DNC Openly Hiring 3rd Party Infiltrators: Targeting RFK Jr, Jill Stein, Cornel West
Specifically mentioning the 3 candidates they deem potential threats. They just don't care who knows it anymore, because there are NO repercussions.
On Friday afternoon, May 24 I saw a post on Facebook that blew my mind. Posted by Indie Media Awards honoree Primo Radical, containing a job listing for the Democratic National Committee, OR DNC. The role is for an “Independent & Third Party Project Manager,” and it encompasses a LOT of ground. He included 2 screenshots with details of the job posting, which has since been pulled down from their website:
Key Responsibilities: Subvert Democracy! Be a Snake!
Here’s the text from the listing, in case you can’t see the images, plus a couple of bullets from the original job posting not shown above:
“The Third Party & Independent Project Manager will be tasked with overseeing & managing 3PI related work in their respective states as well as overseeing an aspect of the program. The initial phase of work will be focused on the following objectives:
Gathering on-the-ground intel to inform our overall landscape assessment of independent and third party candidates, including:
Ballot access progress; and
Campaign activity, organizational strength, and voter/grassroots enthusiasm
Identifying and activating in-state leaders and supporters for four current and future program priorities, including:
Volunteer trackers to attend candidate and campaign events
Surrogates for earned media and bracketing events
Volunteers for petition review and other legal-adjacent support for potential ballot access challenges
Micro-influencers for content amplification through organic channels
Researching ballot access related information
Participating in petition review and supporting petition review programs
Responsibilities:
Following RFK Jr., Cornel West, Jill Stein candidate events in the region and sharing intel in real time
Recruiting volunteers to attend third party & Independent candidate and campaign events to report back on campaign activity
Proactive outreach to in-state political contacts such as party leadership, staff & elected officials, and coalition partners for information on in state activity
Assist in tracking ballot access progress which could include contacting election officials in states to gather information in partnership with the legal team
Assist in other activities such as bracketing and other earned media programs, as needed
Delivering message guidance and managing DM/chat groups for content distribution
Other duties as assigned to support the department and the DNC's mission”
Dems Recruiting Spies & Infiltrators In Plain Sight
I could not BELIEVE that the Dems would be so flagrant (and dumb) to advertise this on their own website. I jumped over to their website and looked up their current Career Opportunities, but did not find it. It had, indeed, already been pulled down.
So, I used the old Google machine to search the job title and found the post to LinkedIn, complete with link to the DNC’s LinkedIn page (that has 47k followers). Use of the word “intel” twice in the first bullet of both sections tells you what they really want.
Professional Political Spying: Ballot Access
One of the tools the past few election cycles used by the Democrats to keep 3rd party and independent runs off the ballot is challenging the petitions and signatures that qualify them to be on the ballot. The Democrats intend to, once again, closely monitor the progress of obtaining ballot access for 2024 in states where third parties & independents still need to get onto a voting line. The goal is to then identify potential challenges the DNC can issue at the last minute - to undermine their overall effectiveness, especially in swing states - and get those potential perceived “spoilers” off the ballot entirely.
We saw successful Democratic challenges in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin over the past 4 years to disqualify Greens from the November ballot, and a failed bid to get Matthew Hoh thrown off the ballot in his Senate run in North Carolina in 2022. Greens will be on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin in 2024 for the first time since 2016 - the last time Dr. Stein was the Green Party candidate, funny enough.
The Greens lost access in New York after 2020 and are still working to obtain and submit the necessary 45,000 signatures before the deadline to qualify to be on the ballot. They fully expect every one of those to be challenged for signature match by the NY Democrats, so they are working to get DOUBLE the number of signatures required, to ensure half of them will qualify.
The DNC role calls for recruiting volunteer trackers to attend candidate and campaign events to report back on campaign activity - plus ALSO manage surrogates for “earned media and bracketing events.”
The Democrats want this person to build an ARMY of supporters to undermine the efforts of grassroots Americans to genuinely organize against the corporate duopoly.
4D Chess: Causing Infighting & Suspicion
Why would the DNC specifically mention the candidates they’re targeting in the job posting? Here’s one reason: To get everyone inside each of the named campaigns currently looking at each other sideways, plus make them highly suspicious and cautious of new volunteers & supporters as potential infiltrators. It also serves to allow campaign supporters to accuse legit independent critics of working for the DNC (as literally happened to me yesterday - see below).
Dr. Stein Knows It Exists; Do The Others?
Dr. Stein posted it to her Twitter account an hour before Primo Radical shared it to his Facebook page - and she used it as an opportunity to fundraise:
I shared the link to the LinkedIn post in Dr. Stein’s replies to the above tweet that evening.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr certainly has been messed with by the DNC since he declared he was running for President last year. They’ve continually denied him Secret Service protection, for example.
UPDATE (May 28): Yesterday, Dr. Cornel West was shown this article and asked about the infiltration techniques by Lee Camp during an interview. Here’s a short clip:
Micro-Influencers?
One of the items listed in “Phase One” of the job is “Micro-influencers for content amplification through organic channels” - what does that mean, exactly?
What is a micro-influencer? https://www.socialpilot.co/blog/micro-influencers-marketing
“Micro-influencers are individuals who typically have a following between 10,000 to 100,000 on a specific social media platform. It’s not just about the followers. They are defined by their niche expertise and the strong connection they share with their audience.”
We’ve seen Gen Z “influencers” like Harry Sisson, Victor Shi & Chris Mowry amplifying DNC talking points on Twitter, paid by a PR firm (Palatte Management) to effectively co-manage their Twitter account (h/t to Robert Durden for digging on that - see below). They often post content very similar to each other, spaced out minutes apart, to push a simultaneous narrative.
Here’s the FEC filing from the DNC proving they hired Palatte Management in October 2022 for a $200k retainer to hire social media “influencers.”
Durden starts smelling a rat on 8/19/23
You ever get that feeling of Deja Vu? As a casual user of Twitter, one gets used to seeing Pro Establishment bots repeatedly recycling the same talking points, it comes with the territory if you follow American politics on social media. But look at these posts: they are from two very large accounts, run by youngsters, who seemingly only exist to boost Joe Biden and attack Donald Trump, and who we know are (actually) real people (Shi has been on Fox News and Sisson has a podcast with fellow proud Bidenling Chris Mowry), and upon inspecting some of their recent posts - you’ll immediately notice what Rob noticed… the posts are nearly identical in verbiage, messaging, AND (drum roll) they were posted within minutes of each other.
So we ask you, dear reader, what are the chances that these two had the same idea, organized in the same way, using similar verbiage, at the same time? The correct answer is near zero, but for the people who’d say that maybe it was just coincidence, have a look at some of the other posts these two put out recently:
These posts came out 7 minutes apart, used the same picture, and even had similar formatting (CAPITAL LETTERS, “America is stronger” is parroted, and the quintessential “Biden is cool/amazing” rhetoric one comes to expect from almost every post by either of these two is as omni-present as ever).
These two are so similar that an argument could be made that one was just copy-pasted from the other (or, more likely, they’re getting these posts via some sort of memo sent to them by the same source at the DNC, or their marketing firm).
DNC Goes Next Level
This new role advertised on May 23, 2024 by the DNC appears to take their influencer strategy one level deeper, in terms of overall follower count, to hyper-target influential creators who have built a high trust factor with their audience, then attempt to align with them, outright advertise on their show/channel or even pay them for their support.
From the Social Pilot article linked above:
“Once you have finalized a list of influencers, start reaching out to them. One good thing about micro-influencers is that they are really accessible.
You can begin by reaching out to them through the platform where they are active and popular. Micro-influencers remain active in their DMs and usually reply back promptly.”
One of the responsibilities of the “Independent and Third Party Project Manager” would be to identify & make deals with micro-influencers, so it’s important to look at the landscape of independent channels that either push or go easy on Democrats, who may be working with them. Don’t dismiss the corporate-friendly “independent” media like TYT, The Hill’s Rising, Breaking Points & others in their universe. ALL would be potential targets, even though they have larger follower counts.
For just $65,000/yr, you too can cosplay spy & work to ensure the duopoly remain the only parties in power!
How much does the job pay? Per the LinkedIn post, starting salary is just $65k/year (h/t to itzmesarahp on Twitter). Of course, there’s no guarantee of staying employed beyond early November… So a potential hire is looking at $5400/mo for the next 5 months (before taxes of course).
What Would Someone Doing This Job Look Like?
Try to reverse engineer the profile of someone who would both apply for this job, as well as be acceptable to the DNC as a hire.
You would see them at campaign events. They would appear to be friendly to multiple parties’ campaigns to gain access for some insider “dish.”
They would be active online and well-known in the independent media world - both to creators as well as watchers. Chatters can sometimes have a lot of influence over other viewers in a livestream.
Are There More Roles Like This? Maybe to Infiltrate Republicans, too?
This discovery only serves to open even more questions:
How many times has this been done in the past by the DNC?
Are there currently employees of the DNC infiltrating their Republican opponents RIGHT NOW?
Guessing the Republicans are doing the same thing - hiring people to infiltrate & spy on Democratic Party campaigns?
How much budget does an org that raised over $2B last presidential election cycle commit to an operation to undermine their opponents?
We would also need to look closer at the DNC cutouts like the law firm Perkins Coie & PR firms like Palatte Management - to see who they start working with.
Is this in any way illegal?
Do the 3rd party & independent campaigns have any kind of case with the FEC against the Democrats for this?
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Stupendous read. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you.