So, This Is How They're Rewriting History
The U.S. government is scrubbing inconvenient truths from the record and hoping no one notices.
In February 2025, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency quietly erased its entire public report library without notice.
The deletion wasn’t explained at the time, but a Freedom of Information Act request later uncovered internal emails revealing the real reason: staff were afraid the reports might appear out of step with the Trump administration’s views. So, they pulled everything “out of an abundance of caution.”
We now live in a country where truth is treated like contraband and data disappears the moment it defies the regime.
This is not something you should ever see in a democracy.
And while the USTDA may seem like a minor agency, this small act is part of a much larger, coordinated effort to scrub inconvenient truths from the federal record before they can challenge the official line.
We now know that since January, over 8,000 government webpages and thousands of datasets have vanished. They’re targeting subjects like gender identity, civil rights, climate change, and crime, anything that contradicts the ruling narrative of the Trump Regime.
This is not normal. This is a politically driven purge that started with DOGE, which functions more like a Ministry of Truth. What we’re witnessing is a state-sponsored campaign to rewrite reality, bury public knowledge, and sabotage informed policymaking.
But archivists, journalists, watchdogs, and citizens are fighting back, preserving what they can, one deleted file at a time, refusing to let the truth be wiped clean without a trace.
Trump’s Data Purge
The 2025 data purge wasn’t cleanup like they’ve pretended. They love to make their purges seem like it’s about efficiency.
We all know that it was a coordinated blackout. Within weeks of taking office, the administration issued sweeping executive orders targeting gender identity, diversity programs, and so-called radical education.
This led to the removal of environmental justice tools, data on health disparities, and even historical materials related to minority figures at agencies like NASA.
Agencies weren’t just encouraged to comply, they were forced to erase anything that might clash with the official message with official memos.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), sent out memos with clear instructions: take it down, scrub it clean, stay in line. Agencies acted fast. Entire databases vanished. Reports disappeared overnight. No one wanted to be the one left holding forbidden facts.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) lead the mission. It was about silencing. Marketed as a sleek Musk-backed fix for government bloat, it quickly became the black box where public truths went to die.
Behind the scenes, DOGE canceled research, dismantled cancer registries, deleted datasets that didn’t serve the narrative, and siphoned private records from the IRS, Social Security, and HUD (including those fleeing domestic violence) into a growing surveillance vault.
I have to wonder. Is this data now in Palantir? Where it will be used on immigrants, Americans, and any political enemy of the domestic terrorists, MAGA?
Then, months later, almost on cue, Trump and Elon had their very public “fallout” tweets, smirks, headlines. Suddenly they were enemies.
But was it real? Or was it just cover? A bit of kabuki for the markets while the real work continued behind the curtain?
We all know that Tesla was tanking, Elon was a few more bad weeks from losing Twitter/X, and his work with DOGE led him to be under fire, and what better way to cool the heat than to stage a split?
The Data Disappears, Case by Case
After Trump’s executive orders and DOGE’s ‘enforcement’ began, federal agencies across the board started deleting public data, especially anything tied to gender, race, climate, or civil rights. The CDC took down over 3,000 pages, including important health surveys, HIV tracking tools, and disaster response data.
NIH froze research on cancer, COVID, and health equity. The FDA erased drug safety reports and removed its Office of Minority Health. Courts later forced some of it back online, but much was already lost.
Environmental data was next. The EPA deleted pollution mapping tools. NOAA shut down climate.gov and fired its climate team. The USDA removed any mention of climate change from its websites. At the same time, civil rights data quietly vanished. The Census Bureau deleted thousands of research pages.
They also removed the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which tracked misconduct by federal officers. I guess if there’s no database to hold ICE accountable, they can deny it, right? /sarcasm
Even smaller agencies followed suit. TSA removed complaint records. The VA deleted LGBTQ+ health info and changed care rules that could allow discrimination. USAID wiped its entire site, erasing decades of foreign aid data. NASA, the IRS, and the Department of the Interior also removed DEI, anti-discrimination, and environmental justice content. These weren’t accidents.
The deleted data was used to plan disaster response, track inequality, and guide research.
We Are The Resistance
As data vanished from public view, people moved fast. Archivists, journalists, watchdogs, lawyers, students… they didn’t wait for permission. They backed up websites, filed lawsuits, hunted for answers.
The Wayback Machine and End of Term Archive became lifelines. Groups like EDGI and Data Refuge scraped what they could before it was gone. Reporters exposed who gave the orders. MuckRock dug up internal emails.
ProPublica and POGO filed suits. Doctors for America won in court, forcing the CDC and FDA to restore health data. Environmental groups fought to bring back pollution tracking tools.
The ACLU and others pushed back against DOGE’s growing reach into private records and they continue to fight the good fight. Together, they’ve managed to stop some of the bleeding. They’ve kept pieces of the truth alive.
But let’s not fool ourselves. This isn’t over.
What they saved matters but what was lost still hurts.
Court orders can’t restore years of erased research or rebuild trust overnight. The resistance can’t do this alone. The fight for public knowledge needs all of us… because the next deletion may happen quietly, without warning, and no one will catch it in time.
Don’t give up hope, but don’t sit back either. Download what matters. Ask hard questions. Watch what disappears.
Speak up when silence feels safer. If we want to protect truth, we can’t just admire the resistance…we have to join it.
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Im so grateful for those who were paying attention to this and are doing what they can to expose it. Thank you for your part.
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