Thursday, April 30, 2026

The Deal We Made With Reagan

And What It Cost Us

White Rose | April 30, 2026

There was a deal made in America. Not written down, not signed, but widely understood. If you gave the people at the top more freedom, more capital, and more room to operate, they would build, invest, and create prosperity that flowed outward. That was the promise.

For a long time before that deal, we ran a different system. From the 1940s through the 1960s, under leaders like Dwight D. Eisenhower, the United States operated with top marginal tax rates above 90 percent. In practice, far fewer paid anything close to that because the code was full of deductions. Those deductions were not random. They were designed to reward building. Expand your workforce, invest in equipment, fund research, and your tax burden dropped. It created a simple logic: reinvest or lose it.

The result was not perfect, but it was powerful. Wages rose with productivity, infrastructure expanded, homeownership surged, and the middle class became the center of the economy rather than an afterthought. There is a counterargument worth taking seriously here. The United States, after World War II, faced limited global competition while Europe and Japan rebuilt. That advantage was real. What matters is what we did with it. We could have concentrated that wealth. We did not. Policy choices turned dominance into shared prosperity rather than private stockpiles.

Then came Ronald Reagan, and the deal changed. Taxes at the top were cut dramatically, with the top marginal rate falling from 70 percent to 28 percent. Capital gains taxes were reduced, corporate taxes eased, and regulation loosened. The pitch was straightforward. Free up capital and it will find its way into productive investment.

For a while, it looked like it worked. Inflation dropped, growth returned, and the economy stabilized after the turbulence of the 1970s. If you freeze the frame in the mid-1980s, the argument holds. The problem is that policy is not judged in quarters. It is judged in decades, and the mechanics underneath began to shift.

Lower taxes on capital gains did more than increase after-tax income. They changed behavior. When returns on financial assets are taxed less than returns on labor or production, money moves away from factories and payroll and into markets. This is where the system pivots from production to financialization. It becomes more profitable to move money than to make things. Stock buybacks replace expansion, short-term share price replaces long-term capacity, and CEOs stop acting like builders and start acting like traders.

The result is what economists call the Great Decoupling. Productivity continued to rise while worker pay stopped keeping pace, weakening the link between effort and reward. At the same time, the velocity of money shifted. Money in the hands of the middle class moves through the real economy, circulating through local businesses and services. Money at the top behaves differently. It accumulates, sitting in financial instruments, derivatives, and offshore structures. It grows, but it does not circulate the same way, and the system slows where it matters most.

What followed was not a sudden collapse but a gradual redirection. Instead, you got a slow transfer of wealth upward. Not dramatic enough for people to riot, but relentless enough to hollow out the middle while asset holders watched everything inflate in their favor. Housing drifted out of reach, healthcare turned into a profit machine, and education became debt financed.

Healthcare is the clearest example of where this road leads. The United States now spends roughly twice what comparable nations spend per person, with worse outcomes and shorter lifespans. That is not inefficiency. That is structure. Programs like Medicare Advantage, backed by figures like Mehmet Oz, represent the final evolution of the deal. A public system is partially privatized, a middle layer is inserted, and that layer profits not by delivering care but by managing, limiting, and sometimes denying it. It is extraction, formalized.

Education followed the same path. The GI Bill treated citizens as an investment and returned multiples on every dollar spent. Today, students borrow into the system and carry that weight for decades. We replaced national investment with individual liability. Taxes complete the picture. Since the Reagan shift, repeated cuts at the top have coincided with rising federal debt. You cannot claim fiscal discipline while consistently reducing revenue from those most able to contribute.

This is not a story of collapse. It is a story of redirection. When top marginal rates are high, there is a structural push toward reinvestment. When they are low, there is a structural pull toward accumulation. One model builds a country. The other builds portfolios.

So when people say return to Eisenhower era tax rates, they are not talking about punishing success. They are talking about restoring balance. A high top marginal rate does not mean everyone pays it. It means there is a threshold where hoarding stops making sense and building starts again. Even the 1986 tax reform understood part of this. It lowered rates, but it also closed loopholes and broadened the base. Structure matters as much as rate.

Conservatives once understood this. Under Eisenhower, it was not called socialism. It was called stability. If you want fiscal responsibility, look at when the debt curve begins to bend, because it bends sharply after this shift. If you want strong families and homeownership, look at when they begin to slip, because that decline tracks the decoupling of wages from productivity. If you want patriotism, ask the harder question of whether a system that concentrates wealth while weakening its base is actually serving the country.

Reagan did not break the system. He changed the deal. The promise was that giving more to the top would lift everyone. What we got instead was something quieter and more enduring: a system that rewards extraction over building, accumulation over circulation, and portfolios over people.

Correcting that is not about going backward. It is about remembering what the deal was supposed to be.

#WhiteRose #EconomicTruth #MiddleClass #TaxPolicy #Inequality

International Public Notice: Change of Trusteeship

The following letter has been sent to the U.S. Secretary of State and the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1789) and lays out the basic claims for non-performance over a period of decades.

It also mandates liquidation of the trusteeship.

The bankruptcy of the UNITED STATES corporation is complete and the remaining assets have been distributed and are now under recoupment by the actual owners.

We are collecting our original documents from various places around the world prior to transferring them to our National Archives.

Prior to this each document has to be scanned into our computer databases as JPEG files, and those files have to be replicated and distributed.

In a relatively short period of time the Federation will take over the vacated government functions while the states finish their work and debate renegotiation of international treaties and restructuring of the federal government.

http://annavonreitz.com/changeoftrusteeship.pdf

Issued by:

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

April 27th 2026

True Freedom vs. False Freedom and the Tyranny of Corporate Amerika

This is one of the best short articles I have seen explaining how we got to tyranny from freedom.

My comments are below the letter.

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Having spent the best part of three years in the study of what exists in America, how we have gotten to where we are, and the structure of our country at this point, I feel compelled to make an attempt at clarification of it for those who have not had the opportunity for such in depth study. We have a system in place which has corrupted the basic tenet of law and we have departed from the basic intent of law. We have allowed it and accepted it because of our ignorance and lack of understanding. Until this is acknowledged and understood there will be no freedom for man on this earth.

Many of those in the sovereignty movement have discovered the difference between law, which is the common law (the law of the land), and the legal system which is a corporate creation using international law. The corporate created legal system is not a system of law but a system of corporate rules and regulations by which the created "creditors" and would be masters may regulate the lives of man and manufacture excuses for confiscation of production and/or assets. It is a system through which they find excuses and the means for extracting the productivity of man by various devices and those devices are whatever they claim them to be.

When a sovereign/free man claims that those rules do not apply to him, the typical response from most of the uninformed is that these folks think they are "above the law." This is the predominate attitude of " law enforcement, the courts, the would be corporate rulers, and ..unfortunately most of our people, who have been trained to keep their fellow man in line and compliant. This view is what has been taught to the people for decades. It is NOT what our founders believed, it is NOT based on the natural law, the law of the land, the law of the free man, nor is it based in Constitutional law or principles. It IS based on the law of the sea and the law of the international merchants/bankers. It is wholly opposed to the law of free men which is God's law or the natural law of the free man. The merchant law (corporate law, law of the sea, international law, commercial law) is the law for the slaves constructed to make all the people debtors and is written by the slave masters who set themselves up to rule and prosper.

I hope to make this basic and simple to understand herein. There was a time when the saying "ignorance of the law is no excuse" had very good reason for being valid. That is because the common law, or the law of free man, has but three laws.

1. Do not harm another one of the people.

2. Do not harm the property of one of the people.

3. Do not commit fraud. All three of those laws can be boiled down into simply DO NO HARM.

That is real law. It is simple, it is straight forward, and ignorance of it is no excuse. Frankly, no one growing up under these laws of free men could ever have been ignorant of them nor claim ignorance as an excuse. If you will but stop to ponder those three laws you will realize they encompass all the protection and security a free man would need. Under the common law what we knew of as the police or sheriffs were ACTUALLY peace officers and served merely to keep that peace. In the current system they are "law enforcement" which is another term for corporate rule revenue collection officers. They are now the muscle for an illegitimate criminal system to make and control slaves of men.

The old saying that ignorance of the law no longer applies for there are now tens of thousands of "so called" laws variously termed statutes, codes, or public policy, and no one could possibly know them or indeed keep up with all the new ones being passed every day. This is ludicrous to any thinking man who values freedom and does not relish slavery and chains.

The corporate rules now accepted as laws are merely under "color of law" and are described to people "as law" when in fact they are the rules of corporations, designed to be the creditors, in a system through which they manage to take more and more money from the people using agency and devise by making the people the debtors and subjects of their rule. It is a system through which they gain more and more money, expand and grow controls via created corporate governmental fictions, and make more and more excuses for more and more power and control. It is a system the slaves are expected to pay for and support. It is a system in which the slaves pay for their own increasingly tyrannical rule via theft of their productivity.

The simple common law is the premise for our Bill of Rights and our Constitution. These documents were not written to give us our rights as those are inherent inalienable rights we are born with...natural or God given...and it is so stated within those documents. These are the rights and rules for free men to live by. There is NO valid excuse for any others as those three are all encompassing.

Let us merely consider the basic premise of the laws of free men. It is "DO NO HARM." Those who do harm to another man, his property, or defraud another are held accountable. Period.

I would suggest to you that much, if not all, of the corruption that exists in this country traces back to the concept of the limited liability corporation. It is a fictional person created within in their manufactured legal system. It is a legal construct through which accountability and liability is avoided. That is completely opposed to the laws of free men. It is a shield erected which allows harm to be done and the culprits responsible for that harm to walk away scot free. I suggest to you that the concept violates the law of free men by setting up a construct through which one may avoid the law of responsibility for one's actions. No accountability. In other words those doing harm are no longer held accountable to their fellow man. This violates the basic premise of all the real law that free man ever had. The people are said to have volunteered into this system and yet they do not know it even exists. The system itself is a fraud upon the people and hence violates the real law.

To be surprised by what has evolved due to the violation of that premise of do no harm is to admit a failure to understand what makes real law and what is lawless rule. We created a fictional person in law with the corporations and now the corporations (all the various governmental entities) now rule by edict, decree, and corporate rule making with no responsibility or accountability. You may venture the opinion that they do no harm, but I challenge you to reconsider.

If a corporation files bankruptcy and the stockholders walk away from all debt, would you claim no one has been harmed? I allow that in every case there IS harm done. If the vendors to that bankrupt corporation are to survive, they will have to be able to overcome such losses. They can only overcome such losses by having net revenues sufficiently high to be able to absorb the losses and indeed even the risk of such losses.. That means higher prices for all goods and services and is a price born by the consumer....the people. The rules ultimately protect government and their corporations from the people who bear the cost; the slaves. It removes all recourse in real law and all protection under real law. It protects the law violators from the victims which is ultimately the people in every case.

These corporate creations were a violation of law in the very beginning and the current situation is but the natural progression of that corruption of the basic premise in law to do no harm. The protections and security of free men is not to be found in corporate rule making but in the return to real law and a departure from the fictional system created to avoid responsibility and the premise of real law.

The federal government is a corporation. It exists as THE parent corporation. All others who file a charter to "incorporate" and obtain the limited liability protection as one of their sub corporations must pay protection money to the parent who controls them. The IRS tax code applies to such corporate fictions and taxes them for the "benefit" of their relationship to the parent corporation...ie limited liability. It is protection money. It is collected by their muscle, the IRS.

The corporate taxes are the "cut" of the corporate profits taken by the government for the protection provided of limited liability and passes to the FED as interest on the debt run up by the parent so they can continue to expand controls and grow in size. The regulations and interventions in business are manipulated to scientifically create inflation. As the cost of dealing with regulations goes up to the sub corporation then they must increase prices for goods and services. The increase in gross revenues and subsequent net revenues of the corporation as measured in dollars goes up, hence the tax dollars collected as protection money go up. This cost in scientifically created inflation is born by the people and is theft of their productivity.

It is why a car that was once $3000 is now $50, 000. It is why a house that was once $10,000 is now $200,000. It is why a man can no longer support his family on one income and why most wives now have to work. It is why people now struggle to make ends meet and it is largely why our kids are now raised by people outside the home. It is why companies and individuals behind them do not always act morally and ethically in their business dealings. It has corrupted our society and completely undermined the concept of do no harm. Why worry about it if you can file bankruptcy on your corporation and walk away? It happens every day and it costs the people in every way. I suggest the "harm" is massive and wide spread.

We have a parent corporation with a seated CEO/President who can rule by decree and bureaucratic department heads who garnered the ability to regulate day to day activities of their managed herd and now we have a criminal corporate institution in place which can literally control not only your freedoms but your very life or death by decree. To oppose corporate rule or their decree mandates is to be labeled a traitor or terrorist. I can think of nothing which could be more ridiculous or absurd than what exists in this country. We gave up God's law for the rule of man and we have a cruel master coming forth for our failures.

All people must realize the difference between real law and corporate rule to ever end corruption and return to a free and moral society. Consider what you have accepted. Question every thing you have blindly accepted as good or necessary and why. Think about it long and hard.

~ neo

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Many Americans these days want to be so free that they would also be free from God's laws. They want to be free from the Ten Commandments and be allowed to violate the natural laws put into spin by God at Creation. That might be the reason corporations dominate.

That so called "freedom" is really slavery. It's slavery to satan, who wanted to replace God with himself. As Satan lost his true freedom and was kicked out of heaven by St. Michael the Archangel so will we lose our true freedom and heaven if we live without God.

The true SUPREME law for the United States is the US Constitution. It was and is a reflection of the moral law, natural law and in some respects positive Divine law. Notice I said a reflection. Because true positive Divine law is contained in God's Ten Commandments delivered to Moses. These laws have been explained throughout over 2000 years of history by Jesus Christ through His Church, and are pretty well defined.

So ask yourself this question. Do people who want to ignore the Divine Law and also the US Constitution really deserve true FREEDOM?

I think not. Then ask yourself this question. What am I doing to MAKE MYSELF WORTHY of this divine gift of true Freedom?

If you can't answer that might I suggest several things?

1. Prayer

2. Study, of history, moral principles, a bit of law etc.

3. activities that help inform your fellow man.

4. prepare for the worst, and hope and pray for the best

5. Most importantly live so as to set a good example of a person truly free under God's law, and then DO NO HARM.

We are all imperfect, and we don't get it right 100% of the time, but it's the effort to be so that really counts, and we can all use the practice of living right. That practice is the preparation for TRUE AND ETERNAL FREEDOM, which is perfection itself before the face of God in heaven for all time and eternity. May we all be so blessed.

http://www.paulstramer.net/.../when-is-it-time-to-fight.html

Data centers aren’t just big and ugly: they’re costly and deadly. That’s not an exaggeration!

Data centers can warm the surrounding land by up to 16°F — affecting areas within a 6 mile radius.

They also create noise pollution; the most severe noise is typically felt within 3,000 feet, but the constant humming from cooling systems can be heard up to two miles away.

Negative health risks from emissions (like nitrogen dioxide from backup generators) can affect residents at least 0.6 miles away, sometimes further.

And then there’s the financial effects…

Immediate neighbors see a 5–20% drop in property values.

People living within 10 miles see higher electricity rates.

So, if you hear that a data center is being proposed for your community, you’ll want to pay attention! Public pushback works!

Addendum:

Only the unrefined and misinformed will accept such fallacies. He possesses sufficient intelligence to recognize better. However, when one is morally and politically compromised, they deliberately choose ignore history.

Argument

Decoding the Technofascist Tendency in Palantir’s Manifesto

Palentir’s CEO Alex Karp has confirmed the anti-democratic agenda of the company’s founder Peter Thiel

Catherine Menard

30 April 2026

Peter Thiel and Alex Karp: Montage from Alamy

On 18 April, Palantir posted its summary of a book by Palantir’s CEO, Alex Karp, and his legal counsel, Nicholas Zamiska, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.

Palantir’s post to its X account began casually, as though it were responding to frequently asked questions: “Because we get asked a lot.” What followed was a demonstration that the company is so confident in its position and influence that it believes it can say the unsayable without consequences.

The body of the post, a 22-point manifesto, dispensed with euphemism and presented its technofascist argument explicitly: below, translated below into layperson’s terms:

The Palantir Manifesto – Decoded

“Silicon Valley owes a moral debt… The engineering elite… has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation” – is a direct attempt to convert the private tech sector of unelected engineers and founders into a political class with civic authority. Participating in defence sounds benign, but in practice, it means US dependence on firms whose incentive is the expansion of Palantir’s unhinged ideology.
“We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps” – is intended to delegitimise consumer tech and give moral status to undemocratic “state-security” tech. For example, in the US, the DOJ demanded that Apple and Google remove ICE-tracking apps as the Government used Palantir to identify targets for ICE.
“Free email is not enough… decadence… forgiven only if… growth and security…” is pure authoritarianism, claiming legitimacy rests on output and security performance, not on rights, accountability, or democratic consent.
“Soft power… requires hard power, and hard power… will be built on software” is another way of saying, “Trust us, the black-box machine creators, to kill and imprison the right people.”
“The question is not whether AI weapons will be built” This is the classic AI inevitability move that has become so familiar. Palantir claims it is necessary to normalise dangerous technology before a serious public framework exists, or we risk losing this race. Palantir has made up to justify embedding them as decision-makers.
“National service should be a universal duty” is not a normal point for a defence contractor ecosystem to promote. Private technocrats should not be opining on how society should distribute sacrifice. It raises the question: were Palantir influential in the policy change that, beginning on 18 December 2026, eligible men in the US ages 18 to 26 will be automatically registered for selective service using federal data?
“If a US Marine asks… we should build it… the same goes for software” Marines are not, and should not be, asking for the erosion of civil liberties. “Support the troops” becomes a shield for the adoption of opaque digital systems, including surveillance, targeting, analytics, and predictive tools.
“Public servants need not be our priests” They are obviously not our priests. This is an attempt to leverage people’s dissatisfaction with government, but if people think they aren’t being served by public officials, wait until they’re part of a network state that’s unelected and unstoppable, elected by no one. This is Palantir complaining that laws restrict them.
“We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life.” They clearly don’t mean public officials. They mean, stop making fun of Karp as he says, “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us.” He has “subjected” himself for a net worth of $14 billion. What he wants is zero criticism of his unhinged ideas.
“The psychologization of modern politics” is another anti-democratic play. The claim is that politics should be run by serious strategic actors, not by citizens bringing moral and social needs into the public sphere.
“Our society has grown too eager… at the demise of its enemies” is a way of saying there should be no moral scrutiny of those who wield power.
“The atomic age is ending… a new era of deterrence built on AI is set to begin” This is actually one of the most dangerous claims in their document, which is a statement in itself. Nuclear deterrence, for all its horrors, at least came with visible material constraints, specialised stewardship, and a relatively legible doctrine. AI deterrence is vague, software-dependent, opaque, updateable, hackable, and vulnerable. In the hands of an unhinged group of seasteader lunatics, opposing this is the actual moral imperative.
“No other country… has advanced progressive values more than this one” is Palantir invoking the progressivism it mocks in order to mute structural criticism by appealing to American exceptionalism.
“American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace” is another American exceptionalism reading of the post-WWII order to justify Palantir’s projection of power and domestic democratic erosion, while ignoring that US forces have been actively involved in armed combat 90% of the time since WWII.
“The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone” is similar to its point #6, wherein a private tech company feels it is appropriate for it to opine on the rearmament logic of major powers.
“We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed… Musk…” is more elite defence rhetoric. It frames tech billionaires’ ambition as having the only noble public purpose and dismisses public scepticism as small-mindedness. The demand is for tech leadership to be admired rather than regulated because they know what’s best for people.
“Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime” – should also set off alarms. A non-captured US Congress should be worried about the return of technocracy, and should view domestic surveillance, predictive policing, algorithm-based enforcement, mission creep, and civil rights risk in all of this.
“The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away…” – a reiteration of #9. Basically, “we should be allowed to surveil, know, and decide everything about you, but we shouldn’t be subjected to any public scrutiny or we, the special, would be found out as blood-transfusing, longevity-obsessed, metformin-taking weirdos we are, and that will bum us out.”
“Caution in public life… is corrosive… “- is just another way of saying that laws should not constrain them because they are special and know best.
“Intolerance of religious belief… must be resisted” – is an invitation to an alliance with religious conservatives by portraying liberal elites and any other critics as intolerant. (Note that Thiel was raised in an evangelical household.)
“Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive” – is an attempt to say something racist, but in inverted commas. It openly rehabilitates hierarchical civilisational judgment. When a tech company that wants to dictate domestic and international policy creates a manifesto that divides cultures into productive and regressive, it’s openly stating that it believes in unequal treatment, paternalism, harsh domestic policy, aggressive foreign policy, etc., and explains Palantir’s comfort with surveillance and policing tech.
“Resist… hollow pluralism… inclusion into what?“ — is the manifesto’s capstone and gets us back to Thiel’s 2009 statement, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Palantir is asserting that pluralism has become an obstacle to cohesion around the ideals it is putting out here and therefore, an obstacle to power, fully ignoring the fact that America is already generally considered the most powerful country in the world.

The idea is that democracy is messy, so we have to hand more moral and strategic authority to the tech elite. This is Technocracy. Drunk on their own Silicon Valley Kool-Aid. “We reject you, your desires for privacy and freedom. You can’t be trusted. Just give us the reins, and we’ll make it all work the way we know it should.”

Palantir may have arrived at these ideas, at least in part, through its founder’s relationship with Elon Musk, whom Thiel knows from the PayPal merger days in 2000.

Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, had been the head of the Canadian branch of Technocracy Inc., which shares a fundamental belief with the Palantir manifesto that traditional democratic institutions are structurally inefficient and must be replaced by a Technate of tech experts who use data-driven social engineering to manage the levers of state power.

Technocracy Inc. was declared an illegal, fascist, subversive organisation in Canada in 1940. The Canadian prime minister cited its objective as attempting to overthrow the government and the constitution of the country by force.

Haldeman was arrested and convicted for his involvement with the group and spent two months in prison.

In 1941, Haldeman founded the Total War and Defence movement, advocating for total conscription of all people aged 16 to 60, as well as all personal property and private holdings of money, to support the British war effort. See: Manifesto point number 6.

EXCLUSIVE

Thiel Spokesman Denies Former Israeli PM’s Claim Jeffrey Epstein ‘Co-Owned’ Palantir Founder’s Venture Fund – But Confirms Epstein was a Limited Partner

A former Israeli Prime Minister and intelligence chief described Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein as “owners” of a venture fund. The founder of Palantir, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson, has denied the claim – but emails reveal how Thiel cultivated Epstein as a business partner

Nafeez Ahmed

How Embedded is Palantir?

In the UK

In keeping with its Lord of the Rings theming, Palantir refers to its Soho Square London office as Grey Havens, the final departure point for Elves leaving Middle-earth.

Louis Mosley, grandson of the former British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley, has headed UK operations since 2016, and Peter Mandelson’s now-defunct lobbying firm, Global Counsel, listed Palantir as a client starting in 2018.

Palantir has had charge of the NHS’s Federated Data Platform since 2023, running data, including patient records and hospital resources from across various hospital trusts through its Foundry product.

The MoD has used all of Palantir’s known products, AIP, Foundry, Gotham, and Apollo, since a 2025 no-bid contract award. Of note, Gotham is marketed and sold as an intelligence and analytical tool capable of anticipating outcomes and identifying targets, which has been interpreted by many to indicate predictive policing in the style of the film Minority Report.

In addition to the use of Palantir’s Foundry and Gotham products, the Met is nearing the conclusion of a 3-month trial of the AIP product, which has resulted in the investigation of hundreds of officers.

The US

In the US, Palantir is deeply embedded in the DoD, CIA, FBI, NSA, ICE, and the USDA, among other agencies.

Major US cities that have used, or currently use, Palantir for crime analysis, license plate tracking, or gang database management include Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Washington DC, and New Orleans.

New York City Health + Hospitals has used Palantir to manage revenue collection, though certain contracts have faced public opposition. In Florida, Tampa General Hospital is a current partner.

Elsewhere

Palantir provides Israel with operational support to the IDF in Gaza and Lebanon.

France serves as Palantir’s main EU base, where they are embedded in national intelligence and commercial sectors with companies such as Airbus.

In Germany, various state police departments use the company for surveillance and data analysis.

Palantir’s operations in South Korea are rapidly expanding, with CEO Alex Karp describing South Korea as the most interesting and innovative commercial market outside the US.

In total, Palantir is believed to be embedded in at least 12 countries in similar capacities.

EXCLUSIVE

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

Russell Scott

Global Organisations

Palantir has provided NATO with its Maven Smart System, acquired through a landmark no-bid contract, since 2025.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has been working with Palantir since 2017, following an initial encounter at the 2015 World Economic Forum (WEF / Davos), through which it handles the data of 90 million beneficiaries.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has used the companies AI-powered software platform, MOSAIC, since 2015.

Palantir’s corporate client list also includes but is not limited to:

In Aviation & Aerospace: United Airlines, American Airlines, Textron Aviation, and Archer Aviation.
In Retail & Food: Walmart, Amazon, Wendy’s QSCC, General Mills, Lowe’s, and Performance Food Group.
In Energy & Industrials: ExxonMobil, bp, Kinder Morgan, John Deere, Eaton, and Panasonic Energy North America.
In Healthcare & Insurance: CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group, Cleveland Clinic, HCA Healthcare, and Aspen Dental.
In Finance & Consulting: Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Accenture, Jacobs, L3Harris, and PwC.

The Antithesis of Democracy

Under normal circumstances, Palantir would simply sound like a defence vendor who had gotten too far out over its skis. However, in defiance of society’s better impulses, Palantir has been permitted to install its proprietary, all-seeing black boxes into an almost unfathomable number of crucial systems via a sprawling spiderweb of contracts that seat them within the deepest recesses of governance, healthcare, and supply chains.

From this perch, Palantir is telling us that it does not require the ballot to dictate policy. Karp and Thiel are no longer engaging in ideological debate, but are handing down their mandate as an expression of confidence that the Technological Republic has arrived.

Written by

Catherine Menard

Catherine is a tech CEO who has worked in the DC tech corridor for two decades with specialised expertise in fraud detection and mitigation

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Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Surveillance, Tech, Data and Algorithms, US Politics

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

ESSENTIAL READING " Secret Political Network Has Already Planning Life After Trump.

What the ever-elusive Rockbridge Network has built is not a simply another dark-money political network. It is a succession plan.

When people say liberal democracy has failed, they are not talking about the left.

September of 2025, Trump mobilized federal troops against American citizens because Fox News showed him five-year-old protest footage and told him it was happening now. Oregon’s governor had to call Trump personally to explain that the courthouse he thought was under attack was not under attack.

A man this responsive to whatever is put in front of him is not running the country. He is being run. What the ever-elusive Rockbridge Network has built is not a simply another dark-money political network. It is a succession plan.

If Vance reaches the Oval Office after January 2027, the 22nd Amendment allows him to serve nearly a decade.

I know what you are thinking. Vance is not electable. He isn’t as popular as Trump. And right now, you are not wrong. As of April 2026, Vance holds the worst approval rating of any vice president at this stage in office, a 21-point swing in the wrong direction since January 2025.

Rockbridge is not waiting for Vance to become popular. They are building a country in which popularity matters less than infrastructure.

Since 2021 — before Vance won the Senate on Thiel’s money — they have funded redistricting efforts, voter turnout operations in swing states, and litigation designed to rewrite election law.

Their own internal planning documents put $3.75 million toward rewriting election law, $3 million for what they literally called a “government-in-waiting,” and $6 to $8 million per state in Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan.

And this wasn’t some abstract plan. James Blair was running polling for the network’s nonprofit. He left to become Trump’s campaign political director. After the election, he got named White House Deputy Chief of Staff.

The guy went straight from the network into the West Wing. This is the Koch model, turbocharged and stripped of its libertarian pretense. Charles Koch publicly opposed Trump and lost his influence after 2018, and Rockbridge was purpose-built in 2019 to replace him.

They're not playing for the next election. They're playing for the foundation of every election after it. Trump was never the destination — he was the vehicle — and the people who were in that room in Ohio are still driving.

Rockbridge, Ohio - a community that has 160 people, a post office, a ZIP code, where, in 2019, several billion dollars of net worth — including Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, Rebekah Mercer, and Chris Buskirk — sat down together and got to work.

A Network Built to Last, Built to Hide

The network they built has no website, no public office, and no press releases. What it has instead is a structure, a deliberate and layered architecture designed to move hundreds of millions of dollars while leaving as few fingerprints as possible.

At the top sits Rockbridge Network, LLC. The business at the top is not a nonprofit, and it is not a PAC, yet it oversees dozens of entities that move billions of dollars through nonprofits, Super PACs, and a venture capital fund, most of it shielded from public disclosure.

Rockbridge was able to start because of initial funding from Rebekah Mercer, who was in that room in Ohio in 2019. She is the daughter of billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer and directs the Mercer Family Foundation, overseeing day-to-day operations of the family's vast political ‘projects.’

She co-founded 1789 Capital and sits on the board of the Heritage Foundation, which created Project 2025.

She was a primary person behind Steve Bannon’s rise, a primary funder of Breitbart, and an architect of the Cambridge Analytica scheme. She wastes no breath on public pageantry; her purse holds all the eloquence she needs.

The network they created — Rockbridge Network, LLC — a private, for-profit limited liability company, incorporated in Delaware because Delaware asks the fewest questions.

An LLC has no public disclosure obligation for its ownership. The people who actually control the entire operation are legally permitted to remain nameless, and they have taken full advantage of that permission.

Below the holding “parent” company, the Rockbridge structure fans out into a series of purpose-built vehicles, each with a different legal status and a different function to meet their goals.

There are four 501(c)(4) nonprofits that legacy media has named, a designation that allows them to spend on politics without disclosing their donors:

Better Tomorrow (EIN: 87-2086524): pays people to knock on doors and drive voters to the polls on Election Day.

All four of these ‘nonprofits’ list the same phone number on their IRS-990 filings: 202-813-9118

What Peter Thiel and his confidantes call a donor network, history may yet call something else entirely. PACs, Super PACs, advocacy groups, media firms, and fundraising vehicles scattered across multiple states, all connected by a single ten-digit thread that nobody was supposed to pull. But I did.

But the numbers make sense knowing that Rockbridge now holds semi-annual summits at Four Seasons hotels and the Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne, where roughly 250 donors pay between $100,000 and $1 million each for a seat at the table.

Their annual budget is $75 million.

Buskirk and Omeed Malik have created a private membership club in Washington called Executive Branch, where Trump-supporting business leaders pay $500,000 a head to rub shoulders with cabinet officials. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has attended Rockbridge events.

So has the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

So has Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was gifted a $100,000 speaking fee from one of the network’s nonprofits (Over the Horizon Action) three months before he was confirmed to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

Known members include: Marc Andreessen and David Sacks, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, PayPal Mafia co-founders Ken Howery and Luke Nosek, Blake Masters, and Tucker Carlson, who was in the room at that first meeting in Ohio. Each of them pays between $100,000 and $1 million a year for the privilege of being in the room.

The Super PAC's top donors in 2024 included Wisconsin roofing billionaire Diane Hendricks at roughly $11 million, Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren at $10 million, and Richard Uihlein, who funneled $2.5 million through his own Restoration PAC.

That same phone number also appears on the filings for American Mission Florida, a state-level PAC.

In early 2026, American Mission Florida received $3 million from Leading the Future, a $100 million Silicon Valley Super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, built to push AI-friendly candidates into Congress during the 2026 midterms.

The money flows from Silicon Valley through a Super PAC in Henderson, Nevada, and lands in a Florida PAC that shares its phone number and compliance infrastructure with the Rockbridge Network.

Marc Andreessen is already a confirmed Rockbridge member. The same people keep showing up on both sides of these transactions, wearing different hats each time.

Architecture of Anonymity

I know this is a lot of data, and many of you are wondering, how does all of this money actually move?

Start at the top. A wealthy donor writes a check to Rockbridge Network, LLC. Because it is a private LLC, there is no legal requirement to disclose who that donor is. Their name never appears anywhere.

Rockbridge then passes that money down to Better Tomorrow, or another one of the 501(c)(4) nonprofits under their umbrella. Because of the way 501(c)(4)s work, they do not have to disclose where its money came from either. The donor has now disappeared behind two layers of legal protection.

From there, the “non-profit” sends grants to the other nonprofits in the network, like Over the Horizon Action, Faithful in Action, and Firebrand Action, or in friendly adjacent ones.

In reality, the same handful of people run all of them.

Chris Buskirk is an Arizona insurance entrepreneur most Americans could not pick out of a lineup.

He is president or leader of nearly every node in this network simultaneously. He runs the Super PAC, he founded the nonprofits, and he co-founded both 1789 Capital and the network itself.

In the words of Oren Cass — who was also in that room in Ohio — Buskirk is “the convener of that ecosystem.”

Janna Rutland is the network’s treasurer, the financial plumbing connecting the donor side to the spending side.

But Janna does not work for Rockbridge. She works for a company called the Crosby Ottenhoff Group, a political ‘compliance firm’ based in Chicago run by Caleb Crosby and Benjamin Ottenhoff.

What do they do? Well, PACs and nonprofits are legally required to name a treasurer on their filings. Crosby Ottenhoff rents one out.

Rutland is that person for Rockbridge, and many others. She is listed as treasurer on dozens of political organizations simultaneously, from Rockbridge’s nonprofits to Winning for Women to the White Coat Waste PAC to Save Our Country PAC and many, many more.

Rutland is not just signing paperwork. She is the financial plumbing connecting the donor side to the spending side of the entire operation.

She is treasurer of the Rockbridge entities and is also named on the filings of Red Eagle Media Group, which was paid $56 million by Republican political committees in the 2024 cycle to place their advertising.

Red Eagle is actually a Virginia fictitious business name for National Media Research, Planning and Placement, the same company implicated in allegedly illegal coordination between the NRA and the Trump campaign in 2016.

The Campaign Legal Center has already filed FEC complaints alleging that Crosby Ottenhoff ran “shell super PAC” arrangements.

Janna Rutland has no public profile and has never given an interview. Yet, she controls the flow of tens of millions of dollars, and almost nobody knows her name. In these types of operations, that is by design.

By the time the money exits the system as field operations, ad buys, or polling, it has passed through three or four entities controlled by the same two or three people. The original donor is invisible.

Every step is technically legal, and tax deductible.

Patriotic Capitalism

And then we of course, we have to talk about the venture capital arm of Rockbridge… 1789 Capital. The venture capital firm was co-founded in 2022 by Mercer, Buskirk, and Omeed Malik, with Donald Trump Jr. joining as a partner after the 2024 election. They call it “patriotic capitalism.”

By early 2026, 1789 Capital — which has over a billion dollars in assets now — has invested in roughly 30 companies. They say the fastest way to a man’s loyalty is through his wallet and his ambition. At 1789 Capital, they deal in both.

These companies include, but are not limited to:

Firehawk Aerospace: A startup that uses 3D printing to make rocket fuel in just a few hours, rather than the usual two months.

Hadrian: A company that uses AI to run automated factories for military and aerospace equipment.

Vulcan Elements: A small company that makes special magnets. Just three months after 1789 invested in them, the Pentagon gave them a record-breaking $620 million loan.

All three of these companies — which are linked to the Vice President of the United States and his friends — have millions of dollars in government contracts.

They are not separate events — but instead all connected — as AI needs rare earth minerals. You can’t build the chips, data centers, or energy systems without them, and China controls almost all the global supply.

Now remember this every time you see the Trump admin making moves on rare earth minerals and AI, whether it's Project Vault, the 2025 critical mineral executive orders, or the mineral deals they're cutting with countries like Australia, Japan, Ukraine, and Saudi Arabia.

Trump declared a national security emergency, which let him skip normal bidding rules and pour hundreds of millions in Pentagon money into companies like Vulcan Elements.

The catch? The presidents son's firm — 1789 Capital — had just invested in Vulcan three months earlier.

So, to review: Trumps son invested first. The Pentagon's hundreds of millions came three months later. No review, no competition, no questions asked. Your taxes, their profit.

Common Good Catholicism

There is one more thing the four nonprofits share, and it’s one of the most disturbing. Read the 990 filings. All of them have in their mission statements their goal is to, “further the common good.”

That phrase sounds harmless. It is not.

“The common good” is the central organizing idea of a political movement called postliberal common-good Catholicism, and it has a very specific meaning: that liberal democracy has failed, that individual rights have atomized society, and that the state must be redirected by a counter-elite who will impose a moral order from above, whether the public asks for it or not.

"Deneen does more than show how our present ruling class has declared war on beauty, tradition, and the social institutions that make life worth living; he articulates a vision for a populist politics that can rebuild what has been torn down." — J.D. Vance

Vance is their ‘guy’ in politics. He converted to Catholicism, buddied up with the Heritage Foundation, and still name-drops Deneen publicly. Vance wrote the official foreword for Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts's book, Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America.

And look at the language:

The old conservative money used words like “Prosperity” and “Freedom.”

The new right picks names like “Better Tomorrow” and “Faithful in Action.”

And before your eyes glaze over at the phrase “liberal democracy,” understand what it actually means. It does not mean progressive politics. It does not mean the Democratic Party. Liberal democracy is the system of government the United States was built on.

It is the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, free elections, individual liberty, and the idea that the government answers to the people rather than the other way around. It is America as we know it.

When these people say liberal democracy has failed, they are not talking about the left. They are talking about the American ‘experiment’ itself.

The 22nd & 25th Amendment

Members of Congress, from both parties, are formally calling for the President’s removal under the 25th Amendment.

The Rockbridge Network has been patient. They may not need to be patient much longer. The only thing standing between Vance and the Oval Office is Donald J. Trump — a man whose public decline the nation watches in real time, and who forms his understanding of the world primarily through whatever Fox News decides to show him that morning.

In September of 2025, Trump mobilized federal troops against American citizens because Fox News showed him five-year-old protest footage and told him it was happening now. Oregon’s governor had to call Trump personally to explain that the courthouse he thought was under attack was not under attack.

If Vance reaches the Oval Office after January 2027, the 22nd Amendment allows him to serve nearly a decade.

Rockbridge is not waiting for Vance to become popular. They are building a country in which popularity matters less than infrastructure.

Since 2021 — before Vance won the Senate on Thiel’s money — they have funded redistricting efforts, voter turnout operations in swing states, and litigation designed to rewrite election law.

Over the Horizon Action (EIN: 88-0696885): find new conservative voters, get them on the rolls, and make sure they show up.

Faithful in Action (EIN: 93-1558726): turns Sunday sermons into voter mobilization, using the church as a political organizing infrastructure.

Firebrand Action (EIN: 92-0533628): calls itself a journalism nonprofit, but what it actually does is fund polling that flows directly into RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight, the two most-cited polling averages in American political media.

See, 2019 was a very transformational year for J.D. Vance, if you happen to believe in coincidence. He moved to Ohio. He converted to Catholicism, and so began the formal process of political transformation that Peter Thiel had been architecting for years.

By 2022, Vance was a Senator. Peter Thiel’s $15 million got him there, along with other donations from billionaires and millionaires alike.

It started in early 2021, when Thiel personally walked Vance into Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump — whom Vance once referred to as America’s Hitler — for the first time. Time magazine’s account of the same meeting attributes it to the suggestion of Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., and financier Omeed Malik who all begged Trump to give one of his former critics a chance.

All people who are major players in this network today.

Vance had spent months before that building a relationship with Donald Trump Jr., who lobbied his father to endorse him. It worked. By 2024, Vance was Vice President. But none of that was the end goal, or the point.

I am not asking you to simply trust me. I am asking you to watch a clip of the Vice President of the United States, in his own words, on tape, from 2021, before he had any reason to be careful.

In September 2021, while running for Senate, Vance sat down with Jack Murphy, a ‘manosphere’ influencer similar to Andrew Tate, whose website once published the phrase, “feminists need rape.” This was not an accident of booking with a bad guy. This was Vance, on his way to the United States Senate, choosing his audience deliberately.

Here are some highlights from the interview, you can watch the full nearly two-hour interview by clicking here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMq1ZEcyztY

In this interview, he name-dropped Curtis Yarvin, a blogger who had spent years building a following around a single core idea: that democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced with something closer to monarchy. Vance goes on to say that universities need to be attacked honestly and aggressively. And then Vance described America as being in a “late republican period.”

If you did not study Roman history, here is what that means: Rome’s late republican period is the moment just before Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, defied the Senate, and made himself dictator for life. It is how historians describe the last days of a republic that did not know it was dying.

At the end of Rome, the institutions were still standing. The votes were still being counted. The Senate was still meeting. The republic was already over. It just had not made the announcement yet.

When Vance used that phrase in 2021, he was not reflecting on history. He was telling anyone paying close enough attention that the courts, the universities, the democratic norms standing between this network and total power were the Roman Senate. And that someone was already sharpening a knife.

He said all of this publicly, on an alt-right podcast, while running for Senate. Nobody important was listening. They counted on that, too. They love to tell on themselves in places they think we can’t hear them.

People love to comfort themselves by saying Rome wasn’t built in a day. They conveniently forget it didn’t fall in one, either. It crumbled slowly, imperceptibly, while very smart people stood around arguing over the acoustics in the Colosseum."

Written by: Dissent in Bloom