Jenny Cohn06/04/25

27/ In Feb 2025, Nate Fischer—co-founder of New Founding (backed by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen) and American Reformer—spoke at Harvard’s Conservative and Republican Student Conference.

Jenny Cohn06/03/25

12/1/18: “Peter Thiel predicts ‘reformation’ of higher education in speech to student journalists”*** ‘The reformation is going to happen,’ Thiel added, noting it won’t come from within, but from the ‘outside.’” Thiel made the remarks in a keynote speech at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute…1/

Jenny Cohn06/04/25

“Five Harvard students were awarded $100K grants by the Thiel Fellowship…to pursue their startups. The only catch? They have to drop out *** ‘Today’s universities are..corrupt…, Thiel said in the release. ‘The Reformation is underway.’” 3/27/24 1/ thecrimson.com

Jenny Cohn03/20/25

5/ “Make America Number One was a major client for Cambridge Analytica [CA] during the 2016 campaign...” The PAC reportedly received “data acquisition services” from CA & $$$ from Mercer, Peter Thiel, & Erik Prince. Steve Bannon’s company, Glittering Steel, reportedly received some of the PAC $$$.

Jenny Cohn03/20/25

A whistleblower alleged that staff of Palantir—co-founded by Facebook investor/director Peter Thiel—had worked w/ Cambridge Analytica (CA) on the Facebook data it acquired. A Palantir spokesperson claimed the company has never had a relationship with CA & has never worked on any CA data. 5/27/18 1/

Jenny Cohn03/20/25

9/ “The two most influential donors in Trump’s orbit,” Peter THIEL & Rebekah MERCER, “have worked together on the transition team, making recommendations on everything from administration appointments to RNC chair, in Mercer’s case. They both wielded major influence during the campaign…” - 2017

Jenny Cohn03/20/25

Steve Bannon has claimed that he’s the guy who “headed up” the “Peter Thiel deconstruct the administrative state part” of Trump’s 2016 transition team and that Thiel protege Blake Masters was his (Bannon’s) “wingman” in that endeavor. (It appears that Thiel has been pulling strings all along.) 1/

Jenny Cohn04/09/25

20/ Charlottesville was a watershed moment that caused many in Silicon Valley to speak out against the racist violence that had occurred during the Unite the Right rally. Per this article, however, Peter Thiel declined to comment. finance.yahoo.com

Jenny Cohn04/09/25

21/ “Facebook board member…Peter Thiel was the most high-profile Trump supporter in Silicon Valley. A spokesman for [Thiel] did not respond to queries about Thiel’s views on Trump’s recent statements, even as business leaders have abandoned the president’s advisory councils.” 8/16/17

Jenny Cohn04/09/25

23/ “Thiel moved to Los Angeles earlier this year — a change of address that he’s attributed to a revulsion with Silicon Valley’s politics and culture.” (At the time, most of Silicon Valley was speaking out against the white nationalism that had fueled Unite the Right.) 10/18/18

Jenny Cohn06/03/25

3/ Per this September 2018 article, Peter Thiel had previously said on The Ruben Report podcast that, “higher education has ‘brainwashed’ Silicon Valley” cnbc.com

Jenny Cohn06/03/25

12/1/18: “Peter Thiel predicts ‘reformation’ of higher education in speech to student journalists”*** ‘The reformation is going to happen,’ Thiel added, noting it won’t come from within, but from the ‘outside.’” Thiel made the remarks in a keynote speech at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute…1/

Jenny Cohn04/28/25

12/ It was also in 2019 that Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and Chris Buskirk spoke during NatCon in Washington DC. (Although Curtis Yarvin didn’t speak on stage, he attended the conference. See post 13.) nationalconservatism.org

Jenny Cohn03/21/25

20/ I haven’t seen many articles about Chris Buskirk who was heavily involved with defending and promoting the first Trump administration in the media—including the transition led by Bannon and Thiel. But I found this one published by @mmfa.bsky.social in 2022. mediamatters.org

Jenny Cohn03/21/25

38/ In 2021, Peter Thiel & Claremont Institute chairman Tom Klingenstein each donated $50k to the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon. The NatCon conference was sponsored by (among others) Claremont and New Founding. Remember New Founding? nationalconservatism.org

Jenny Cohn03/27/25

13/ Speakers during NatCon’s 2021 conference included Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Claremont chairman Tom Klingenstein, & New Founding co-founders Matt Peterson & Nate Fischer. nationalconservatism.org

Jenny Cohn04/28/25

The Fall 2021 brochure for the Thiel-&-Mercer backed Rockbridge Network announced a “transition project” to create a “government-in-waiting” for the next GOP administration. (JD Vance—who later wrote the preface to Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts’ book—co-founded Rockbridge w/ Chris Buskirk.) 1/

Jenny Cohn04/28/25

8/ Kevin Roberts was named president of the Heritage Foundation in October 2021. heritage.org Rebekah Mercer - who reportedly backs the Rockbridge Network with Peter Thiel—has been a Heritage Foundation trustee since 2014. heritage.org

Jenny Cohn02/09/25

On 7/29/16, Tech billionaire Peter Thiel met w/ Kevin DeAnna who wrote under the pseudonyms ‘Gregory Hood’ & ‘James Kirkpatrick. In 2012, DeAnna (as Hood) had written that, “It’s time to fight for a country of our own. It’s time to stop being Americans. It’s time to start being White Men again.” 1/

Jenny Cohn01/31/25

😳 Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer & blogger [who claims to have “coached” Peter Thiel & is DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen’s “good friend”] helped Milo, Bannon, & Breitbart launch the “alt right” into the mainstream in 2017. Remember the “alt right”? (10/5/17) 1/ buzzfeednews.com

Jenny Cohn04/28/25

13/ This is a really detailed article about Thiel and Yarvin’s attendance at the NatCon conference in 2019. harpers.org

Jenny Cohn04/28/25

12/ It was also in 2019 that Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and Chris Buskirk spoke during NatCon in Washington DC. (Although Curtis Yarvin didn’t speak on stage, he attended the conference. See post 13.) nationalconservatism.org

Jenny Cohn03/27/25

13/ Speakers during NatCon’s 2021 conference included Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Claremont chairman Tom Klingenstein, & New Founding co-founders Matt Peterson & Nate Fischer. nationalconservatism.org

Jenny Cohn03/27/25

14/ nationalconservatism.org

Jenny Cohn03/27/25

15/ NatCon’s 2021 conference also included Chris Buskirk, a former Claremont fellow, who co-founded the Rockbridge Network with JD Vance (reportedly with funding from Thiel & Mercer). nationalconservatism.org

Jenny Cohn06/03/25

New Founding (NF)—a Claremont spinoff funded by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen—is disturbingly cozy with The Harvard Republican Club led by Leo Koerner. The anti-DEI crusade against Harvard echoes the anti-CRT crusade led by NF partner Josh Abbottoy against Grove City Christian College in 2021. 1/

Jenny Cohn06/03/25

11/ Chris Buskirk (Rockbridge, American Reformer) attended an American Reformer event shortly b4 Josh Abbottoy (American Reformer, New Founding) published his anti-CRT piece re: Grove City Christian College. Buskirk is sitting on the far end of the couch on the left of this photo posted on 11/22/21.

Jenny Cohn06/03/25

12/ American Reformer’s 990 for 2022 featured its anti-CRT crusade against Grove City College: “AMERICAN REFORMER ADVISED A…COALITION OF …STAKEHOLDERS AT A SMALL CHRISTIAN…COLLEGE WHO WERE SEEKING TO STOP A CRT INCURSION, WHICH RESULTED IN AN INVESTIGATION & INTERVENTION BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.”

Jenny Cohn06/03/25

16/ Here, American Reformer bragged about its leading role in the anti-CRT campaign against Grove City College: “In the fall of 2021, we broke the first national story on the controversy around a CRT incursion at Grove City College. Our work ended up being cited far & wide…” x.com

Jenny Cohn06/03/25

13/ As you can see, Peter Thiel associate Chris Buskirk—who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network with JD Vance & is a Director of American Reformer—amplified the anti-CRT crusade against Grove City College on multiple occasions.

Jenny Cohn04/28/25

The Fall 2021 brochure for the Thiel-&-Mercer backed Rockbridge Network announced a “transition project” to create a “government-in-waiting” for the next GOP administration. (JD Vance—who later wrote the preface to Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts’ book—co-founded Rockbridge w/ Chris Buskirk.) 1/

Jenny Cohn06/04/25

27/ In Feb 2025, Nate Fischer—co-founder of New Founding (backed by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen) and American Reformer—spoke at Harvard’s Conservative and Republican Student Conference.

Jenny Cohn06/04/25

“[S]teps from Harvard’s campus, Bannon took credit for Trump’s fusillade of orders restricting federal funding to universities *** ‘Once you cut the money off,…that’s a bitch slap, right?’ he said.” Event panelist Amy Wax said “it’s important to have a European majority.” 2/11/25 (Link post 2) 1/

Jenny Cohn06/04/25

6/ Note that Peter Thiel spoke during the same conference in 2024. harvardsalient.com

Jenny Cohn05/04/25

“Extremist blogger [Curtis Yarvin] to debate Harvard professor [Danielle Allen] at unsanctioned campus event … put on by far-right publishing house [Passage Press].” 5/2/25 1/ theguardian.com

Jenny Cohn03/25/25

Nate Fischer—co-founder of New Founding (backed by Tech Bro Marc Andreessen)—complains that the Civil Rights Act “eliminated freedom of association at the private level”. His chief of staff says that “meritocracy is a dead end” & that DEI should instead be “succeeded by …freedom of association.” 1/

Jenny Cohn02/22/25

4/ New Founding also partners with the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) founded by Charles Haywood. In fact, Nate Fischer is the president of the Dallas chapter. This is Charles Haywood.

Jenny Cohn02/20/25

19/ Here, SACR founder Charles Haywood calls for “the end of all so-called civil rights laws” to restore “freedom of association”.

Jenny Cohn02/20/25

24/ Meanwhile, New Founding (where Josh Abbottoy of the Frontier Foundation is a Managing Partner) has announced a “collaboration” with the Exit Group founded by Kevin Dolan aka @extradeadjcb (on X).

Jenny Cohn02/20/25

25/ Here’s a post by Kevin Dolan.

Jenny Cohn02/11/25

35/ Receipt showing that New Founding co-founder Nate Fischer blurbed The Case for Christian Nationalism by Stephen Wolfe. a.co

Jenny Cohn11/24/24

4/ Stephen Wolfe wrote “The Case for Christian Nationalism”, which was published in 2022 by Canon Press, Christ Church pastor Doug Wilson’s family publishing company. It advocates an “ethnically uniform society ruled by a Christian Prince,” per Reason Magazine. reason.com

Jenny Cohn12/30/24

11/ Again, New Founding partners with Raw Egg Nationalist via Kindred Harvest. If you have never heard of 1488, see the next post.

Jenny Cohn12/30/24

12/ adl.org