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NEW: The Census Bureau has acquired more commercial voter data, weeks after using such data to falsely claim thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election. www.theredoubt.net/us-census-bu...

“FPÖ recruits have a measuring device they use to detect each other's racial purity. The pseudo-scientist examines the patient's facial features and side profile, always on the lookout for a dead-giveaway "Aryan bone," said to reside somewhere in the back of a superior man or woman's head.”

Young fascists in Europe are measuring skulls in search of "Aryan bones" www.theredoubt.net/aryan-bones-...

The Redoubt (@theredoubt.net) en Español, thanks to our first Spanish-language publishing partner!

ICE under Trump: Repeating history while refusing to learn from it www.theredoubt.net/repeating-hi...

DOGE eliminated USAID and froze some $268 million in congressionally-authorized funding for independent media. Now the Trump administration is seeking to bolster its critique of Europe under the guise of journalism.

New @theredoubt.net publishing partner just dropped.

In response to questions from @theredoubt.net, the State Department defended its use of U.S. tax dollars to subsidize right-wing content creators. "The Independent Journalism Consortium program closely aligns with the Trump administration's foreign policy objectives in Europe," a spokesperson said.

In other words: state-funded and -directed MAGA propaganda targeting Europe

BREAKING: The Trump administration is looking to set up a consortium for anti-immigrant "independent journalism" in Europe, with the State Department envisioning "substantial involvement" in the project. www.theredoubt.net/trump-admini...

The Trump administration won't comment on whether it intends to build immigrant detention facilities, abroad. But government documents say just that. www.theredoubt.net/ice-awards-n...

Final update for now with info on the most alarming part of the original statement of work, which asked the charter airline contractor to also help DHS establish foreign "detention centers" in "host countries." Will update if Eastern answers the f*cking question. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...

I spoke to Heidi Beirich earlier this summer about how the Trump administration — which just arrested her — was inspiring Europe’s far right: www.theredoubt.net/how-america-...

NEW: In 2016, ICE said officials would undergo training at the Museum of Tolerance, which helps visitors "understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts." ICE now says it has replaced all such "experiential learning" — with LinkedIn. www.theredoubt.net/ice-ditches-...

ICE officials will no longer take part in trainings at the Museum of Tolerance, which teaches visitors to "understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts." www.theredoubt.net/ice-ditches-...

Thanks to @prospect.org for citing @theredoubt.net! www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

NEW: DHS scrapped a $250,000 contract to a firm that had connections to Corey Lewandowski. www.theredoubt.net/dhs-scrapped...

A pro-democracy platform must demand records from all detention centers located in other countries. If US tax payers footed the bill, we should know how many people were detained, where, and when. The geography shouldn't matter. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

ICE — the agency shooting and killing people across America — is now looking for contractors that could help build detention facilities around the world. Documents say these facilities (w/ up to 1,000 beds) would hold immigrants deported from the United States. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

Exclusive: ICE eyes 1,000-bed detention facilities in foreign countries www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

🎧 On war, again, with Iran and the pundits who loved Graham Platner www.theredoubt.net/on-war-again...

As Donald Trump might say, the American president is a sick man. www.theredoubt.net/sick-people-...

Donald Trump is now talking about his enemies abroad the way he talks about his enemies (immigrants, people of color, Democrats) at home. My latest for @theredoubt.net on what that says about his lexicon and the way he views the world: www.theredoubt.net/sick-people-...

How did it get this far? Platner's dishonesty should have ended his campaign www.theredoubt.net/how-did-it-g...

A piece that beautifully captures how I have been feeling for a while now. I am constantly asked “Are you sorry you moved back to the USA” … as I found during Trump 1 you can feel ashamed of your country while living anywhere in the world.

On the smug hypocrisy of Stephen Miller and the racist cruelty of Donald Trump. www.theredoubt.net/america-is-n...

Europe's far right has a new target: newborn babies www.theredoubt.net/europes-far-...

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Nostalgia is a path to the dark side

Tradwives and right-wing men: How an 'imagined past' drives fascist politics www.theredoubt.net/tradwives-an...

The new "Common European Asylum System" comes at a time when immigration is already falling. www.theredoubt.net/in-a-concess...

The reporting below has been cited by CNN, MS Now, Talking Points Memo, Democracy Now and others. The next investigation I'm publishing — on foreign influence operations — has already prompted action from Meta and Google. $8/month funds this work and gets it in your inbox: theredoubt.net/subscribe

In this week’s dispatch from The Redoubt, a look at the anti-American symbolism of Trump’s ballroom — and a preview of an upcoming exclusive on what foreign influence campaigns look like in 2026. Subscribe to get future editions in your inbox: www.theredoubt.net/email/bd4365...

A little over six months in, it's time to recount some @theredoubt.net Ws...

Edward Lengel, a White House historian, says Donald Trump is showing "contempt for the founding fathers" — and "hatred for American democracy." www.theredoubt.net/trumps-ballr...

Heidi Beirich, an expert on the far right, says Donald Trump has emboldened those pushing for "remigration." www.theredoubt.net/how-america-...

🎧 The Politics of Hate: Remigration & the Far Right 🎧 @heidibeirich.bsky.social (cofounder of @globalextremism.bsky.social) spoke with @shirinsadeghi.bsky.social & @charliearchy.bsky.social about the neo-fascist plan for ethnic cleansing — and how to stop it. www.patreon.com/posts/160144...

Greg Bovino, a neo-fascist summit in Portugal and why the press ignores right-wing extremism. www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

The latest edition of Last Week at The Redoubt, our roundup of the original journalism we've published, is out now. Discussed: Greg Bovino hanging with Nazis, "No Country for Old Men" and austerity in Europe. Subscribe to get it in your inbox: www.theredoubt.net/email/f6bb7e...

A photo shared by organizers shows AfD-affiliated outlet Deutschland Kurier is at the summit, one of their hacks seen speaking to AfD lawmaker Lena Kotré. AfD, now leading in German opinion polls, previously tried to distance itself from the extremists here. www.theredoubt.net/afd-republic...

Bovino has landed in Portugal. The photo shows him flanked by Martin Sellner, the Austrian extremist behind the “great replacement” conspiracy, and Reconquista founder Afonso Gonçalves. www.theredoubt.net/afd-republic...

NEW: As The Redoubt was the first to report, former Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino is headed to a far-right summit on "remigration." He's being joined by Europe's leading fascists. www.theredoubt.net/afd-republic...