This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism. See especially this resource on the extremism of Elon Musk.
Image: Sign at an rally protesting the authoritarianism of Elon Musk & Donald Trump.
January 24. Vittoria Elliott: DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside.
January 26. Carole Cadwalladr: Sieg heil Tesla: Yes, you did see what you think you saw. Here’s an idea, let’s call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute.
January 28. Vittoria Elliott: Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management: Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink,the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
January 29. Zoë Schiffer: Elon Musk Tells Friends He’s Sleeping at the DOGE Offices in DC: In a move straight out of the Twitter and Tesla playbook, Elon Musk is apparently camping out just steps away from the White House.
February 2. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: A New Kind of Coup: Trump and Musk are Updating the Autocratic Playbook.
February 4. Wired Magazine: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System.
February 4. Anna Merlan: Elon Musk’s Midnight Takeover: The world’s richest man and his allies are “avoiding office hours at all costs” as they take a wrecking ball to the US government.
February 4. Dell Cameron: Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect DOGE Server: Two federal workers, citing reports that Elon Musk’s associates are operating an illegally connected email server at OPM, seek a restraining order.
February 5. Timothy Snyder: Of course it’s a coup: Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
February 5. David Gilbert: The Far Right Has a New Hero: Elon Musk. Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government has inspired adoration from far-right communities online that used to be reserved for Donald Trump.
February 5. Tim Marchman & Matt Giles: This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force access to all of the agency’s Google sites by the end of business on Wednesday.
February 5. Jake Lahut: Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Causing Rifts in Donald Trump’s Inner Circle.
February 6. Wired: DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers.
February 6. Kate Knibbs: USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency.
February 7. Alexandra Alper & Raphael Satter: Staffer with Elon Musk’s DOGE amplified white supremacists online.
February 7. Vittoria Elliott & Leah Feiger: A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat.’An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff’s access to federal payments systems “the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
February 8. The Washington Post: Security Questions Swirl After Musk Team Views Treasury Data.
February 8. Tim Marchman & Vittoria Elliott: The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army: At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year.
February 12. Leah Feiger: The GSA Plans to Sell Hundreds of Its Federal Government Buildings:The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.
February 12. Makena Kelly: DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency: At least dozens of workers at the Technology Transformation Service were fired on Wednesday, a day after similar sudden cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
February 13. David Gilbert: DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad: The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
February 18. Makena Kelly: Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who’s Legally Running DOGE.
February 21. Jacob Silverman: Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy: Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.
February 25. Makena Kelly: DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers.
February 26. AP News: Not known for political coverage, Wired takes a leading role in tracking Elon Musk’s team.
February 26. Vittoria Elliott & David Gilbert: DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator: Elon Musk’s men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.
February 27. Leah Feiger: DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica: Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.
March 6. Brianna Tucker: DOGE staffers bring U.S. marshals to small federal agency that denied them access.
March 7. Makena Kelly & Zoë Schiffer: DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers: Elon Musk’s DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce.
March 10. Vittoria Elliott: ‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE. WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
March 10. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump and Musk’s Power-Sharing Agreement Innovates the Authoritarian Playbook: The Novel Power-Partition Opens New Horizons of Corruption.
March 13. Makena Kelly: These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration.
March 13. Brian Barrett: The United States of Elon Musk Inc.
March 20. The NYT: Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China.
March 22. Caroline Haskins: The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk’s role in the US federal government.
March 25. Jordan Green: Pardoned J6-er with history of far-right extremism now stands guard at Tesla dealerships.
March 26. Raphael Satter: DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show.
March 26. Vittoria Elliott & Matt Giles: Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID. Court filings show that from the earliest days of the second Trump administration, Elon Musk’s DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against USAID.
March 28. Makena Kelly: DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse.
March 28. Vittoria Elliott: We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections: If Elon Musk is America’s CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch.
March 30. The Washington Post: DOGE wants businesses to run government services ‘as much as possible’: Elon Musk’s effort is pushing privatization — a longtime goal for conservatives and for Silicon Valley alike — across federal agencies.
March 31. Brian Barrett: DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building.
March 31. David Gilbert. The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense: After weeks of “Tesla Takedown” protests, extremist groups are showing up to back Elon Musk’s beleaguered car company.
April 1. Brian Barrett: Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free: It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.
April 1. Paresh Dave & Louise Matsakis: The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums: The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.
April 2. Paresh Dave & Louise Matsakis: Trump and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades: President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing.Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
April 4. Vittoria Elliott: Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs: A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems.
April 7. The Washington Post: Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff: The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.
April 10. Leah Feiger & Vittoria Elliott: DOGE Has Access to Sensitive Labor Department Data on Immigrants and Farm Workers: Three DOGE associates have been granted access to systems at the Department of Labor housing sensitive information on migrant farm workers, visa applicants, and more.
April 10. Caroline Haskins: Labor Leaders Fear Elon Musk and DOGE Could Gain Access to Whistleblower Files. Companies tied to Elon Musk have dozens of workplace health and safety cases open at OSHA. Union leaders and former OSHA officials are concerned.
April 11. The Washington Post: DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions: A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.
April 15. The Washington Post: DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs: Officials working with the U.S. DOGE Service are pushing agencies to turn over information on where people work, study and live.
April 15. NPR: A whistleblower’s disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data.
April 16. The Washington Post: ICE, DOGE seek sensitive Medicare data as immigration crackdown intensifies: It is unclear how many immigrants ICE is seeking addresses for and how much data would be available because Medicare does not cover undocumented immigrants.
April 16. Molly Taft: DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs: Workers for the National Civilian Community Corps were sent home due to “new operational parameters.” The program’s long-term fate is unclear.
April 16. Jess Bidgood: The Next Phase of DOGE: A new “gold card” visa reveals how Elon Musk’s group has seemingly expanded its functional power.
April 16. PBS: NLRB whistleblower claims Musk’s DOGE potentially caused significant security breach.
April 17. The Washington Post: DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review: DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.
April 17. Aishvarya Kavi: DOGE Guts Agency That Organizes Community Service Programs: Employees of AmeriCorps who were put on administrative leave include all those who work for a national disaster response program.
April 18. Vittoria Elliott & Makena Kelly: DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants. DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
April 18. Glenn Thrush: Top DOGE Officials Moved From Social Security Administration to Justice Dept.:The Elon Musk operatives were abruptly shifted to the department’s immigration enforcement unit as part of an expanding effort to use personal data in deportation cases.
April 19. The Washington Post: DOGE team meets with National Gallery of Art leaders: The National Gallery is a public-private institution that receives government funding for most of its operations.