# Right-Wing KB > [!tip] New here? > Start with **[[Start Here]]**: a 15-minute tour, six one-hour reading tracks, and a [[Who's Who]] of the people who matter most. 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. **Five ways to navigate:** - **[[Start Here]]** — guided reading paths for first-time visitors, from a 15-minute tour to six one-hour tracks. - **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. - **[[What's New]]** — what was added and substantially expanded this week, refreshed daily. - **Search & graph** — for any individual page, use the search box, the graph view, or the relevant domain hub below. The full catalog lives in the folders, not on this page. --- ![[What's New#New this week]] → **[[What's New]]** has the full log: every new page by section, this week's major updates, and the three weeks before. --- > [!tip] 🙋 Get Involved: there's something up your alley > Reading about how power works is step one. Step two is getting your hands on the lever. > > **[Mobilize](https://www.mobilize.us/)** lists events, volunteer shifts, petitions, and fundraisers from campaigns, grassroots groups, charities, and civic organizations near you. Pick your speed: > > - 📞 **Got an hour?** Join a phone bank or text bank from your couch. > - ✉️ **Rather write?** Postcard and letter-writing parties. > - 🚪 **Want to get out there?** Local canvasses, rallies, and meetups. > - 🏠 **Like to host?** Throw a volunteer party for your friends. > > You don't need any experience, and many phone and text banks start with a free training. **[Find something near you →](https://www.mobilize.us/)** > > *Want the backstory on what has worked before? See the [[Resistance Hub]].* ## 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 - [[Donor Network Hub]] — who funds the right, the vehicles the money moves through, and what it buys **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]]. --- ![[What's New#By the numbers]] --- ## Search Use the **search box** to jump straight to any person, organization, company, event, or idea by name. Every page links outward to the people, money, and ideas connected to it, so following links is often the fastest way to see how the pieces fit. If you're not sure where to begin, start with one of the master hubs or Ecosystems above. ## About the sources Most pages list their sources. The knowledge base leans on primary records wherever they exist — court filings, FEC and lobbying disclosures, government reports, and official statements — backed by reporting from established news outlets. Time-sensitive figures are dated, and pages are updated as stories develop.