# Right-Wing KB Mapping the overlapping clusters of the modern right-wing political universe. This is the curated front door. It surfaces the highest-level entry points and routes everything else through the domain hubs — it does **not** try to list every page. **Three ways to navigate:** - **This page** — the curated, opinionated starting point: the domain hubs, the cross-cutting Ecosystems, and a few signature frames. - **[[Maps of Content]]** — the complete directory of every navigational hub in the vault, listed as a set independent of folder. - **Search & graph** — for any individual page, use Obsidian search, the local graph, or the relevant domain hub below. The full catalog lives in the folders, not on this page. --- ## Master hubs The vault's domain masters. Each routes into its folder's contents, sub-hubs, and rosters. Grouped here by what they cover. **The actors** — who does the work - [[People Hub]] — the biographical layer (operators, donors, officials, theorists, media figures, and their counterparts) - [[Organizations Hub]] — non-profits, advocacy, think tanks, PACs - [[Companies Hub]] — for-profit corporate entities - [[Dynasties Hub]] — multi-generational families that act as collective political-economic entities **Ideas & belief** — what they think - [[Concepts Hub]] — the idea layer and its lexicons - [[Ideologies Hub]] — belief systems and their lexicons - [[Subjects Hub]] — the academic-discipline spine - [[Terminology Hub]] — the controlled-vocabulary umbrella **Money, power & policy** — how the machine runs - [[Foundations Hub]] — US-government structure, officeholders, founding texts, political philosophy - [[Policy Hub]] — budgets, statutes, orders, directives - [[Deals Hub]] — transactions and agreements **Narrative & media** — how it spreads - [[Media Hub]] — outlets, platforms, social posts, memes - [[Conspiracy Theories Hub]] — conspiracy narratives, their origins and consequences - [[Quotes Hub]] — sourced statements and collections - [[Works Hub]] — books, essays, films, songs, manifestos, symbols **Time & current awareness** — when, and what's happening now - [[Events Hub]] — discrete events - [[Timelines Hub]] — every chronological reference, by domain - [[News Hub]] — current-awareness logs and watchlist - [[2026 Midterms Hub]] — the 2026 election cycle **Cross-cutting maps** — the connective tissue - [[Ecosystems Hub]] — sphere maps that cut across all of the above (featured below) - [[Foreign Influence Hub]] — foreign-state influence into US politics - [[Resistance Hub]] — opposition and resistance - [[The Tech Right Hub]] — the Silicon Valley political turn (cross-folder) - [[State of the US Economy]] — the economy right now, every number dated and sourced (refreshed monthly) - [[Global Economy Hub]] — the dollar, trade, global institutions, and the world economy --- ## Ecosystems — the featured maps The vault's crown jewels: cross-cutting index pages, each collecting all the people, companies, concepts, ideologies, and analysis for a single sphere, independent of the others. Start here when you want the full picture of one domain. The complete set lives in the [[Ecosystems Hub]]. - [[Defense Tech Ecosystem]] — **DEFENSE TECH**: the Silicon Valley-to-Pentagon pipeline — companies, people, deals, products, ideologies, and analysis for the full defense-tech universe - [[Foreign Influence Ecosystem]] — **FOREIGN INFLUENCE**: five nations, three mechanisms — Gulf transactional influence (Saudi/UAE/Qatar), Russian adversarial operations, and Iran's threat multiplier — the money map, proxy network, lobbying machine, and self-reinforcing system that shapes US policy - [[Dark Money Ecosystem]] — **DARK MONEY**: the funding architecture connecting every other wing — Leonard Leo's $1.6B network, the Federalist Society judicial pipeline, Heritage's [[Project 2025]], DonorsTrust's anonymization machine, Bradley's intellectual bankroll, Koch's political machine, the Mercer model - [[Media Ecosystem]] — **MEDIA**: the right-wing media ecosystem — outlets by tier, key personalities, funding networks, the radicalization pipeline, and cross-ecosystem connections - [[Think Tank Ecosystem]] — **THINK TANKS**: the full ideological spectrum from Heritage/Claremont through AEI/Cato to Brookings/RAND/CFR to CAP/EPI — who funds them, who they produce, and the structural asymmetry between right and left - [[Militias and Extremist Groups Ecosystem]] — **MILITIAS & EXTREMIST GROUPS**: the paramilitary layer — Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, Patriot Front, Boogaloo — taxonomy, the radicalization pipeline, Charlottesville to January 6, law-enforcement infiltration, and the pardon effect - [[Conspiracy Theories Ecosystem]] — **CONSPIRACY THEORIES**: the narrative weapons system — how conspiracies originate on anonymous platforms, travel through the amplification pipeline, produce real-world violence (100+ deaths), and serve as the operating system of the MAGA movement - [[Ken Griffin Ecosystem]] — **KEN GRIFFIN**: the establishment-GOP mega-donor network — Citadel, $200M+ in super-PAC spending, the McConnell-wing-vs-MAGA tension, the PFOF-to-politics feedback loop, $2B+ philanthropy as soft power - [[Council for National Policy Ecosystem]] — **COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY**: the invisible coordinating body of the American right since 1981 — ~400 invite-only members, three closed-door meetings a year, no public output; the room where Heritage/FRC/Federalist Society/NRA/DonorsTrust align strategy - [[Old Right Ecosystem]] — **OLD RIGHT**: the prehistory of MAGA — Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, the Buckley excommunication, the Goldwater delegate army, the long underground through-line from "Impeach [[Earl Warren]]" to "Drain the Swamp" - [[Civil Rights Era Backlash Ecosystem]] — **CIVIL RIGHTS ERA BACKLASH**: the 1948–1975 reaction, organizationally mapped — Dixiecrats, White Citizens' Councils, [[Massive Resistance]], segregation academies, [[George Wallace]]'s AIP, the Goldwater-Nixon-Reagan absorption, the [[Southern Manifesto]] - [[Trump Family Corruption Ecosystem]] — **TRUMP FAMILY CORRUPTION**: the ten-theater operational map of how the family monetizes presidential power — crypto, foreign emoluments, [[Trump Org]] as access vehicle, family-in-government, pardons-as-currency, TMTG/DJT manipulation - [[Philanthropy Ecosystem]] — **PHILANTHROPY**: cross-spectrum money-flow MOC — EA megafunders, TESCREAL infrastructure, tech-oligarch foundations, Progress Studies / metascience funders, and the right-wing dark-money counterpart. Companion to [[Dark Money Ecosystem]] - [[Cryptocurrency Ecosystem]] — **CRYPTOCURRENCY**: the umbrella front door to the crypto sphere — machine, lexicon, and the Trump-corruption thread (handed off to the [[Crypto-Political Machine]]) --- ## Signature frames A few high-leverage lenses worth surfacing on the front page. Each is a teaser into a fuller hub. **The decision-science lens** — why the movement works. [[Charlie Munger]]'s 25 cognitive biases (the propaganda toolkit), the workhorse heuristics that defend against them, plus the logical-fallacy and cognitive-bias rosters — all mapped to specific KB content. The full latticework lives in the [[Decision Science Hub]]. **The conspiracy operating system** — the narrative weapons that run the movement: [[QAnon]], [[Stop the Steal]], [[Great Replacement Theory]], [[Deep State]], [[Birtherism]], [[Pizzagate]], the [[George Soros Conspiracy]], the [[Groomer Narrative]], and more. The annotated catalog is in the [[Conspiracy Theories Hub]]; the systemic how-it-travels view is the [[Conspiracy Theories Ecosystem]]. **Foreign influence — five nations, three mechanisms** — Gulf money ([[Qatar]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[UAE]]), Russian adversarial operations ([[Russia]]), and Iran's threat multiplier ([[Iran]]). The country roster with signature threads is in the [[Foreign Influence Hub]]; the analytical map is the [[Foreign Influence Ecosystem]]. **Dynasties** — the families that operate as collective political-economic actors, from the [[Trump Family]] (the dynasty that *is* the political program) to the [[Ellison Family]] (private-oligarchic dynasty without office). Full taxonomy and roster in the [[Dynasties Hub]]. --- ## 📊 Quick Stats > Recursively counts `.md` files per top-level content folder. Last refreshed 2026-06-18. | Category | Count | Visual | | ----------------------- | ------: | -------------------------------------------------- | | 👤 People | 1,787 | ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ | | 📚 Subjects | 933 | ██████████████████████████ | | 📅 Events | 490 | █████████████▌ | | 🧠 Concepts | 463 | ████████████▌ | | 🏛️ Organizations | 406 | ███████████ | | 📝 Terminology | 351 | █████████▌ | | 🏢 Companies | 267 | ███████ | | 📚 Works | 262 | ███████ | | 🏛️ Foundations | 243 | ██████▌ | | 💬 Quotes | 175 | ████▌ | | ⚖️ Policy/Legislation | 155 | ████ | | 💼 Deals | 115 | ███ | | 🗳️ [[2026 Midterms]] | 98 | ██▌ | | ✊ Resistance | 87 | ██ | | 🎥 Media | 83 | ██ | | 🗓️ Timelines | 81 | ██ | | 🧭 Ideologies | 78 | ██ | | 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories | 41 | █ | | 🌐 Ecosystems | 28 | ▌ | | 👑 Dynasties | 21 | ▌ | | 📰 News Logs | 15 | ▌ | | 🌍 Foreign Influence | 12 | ▌ | | **TOTAL** | **6,191** | — | --- ## Search Run the search tool from `_search/search.py`: ```bash python _search/search.py "Peter Thiel" # Full-text search python _search/search.py --related "Palantir" # Find all connected records python _search/search.py --tag drone # Filter by tag python _search/search.py --type company # All companies python _search/search.py --graph "Peter Thiel" # Show relationship graph python _search/search.py --list # List everything ``` ## Sources Records are refactored from: - **Obsidian Foundations vault** — People, companies, timelines - **Obsidian Politics Brain** — Political connections, ideology, activism research - **Notion workspace** — Palantir mega-thread, research articles, clippings - **Web research** — Current valuations, contracts, and news