Francesca Bria and XOF Research launch The Authoritarian Stack, an interactive data visualization tracking Silicon Valley’s ascendant “patriotic tech” coalition. Drawing on an open-source dataset of 250+ actors (Alexander Karp, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, etc.) and $45 billion in financial flows, the research traces how cloud platforms, AI, and defense tech, are converging into privatized infrastructure around core state functions—a system where “corporate boards, not public law, set the rules.”