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Travis takes Jake and Liv inside Operation Puppet Master, Homeland Security Investigations’ months-long effort to uncover the supposed command structure and funding behind Minnesota’s anti-ICE protests. Undercover agents entered meetings and Signal chats, tailed activists, and searched union and nonprofit finances. Reports released in the case against 15 activists reveal the bizarre amount of government resources poured into surveilling people in Minnesota, including one instance in which 21 agents spent two hours staking out a “de-arrest” training session that had already been canceled. The crew examines what happens when QAnon-style paranoia acquires federal badges, undercover agents, and subpoena power.Sant et al Indictmenthttps://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1446251/dl?inlineDecember 2025 Undercover-Agent Activity: ICEWatch, Upstander, Sunrise and Rapid Responsehttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.12.pdfJanuary 1–26 Undercover Activity Operation Puppet Master Versionhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.25.pdfFebruary 1 TCDA “Art Club” Meeting and Fundraising Discussionhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.21.pdfFebruary 22 Loring Park Surveillance of the Canceled “De-Arrest” Traininghttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.15.pdfMarch 28 Surveillance of Eventual Defendants at the No Kings Demonstrationhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.23.pdfApril 14 Surveillance Outside a DAMN Meeting at St. John’s Churchhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.17.pdfJanuary 31 Sunrise Movement Meeting at Minneapolis Public Libraryhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.11.pdfFebruary 2 “50501 Minnesota” Meeting at Augsburg Park Libraryhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.16.pdfFebruary 10 Virtual Panel: “ICE Brutality: Responding to State Violence and the Machinery of Fear”https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.13.pdfMarch 9 Whipple Watch Traininghttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.20.pdfMarch 15 Virtual DAMN Meetinghttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.31.pdfMay 28 “Left Jab” Anti-Racist Boxing Classhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.19.pdfDefendant’s Motion for Discoveryhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.0.pdfSubscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaaCheck out our new podcast series network Cursed Media! All episodes of Spectral Voyager Season 2 are out now! Binge the entirety of Truly Tradly Deeply by Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly as well as Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: cursedmedia.netProduced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com)qaapodcast.comQAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.