The †®*mp-Palantir Data Grab: How Authoritarianism Hides Behind “Efficiency”

Originally written 5/31/2025

In a deeply troubling expose The Independent’s Josh Marcus reveals that the †®*mp regime is working hand-in-glove with Eløn Musk®å†-aligned tech firm Palantir to centralize vast troves of sensitive data on millions of Americans and immigrants. Framed as a campaign to eliminate “waste, fraud, and abuse,” this initiative is far more insidious than a bureaucratic reorganization. It is a potential surveillance state in the making.

Palantir, co-founded by GOP mega-donor Peter Thiel and deeply entwined with Musk®a†’s increasingly unaccountable DØGE initiative, has secured over $113 million in federal contracts since †®*mp took office, with a new $795 million deal reportedly on the horizon. The company is embedding itself in key agencies – from the Pentagon to the IRS, and even the Social Security Administration and Department of Education. These agencies hold some of the most sensitive data imaginable: financial records, health details, even school records.

Critics are raising the alarm for good reason. Former Palantir employees warn that the company is “normalizing authoritarianism,” empowering a rogue regime with tools to monitor, manipulate, and potentially weaponize data against political enemies, immigrants, and vulnerable populations. This is not theory. It is happening. Whistleblower reports and lawsuits reveal DØGE engineers bypassing agency safeguards, cross-referencing immigration, tax, and voter data, and even placing living immigrants on the “Death Master File” to pressure them into leaving the country.

Let's be clear: this is not about national security. This is not about efficiency. This is about consolidating power, undermining civil liberties, and creating the infrastructure for a data-driven autocracy.If this sounds dystopian, that is because it is. The †®*mp regime is using executive orders and obscure federal contracts to quietly build something profoundly dangerous: a centralized apparatus of surveillance and control with zero accountability.

And it is being done in our name.

We must call it what it is: authoritarianism disguised as reform. The longer we ignore it, the harder it will be to dismantle. This is not just a tech issue. This is a democracy issue. This is about the right to live in a country where government power is restrained by law, not fueled by private data and political vendettas.​

Our data should not be a weapon. Our government should not be a spy machine. And our democracy should not be for sale.