The Democracy Files / The Insurrection Playbook, Part 12: Is Norm Eisen Calling The Shots?
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First, sorry for the absence of drops; I had to go on a last minute trip to DC and back.
@nataliegwinters has been releasing many drops adjacent to the Democracy Files, including materials on ESRN and Norm Eisen.
The Democracy Files, while significant, are told through the lenses of a mid-to-high level operatives group of ex-USAID workers, a group called DRG (Democracy Renewal Group). DRG, in these videos, collaborate with other groups, receive briefings from others such as Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET), participate in and host working groups, and so forth.
But DRG are not the shot-callers. They explicitly do not decide when a mass protest has to happen. They do not have a final say in what has to occur before mass mobilization occurs. Erica Chenoweth isn’t personally secretly running things. Mike Smith is a high level operational leader, not a shot-caller.
So who calls the shots?
Put together the Democracy Files and Winters’ drops, and a larger hierarchical picture emerges: ESRN, Election Safeguards Response Network, which is mentioned in @nataliegwinters reporting. The Democracy Files heavily suggests that ESRN is who ultimately calls the shots when it is time to mobilize United Democracy Alliance (UDA).
And that particular trail leads directly to none other than Norm Eisen.
Now, this does not mean Eisen is the unilateral mastermind. Most likely, that belongs to yet another mysterious small coalition of elites – we can only speculate on who else is in that club; ESRN is financed under State Democracy Defenders Action, EIN 93-1524544.
But Eisen’s hands are on a great many levers, and we can reasonably infer he is one of the key decision-making figures.
Democracy Files / The Illegitimacy Playbook, Part 13: The New Founding
The “democracy” ecosystem is mostly decentralized. There’s competition sometimes (as this drop will show). But when a direction has been set by funders, actors converge towards a common goal.
And that goal is: American government must be rewritten from scratch, and soon.
RAD, the project of ex-USAID workers we’ve been tracing in the Democracy Files, represents one plan. PolicyLink represents another plan.
What is PolicyLink?
Towards the end of UNELECTED, I write about PolicyLink – a highly connected NGO which receives more than $50 million annually in funding. There, I describe its “soul work” – engineering the human soul to create a renewed democracy. That’s not an exaggeration; that’s how they describe it, in their own words.
PolicyLink appears again in the Democracy Files. Here, you can see PolicyLink personnel use the same language we’ve seen in prior drops: founders, a new founding, redesigning the federal government.
PolicyLink has over $100 million in assets and receives its funding from all the usual suspects – Rockefeller, Open Society, Ford, Gates, etc. It has worked closely with Democratic administrations in setting policy.
RAD and PolicyLink compete for the same funders and the same space. But they say the same thing: a “new founding,” drafted by people no one elected, ready “before the window opens.”
RAD is perhaps simply more honest about how that window will open.
The Democracy Files / Illegitimacy Playbook, Part 14: Trust-Engineering
This is the last Democracy Files drop before Election Day on November 3, 2026.
No matter the election results, ask yourself those questions:
- Why do protests even work at all?
- Why does “nonviolence” work as a tool of regime change?
- Why do color revolutions work at all?
The Democracy Files document efforts that are seeded over multiple years, through building of a massive civil society that can mobilize on a snap of fingers. This civil society is supported by training judiciary, creating so-called “independent media” to amplify agendas, a fractal network of NGOs reaching into every demographic, massive amounts of foreign aid / philanthropic dollars, and so-called “international solidarity.”
But what is the atomic unit behind all those dollars, activists, lawyers, journalists?
You are. Or more accurately, your trust is.
Think about it:
What if nobody believed there was a such thing as an organic protest? Then the imagery of Eastern Europeans storming buildings cease to be a spotaneous truimph of liberty and start looking like something much more engineered.
Tonight’s Democracy Drop focuses on how our trust is engineered by invisible sources around us to create legitimacy for the NGO-Administrative Complex.
They go to lengths to hide their own existence; in one segment, they go from saying “nobody” funds them to admitting “some people get paid” to declaring the existence of 200 networks and 1,200 groups.
They’ve engineered plans for all outcomes in tomorrow’s elections. No matter what happens, there will be a new narrative being forced upon us top down.
Think hard and carefully on who you will trust to navigate the aftermath, especially as we enter the “danger period” revealed in the Democracy Files of November 3 – January 3.
Hold fast to God. And vote straight Republican.



