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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/26/2330241/-Trump-s-DOJ-is-targeting-Daily-Kos?
Trumps DOJ is targeting Daily Kos
by kos
Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 7:01:07p CDT
President Donald Trumps Department of Justice is coming after us.
Thats not a metaphor. Its real.
I wish I could tell you more, but Im not allowed to say anything further. Convenient, isnt it? A perfect gift for an authoritarian regimeusing the power of the state to silence dissent and debate, all while shielding Trump from criticism.
Weve watched them go after ActBlue. After Media Matters. I guess it was inevitable that wed get our turn.
But you all know me: I dont back down from a fight. This is what Im built for. Mounting a vigorous legal defense doesnt come cheap, though. And as you all know, independent media isnt flushed with cash these days. We certainly arent.
Youour supportersgot us through our legal fight with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Im counting on you to help us now. Im not exaggerating when I say that this one is existential.
So please contribute to Daily Kos legal defense.
Honestly, we were planning to fundraise for something entirely differentthe next great version of Daily Kos. A new platform built for this community, with the features youve been begging for over the last two decades.
I cant wait to tell you all about it. Im downright bursting at the seams!
But first? Weve gotta deal with this bullshit.
Here are other ways to support us in this fight.
As always, thank you for being here. We couldnt do this without you.

newdeal2
(3,477 posts)Fuckers.
Tree Lady
(12,570 posts)I bet we have spies here.
erronis
(20,778 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 27, 2025, 09:23 AM - Edit history (1)
Not just current content. Everything that can be read from historical web captures also.
Assume facebuck, twitter, linkedin, reddit, etc. are also hoovered.
Assume that linkages between your logins and aliases are being connected also.
Oh, and of course, google already "owns" all content you've posted (emails, photos, videos). Microsoft cloudy services are also owned.
Tree Lady
(12,570 posts)After telling me when I got loan they wouldn't to Mr Cooper, less than one month later major leak all my financial stuff, SS everything in dark web. I got email today my free 2 yrs of checking my credit is up. I guess now I get to pay for them taking over my loan...sigh...
Jack Valentino
(2,890 posts)We could be on the list, but are much further down the list....
and yeah, a lotta potential spies been here--
most of them get kicked out by outing themselves as right-wingers or Trump apologists...
moniss
(7,767 posts)I will say that we do not take a back seat to anybody when it comes to thoughtful postings and a minimum of nonsense. Earl G and the mods do the best job I've ever seen in all the many years being around of allowing a very wide range of discussion while also keeping the nonsense and personal attacks etc. away with good Forum rules, well checked and adjudicated.
I'm here because this site is about the issues, events and other topics and is about people being able to have spirited views and exchange with each other without making it about each other. I would point out also that nobody should think that this site isn't checked or participated in by at least some staff members to elected officials and media if not the officials etc. themselves.
Klarkashton
(3,670 posts)Have unaccountable goons in the street unchecked.
Liberal In Texas
(15,461 posts)I'm getting a lot of these from various politicians and podcasters. Some of them talk about the RW targeting them some are just saying they need the money to keep up the fight. I'm sure Kos could use the money.
But the text is kind of fishy. "I wish I could tell you more, but Im not allowed to say anything further. Convenient, isnt it?" C'mon, why can't you "tell us more?" Convenient indeed. I can't imagine a situation where they're prevented discussing how the RW is targeting them.
It's just another solicitation email.
BOSSHOG
(43,454 posts)I can make it easy for you to send me money.
EastBayGuy
(153 posts)moniss
(7,767 posts)"requests" for info etc. from the DOJ/FBI they are instructed they cannot talk about it.
NJCher
(40,851 posts)I wouldn't discount it that easily. As posted on this thread by moniss, lawyers tell their clients to be circumspect in what they say. Having fought legal battles myself, I understand where they are coming from. You can't make it easy for your adversary to hang you with your own words. (Although trump constantly gets away with it on the basis that he's nuts.)
Klarkashton
(3,670 posts)Jack Valentino
(2,890 posts)I don't think KOS would have made such a post, without there being "something to it"---
but the immediate appeal for money with no real answers turned me off, as well
According to history, the DailyKos site OUGHT to be doing BETTER now,
with Trump back in the White House.... as far as users, ad revenue and contributions are concerned....
(They have often bemoaned the fact that all three fell off,
after Joe Biden kicked Trump out of the White House!)
So, with that situation reversed, I presume they should be doing better now!
hlthe2b
(110,829 posts)--as well as several other smaller site developers who have been with us since the 2000 "selection" and some even longer, I might automatically share your skepticism. But, I have and I don't. Think about it. If exploitation (of fear) for fundraising was within their ethics, do you not think it would not have been done long ago--at least during the first TSF term?
rickyhall
(5,335 posts)moniss
(7,767 posts)they targeted "underground" newspapers. It still goes on today in places.
NJCher
(40,851 posts)at our NOW office and also at the professors' homes who supported NOW.
We actually caught them in the act at one professor's residence.
Women's rights, for crying out loud. Cheebus.
moniss
(7,767 posts)of the repression of activists for all issues back then. In many areas you had to be aware of who you were interacting with. I can remember activists trying to use a bulk mail permit to send out information to a community about meetings on issues and they would take them to the local Post Office for mailing. The Post Office would take them and your payment and then they would languish in the back and not get delivered until the day of the meeting or later and so it would blunt the turnout. Local activists would have unofficial "background checks" made on them by the local police and elected officials.