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Welcome to It Could Happen here.

This is Robert Evans, and I have an episode for you.

It's also an article I wrote for our substack Shatter Zone.

So I'm just going to get into that.

Since February 5th, 2025, a document has been circulating among Democratic Party staffers

and liberal think tank experts, warning about Curtis Jarvin and the Silicon Valley led coup to end

U.S. democracy. The document is titled The Imminent Neal Reactionary Threat to the American Republic.

It opens with a statement that the brief was,

quote, iteratively and collectively compiled by a broad bipartisan and decentralized network of

experts who wish to remain anonymous due to concerns about being targeted. The full document is here.

The table of contents is split into three main areas. One, the new shape of threats to the

American Republic. Two, understanding recent events in the context of threats to the American

Republic. And three, a list of appendices. The title of the actual file when I received it was

evidence brief for journalists. And the introduction describes its aim as, quote, explaining

the nature of the current political crisis to journalists who are attempting to inform the public.

However, I spoke with two sources who are members of these groups and received the document.

They told me that to their knowledge, the document was not mostly spread to journalists,

but instead among networks of think tank employeesank employees and DNC staffers, people you might refer to broadly as policy walks.

One source I interviewed explained, it is a thing for think tanks to frame overviews for laypeople as briefs for journalists or Congress, the IPCC reports. Part of me thinks the framing

for journalists is just a shortcut for this is somewhat specialized knowledge broken down.

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