Federal Employees Under Scrutiny: The DEI Watchlist Controversy

Backed by the creators of Project 2025, the organization continues intimidating employees of government agencies.

Overview:

The far-right nonprofit organization behind an anti-diversity, equity and inclusion “watch list” has added more names and faces of federal employees to its list.

The far-right nonprofit organization behind an anti-diversity, equity and inclusion “watch list” has added the names and faces of employees from the Department of Justice, the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security government workers to the provocative website.

The American Accountability Foundation, the group behind the “DEI Watchlist” website, added the new batch of federal workers — most of whom are people of color, including members of the DOJ’s voting rights team — sometime between Tuesday and Wednesday morning. 

Then the organization gloated about it in a Substack post. 

“They call us racist, they imply we’re some sort of terrorist organization, and even demand we be prosecuted,” the post states. “Why? Simply because we dared to join President Trump’s war on the Deep State.” 

An Attempt to Intimidate

But federal employees’ unions and other supporters call the website — whose subjects  are mostly Black or Latino, and whose “offenses” consist of personal statements, social media posts or professional histories that lean left — a nakedly partisan attempt to intimidate professionals who are simply doing their jobs.

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Keywords: DEI Watchlist, Federal Employees, Right-wing Group, Diversity and Inclusion, Inclusion Initiatives

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Jennifer Porter Gore

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