Conservatives create "DEI Watchlist", publishing the photos, names and public information of mostly black federal workers as "targets"

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Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets'

The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.

www.nbcnews.com

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them at one point as “targets.”

It’s unclear when the website, which lists mostly Black employees who work in agencies primarily within the Department of Health and Human Services, first appeared.

“Offenses” for the workers listed on the website include working on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, donating to Democrats and using pronouns in their bios.

The website, a government worker said, is being circulated among multiple private group chats of federal health workers across agencies, as well as through social media links.

The site also reached Dr. Georges Benjamin, the executive director of the American Public Health Association, who learned about it Tuesday evening when a federal health worker sent it to him.

“This is a scare tactic to try to intimidate people who are trying to do their work and do it admirably,” Benjamin said. “It’s clear racism.”

A government worker said they found out theirs was among the names on the website Tuesday afternoon after a former co-worker sent them the link on social media.

“It’s unnerving,” said the person, who requested anonymity because of safety concerns. “My name and my picture is there, and in 2025, it’s very simple to Google and look up someone’s home address and all kinds of things that potentially put me at risk.”

“I don’t know what the intention of the list is for,” the person said. “It’s just kind of a scary place to be.”

On Tuesday evening, the site listed photos of employees and linked to further information about them under the headline “Targets.” Later Tuesday night, the headline on each page had been changed to “Dossiers.”

 

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5141877-trump-musk-advocacy-campaign/

President Trump and Elon Musk have brought a “move fast and break things” style to Washington that is inspiring aggressive outside advocacy campaigns and giving new significance behind past right-wing efforts.

A “DEI WATCH LIST” is one example of how conservatives are still finding ways to pile on with the shocking and attention-grabbing tactics that fuel the Trump moves.

The recently-released list, announced with Trump’s signature all-caps text, set off a flurry of concern, fear and criticism — which Tom Jones, who leads the American Accountability Foundation that compiled the list, saw as a validation of the work.

“If you’re not taking flak, you’re not over the target,” Jones told me in an interview. “If the New York Times hasn’t called me a racist, I’m probably not doing my job.”

The list named dozens of federal workers who are not only explicitly focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, but that Jones alleges are “aggressive activists in the DEI space” in other ways. The list dug into the individuals’ past jobs, op-eds, social media posts, campaign donations and more.

Democrats and other outsiders decried the project as a scare tactic intended to intimidate public employees, expressing concern that it listed mostly Black workers. The head of the American Public Health Association, Dr. Georges Benjamin, called the project racist. Concerns swirled about safety and physical threats against those on the list, NBC News reported.

“It’s all bull—-. Like, they literally have no examples of anyone being threatened,” Jones said, adding that he has gotten death threats in his own email in wake of the watch list going live.

I asked Jones about how he would feel if the list does inspire some kind of threat against these individuals. He wouldn’t entertain the notion. “It’s just a red herring. It’s not a worthy hypothetical to discuss.”

Trump signed an executive order to terminate DEI in the federal workforce. But Jones is hoping to see that order implemented even more broadly, such as taking action against senior leaders who might have some DEI ties but not have it in their job title.

“This isn’t filling potholes. It’s not a position where your ideology doesn’t matter. It’s a position where your ideology is essential and at the core of what you do. And that’s why these people can’t be in these positions,” Jones said.

The goal? “Reassign them, furlough them, administrative leave, all of those things, fire them. All those things seem to make a lot of sense to me,” Jones said.

The pushback isn’t slowing the American Accountability Foundation down. The group said it would add even more names to the DEI Watch List. And it’s not the first watch list tactic from the group either, which published a “DHS Bureaucrat Watch List” last year.

The American Accountability Foundation has strong ties to the Conservative Partnership Institute, a conservative training and advocacy nonprofit which has been an incubator of Trump-aligned outside groups such as the Center for Renewing America.

RELATED: PBS closes its DEI office to comply with Trump executive order

WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE — Actions once seen as ill-fated red meat displays for conservatives that even got some pushback from Republicans are now more like instruction manuals in the Trump Administration. And they now get little if any GOP pushback.

 

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[Gloxina]

I told yall that train is never late.

A lot of idiots on the coli thought this Nazi shyt was gonna stop with migrants at the border.

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Welp

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Welp this what yall wanted. Jim Crow 2.0 coming

 

[acri1]

Both sides

 

[Wepa Man]

I told yall that train is never late.

A lot of idiots on the coli thought this Nazi shyt was gonna stop with migrants at the border.

Yeah ok.

facts

 

[D1renegade]

We don’t have to worry about this. I was told DEI initiatives primarily benefited white women. I’m pretty sure this watchlist will be full of them in no time.

 

[Dad]

It’s fukked up how nobody talks about how the disabled are being affected too.

peace to my, brehs

 

[In The Zone '98]

All those white folks need an emotional support animal

 

[Idaeo]

It’s fukked up how nobody talks about how the disabled are the shytty of this.

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I live in DC and inline skate around the city for exercise. Lafayette park/the White House is apart of my normal route. A few days after the inauguration, the WH ripped up their wheelchair accessible ramp along the pedestrian path

 

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I told yall that train is never late.

A lot of idiots on the coli thought this Nazi shyt was gonna stop with migrants at the border.

Yeah ok.

A lot of these idiots dont think at all.

 

[Dad]

I live in DC and inline skate around the city for exercise. Lafayette park/the White House is apart of my normal route. A few days after the inauguration, the WH ripped up their wheelchair accessible ramp along the pedestrian path

This is a shyt show! Nothing/no one is safe.

 

[Mass]

330 million people might vote in 2028.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

330 million people might vote in 2028.

No they won't. They got a taste of what that monster did for 4 years and welcomed him back with open arms.

He attempted to kill members of Congress, openly stole state secrets and was willing to sell them to the highest bidder based on all the information that was stuck in his mansion, killed Americans with his neglect during a pandemic and threw children in cages like animals.

Please, the outrage only lasts until the next headline.

As soon as football and college season starts people will back to eating their Cheetos hot dogs and barbecue like ain't shyt happen.