Operation Puppet Master - A Pilled Government’s Investigation (386)

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 Indictment https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1446251/dl?inline December 2025 Undercover-Agent Activity: ICEWatch, Upstander, Sunrise and Rapid Response https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.12.pdf January 1–26 Undercover Activity Operation Puppet Master Version https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.25.pdf February 1 TCDA “Art Club” Meeting and Fundraising Discussion https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.21.pdf February 22 Loring Park Surveillance of the Canceled “De-Arrest” Training https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.15.pdf March 28 Surveillance of Eventual Defendants at the No Kings Demonstration https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.23.pdf April 14 Surveillance Outside a DAMN Meeting at St. John’s Church https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.17.pdf January 31 Sunrise Movement Meeting at Minneapolis Public Library https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.11.pdf February 2 “50501 Minnesota” Meeting at Augsburg Park Library https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.16.pdf February 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.pdf March 9 Whipple Watch Training https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.20.pdf March 15 Virtual DAMN Meeting https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.31.pdf May 28 “Left Jab” Anti-Racist Boxing Class https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.19.pdf Defendant’s Motion for Discovery https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416/gov.uscourts.mnd.234416.212.0.pdf Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Check 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.net Produced 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.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.