# Gil Durán: The Tech Cult That Wants to End Democracy

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Podcast: [Agitation Nation: A Podcast From The Fenton Forecast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fenton-forecast-choosing-our-future-7815754)
Published: 2026-09-09T18:29:23+00:00
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## Resource

Billionaire Peter Thiel wrote in 2009 that he no longer believed freedom and democracy were compatible. Gil Durán has spent years documenting what the tech circle built once they stopped believing in voting. The result is The Nerd Reich — reported almost entirely from what these men have said out loud.

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