Aegis

Mission

We document what institutions prefer forgotten. We write what power hopes will go unsaid. We build the record.

The Declaration

This is not a publication about opinions.

This is a publication about accounts.

We believe the American institutional landscape is experiencing a cascading failure of memory. Courts that forget precedent. Media that forgets context. Technology companies that forget consequence. Governments that forget citizens.

Aegis exists to keep the record.

Our editorial arm writes with Juvenalian precision — satire that cuts because it measures accurately, not because it performs outrage. We do not traffic in snark. We do not chase virality. We write sentences that will read the same in ten years.

Our investigative arm assembles evidence. We rely on documents, public records, procurement data, and open-source intelligence. We show our methodology. We publish our limitations. We update when we're wrong.

We are not neutral. Neutrality is a pose adopted by those with nothing at stake. We are accurate. We are documented. We are reproducible.

We write for readers who are tired of being managed. Who want the primary source, not the summary. Who can handle complexity without having it processed into takes.

This publication will grow slowly. We will not optimize for engagement. We will optimize for the record.

The record is the product.

The record is the point.

What We Cover

Aegis sits at the intersection of language, power, technology, culture, and institutional failure. Our initial coverage areas include:

Language & Power — How language is used to obscure, deflect, and manage perception.
Technology & Institutional Failure — The systems we build and the consequences we refuse to see.
Media, Trust, and Narrative Collapse — The erosion of shared reality and what comes next.
Satire — Surgical, not goofy. Swift, not Twitter. Baldwin with teeth.

The Index

Our investigative arm, The Index, builds and maintains public registries, databases, and documented investigations. We show our work. We publish our methodology. We maintain corrections logs.

Every investigation relies on publicly available information: federal procurement databases, court records, corporate filings, FOIA requests, archived social media, news archives, and academic research.

We do not use leaked or stolen data. We do not pay sources. We do not conduct undercover operations. We verify independently.

Read more about our standards on the Methodology page.