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DOGE Elon Musk holds his first cabinet meeting, Wednesday, February 26, 2025, in the Cabinet Room. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

The Wide Angle: Stop Musk Now Or Face Certain Collapse

by Dave Troy | Feb 28, 2025 | Current Archives, Politics, The Wide Angle

The American constitutional order has been broken, and it’s not clear it can be recovered. Many are still in denial about it, and continue to report on political machinations, business as usual. But this is just muscle memory: journalists have beats and write the stories they are expected to write, and the great game of […]

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Photo of gold bars in the background with Dr. Peter Beter and Elon Musk in the foreground.

Musk and Trump Resurface Old Fort Knox Conspiracy Tales

by Dave Troy | Feb 20, 2025 | Current Archives, Economy

In 1971, a lawyer named Dr. Peter Beter claimed that the vaults at Fort Knox had been emptied of their gold. Beter, who had run for governor of his home state of West Virginia in 1968 (and lost) said that he had heard this from two British intelligence officers he had encountered after establishing a […]

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Photo montage clockwise: Curtis Yarvin, Vladimir Putin, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk

The Wide Angle: Elon Musk and the American Endgame

by Dave Troy | Feb 12, 2025 | Current Archives, Politics, The Wide Angle

In the first weeks of the second Trump presidency, one thing has become clear to the public: Elon Musk is the power behind this administration and Trump is merely doing his bidding. Musk has illegally commandeered multiple agencies while also capturing their data systems, removing thousands of employees, and imposing a de-facto restructuring of longstanding […]

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Screenshot of Susie Wiles in 2020 from "The Circus" posted by Showtime under a Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed).

The Wide Angle: Who Can Stop Elon Musk?

by Dave Troy | Jan 10, 2025 | Current Archives, Politics, The Wide Angle

When Elon Musk threw his support behind Donald Trump’s campaign in the summer, most analysts perceived him as just another wealthy donor, albeit one with control over a major social network. But Musk has since rapidly raised his profile and increased his influence — constantly by Trump’s side at Mar-a-Lago, promising to head up the […]

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Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin

The Wide Angle: “Project Russia,” Unknown in the West, Reveals Putin’s Playbook

by Dave Troy | Dec 12, 2024 | Current Archives, Politics, The Wide Angle

Between 2005 and 2010, a set of books called “Project Russia” was distributed to high-ranking officials in the Russian government and other influential thought leaders. The books offered a detailed program of spiritual warfare against Western democracies culminating in “controlled global collapse” and the establishment of a “supranational” state headed by a Prince-Monk who “best […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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