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Palantir Audits ICE as Border Agents Target Polls and DNC

May 22, 2026

Palantir is hardening surveillance controls for ICE as border enforcement agents prepare to intimidate voters at polling stations, signaling a fusion of corporate algorithmic authority and state coercion. Simultaneously, the DNC's election autopsy erases the geopolitical reality of Gaza that drove voter defection, exposing an internal epistemic fracture that leaves the party blind to the hybrid warfare reshaping American politics.

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