# Start Here The Right-Wing KB maps the people, money, ideas and institutions of the modern American right in more than 10,000 linked pages. That is a lot to walk into cold, so this page gives you three ways in, depending on how much time you have. > [!tip] How to read this site > - **Follow the links.** Every page connects to the people, organizations and ideas around it. Following links is the fastest way to see how the pieces fit. > - **Short pages are placeholders.** Some names and terms have only a stub so they can be linked. They get filled in over time. > - **Watch for warning boxes.** Where sources conflict or a figure can't yet be confirmed, the page says so instead of picking a side. > - **Check the dates.** Fast-moving pages say when their numbers were last confirmed. What changed this week is on [[What's New]]. ## If you have 15 minutes Five pages that tell the whole story, in order. 1. [[Project 2025]] — **the plan.** The Heritage Foundation-coordinated blueprint for the second Trump administration: a 922-page policy book, a vetted personnel database and a 180-day playbook for taking control of the executive branch. 2. [[Dark Money Ecosystem]] — **who pays for it.** How anonymous money flows through tax-exempt vehicles into the judges, think tanks, media and personnel of the modern right, and why every other part of this site depends on it. 3. [[The Tech Right Hub]] — **the new money and the new ideas.** A map of Silicon Valley's political turn: the founders, investors, ideas and defense-tech companies that moved from libertarian tech culture to the center of right-wing power. 4. [[Stop the Steal]] — **the story that mobilizes the base.** The false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, and the organized campaign built on it: lawsuits, fundraising, fake electors and the January 6 attack on the Capitol. 5. [[2026 Midterms Hub]] — **what's at stake on November 3.** The front door to 2026 midterm coverage: every Senate and governor's race, the most competitive House seats, ballot measures, and how the November 3 election is run and counted. ## If you have an hour: pick a track Each track is a reading list in order. Start at the top and follow it down, or jump in anywhere. ### 💰 Follow the money *Who pays for the movement, how the money is hidden, and what it buys.* 1. [[Dark Money Ecosystem]] — How anonymous money flows through tax-exempt vehicles into the judges, think tanks, media and personnel of the modern right, and why every other part of this site depends on it. 2. [[Dark Money]] — What 'dark money' means: political spending whose original donors are never disclosed because it moves through nonprofits and trade associations, and how that system works. 3. [[Leonard Leo]] — The Federalist Society co-chairman who controls a $1.6 billion-plus political network that reshaped the federal judiciary and funds conservative media and advocacy. 4. [[Federalist Society]] — The network of 70,000-plus conservative and libertarian lawyers whose lists and talent pipeline produced the Supreme Court's 6–3 conservative majority. 5. [[DonorsTrust]] — A donor-advised fund that lets conservative donors give anonymously; with its sibling fund it has passed more than $2 billion to right-wing and libertarian groups. 6. [[Koch Network]] — The political machine Charles and David Koch built from donor summits, advocacy groups, voter data, think tanks and state policy networks, united by free-market, anti-regulation ideology. 7. [[Citizens United v. FEC]] — The 2010 Supreme Court decision that struck down limits on independent political spending by corporations and unions, opening the door to super PACs and modern dark money. 8. [[Super PACs]] — Political committees that can raise and spend unlimited money from individuals, corporations and unions to support or oppose candidates, as long as they don't coordinate with them. 9. [[The Spending Gap]] — A running set of cards comparing what officials say about federal spending with what contracts, apportionments and disclosure filings actually show. ### 🤖 The Tech Right *How Silicon Valley money and ideas moved into the center of right-wing power.* 1. [[The Tech Right Hub]] — A map of Silicon Valley's political turn: the founders, investors, ideas and defense-tech companies that moved from libertarian tech culture to the center of right-wing power. 2. [[Peter Thiel]] — The PayPal and Palantir co-founder and Founders Fund investor who is the central node linking Silicon Valley money to defense tech and right-wing politics. 3. [[Palantir]] — The data-analytics and surveillance company Peter Thiel co-founded in 2003, now a core contractor across the military, intelligence agencies and civilian government. 4. [[Defense Tech Ecosystem]] — The Silicon Valley-to-Pentagon pipeline: how PayPal Mafia money and a generation of defense-first founders reshaped military procurement, government data and the ethics of AI weapons. 5. [[Curtis Yarvin]] — The blogger, writing as Mencius Moldbug, whose case for replacing democracy with CEO-style rule became the Dark Enlightenment and spread through the tech right. 6. [[Dark Enlightenment]] — The anti-democratic philosophy of Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land, which argues that democracy has failed and should give way to corporate-style or monarchical rule. 7. [[Effective Accelerationism]] — Known as 'e/acc': the Silicon Valley movement holding that unrestricted technological progress, especially in AI, solves human problems and that efforts to slow it are dangerous. 8. [[Elon Musk]] — The SpaceX and Tesla chief, among the world's richest people, who led DOGE in 2025 and sits at the junction of tech money, government contracts and politics. ### 🏛️ How power actually works *The machinery of government, and the legal theories being used to bend it.* 1. [[Executive Branch Org Chart]] — A map of the whole U.S. executive branch: the White House offices, the fifteen departments and their agencies, and the independent commissions, with current leadership. 2. [[How Federal Money Moves]] — The full life of a federal dollar, from the law that creates a program through apportionment and obligation to payment, and where today's fights over spending power happen. 3. [[Schedule F]] — The job classification, revived in 2025 as 'Schedule Policy/Career', that strips civil-service protections from career federal employees in policy-related roles. 4. [[Unitary Executive Theory]] — The legal theory that Article II gives the president complete control over everyone who exercises executive power, including the power to fire them at will. 5. [[Trump v. United States]] — The 2024 Supreme Court decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity for official acts, which effectively ended the federal 2020-election prosecution before the vote. 6. [[How a Federal Court Order Is Enforced]] — What a federal judge can actually do when a losing party simply refuses to comply: the six enforcement routes, and who has to cooperate for each one to work. 7. [[Insurrection Act]] — The 1807 law that lets a president deploy the military at home to suppress insurrection or enforce federal law, the main exception to the Posse Comitatus Act. ### 📺 Narrative and media *How the stories are made, carried and believed.* 1. [[Media Ecosystem]] — How a tiered system of outlets, personalities, platforms and funders moved American conservatism from Reagan to MAGA over four decades. 2. [[Fox News]] — The cable network Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes founded in 1996, the center of gravity of right-wing media for three decades. 3. [[Right-Wing Media Timeline]] — Seventy-five years of how American right-wing media was built, from talk radio and the end of the Fairness Doctrine to Fox, the web, X and the podcast networks. 4. [[Conspiracy Theories Ecosystem]] — How right-wing conspiracy theories start, travel and turn into violence and policy, and why they work as the movement's operating system. 5. [[QAnon]] — The far-right conspiracy movement born on 4chan in 2017 that cast Donald Trump as secretly fighting a cabal of elites, and grew into a quasi-religious mass movement. 6. [[Great Replacement Theory]] — The conspiracy theory that elites are deliberately replacing white populations through immigration, which runs from mass-shooter manifestos to prime-time cable news. 7. [[Disinformation]] — What disinformation is, how it differs from misinformation, and how deliberate falsehoods are produced and spread for political ends. ### 🧾 Corruption and self-dealing *Where public power meets private gain, and why so much of it is legal.* 1. [[Corruption Hub]] — The front door to corruption as a system: how private wealth captures public institutions, why much of that capture is legal, and how enforcement has been narrowed. 2. [[Trump Family]] — The family that operates at once as the executive branch, a business empire, a media franchise and a crypto issuer, making the dynasty itself the political program. 3. [[World Liberty Financial]] — The Trump family-controlled crypto platform launched in 2024, issuer of the USD1 stablecoin, which has drawn major foreign investors. 4. [[Crypto-Political Machine]] — How crypto-industry money, political power and government policy converged in the second Trump term, and how that network overlaps with defense tech. 5. [[Government Equity Stakes Roster]] — A deal-by-deal ledger of the second Trump administration taking ownership stakes in private companies, positions that appear in no budget and answer to no dedicated watchdog. 6. [[Revolving Door]] — How people move between government and the industries it regulates, funds and buys from, carrying relationships and inside knowledge in both directions. 7. [[Trump Corruption News Log]] — A running, sourced chronicle of Trump-family corruption developments: self-dealing, memecoins, licensing deals, foreign payments and patronage. ### 🗳️ Election season *How the November 3, 2026 election is run, counted and certified.* > [!note] Until November 3, 2026 > This track covers how the election is run. After November 3 it switches to post-election coverage: results, certification, recounts and contests. 1. [[2026 Midterms Hub]] — The front door to 2026 midterm coverage: every Senate and governor's race, the most competitive House seats, ballot measures, and how the November 3 election is run and counted. 2. [[Electoral College Process Flow]] — A step-by-step map of how a president is chosen, from the popular vote through elector slates and the January 6 count, including what happens if nobody reaches 270. 3. [[How a Voter Is Removed From the Rolls]] — A step-by-step map of how a registered voter gets removed from the rolls between elections, the least-watched stage of American election administration. 4. [[How a Conceded Election Is Finalized]] — What happens after a losing candidate concedes, and why a concession has no legal force anywhere in American election law. 5. [[State of the US Economy]] — How healthy the U.S. economy is right now: a monthly reading of the key indicators, every number dated and confirmed in two sources. ## Going deep - [[Who's Who]] — The 10 people who explain the most about this site, and the next ring around them. - [[Ecosystems Hub]] — The index of this site's cross-cutting ecosystem maps, each collecting the people, companies, ideas and analysis for one sphere of the right. - [[Maps of Content]] — The complete directory of every hub on the site, grouped by subject. - [[Timelines Hub]] — Every chronology on this site in one place, from America's wars to immigration, media and the 2026 Iran war. - [[Foreign Influence Ecosystem]] — How six nations, from the Gulf states to Russia and China, have used money, lobbying, sovereign wealth and proxies to shape U.S. policy in the Trump era. - [[Decision Science Hub]] — How cognitive biases, heuristics and persuasion techniques explain voter behavior, propaganda and conspiracy adoption, and how to defend against them. - [[What's New]] — What was added and substantially expanded this week, refreshed daily.