The Flynn Network Is Running a Domestic Influence Operation Against the Trump Admin

Data analyst Alexis Wilkins spent months mapping the infrastructure. What she found is a persistent, foreign-amplified machine that activates at every Republican fracture point.

They told Alexis Wilkins she was a Mossad spy.

It happened in July 2025. She is the FBI Director's girlfriend, which made her useful. The smear went viral. Eight hundred sixty-three thousand retweet engagements in a single chapter. Twenty million views on the origin post. Fifteen pairs of accounts retweeted the same post within ten seconds of each other. People don't do that. Bots do. Coordinated networks do.

Wilkins didn't call a lawyer. She didn't go on cable news. She learned to code.

What she built over the following months is one of the more consequential pieces of open-source intelligence produced by a private citizen in recent memory: a 22-month, six-chapter dataset tracking a coordinated influence network running operations against the Trump administration from inside the American right. The methodology used the official X API. Every data point is independently verifiable. And the same accounts, the same amplification patterns, and the same foreign partners appear across all of it, from beginning to end.

The trail runs through Michael Flynn.

The Architecture

Start with what is documented, not inferred.

Catholics for Catholics lists General Michael Flynn as "Current Senior Advisor" on their own website. Ivan Raiklin, former Green Beret and former Defense Intelligence Agency officer, sits on the board of Flynn's nonprofit America's Future. These are not hidden connections. They are public. The network doesn't hide its nodes. It hides its activations.

And the activations follow a pattern.

Wilkins identified six chapters spanning May 2024 through March 2026. Three million, one hundred and sixty-six thousand retweet engagements across all six. Eighty percent of all activity was pure amplification, not original commentary, not debate, not organic response. The same accounts appear in chapter one and chapter six. The network does not rebuild between deployments. It stays ready.

Chapter one: May 2024. Ten days before the Butler assassination attempt, Raiklin posts directly to Elon Musk and JD Vance. "Gen Flynn would make Trump assassination-proof." One hundred and sixty-six retweets. Fourteen tightly clustered time windows. Amplified within one second.

That is not a political argument. That is a test fire.

The Method

The network's operational logic is consistent across every chapter: anonymous mass deployment first, then credentialed amplification.

A supplement influencer with 1.1 million followers, an audience built through the COVID medical freedom movement, publishes the Mossad smear on Wilkins. The post receives amplification that no organic audience produces. Then the credentialed accounts pick it up. Then the foreign state media closes the loop.

RT.com, which the U.S. State Department has formally described as part of Russia's intelligence apparatus, posted about Wilkins by name. The accounts that amplified the content included the official Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an Iranian journalist based in Tehran. RT.com ranks in the top fifteen amplifiers across the entire 22-month dataset.

The loop runs in both directions. Domestic accounts seed the narrative. Foreign state media amplifies it back into American feeds. American accounts pick it up again. Two parts of the same operation are running simultaneously into the same feeds.

The Fracture Points

What does this network actually do? It converts Republican unity into Republican fracture. Every chapter corresponds to a moment when the conservative coalition could have held together.

Chapter three: September 2025. Charlie Kirk is assassinated. Within hours, not days, Candace Owens publicly attributes the killing to Israel and targets Kirk's widow by name. Many of the same accounts active in the July honeypot chapter activate immediately. A moment of natural Republican grief becomes one of the most sustained fracture events of the year.

Chapter four: March 17, 2026. Joe Kent resigns as NCTC Director in protest of the Iran war. That same day, Catholics for Catholics announces Kent at their Washington gala. Within 24 hours he is doing a Tucker Carlson interview. Within 72 hours he is on stage with Flynn and Owens at the Waldorf Astoria. The accounts that were active before Butler in 2024 are active in the Kent chapter in 2026.

During an active U.S. military conflict, accounts in this network posted verbatim: "Refuse to enlist in or remain fighting for the U.S. military." Owens held up Kent's resignation as a model for American troops. Whatever the intent, the function is anti-enlistment messaging distributed at scale during wartime, carried by a network with documented ties to Russian state media.

RT was publishing Alexander Dugin throughout March 2026. Putin's ideological philosopher declared MAGA "more than dead, worse than dead." The Flynn network was manufacturing that fracture domestically. RT was amplifying it internationally.

What It Is

The goal is not to win an argument. It is to make the fractures feel permanent. To make Republican voters believe their movement is over. To make soldiers believe the war isn't worth fighting. To make the administration look unstable. Each chapter hits a different pressure point: assassination, alleged foreign infiltration, political martyrdom, military dissent. The network, the timing, and the Russian amplification run through all six chapters without interruption.

Wilkins states it plainly. MAGA doesn't have an approval problem. It has an infiltration problem.

The full dataset, every account, every chapter, every documented overlap, will be published. The methodology is reproducible. The connections are public record.

When a network with documented ties to Russian state media consistently activates at every Republican fracture point over 22 months, with a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and a retired general at its center, the question isn't whether this is coordinated. The question is who is giving the orders.

Washington used to know how to ask that question. The fact that it no longer does is itself part of the story.

Source data and thread: Alexis Wilkins (@AlexisWilkins on X). Full dataset forthcoming. The Unredacted will report on subsequent releases.