Pro-Trump group wages campaign to purge "subversive" federal workers

[Zorro]

Some have been fired. Two have moved abroad, fearing for their safety. Yet free-speech experts say the group's websites remain just outside the boundaries of violating personal privacy.

In February, federal worker Stefanie Anderson sat at her kitchen table with her husband and asked questions she never imagined having to face: Were their children safe? Should they pull them from school? Should they leave their home?

A friend had sent her a link to a “DEI Watchlist” published by the American Accountability Foundation, a right-wing group with ties to senior officials in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. It listed Anderson’s name, photo, salary and work history, and accused her and other federal employees of pushing “radical” diversity, equity and inclusion policies in government.

“My heart dropped,” Anderson said.

The longtime public health worker spent much of her career at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, specializing in infectious disease outbreaks. Her work included a deployment to Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis. More recently, she supported HIV prevention programs. After her profile appeared on the site, her phone rang for a month with about 30 calls a day from unknown numbers.

Anderson changed her hairstyle to avoid recognition, stayed indoors, rerouted packages from her Atlanta home and reminded her children to lock the doors and check the security cameras. As a Black woman, she said, the experience reminded her of 19th-century fugitive slave ads. “It made me feel like a criminal on a wanted poster.”

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/pro-trump-group-wages-campaign-purge-subversive-federal-workers-2025-08-07/

[Martin Eden]

1. Those who subvert the US Constitution and betray their oath should be removed

First on that list would be the Orange POtuS.

[Solly Mack]

2. ...

[Norbert]

3. This campaign will not be as easy as it looks

When my mom and my friends worked for the government was against policy to be in a political campaign or even as much as have a campaign sign in your yard.