Here’s something that has bothered me for nine years: almost everything you need to know about who runs American politics is public.
The FEC filings. The court rulings. The Federal Register. The board seats, the donor networks, the speeches they gave out loud, on camera, to rooms full of people who clapped.
And yet.
Almost nobody can see it. That’s not because it’s hidden. It’s because it’s scattered across thousands of filings, press releases and paywalled archives, and nobody has time to trace Leonard Leo to the Federalist Society, then to a 6–3 Supreme Court, then to the rulings that changed your rights. The information is free. Connecting it costs time, and time is what oligarchy counts on you not having.
So I connected it.
Today I’m opening the Doctor Paradox Wiki: Civics vs. Oligarchy. It’s more than 10,000 linked pages mapping the people, money, ideas and institutions of the modern American right. Every page links to the people, organizations and ideas around it, so following the links is the fastest way to see how the pieces fit.
What’s inside
- The money. Dark money networks, donor-advised funds, the Koch Network, Citizens United, and a running tracker of what officials say about federal spending compared with what the contracts and filings show.
- The Tech Right. How Silicon Valley money and ideas moved to the center of right-wing power. It runs from Peter Thiel and Palantir to Curtis Yarvin and the defense-tech pipeline. Start at The Tech Right Hub.
- The 2026 midterms. With less than three weeks until November 3, the 2026 Midterms Hub covers every Senate and governor’s race, the most competitive House seats, ballot measures, and how the election is actually run and counted.
- The plumbing. Timelines, court rulings, terminology, and step-by-step maps of things most people never see, such as how a voter gets removed from the rolls between elections.
Where to start
If you have fifteen minutes, go to Start Here. Five pages tell the whole story in order: the plan, who pays for it, the new money, the story that mobilizes the base, and what’s at stake in November. If you have an hour, pick one of six reading tracks.
If you’re coming back, What’s New is refreshed daily. In the past week alone the wiki added 172 new pages and made 121 major updates.
How it’s built
I came up in the Friendster era, back when we really believed the open web would put information in everyone’s hands. Silicon Valley lost that plot. I didn’t.
I built this with heavy AI assistance for research, drafting and cross-linking, plus a separate fact-checking pass. The rules are simple. Claims carry sources. Where sources conflict or a number can’t be confirmed yet, the page says so in a warning box instead of quietly picking a side. Fast-moving pages say when their figures were last checked. Short pages are placeholders, there so a name can be linked, and they fill in over time.
It’s free and has no sponsors. It grows every day.
Its older sibling, Foundations, is still home to the dictionaries and timelines. The two sites are meant to be read together.
None of this was ever secret. Keeping it scattered was the trick.