🧨 The Most Dangerous Man in the Trump White House Isn’t Trump. It's Stephen Miller.
I actually think he's the single most evil man on the planet. And that no single person in power is more dangerous than him. I feel that strongly about it.
Stephen Miller is not “the immigration guy.”
He is not “a hardliner.”
He is not “Trump’s speechwriter.”
He is the architect of a machine that turns fear into policy—and policy into beaten and battered and slaughtered bodies.
And if Americans really understood what that machine is doing right now, we would stop talking about him like he’s a staffer and start talking about him like what he is: a man who has spent a decade designing state cruelty and then daring the country to call it evil.
Family, if you value reporting that names the truth plainly—especially when powerful people are doing unspeakable things in our name—please click here to become a member. I work to keep our journalism free for the world—for readers in Gaza, readers in Sudan, families living in deep poverty, and even kids in middle school who deserve the truth without a paywall. Membership is what keeps it free for them, and even for you, when you can’t afford to pay. If you’re able, Click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that moments after federal officers fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, “Customs and Border Protection officials texted Stephen Miller… who framed the government’s response.” Then, “three hours after the shooting,” Miller went on X and called the slain VA nurse a “domestic terrorist” who “tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.” The Journal reports the language “hadn’t been approved or reviewed.” Miller, they say, shared a photo of the handgun found on Pretti’s hip, and soon after, President Trump posted the photo too, claiming the weapon was “loaded and ready to go.”
And then video contradicted Miller’s portrayal.
That is the whole story of Stephen Miller in one scene.
He doesn’t wait for facts. He outruns them.
He pushes the label first—terrorist, assassin, threat—because once a person is labeled, much of the public stops asking what happened and starts asking whether the government had to do it.
That’s not a mistake.
That’s the method.
This is propaganda-as-governance. And it is deadly.
Because the point isn’t the truth. The point is to create an atmosphere where truth becomes optional—where the state can hit you hard and then argue about the details later. If the government can paint a dead man as a terrorist within hours, it can paint an immigrant as an “invader” in seconds. It can paint protestors as “violent extremists” by dinner. It can paint entire communities as criminal by sunrise.
That’s what Stephen Miller sells. Not policy. Permission.
The Journal reports Miller has been “an architect in almost every boundary-pushing effort in Trump’s second term,” including aggressive immigration sweeps in American cities and deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean. When protests spread in Minneapolis, the Journal reports Miller raised the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act to send in military troops.
Let’s slow down and say that plainly:
A White House aide is floating the idea of using the U.S. military against Americans because Americans are protesting federal raids and killings.
That’s not “securing the border.” That’s rehearsing authoritarianism.
And if you want to understand Miller’s real power, it’s this: he doesn’t just propose cruelty. He builds a system where cruelty becomes the default.
The Journal reports Miller told ICE agents to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens,” without bothering with targeted lists. It says that in the wake of the shift, masked and heavily armed federal agents have detained some U.S. citizens and people with legal status in broad sweeps.
That’s what quotas do.
And Miller is obsessed with quotas.
The Journal reports he pushed a first-year goal of “one million deportations,” demanded “3,000 arrests a day,” and even brainstormed recruitment bonuses up to $50,000 for thousands of new ICE agents.
When you build a deportation system around numbers, you inevitably build a system that destroys innocent lives—because quotas don’t care who you are. Quotas care that you count.
And that is where Stephen Miller becomes uniquely dangerous: he is trying to turn human beings into “units moved,” while turning the law into a speed bump.
The Journal reports he personally “drafted or edited every executive order” Trump signed, and pushed things like deporting migrants to a prison in El Salvador using the wartime Alien Enemies Act, now under court challenge. It reports he confronts aides who raise legal checks and dismisses concerns about public reaction.
That’s the part I need you to really feel.
Stephen Miller isn’t “pushing boundaries” like a reckless intern.
He is pushing boundaries like a man who understands that if you push far enough, the boundary moves.
Over time, what used to be unthinkable becomes “normal.”
It becomes “policy.”
It becomes “just what we do now.”
And here’s where it gets even darker: the Journal reports Miller “rarely leaves a written trail,” using Signal to communicate. No paper trail. No accountability trail. A government that operates in the shadows because it knows sunlight is a threat.
Sisters and brothers, that is not how public service works in a democracy. That is how power behaves when it plans to do things it doesn’t want a judge—or a journalist—or a historian—to fully trace.
And then there is the most chilling detail in the whole report—because it shows what Miller wants to do next.
After the killing of Charlie Kirk, the Journal reports Trump signed an executive order targeting liberal groups he said were promoting political violence. It says Miller pushed officials to use “the same methods employed on foreign terrorist organizations after the 9/11 attacks” to investigate those groups’ financing.
Read that again.
He wants to take the “war on terror” toolkit—built for foreign terror networks (and just used to oppress Muslims) —and point it at Americans he politically dislikes.
This is the blueprint: immigrants as contraband, dissent as terrorism, and executive power as a battering ram.
And you can’t say you weren’t warned, because he is telling you what he is doing in real time.
Even President Trump, according to the Journal, has signaled discomfort with how far Miller has gone on some fronts. The president has said business officials are calling him, complaining about longtime workers being thrown out of the country. He’s publicly opposed certain raids and privately told people he “didn’t know it was happening.”
And that should terrify you too.
Because it means Miller’s power is not simply about Trump’s will.
It’s about Miller’s speed. His control of process. His ability to operate inside the government like a man who knows exactly which levers to pull and which records not to create.
If you want the moral clarity version:
Stephen Miller is building an America where the state can do violence first, label you later, and bury the paperwork forever.
And if you’re a U.S. taxpayer, this is not happening somewhere else. It’s happening with your money—in your name.
Now, I don’t want to only tell you what’s wrong. I want to tell you what to do with this information. And I’m going to give you one tight list—because clarity matters here.
Demand receipts. When they label someone a “terrorist,” demand the evidence before you accept the story.
Document everything. If raids hit your city, record—names, agencies, badge numbers, times, locations.
Protect your neighbors. Know your rights, know who to call, show up as a witness.
Reject quota policing. Any policy built on “3,000 arrests a day” is built to swallow innocents.
Do not normalize emergency powers. The Insurrection Act is not a toy. The Alien Enemies Act is not a political trick.
Treat this as a civil rights emergency. Because that’s what it is.
I’ve covered Stephen Miller for a decade, and I’m telling you: he is not embarrassed by the suffering. He is energized by it. He wants his opponents to feel helpless. He wants targeted communities to feel hunted. And he wants the rest of America to shrug and say, “That’s just politics.”
It is not “just politics.”
It is a plan.
And the only way a plan like this succeeds is if decent people look away.
If this reporting helped you see what’s really happening—and why it matters—please support it today. We’re building an independent home for truth-telling that refuses to flinch, and we keep it free for the world on purpose. If you can, Click here to become a member. And if you want to go further and help us grow strong enough to take on the Stephen Millers of the world every single day, Click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member.
Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
It's Stephen Miller actually devising and executing EVERY evil plan and action they are taking. He admits it. The entire White House admits it.
Trump makes it clear that he wants to be a figurehead and to appear the strong man. He could care less about actually working. It has been proven that he can be flattered into just about anything. Stephen Miller is and speaks to the reptilian brain of trump and the party. Trump is happy to let him do as he wishes.