The Mask Comes Off
In one extraordinary week, the Flynn network revealed itself — and everyone is starting to notice.
In a single week, every thread I’ve been pulling for two years snapped taut at the same time.
Joe Kent resigned from his position in Tulsi Gabbard’s ODNI March 17 because he ‘‘cannot in good conscience support the war in Iran.” Within hours, Flynn promoted him — placing him on stage at the Waldorf Astoria alongside himself and Candace Owens. On March 20, Flynn endorsed a CCP-based propagandist praised by Alexander Dugin who told Tucker Carlson’s audience that America should accept a “new world order” led by Russia, China, and Iran. On March 23, Alexis Wilkins published hard data showing how the Flynn network is amplified by Russian state media activity. And on March 25, Dan Bongino — using information from my reporting — went to war against Flynn and the network on his show.
This coming Saturday, the same network will try to install its candidates as GOP nominees at the Michigan Republican Party convention.
For readers unfamiliar with my prior work, a good place to start is with my February article, “A Quarter Inch from the White House,” which documents how Flynn’s network spent years building delegate infrastructure, plotted to suspend the rules at the 2024 Republican National Convention, and came within a fraction of an inch of activating that infrastructure when a bullet nearly killed Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Everything that happened in the last week is related to that story.
Kent Walks. Flynn Catches Him.
On March 17, Joe Kent resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center with a letter addressed to President Trump.
Kent states flatly that the Iran war was started “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” He accuses “high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media” of deploying “a misinformation campaign” to deceive Trump. Read it carefully. This was Trump’s Director of the National Counterterrorism Center supporting the largest state-sponsor of terrorism by telling the President he was manipulated by Jews into a needless war.
Flynn’s response was shocking. Within just a couple hours, Catholics for Catholics — which lists Flynn as “Current Senior Advisor” — announced Kent would speak at their March 19 D.C. gala. Within 72 hours, Kent was on stage at the Waldorf Astoria with Flynn and Candace Owens.
Fox News reported Kent had been under FBI investigation for leaking and was barred from intelligence briefings months before his resignation. A senior administration official called him “a known leaker” who was “cut out of POTUS intelligence briefings.” According to Fox and other reports, Kent had been cut out of intelligence briefings and was not part of the administration’s Iran planning.
This is the man Flynn chose to side with.
Flynn Endorses a CCP Propagandist Praised by Dugin
On March 20, Flynn shocked his supporters on X when he posted a full-throated endorsement of Tucker Carlson’s interview with CCP propagandist Jiang Xueqin, calling it “the most powerful and insightful strategic analysis I’ve heard in the past decade.”
Jiang is a Beijing-based Chinese-Canadian YouTuber who teaches at a high school in CCP China. The Free Press has identified him as a conspiracy theorist who believes “a coalition of Freemasons, Jesuits, and members of a defunct Jewish cult are conspiring to rule the world from Jerusalem.” He has been explicitly praised by Alexander Dugin — Putin’s chief ideologist — who called him “a new star of the global internet” in a recent essay titled “Trump the Destroyer” and cited his predictions as validation for Russian strategy. Dugin then urged Russia to “act more boldly in advancing its interests.”
What did Jiang tell Tucker’s audience? The U.S. military will lose to Iran. The collapse of the petrodollar would benefit the world. Israel is the sole beneficiary of the war, having “roped the United States into this war” to advance the “Greater Israel Project.” America should sit down with Russia, China, and Iran to create “a new world order where we are partners.”
If the U.S. were to follow this person’s advice and we gave up the Dollar’s reserve currency status to a BRICS currency, interest rates would skyrocket, borrowing costs would surge, Americans would face a severe wealth shock, and we would see a devastating transfer of wealth from American citizens to the CCP and Russia.
This propaganda is what Flynn, Obama’s Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, calls the “most powerful and insightful strategic analysis” he’s heard in a decade.
Alexis Wilkins Quantifies What I’ve Been Reporting for Two Years
On March 24, Alexis Wilkins — Kash Patel’s girlfriend and NRA board member — published a 13-part thread on X that has exceeded 6 million views. Using official X API data, she quantified the Flynn network’s amplification machine.
She examined six different “chapters,” or specific narratives from the Flynn network, that were heavily amplified and promoted by bot activity.
Most critically: RT — which the State Department said should be treated like a covert intelligence operation and described as deeply intertwined with Russian intelligence activity — ranked in the top 15 amplifiers, per Wilkins’ report. Content loops ran between RT, Iranian journalists, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and domestic Flynn-network accounts.
Her six chapters track precisely with the events I’ve covered. In May 2024, ten days before the Butler assassination attempt, Ivan Raiklin’s “Gen Flynn would make Trump assassination-proof” post was amplified by coordinated bots with retweets within one second. In July 2025, Wilkins was personally targeted as a “Mossad honeypot” to isolate Kash Patel — the attack originated from Simon Goddek and his Flynn-aligned Sunfluencer network (1.1M followers, built via the COVID medical-freedom movement) and was amplified by RT, a Moscow-based military journalist, an Iranian journalist, and the Russian MFA. In September 2025, Charlie Kirk’s assassination was exploited by the same accounts. In March 2026, Kent’s resignation was amplified through the identical infrastructure — RT tweeted Tucker Carlson’s defense of Kent and 209 retweets came from the same cluster as the honeypot campaign.
The same accounts active before Butler in 2024 were still active in the Kent chapter in March 2026. During the active Iran war, the network posted verbatim calls to “refuse to enlist in or remain fighting for the U.S. military.”
Her thread also documented that Alexander Dugin follows Joe Kent, Candace Owens, and John Mappin on X — and that Dugin’s messaging declaring MAGA “more than dead, worse than dead, it’s now an undead, a ghoul” was amplified through the same bot infrastructure.
For two years, I’ve described qualitatively what Wilkins has now documented quantitatively. Every major pattern — the persistent infrastructure, the Russian state media amplification, the bot networks, the coordinated targeting, the antisemitic “Mossad” framing — independently confirmed by API-level data analysis, seen by 6 million people.
As Wilkins put it: “MAGA doesn’t have an approval problem. It has an infiltration problem.”
And it seems that all of X is now seeing this. The mask over Flynn has just flown off and the walls that have gatekept his cults are beginning to crumble. I’ve seen thousands of his followers abandon ship and even some of Flynn’s influencers are processing these revelations honestly and painfully. One example:
Bongino Goes to War — Using My Reporting
Dan Bongino has spent the last couple days going directly at the Flynn network on his show, which reaches millions.
On March 25, Bongino discussed nearly exactly a post of mine that he reposted last month, showing the mentor-mentee relationship between Stanley McChrystal and Mike Flynn and how McChrystal’s Defeat Disinfo organization was used to amplify narratives and destroy opposition, especially during COVID and the 2020 election cycle on behalf of Democrats.
Here is the segment from his show. This is a longer clip but it’s fantastic.
The Flynn network responded predictably, like they always have to me: personal attacks and “it’s all lies.” And, of course, they’re blaming Israel. Because Netanyahu’s son apparently reposted a couple related posts, Israel must be behind this sudden factual exposure, right? [sarcasm intended]
Saturday: The Flynn Network Comes to Michigan
I predicted in January that Bongino’s return to podcasting could directly confront the Flynn network, and especially their operations to cause Republican losses in the upcoming 2026 midterms.
Here in Michigan, we just lived through a documented example of this. Flynn Network operatives Kristen Meghan Kelly and Shane Trejo both bragged after radical left Democrat Alissa Slotkin got elected to a six-year Senate term that they were responsible for Mike Rogers’ defeat.
I have shown for two years the evidence that has led me to the conclusion that Flynn’s objective has always been to insert himself into the Republican Party in order to destroy it. His current campaigns across the country supporting radical and unelectable candidates with no election experience or qualifications for the job they are running for is itself further evidence of this objective.
So far, Flynn’s candidates have lost by extraordinary margins in primary elections in this cycle. Their radical antics, lack of qualifications, and ungrounded conspiracy theories are repulsive to most voters. Michigan, however, may represent their best chance of securing GOP nominees for statewide races.
On March 28, the Michigan Republican Party holds its endorsement convention in Novi. Approximately 2,200 delegates will select the GOP nominees for Secretary of State and Attorney General, along with a few other races.
The Flynn network is pushing hard. In the Secretary of State race, the network is backing Monica Yatooma — who has never won an election and appears to have no verifiable management experience. She has posted no resume and the only management experience she has claimed is that of a company that her husband owns and runs. I’ve politely asked her four times now how many employees that company has and she has refused to answer, but she insists it’s “no secret.” Instead she sent an email to delegates claiming I’m a “fake journalist” and “it’s all lies” without confronting any specific facts or claims.
Yatooma’s opponent in the SoS race, Anthony Forlini, has won 6 elections, three times beating Democrat incumbents, and has loads of applicable experience as the Macomb County Clerk. He has a demonstrated track record of working to make our elections more secure and transparent. He is the only candidate in the race who can beat the Democrat and effectively work to improve our elections.
And that is why the Flynn network’s primary Michigan operative, Patrick Colbeck, who is employed by Lindell TV, has been attacking Forlini relentlessly.
In the Attorney General race, they’re backing Kevin Kijewski — a divorce attorney with no prosecutorial experience who launched his campaign out of the 9th Congressional District, where the leadership is strongly aligned with Flynn. As I detailed in “The Michigan AG Race: Don’t Hand Democrats Another Win,” Kijewski has only practiced law since 2021, has never run for public office, and has a domestic violence and adultery accusation from his ex wife on his public record. He has chosen Susan Kokinda of Promethean Action — a Flynn-aligned LaRouche organization with decades of evidence of promoting Russian/CCP propaganda — to nominate him at convention.
His opponent, Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd, has 34 years of legal experience, 30 as a prosecutor, and an endorsement list that functions as a statewide campaign infrastructure.
Michigan delegates have been down this road, even beyond their work to elect Slotkin in 2024. In 2022, the Flynn network’s convention influence gave us Kristina Karamo for Secretary of State. She had no campaign or management experience and lost by 600,000 votes but never conceded. I reported in 2024 that members of her own campaign believed the campaign was intended to lose by Karamo’s intelligence-linked handler, Mike Labadie.
Remember where this delegate infrastructure came from. As I have documented, Jeffrey Epstein’s close friend Steve Bannon launched his campaign to promote the Precinct Strategy on his War Room podcast in February 2021, specifically designed to funnel Flynn/Bannon loyalists into delegate positions — the positions that vote at conventions like Saturday’s.
What I’m Asking
For Michigan delegates attending Saturday’s convention: consider the revelations of the past week, and nominate the only two candidates who can win and help boost the entire GOP ticket in November: Forlini and Lloyd.
For everyone else: the data is public now. Kash’s girlfriend quantified it. Bongino confirmed it from the inside. The evidence converges from independent sources who didn’t coordinate with each other or with me.
The Flynn network is real. It is persistent. It is amplified by Russian state media. And it is working against Donald Trump and the MAGA movement from the inside.
I’m not telling you what to think. I’m presenting the evidence. Draw your own conclusions.