Veliz about her new book, "Prophecy: Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI" — Have a listen now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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.

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📢 NEW SEASON: You may not be interested in crypto, but crypto is interested in you — your elections, your government, and your 401(k). Experts Molly White @molly0xfff & Tonantzin Carmona join me to explain, in Ep. 1 of Season 4 of “Dave Troy Presents.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Crypto Is Interested in You with Molly White and Tonantzin Carmona

Podcast Episode · Dave Troy Presents · S4 E1 · 1h 11m

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📄 EXCLUSIVE: With the White House set to launch a new website about "aliens," we dug into the backstory — with new, original reporting on the networks and motives behind the effort. america2.news/trump-admini...

Trump Administration Set to Launch New UFO Information Offensive

The Trump administration is leaning into UFO mythology. But many analysts believe the launch of a new government-sanctioned website about “aliens” is another wave of information warfare designed to di...

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Are we witnessing the final unraveling of Donald Trump and the fragile coalition that brought him to power? His choice to pursue war in Iran has all but sealed his fate. My latest. america2.news/the-unraveli...

The Unraveling of Donald Trump

Donald Trump has seemingly permanently fractured the fragile coalition that brought him into power. Is MAGA effectively dead?

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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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What does it mean for democracies when dissent becomes impossible? In this moving talk, whistleblower Miles Taylor shares his very personal account of speaking truth to power, what it cost him, and his hope that others will continue to do the same. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqCn...

The rising cost of dissent in America | Miles Taylor | TEDxMidAtlantic

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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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 · 7mo 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...