Jennica Pounds, the woman behind the social media persona Data Republican, says nonprofit organizations have become a new power in American government, funneling taxpayers’ money overseas.
Ms. Pounds has written “Unelected: How You Paid a Sinister Elite to Take Over America,” which was published by Passage Publishing this month.
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She and coauthor Joshua Lisec take apart the “NGO-Administrative Complex,” which they say operates as an external deep state wielding a surprising amount of influence over what gets done.
Ms. Pounds, who worked alongside the Department of Government Efficiency last year, said she was researching who was behind the anti-DOGE and anti-Tesla protests last year and found it funny how many left-leaning groups getting government funding had “democracy” in their name or mission.
“That was confusing, because we hadn’t been trying to overturn elections,” Ms. Pounds told “Seen, Heard & Whispered.”
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“So I spent most of 2025 researching why …. which led me to discovering that a gigantic NGO ecosystem has spawned around the concept of democracy,” she said. “What I found out was that ’democracy’ has little to do with elections as we were taught in school, and everything to do with governance diffused through civil society, primarily NGOs. This is why they can effect massive policy changes such as mass migration without input from the public.”
Ms. Pounds is a citizen journalist who runs the account @DataRepublican on social media platform X. Her identity was exposed during her work for the Trump administration.
She said she was forced to move to another state and pull her children out of school for nearly two months to homeschool them due to security concerns.
“Safety is definitely a big priority of mine. Threats come in waves,” she said. “Life has been interesting since being ’revealed,’ but so far, God has protected and provided for us. And ultimately He is in control of our country and its direction.”
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