Propaganda

Trump Promises $2,000 'Tariff Dividend' Payments Despite Insufficient Revenue and Treasury Secretary Skepticism

| Importance: 6/10

President Trump announced on Truth Social that a $2,000 “tariff dividend” would be paid to Americans excluding “high income people,” promising that remaining funds after these payments would be used to “substantially pay down national debt.” The announcement …

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Trump Announces Kazakhstan Joining Abraham Accords Despite Existing Diplomatic Relations with Israel Since 1992

| Importance: 5/10

President Trump announced at the C5+1 summit in Washington that Kazakhstan would join the Abraham Accords, becoming the first nation to do so during his second term. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and leaders from four other Central Asian states attended the announcement. However, the …

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Pentagon Replaces Mainstream Media with MAGA Propaganda Outlets in Press Corps

| Importance: 9/10

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth introduced a ’next generation’ Pentagon press corps dominated by far-right outlets including The Gateway Pundit, Infowars, and LindellTV after mainstream journalists rejected restrictive access rules requiring loyalty pledges. Over 30 major news outlets …

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Foreign Governments Fund MAGA Influencers for Propaganda Without Proper Disclosure

| Importance: 8/10

Foreign governments including Israel, Hungary, and South Korea are paying MAGA-aligned content creators to promote diplomatic talking points without proper disclosure under Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requirements. Israel provided $70,000 for influencer trips to Gaza and the Golan Heights …

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Defense Contractors Market Ukraine War as "Battle-Tested" Surveillance Technology Proving Ground

| Importance: 8/10

By mid-2024, U.S. defense contractors and surveillance technology companies began systematically marketing their systems as “battle-tested in Ukraine,” transforming the ongoing war into a real-world demonstration and validation platform for AI-powered surveillance, autonomous weapons, …

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Trump Exploits Navy SEAL Ryan Owens' Widow at Congress Address to Deflect From Botched Yemen Raid He Approved

| Importance: 9/10

During his first address to Congress on February 28, 2017, President Trump orchestrated an emotional moment honoring Carryn Owens, widow of Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens who died in the botched Yemen raid Trump approved on January 29. The chamber gave a standing ovation lasting 1 minute …

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Obama Administration Counts All Military-Age Males Killed by Drones as Combatants

| Importance: 9/10

The New York Times reveals that the Obama administration has adopted a secret policy counting “all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants…unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.” This Orwellian methodology allows the administration to …

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Armstrong Williams Paid 40K for Illegal Government Propaganda

| Importance: 7/10

The Department of Education violated federal law by paying conservative commentator Armstrong Williams 40,000 through Ketchum Inc. PR firm to promote the No Child Left Behind Act without disclosing the government funding to audiences. Williams regularly promoted NCLB on his syndicated TV and radio …

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OSP and WHIG Establish Daily Intelligence-Propaganda Coordination Meetings

| Importance: 9/10

The Office of Special Plans (OSP), led by Douglas Feith, and the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) institutionalized daily coordination meetings to synchronize intelligence production with propaganda messaging. These meetings enabled the systematic manipulation of intelligence to support the Bush …

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WHIG Launches 'Smoking Gun/Mushroom Cloud' Propaganda Blitz

| Importance: 9/10

The White House Iraq Group executes a coordinated propaganda campaign featuring the ‘smoking gun/mushroom cloud’ metaphor crafted by chief speechwriter Michael Gerson. On September 7-8, 2002, President Bush and top advisers appeared on multiple networks delivering identical nuclear fear …

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WHIG Executes Coordinated Media Blitz Demonstrating Crisis Template

| Importance: 9/10

WHIG launches systematic media campaign with Bush administration officials appearing across all major networks in coordinated messaging offensive. Condoleezza Rice delivers “smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” message on CNN while Cheney appears on Meet the Press and Bush makes CBS …

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WHIG Coordinates Sunday Show Booking Blitz

| Importance: 9/10

The White House Iraq Group (WHIG) coordinated an unprecedented media manipulation campaign in September 2002 to build public support for the Iraq War. On September 7-8, 2002, top administration officials including Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld appeared on all five major Sunday news programs, delivering …

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WHIG Provides Networks Pre-Written Interview Questions and Expert Lists

| Importance: 9/10

The White House Iraq Group (WHIG) coordinated an unprecedented media manipulation campaign in September 2002, controlling news coverage about potential Iraqi threats through strategic messaging, synchronized interviews, and carefully curated expert narratives.

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WHIG Establishes Daily Executive Producer Coordination System

| Importance: 9/10

White House Iraq Group systematically coordinates with network news executive producers across CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox News to create direct communication channels for messaging priorities and narrative synchronization, effectively bypassing traditional journalist-source relationships.

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CNN Executives Meet with White House on Iraq Coverage

| Importance: 8/10

CNN executives Walter Isaacson and Eason Jordan met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and White House communications director Karen Hughes to discuss network coverage of the administration’s Iraq policy. Internal CNN memos later revealed that Isaacson instructed staff to …

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White House Iraq Group Formed to Coordinate WMD Propaganda Campaign

| Importance: 9/10

White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card forms the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) to coordinate the Bush administration’s public relations campaign for the Iraq invasion. Chaired by Karl Rove and meeting weekly in the Situation Room, WHIG included National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, her …

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White House Iraq Group Established for Crisis-Driven Institutional Coordination

| Importance: 8/10

Chief of Staff Andrew Card forms White House Iraq Group (WHIG), chaired by Karl Rove, to coordinate systematic messaging strategy for Iraq War. Group includes key Powell Memo-aligned figures including communications strategists Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, and policy coordination through Condoleezza …

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