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In 1972, the government started paying people to see things they couldn’t reach. Thirty years later, a startup promised to see inside your body from a single drop of blood. Everyone remembers the woman in the black turtleneck. Tonight we follow the blood, and the people who were watching it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump’s judicial nominees can explain every step of how the 2020 election was certified, but they still won’t say who won it. With the midterms weeks away, I checked the viral claim that Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex’s data centers silenced the MAGA bots, and the bots never left. Then I followed the vote from your paper ballot to your TV screen, where all five major networks now start from the same AP feed that AP also sells to the betting app Kalshi. Larry Ellison wants every country’s data in one database, and Brazil showed in 2020 what happens when the whole count runs on one system and it stalls on election night. Read the companion investigation: [https://thedreydossier.substack.com/] Go vote on November 3rd, and check your registration at [https://www.canivote.org] Attribution Code "Danse Macabre" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's trouble in paradise at the brain chip farm. According to recent reports, Elon Musk dumped Shivon Zilis, the mother of four of his kids and who is the Director at Neuralink. She announced it herself after an automated account caught Elon unfollowing her, leading her to post a few screenshots of messages between the two. But what she chose to share has me asking a few questions... is this whole breakup staged? What is Neuralink trying to launch now? We have a lot of catching up to do. Join me at 5pm Pst / 7pm Central Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This video is about how a government sign-in page can become a national identity system. Twenty-five years after the United States rejected a centralized national ID, the federal government is moving hundreds of public services onto Login.gov. Behind the familiar login screen is a growing identity infrastructure capable of connecting government records, verifying people who are not present, labeling accounts for suspected fraud, tracking browsers, and deciding who gets through the door. I followed Greg Hogan from the system Elon Musk used to reach two million federal employees, through his testimony over DOGE’s access to federal personnel records, and into his new role expanding Login.gov toward what officials have called a “globally recognized identity platform.” I also went through Login.gov’s code, federal directives, procurement records, court findings, and an unexplained increase from 100 million to 180 million accounts. What emerges is not one dramatic announcement, but a national identity system being assembled one agency, contractor, software switch, and fraud-prevention measure at a time. Read the companion investigation: [https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-national-id-nobody-voted-for] Follow me on TikTok / Instagram / X: @thedreydossier If this connected some dots, share it with somebody who still thinks Login.gov is just a place to sign in. Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This video is about how a public crisis can become a data asset. A politically charged shooting can generate thousands of videos, photos, identities, locations, witness accounts, and movement records. Those materials can feed the systems that turn people into searchable patterns: faces, trajectories, associations, vehicles, accounts, organizations, and networks. I followed the timeline around the Charlie Kirk case, from White House technology infrastructure and federal voter-data demands to FBI digital-media intake and the network-focused policies that followed. Read the companion investigation: [https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-charlie-kirk-data-machine?] Opening footage credit: How Surveillance Tech is Used to Oppress Palestinians Through Apartheid? By Amnesty International. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTPvFIV_KzA&t=649s] Follow me on TikTok / Instagram / X: @dreydossier If this connected some dots, share it with somebody who cares about where public evidence goes after the headlines fade. Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twenty-four hours before the White House announced Trump’s ballroom, the administration gathered more than sixty healthcare and technology companies to begin building a new national health-data system. A year later, Trump says the ballroom sits over an integrated military complex containing a hospital and medical facilities. The Supreme Court has allowed construction to continue while it considers the case. I went through the court filings, architectural drawings, CMS code, and Trump’s own statements to understand what they are building, how they are paying for it, and what Congress can still do. Read the companion investigation: [https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-medical-center-under-trumps-ballroom] Follow me on TikTok / Instagram / X: @dreydossier If this connected some dots, share it with somebody who still thinks this is about a ballroom. Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seven people had dinner in a cabin in Maine and announced a movement for the forgotten American. The cabin belongs to the man at the head of the table — so does the network the manifesto aired on, the survival store advertised during it, and the gold company with his name on the paperwork. His own lawyers won a case by arguing no reasonable viewer takes him at his word. I took his lawyers at their word and spent a week checking everyone else at the table too.Some of them read real. That's what makes it worth twenty minutes. Read the companion essay: Follow me on TikTok / Instagram / X: @thedreydossier If this connected some dots, share it with somebody who's looking for someone to believe in. The belief is theirs. Nobody gets to sell it back to them. Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three sovereign wealth funds are buying thirty-eight and a half percent of the new Warner Brothers Paramount, one of them chaired by the man American intelligence concluded ordered the murder of a Washington Post columnist. But don't worry, they promised not to touch the newsrooms. The promise covers the broadcast stations and CBS News. I searched the entire FCC petition for the words Cable News Network and got zero results, because CNN is cable, cable has no license, and a license is the only thing Washington can take away.Every piece of work you would have to finish before selling a news network is finished. Everyone responsible says nothing has been decided. Read the full story: Follow me on TikTok / Instagram / X: @thedreydossier If this connected some dots, share it with somebody who deserves to know what gets built in the space between the deal you can see and the one you cannot. Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump's not the only one full of surprises tonight. Join me as I will be going live tonight at 9 pm ET to watch President Trump's primetime address on elections and voting machines in real time; fact-checking as it happens and connecting it to the reporting I've been doing on National Design Studio. Join me right before 9. Helpful reading before: https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Treasury Department has handed the account of every newborn in America to Robinhood, a stock-trading app carrying the largest fine in the history of its own regulator. But hey, it's free to use! The account opens the day your child is born, seeded with a thousand dollars of federal money, and to open it a parent hands over a biometric faceprint that Robinhood keeps forever, processed by an outside vendor named Persona whose entire government dashboard was found sitting on a public server this February, running 269 checks and filing secret reports to the Treasury's financial-crimes unit. The savings account seems to be the wrapper for a permanent data file on your child. And the government is already working with hospitals to open one automatically for every baby, before a single form is signed. So, I went looking for what "free" actually costs: thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-true-cost-of-trump-accounts Follow me on TikTok / Instagram / X: @thedreydossier If this connected some dots, share it with a new parent who deserves to know what is being quietly built in the space between the government you can see and the one you cannot.Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"They took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete." Facade is definitely one word for it. The government paid somewhere between 6.8 and 14.6 million dollars to repaint the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Same contract, same job, two different federal databases, eight million dollars apart. That was the first thing that did not add up. Then it got worse... so I stopped following the money and started following the water. The full investigation: thedreydossier.substack.com TikTok / IG / X: thedreydossier Share this with someone who thinks the conversation about what is under the White House starts when Trump tells them it does. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Guardian just confirmed my reporting: a White House office has been quietly tracking Americans on federal sites for passports, voter registration, and prescription drugs. One day later, that same office shipped a "privacy" tool the internet is calling historic. Tonight I break down the timing that doesn't add up, the contradiction in their own words, and who actually built it. LIVE at 7PM Central (8 ET / 5 PT) Support the work and read the full files below. My original investigation: https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears Send me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/thedreydossier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Only four states in the entire country have a law that even mentions neural data. There is no federal protection. Your thoughts have fewer legal protections than your thumbprint. Elon Musk knows that. And he is moving fast. I found a facility that Travis County thinks is a ranch. The EPA has never visited it, not once in five years, even though it sits on the Colorado River in a watershed that feeds Austin's drinking water. The animals being used there are registered to a UPS Store mailbox in Fremont, California. And yet the state environmental agency doesn't call it a ranch. It calls it a Commercial Research Facility. One where over 600 animals have undergone brain surgery. And then on March 31, 2026, Neuralink's General Counsel signed a new LLC into existence at that address. It's called Neuralink Surgery Center LLC. There is no surgery center license on file in Texas. This is the company that wants inside your skull. The full investigation: thedreydossier.substack.com TikTok / IG / X: thedreydossier Share this with someone who thinks the brain chip conversation starts when Elon Musk tells you it does. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the same day Apple Maps allegedly removed the names of every town in Lebanon, Israel announced a goal of demolishing those towns village by village, peace talks with Iran collapsed, and the US announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. This is one story, and it runs through one company. Read the full articlethedreydossier.substack.com Follow me onTikTok / Instagram: @thedreydossier Independent journalism only exists if people can actually see it — so if this connected some dots, share it with someone who could use the information. Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On May 13, a CIA officer testified under oath that the United States covered up the fact that COVID came from a Chinese laboratory. Not one Democratic senator showed up, and the hearing has 60,000 views on YouTube. The same morning, Donald Trump's plane was landing in Beijing with the CEO of the company that reads 80% of the world's DNA on the delegation list. Four days after he flew home, the WHO declared an Ebola emergency in two countries that had just signed agreements handing their pathogen genomes to the United States Government. Almost no one is covering any of it. This is the story of the plan a former FDA commissioner wrote down in 2021, the agencies that got dismantled to make room for it, and the week last month it ran its first test.Read the full article thedreydossier.substack.com Follow me on TikTok / Instagram / X: @thedreydossier Independent journalism only exists if people can actually see it, so if this connected some dots, share it with somebody who works in public health, a journalist who should be covering this, or anyone who needs to know what got built in the space where the mourning was supposed to be.Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices