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America’s New Shadow Establishment

by Robert Eringer

Jun 30, 2026
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For years, if someone had whispered about an invitation-only gathering where billionaires, cabinet secretaries, intelligence veterans, military brass, AI pioneers, venture capitalists, journalists and Hollywood figures mingled behind closed doors, polite society would have rolled its collective eyes.

“Conspiracy theory.”

Then somebody—an insider—forgot to…

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