Version 1.5.0 · May 2026

Patriot University is a civic news aggregator and civil rights resource. We aggregate credible reporting and official records, publish opinion and analysis based on the news we cover, and provide practical resources for civil rights, voting rights, and civic engagement. No account required.

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Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. WordPress Site
3. Knowledge Base
4. Legal Specialist AI Skills
5. Investigative Research Toolkit
6. Voting Rights Guides
7. AI Rights Advisor
8. Rapid Response Alerts
9. Privacy & Security
10. Troubleshooting
11. Emergency Contacts

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1. Overview

Patriot University is a civic news aggregator and civil rights resource designed for individuals, organizers, legal observers, and civic organizations. We aggregate credible reporting and official records, publish opinion and analysis based on the news we cover, and provide practical tools for civil rights, voting rights, and civic engagement. The platform is open access — no account, registration, or invite code is required.

Platform

The primary platform is the WordPress site at patriot.university. All knowledge base content, voting guides, the AI Rights Advisor chatbot, the Threat Tracker, and the rapid response alert feed are available there directly in your browser.

Note on mobile and desktop apps: Native iOS and macOS apps are currently paused and not publicly available. All features described in this manual are accessible via the website.

Core Features

Feature	Description
Knowledge Base	1,433 published documents across ten sections — constitutional law, voting rights, immigration, resistance, accountability, investigative research toolkits, press freedom, truth & reconciliation, and more
Legal Specialist Skills	88 published AI skills — constitutional and immigration law, legal research and practice, civil resistance, voting rights, accountability, truth & reconciliation, investigative research and OSINT (Phase 1–4)
Voting Guides	State-by-state guides for all 56 US jurisdictions (50 states + DC + 5 territories)
AI Rights Advisor	Claude-powered constitutional Q&A with RAG-grounded knowledge base responses
Rapid Response	Real-time community alert feed
Threat Tracker	Authoritarianism indicator dashboard with interactive visualizations

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Threat Tracker — Public Pages

The Trump Autocracy Tracker is available at https://patriot.university/tracker/ with four pages:

Page	URL	Content
Dashboard	/tracker/	Overall threat level, all 20 marker score cards with trends and evidence
Infographics	/tracker/infographics/	Interactive radar charts, bar charts, severity breakdown, sortable marker table, activity heatmap
Threat Detail	/tracker/threat-detail/	Expandable marker sections with full indicators and evidence lists
Scoring Methodology	/tracker/methodology/	Transparent explanation of the 20-marker framework, data sources, and scoring mechanics

These pages use a dark-theme interface with interactive Chart.js visualizations. Data refreshes automatically every 6 hours from news sources and AI-powered analysis. The methodology page explains exactly how scores are computed, what data sources are used, and what academic frameworks inform the marker taxonomy.

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2. WordPress Site

The Patriot University WordPress site at patriot.university is the current primary access point for all platform features. No installation or account is required — visit the site in any browser.

Site Sections

Section	URL	Contents
Knowledge Base	/knowledge-base/	Browse and search all 1,433 published documents by section and category
Voting Rights	/voting-rights/	State-by-state voting guides for all 56 jurisdictions
AI Rights Advisor	/rights-advisor/	Full-page AI chatbot with RAG-enhanced responses
Threat Tracker	/tracker/	Autocracy indicator dashboard
Rapid Response	Embedded on relevant pages	Active community alert feed

WordPress Shortcodes (for site editors)

The following shortcodes are available for use on WordPress pages:

Knowledge Base Browser

[patriot_knowledge_base]

Full knowledge base browser with category filtering and full-text search across all documents.

Single Document Embed

[patriot_knowledge_doc slug="amendments"]

Embed a single knowledge base document by its slug.

Attribute	Default	Description
slug	(required)	The document slug from the knowledge base

AI Chatbot (Floating or Inline)

[patriot_chatbot]
[patriot_chatbot_button]

[patriot_chatbot] embeds a full or floating AI Rights Advisor widget. [patriot_chatbot_button] adds a floating launcher button that opens the chat interface. Both are backed by RAG — responses are grounded in the knowledge base.

Voting Guide

[patriot_voting_guide state="GA"]

Displays the voting guide for the specified state. Replace GA with any 2-letter US state or territory code. When state is omitted, a state selector dropdown is shown.

Attribute	Default	Description
state	(empty)	2-letter state/territory code

AI Rights Advisor (Full Page)

[patriot_rights_advisor]
[patriot_rights_advisor state="TX" placeholder="Ask a question..."]

Embeds a full-page AI chat widget backed by the FastAPI backend with RAG. Conversation history is client-side only — nothing is stored server-side.

Attribute	Default	Description
state	(empty)	Pre-set state context for voting questions
placeholder	Default prompt	Input field placeholder text

Know Your Rights

[patriot_know_your_rights]
[patriot_know_your_rights scenario="ice"]
[patriot_know_your_rights scenario="protest"]
[patriot_know_your_rights scenario="voting"]

Displays actionable rights cards for specific scenarios.

scenario value	Content
all (default)	All three scenarios
ice	ICE encounter rights
protest	Protest rights
voting	Polling place rights

Rapid Response Alert Feed

[patriot_alert_feed]

Displays the current active rapid-response alerts (up to 5, always fresh — not cached).

De-escalation Guide

[patriot_deescalation]

Renders the protest de-escalation primer from the knowledge base.

Network Graph

[patriot_network_graph]
[patriot_network_graph category="people"]

Interactive Cytoscape.js visualization of relationships across knowledge base documents. Optionally filtered by section. Read-only — click nodes to explore connections.

Attribute	Default	Description
category	(empty)	Filter graph to one taxonomy Section — e.g. people, organizations, voting-and-elections, investigative-toolkit
height	600px	Height of the graph canvas

Plugin Installation (for WordPress administrators)

1. Copy the patriot-university/ folder to wp-content/plugins/.
2. Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins and activate Patriot University.
3. Go to Settings → Patriot University and configure:

• API URL — the URL of your FastAPI backend (default: https://api.patriotuniversity.org)
• API Token — paste a valid API token (stored encrypted in WordPress options)

Security

The plugin enforces strict security by default:

• No personal data collected or stored — the plugin is stateless; it fetches content from the API and displays it
• No third-party analytics or tracking scripts — all resources are self-hosted
• Zero cookies or localStorage usage — sessions are not persisted on the client
• CSP headers — default-src 'self' on all plugin pages; no third-party resources permitted
• SRI integrity hashes on all scripts and stylesheets
• CSRF protection via WordPress nonces on all AJAX actions
• API key stays server-side — the API token is never exposed to browser clients
• MITM canary — client-side detection of insecure connections with visible warning banner

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3. Knowledge Base

The Patriot University knowledge base holds 1,433 published documents (1,653 indexed in total — the remainder are drafts and unpublished research material). All published documents are browsable via the Knowledge Base section of the site and searchable by category and full text.

Document Categories

Content is organized into ten sections. Counts are as of 2026-07-22 and reflect published documents only.

Section	Published	Contents
People	894	Accountability profiles for individuals: corporate board members (327), Trump administration officials (180), federal legislators (158), state and local officials (89), political operatives (78), media figures, judicial figures, Trump family and associates, and January 6 convictions and indictments
Investigative Toolkit	118	Published AI methodology skills (88), investigative tool guides, the 176-tool consolidated catalog, tutorials, tool-agnostic methodologies, and n8n workflow templates — see §5
Voting & Elections	114	One guide per US jurisdiction (56: 50 states + DC + 5 territories) covering registration deadlines, ID requirements, polling hours, early voting, vote-by-mail, and provisional ballots; plus 51 state election-defense playbooks and election threat/integrity analysis
About Us	103	Team and specialist persona pages, learning paths (by role and by use case), and editorial standards documentation
Organizations	60	Company and entity profiles by sector: technology, finance, energy, defense, healthcare, media, and other
Civic Action & Democracy	58	Civic engagement and organizing guides, protest de-escalation, nonviolent action, democratic health monitoring, and truth & reconciliation (19 documents)
Context & Backgrounders	53	Backgrounders, contextual analysis, analytical frameworks (population personas, voter-shifting, scenario models), and reference documents
Know Your Rights	15	Constitution and amendments, civil rights, freedom of speech, immigration rights, legal frameworks, and protest and assembly
Press & Media	15	Information source directories, legal and regulatory database guides, and press freedom material
Commentary & Opinion	3	Signed opinion and editorial pieces, published separately from the reference knowledge base

Learning Paths

Patriot University offers curated learning paths — guided sequences of documents designed to build understanding progressively. Current learning paths include:

• New User Orientation — Platform overview, privacy architecture, rights basics
• Know Your Rights Essentials — Constitutional amendments, encounter scenarios, legal resources
• Investigator’s Toolkit — From beginner OSINT concepts through advanced multi-tool workflows
• Accountability Research — How to read profiles, follow the money, verify claims
• Election Defense — Voting rights by state, suppression tactics, observer training

Each learning path provides a recommended reading order with context notes.

Searching Documents

There are two ways to search the site:

1. The Search page (patriot.university/search, also in the top menu) — the recommended, most powerful search. It covers the entire knowledge base and uses the Relevanssi search engine for smarter, more relevant matching:

• Type-ahead suggestions appear as you type — start clicking results before you even finish.
• Matched words are highlighted in the result titles and excerpts, so you can see why each result matched.
• Filter tabs let you narrow to All or Knowledge Base, and Sort by Relevance, Newest, or A–Z.
• Acronyms just work — searching SCOTUS, DOJ, 1A, or J6 finds documents about the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, the First Amendment, and January 6 even when the document spells them out.
• “Did you mean…” offers a spelling correction when a query returns few results (suggestions improve over time as the site learns from real searches).

2. The Knowledge Base search bar — the search box at the top of the Knowledge Base section still works as before, with instant results filtered by category. It’s handy when you’re already browsing the KB.

Editors can also embed the browsable knowledge base anywhere with the [patriot_knowledge_base] shortcode, or drop a Relevanssi search box on any page with [searchform post_type='epkb_post_type_1'].

Timelines and Infographics

Many documents include visual assets to help you understand events at a glance:

• Timelines — interactive, scrollable chronologies of key events extracted from the document. Each event shows its date, description, and source context. Timelines are embedded directly within the article.
• Infographics — visual summaries (PNG images) that distill a document’s key facts, relationships, or statistics into a scannable graphic.

These assets appear inline in the article where the editorial team placed them, or at the end of the document if no specific position was set.

Network Graphs

Some accountability profiles include an interactive network graph — a visual map of how that person or organization connects to others in the knowledge base.

How to use it:

• Drag the background to pan; scroll to zoom. The profile you’re reading sits at the center, larger and highlighted.
• Search the box to find a specific name in the graph.
• Toggle the relationship types (Mentions, Wikilinks, and AI-derived People/Orgs/Events/Financial connections) to focus on the links you care about. A colored dot next to each toggle shows that connection’s color.
• Hide orphans to tidy the view — turning this on removes any node that has no visible connections left (for example, after you switch off some relationship types), so only the connected web remains. Turn it off to bring those standalone nodes back.
• Click any node to see a short summary, and use View Profile to open that person or organization’s page.

Dedicated graph pages may show the whole network at once, with extra controls: a layout selector, Color by Community (groups related figures by cluster), and a community panel that shows an AI-generated summary of each cluster’s themes and key actors.

A note on labels: connections and community summaries marked “AI-Generated” are produced by AI from public documents. They are starting points for understanding relationships, not verified claims — follow the links and citations on each profile for the documented evidence.

3.6 The Glossary

Throughout the Knowledge Base, key civic and legal terms are highlighted the first time they appear in an article. You don’t have to leave the page to look one up.

How to use it:

• Hover (or tap) a highlighted term to see a short, plain-language definition in a pop-up tooltip.
• “View document network” — inside the tooltip, click this link to open a graph with the article you’re reading at the center and every other document that uses the same term arranged around it. Click any node to open that document in a new browser tab. Documents that touch many glossary concepts appear as larger nodes.
• Browse the whole glossary — the Glossary link in the top menu opens an A–Z index of every term at patriot.university/glossary.

Definitions are grounded in our own reporting and written to be neutral and educational. People and organizations are never glossary terms — only concepts, doctrines, and laws.

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4. Legal Specialist AI Skills

Patriot University ships 88 published AI skills (84 skill files on disk, some publishing as multi-part articles) — deep context files that augment the AI Rights Advisor’s knowledge in specific constitutional law, immigration law, civil resistance theory, voting rights law, accountability tracking, truth & reconciliation, and investigative research (through Phase 4) domains. Skills are loaded by the FastAPI backend and injected into the AI Rights Advisor automatically when a question matches a skill’s domain.

Constitutional Amendment Experts

Skill	Coverage
first-amendment-legal-expert	Free Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition, Religion — including current litigation on viewpoint discrimination and retaliation
fourth-amendment-legal-expert	Search and Seizure — warrants, probable cause, exclusionary rule, warrantless ICE raids, workplace raids
fifth-amendment-legal-expert	Due Process, Self-Incrimination, Double Jeopardy, Grand Jury, Takings — immigration removals without process, executive orders punishing individuals without hearings
sixth-amendment-legal-expert	Right to Counsel, Speedy Trial, Jury Trial, Confrontation, Compulsory Process — government actions that impair legal representation
eighth-amendment-legal-expert	Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Excessive Bail, Excessive Fines — immigration detention conditions, prolonged detention without bond hearings
tenth-amendment-legal-expert	Federalism, Reserved Powers, Anti-Commandeering — sanctuary city policies, federal coercion of state cooperation with immigration enforcement
fourteenth-amendment-legal-expert	Equal Protection, Due Process, Birthright Citizenship, Privileges or Immunities — all five sections, birthright citizenship executive order litigation
twenty-second-amendment-legal-expert	Presidential Term Limits — ratification history, third-term rhetoric analysis, repeal proposals
separation-of-powers-legal-expert	Articles I and II, Spending Clause, Take Care Clause — impoundment, agency closures, defiance of court orders

Immigration Law Experts

Skill	Coverage
immigration-detention-rights-expert	Bond and custody, conditions of confinement, access to counsel, alternatives to detention, family separation, Flores Settlement, rights of detained children
immigration-know-your-rights-expert	ICE encounter guidance at home, on the street, at a workplace, and at traffic stops — rights that apply regardless of immigration status
immigration-removal-defense-expert	Deportation proceedings, cancellation of removal, asylum, withholding of removal, Convention Against Torture protection, expedited removal, emergency stays
immigration-workplace-enforcement-expert	I-9 compliance, E-Verify requirements, workplace raids, employee rights during ICE operations, employer obligations, anti-discrimination protections (IRCA)

Legal Practice & Research

Skill	Coverage
appellate-brief-writer	Appellate brief structure, standards of review, constitutional argument framing, statement of issues, oral argument preparation
citation-checker	Bluebook citation format, citator verification (KeyCite, Shepard’s), quotation accuracy, negative treatment detection, citation audit
legal-research-specialist	Westlaw, Lexis+, Bloomberg Law, free databases (Google Scholar, CourtListener, PACER), FOIA and federal/state public records tables, legislative history, citation management — pair with public-records-research-specialist for full FOIA lifecycle strategy
judicial-decision-analytics-specialist	Supreme Court and lower federal court vote lineups, coalitions, ideology scores (Martin-Quinn, JCS), term-level statistics (SCDB, Stat Pack), judge metadata (FJC, CourtListener Judge API) — the data layer for Judicial Impact Essays
litigation-support-ediscovery-analyst	FOIA productions, administrative record compilation, document review workflows, privilege review, federal litigation support
policy-analyst-legislative-specialist	Executive order monitoring, Federal Register tracking, congressional action monitoring, agency rulemaking surveillance, policy impact analysis for live litigation

Civil Resistance & Nonviolent Strategy

Skill	Coverage
civil-resistance-theory	Principles of nonviolent civil resistance, pillars of power theory, strategic nonviolent action, civil disobedience frameworks, historical case studies
canvas-strategic-nonviolence	CANVAS methodology for building resistance movements, unity principle, nonviolent discipline, planning frameworks, regime pillars analysis
gene-sharp-198-methods	Gene Sharp’s 198 methods of nonviolent action — protest, noncooperation, intervention — with tactical guidance, historical examples, and legal considerations

Voting Rights Law & Administration

Skill	Coverage
voting-rights-act-expert	Voting Rights Act sections (2, 4(b), 5, 201, 208), Shelby, Brnovich, Louisiana v. Callais (April 2026) preclearance ruling, Section 2 litigation patterns, VRA enforcement gaps post-Shelby, private right of action
election-law-and-administration	HAVA, NVRA, UOCAVA, poll worker rights, election observer access, ballot access law, election security, certification procedures, contested election procedures, recounts, election fraud vs. election administration errors
voter-suppression-law	Legal frameworks for suppression tactics — gerrymandering (Rucho), voter ID (Crawford), voter purges (Husted), felony disenfranchisement, polling place closures, ballot rejection patterns, early voting restrictions, absentee ballot challenges; post-Louisiana v. Callais Section 2 litigation strategy

Accountability & Corruption Tracking

Skill	Coverage
trump-corruption-accountability-tracker	Expert on corruption, self-dealing, conflicts of interest, and abuse of power tracking — 10 corruption vectors: self-dealing, no-bid contracts, crypto schemes, real estate/money laundering, foreign influence/FARA, media censorship, political purges, whistleblower suppression, Epstein files suppression, retributive targeting; investigation methodology; cross-cutting pattern analysis; evidence standards; data sources (CREW, ProPublica, USAspending.gov, FARA.gov, PACER)
trump-family-financial-tracker	Expert investigator tracking political and financial activities of Trump family members (Jared Kushner, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Barron Trump) — foreign sovereign wealth fund investments ($6.2B Kushner/Saudi PIF), real estate in authoritarian states ($10B Saudi projects), defense industry conflicts, cryptocurrency ventures ($TRUMP, World Liberty Financial, $USD1), pay-to-play access ($500K Executive Branch club), diplomatic/business overlap; investigation frameworks: timeline correlation, entity mapping, comparative ethics
us-truth-reconciliation-roadmap	Comprehensive TRC roadmap builder — synthesizes international methodology (South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Colombia) with Patriot University’s accountability profile library (894 published people profiles plus 60 organizations); 5-phase roadmap (Foundation through Implementation, 2026-2057+); Phase 1 preparation guidance by audience; evidence-to-TRC category mapping; US constitutional architecture; 7 US-compatible accountability mechanisms; state-level commission models
patriot-sanity-check	Meta-verification auditor for Patriot University’s own skills and knowledge base — 5-level audit framework; guards against 7 common failure modes; NOT a “both sides” balance check — verifies credibility through rigor
election-threat-scoring	Structured election threat scoring system — 3-dimension scoring (Likelihood × Impact × Urgency) at actor, state, and federal levels; state tier classification system; structured assessment report format
election-threat-scenario-planner	Scenario planning using Peter Schwartz’s 8-step methodology to anticipate election threats in 2026 and 2028; generates 4 named scenario narratives in a 2×2 matrix; leading indicator signpost tables
truth-bridging-talking-points	Evidence-based talking point generator for conversations with Trump supporters — synthesizes 5 peer-reviewed persuasion methodologies; audience-calibrated to C1 Pragmatic Supporters, B2 Passive Accepters, and C2 True Believers
public-corruption-ombudsman	Comprehensive public corruption watchdog combining inspector general, investigative journalist, and truth & reconciliation evidence curator roles — maintains 336 evidence-based accountability profiles
accountability-profile-verification	Step-by-step verification methodology for accountability profiles — primary-source research, court record citation, excluded-source reference removal, legal-exposure risk assessment
patriot-private-citizen-inclusion-gate	Multi-factor inclusion eligibility test for accountability profiles with heightened protection for private citizens — Non-Speech Anchor Test, subject classification, mandatory Basis for Inclusion disclosure block
democratic-health-monitoring	Framework for monitoring democratic health indicators using V-Dem, Freedom House, and Protect Democracy methodologies
trump-voter-impact-framing	Framing documented Trump administration actions through their concrete impact on Trump voters and Republican-leaning communities
truth-reconciliation-design	Design a US truth-and-reconciliation process — mandate scope, statutory architecture, commissioner appointment, investigative powers, immunity mechanisms, public-hearing protocols
truth-reconciliation-implementation	Operate a US TRC and implement recommendations — statement-taking, public hearings, prosecution tracks, reparations, institutional reform, long-term oversight

Platform Operations Skills

These skills power the platform’s editorial production, automated monitoring, content acquisition, and analysis infrastructure:

Skill	Coverage
patriot-editorial-framework	Civic Accountability Format (CAF) — structured article architecture with progressive disclosure, knowledge-graph integration, readability gates, and AI transparency disclosure
patriot-speech-analyzer	Political speech and text analysis using Claude to detect authoritarianism markers with severity assessment, evidence extraction, and confidence calibration
patriot-voting-research	US voting rights research across all 56 jurisdictions — voter registration, absentee/mail-in, voter ID, birth certificates, electoral representation
patriot-source-scanner	Political content acquisition from RSS feeds and Tavily with hash-based deduplication and content normalization for downstream analysis
patriot-news-orchestrator	News monitoring pipeline orchestration — source scanning, content analysis for authoritarianism markers, threat score aggregation, and profile updates
patriot-access-fingerprinter	Network access classification using ASN matching and TLS fingerprinting to detect government, contractor, and gov-cloud visitors with privacy-preserving logging
patriot-opinion-voice	Opinion and commentary voice — thesis-first structure, cited-prose discipline, steelmanned counter-arguments; governs signed editorial content, distinct from the institutional CAF voice
patriot-glossary-editor	Glossary term extraction, review, and injection into the live knowledge base
accountability-profile-builder	End-to-end profile construction from research through evidence-tiered draft
spokesperson-profile-builder	Spokesperson profile construction — messaging record, veracity tracking
spokesperson-misinformation-assessment	Spokesperson Misinformation Assessment (SMA) — advocacy-vs-misinformation gate, tenure-window guard, MSS scoring against a bipartisan press-secretary baseline
malice-evaluator-skill	Democratic Malice Assessment — ideology-vs-malice gate, DMS 1–5 scoring, defamation-law protections, reader-facing reasoning
source-credibility-scoring	Document Credibility Score — per-source rigor scoring against the sources registry
citation-checking-best-practices	Citation verification methodology for published claims
compose-ready-drafting	Drafting conventions that make a document publish-ready on first pass
infographic-builder	Category-aware infographic briefs and rendered images for KB documents
timeline-builder	Researched chronological timelines published via Cool Timelines Pro
token-efficiency-analyzer	API cost and token-efficiency analysis across the platform’s AI workloads
scholarship-retrospective	Retrospective synthesis of academic literature on a topic

Civic Analysis & Monitoring

Skill	Coverage
civic-world-model	Structured model of civic actors, institutions, and pressures used to reason about systemic effects
scenario-backtesting	Tests scenario forecasts against what actually happened, to calibrate future analysis
madisonian-constitutional-analysis	Constitutional analysis through a Madisonian separation-of-powers and factional-risk lens
federal-register-regulatory-analysis	Federal Register and regulatory-docket analysis — rule tracking, comment periods, agency action
election-interference-defense-2026	2026 election interference threat patterns and citizen defense actions
election-propaganda-ombudsman	Election-propaganda detection and analysis with an ombudsman’s evidentiary discipline
legislative-remedies-recommender	Maps documented harms to available legislative remedies
legislative-remedies-source-map	Source and rule cross-reference underpinning the legislative-remedies recommendations
patriot-press-freedom-tracker	Query skill over the US Press Freedom Tracker incident corpus
international-mining-deal-specialist	Cross-border mining and critical-minerals deal analysis — ownership, financing, political exposure

Investigative Research & OSINT (Phase 1–4)

These skills support document-heavy, financial, media verification, ethical OSINT, domain-specific (transport, conflict, environment, RF), cyber literacy, training design, and AI-powered investigation work aligned with professional investigative practice. They complement constitutional and legal skills; they are not legal advice.

Skill	Coverage
document-research-specialist	Ingestion, OCR, transcription concepts, search tactics, OpenRefine-style cleaning, reference platforms (Datashare, Aleph, DocumentCloud)
corporate-intelligence-investigator	Company registries, beneficial ownership, sanctions/PEP, FEC/OpenSecrets/USAspending, EDGAR, litigation tracing
media-verification-specialist	Reverse image/video, chronolocation, EXIF caveats, archiving, synthetic media awareness
osint-identity-researcher	Ethical username/email/phone footprinting; hard refusals on harassment and invasive surveillance
network-analysis-specialist	Entity graphs, link analysis, FtM awareness, Gephi/Neo4j/Maltego-class workflows
geolocation-verification-specialist	Satellite/street imagery, SunCalc-style chronolocation, WiGLE/OpenCellID overview, map discipline
secure-source-communication	Whistleblower intake concepts, Signal/Tor, metadata stripping, redaction and collaboration patterns
public-records-research-specialist	End-to-end FOIA/sunshine strategy, MuckRock/DocumentCloud, appeals framing, multi-database timelines
domain-infrastructure-investigator	DNS, WHOIS, crt.sh, Shodan/Censys passive use, change monitoring
osint-automation-frameworks	SpiderFoot, Maltego, Recon-ng, BBOT — module choice and passive-first discipline
breach-data-analysis-specialist	Ethical breach checks; defensive and journalistic framing; refusal of credential abuse
transportation-osint-investigator	ADS-B, AIS, registries, cross-domain correlation — no private stalking
conflict-zone-osint-specialist	ACLED/UCDP literacy, conflict-media verification discipline, no targeting support
environmental-osint-specialist	FIRMS, GFW, GFWatch-class signals, emissions/regulatory datasets
wireless-spectrum-osint-specialist	WiGLE/OpenCelliD supporting clues paired with geolocation uncertainty
cyber-threat-literacy-journalist	CVE/NVD/KEV vocabulary; vendor-claim triage for news copy
dark-web-literacy-journalist	Ethics and safety framing; no contraband access paths
osint-training-curriculum-designer	Synthetic exercise design, rubrics, legal checkpoints for trainers
investigation-workflow-designer	Meta-skill: composes multi-skill investigation chains with evidence gates and tool recommendations (Phase 4)
ai-document-analysis	Claude Vision document triage, entity extraction, confidence scoring, provenance tagging (Phase 4)

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5. Investigative Research Toolkit

What this toolkit is for

• Following money and corporate ties to public decisions.
• Verifying photos, videos, and viral claims with reproducible steps.
• Planning FOIA and public-records work across agencies.
• Mapping people and organizations without harassment (public interest and proportionality).

Where the content lives

Location	Contents
Knowledge Base → Investigative Research Tools	Overviews: document analysis, corporate intelligence, media verification, OSINT identity
knowledgebase/investigative-tools/tutorials/	Step-by-step workflows (OpenCorporates, sanctions, FOIA, PACER context, reverse image, etc.)
knowledgebase/investigative-tools/methodologies/	Tool-agnostic frameworks (corporate, media, identity, public records, networks, timelines, evidence, source protection)
knowledgebase/investigative-tools/tool-catalog/	176-row consolidated tool index — YAML SSOT (tools.yaml) with generated volumes A–C and per-category pages; run make tool-catalog to regenerate
knowledgebase/investigative-tools/workflows/	n8n workflow templates for automated investigation pipelines (corporate, document triage, media verification)
patriot-agent-base/requirements/INVESTIGATIVE-USE-CASES.md	User scenarios linking skills to workflows (UC-1 through UC-37)
patriot-agent-base/requirements/EXAMPLE-INVESTIGATIONS.md	Twenty worked example investigation chains — EX-1 to EX-15 (manual), EX-16 to EX-20 (AI-powered)
knowledgebase/investigative-toolkit/investigative-tools/INVESTIGATIVE-TRAILS-PROTOCOL.md	Public-records trail blocks on 110 accountability profiles — scripted via inject_profile_trails.py

Using this in the AI Rights Advisor

Ask in natural language (e.g., “How do I verify this image?” or “How do I trace an LLC?”). The advisor draws on the specialist skills above when the question matches. Always cite official or primary sources when making factual claims; distinguish confirmed vs reported vs alleged.

Ethics reminder

Investigative tooling can harm if misused. Do not paste unrelated third parties’ sensitive data into chats as a substitute for a secure investigation workspace. For high-risk whistleblowing, consult professional journalists or lawyers and org-specific SecureDrop-style channels.

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6. Voting Rights Guides

Coverage

All 56 US jurisdictions are covered:

• 50 states
• District of Columbia
• Puerto Rico
• Guam
• U.S. Virgin Islands
• American Samoa
• Northern Mariana Islands

Guide Contents

Each state guide includes:

• Registration deadlines — how far in advance you must register
• Same-day registration — whether available and how to use it
• Photo ID requirements — what IDs are accepted
• Polling hours — opening and closing times
• Provisional ballots — when and how to request one
• Vote-by-mail — requirements and deadlines
• Early voting — dates and locations
• Reporting problems — who to contact if rights are violated

What to Do If You Are Denied a Vote

1. Request a provisional ballot — you cannot legally be turned away without one.
2. Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE (Election Protection Hotline) immediately.
3. Document everything — time, location, name of poll worker if visible, what you were told.
4. Contact the National Lawyers Guild if you face physical removal: 1-888-654-3326.

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7. AI Rights Advisor

Overview

The AI Rights Advisor is powered by Claude (Anthropic) with RAG-enhanced responses grounded in the knowledge base. The Claude API key is server-side only — it is never exposed to your browser. Your conversation is not stored on any server.

Access the AI Rights Advisor at https://patriot.university/rights-advisor/ or via any page with the [patriot_chatbot] or [patriot_rights_advisor] shortcode.

What the Advisor Can Help With

• Individual civil rights questions — ICE encounters, police interactions, voting, protest
• Constitutional rights analysis — amendment-by-amendment guidance
• Immigration rights — encounters, detention, removal defense
• Document drafting assistance — flyers, talking points, letters, press releases
• Strategy guidance — organizational and advocacy strategy
• Investigative research — how to follow money, verify claims, use FOIA

How RAG Works

When you ask a question, the backend automatically retrieves the most relevant knowledge base documents and injects them as context for the AI response. Responses include source citations linking back to the underlying knowledge base documents. This ensures answers are grounded in the platform’s vetted content rather than general AI knowledge alone.

Privacy of Chat

• Conversation history is not stored on any server
• The backend receives only message content — no device ID, no IP address is retained
• Clear your browser’s local storage or use a private/incognito window to leave no trace on your device

Limitations

• This is general information only — not legal advice
• For emergencies requiring an attorney, call: National Lawyers Guild 1-888-654-3326
• The advisor may occasionally be unavailable if the backend is unreachable — the knowledge base remains browsable

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8. Rapid Response Alerts

Overview

Rapid Response Alerts are crowdsourced, community-verified reports of civil liberties incidents in real time.

Alert Types

Type	Description
ice_activity	ICE enforcement operations
police_activity	Police presence or activity
checkpoint	Vehicle or pedestrian checkpoints
surveillance	Observed surveillance operations
general	Other community safety notices

Alert Severity Levels

Level	Color	Meaning
Low	Green	Informational — low urgency
Medium	Orange	Noteworthy — monitor situation
High	Dark Orange	Significant — take precautions
Critical	Red	Immediate action may be needed

Viewing Alerts

The alert feed is available on the website and can be embedded on any WordPress page using [patriot_alert_feed]. The feed displays the top 5 active alerts, refreshed automatically.

Submitting an Alert

Alert submissions are currently processed through trusted community channels. Contact your local organizer or community network to report an incident for inclusion in the feed.

Privacy: All alerts in the feed are anonymized. No location data more precise than neighborhood level is displayed.

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9. Privacy & Security

Data the Site Does Not Collect

What is not collected	Why it matters
Name, email, phone	Cannot be subpoenaed
Account or login	No registration required
IP address	API calls are proxied server-side; your IP is not forwarded to the AI backend
Usage analytics	No behavioral profiling
Chat history	Conversations are not stored server-side

WordPress Plugin Privacy Measures

The WordPress plugin is built with privacy-protective defaults:

• Stateless — no user data is written to the WordPress database
• No cookies or localStorage — no persistent client-side state
• No third-party scripts — all JavaScript and CSS is self-hosted (CDN-free)
• API proxying — the plugin proxies all API calls through your WordPress server, so the Patriot University backend never receives your browser’s IP address
• SRI integrity hashes on all scripts and stylesheets
• CSRF protection via WordPress nonces on all AJAX actions
• Content Security Policy headers automatically injected on plugin pages

Encryption (Backend)

Layer	Technology
In-transit	TLS 1.3
Server storage	AES-256
API key storage	Encrypted in WordPress options using AUTH_KEY

Know Your Rights — Quick Reference

If approached by law enforcement or ICE:

1. Stay calm. You do not have to consent to a search.
2. Say clearly: “I do not consent to this search.”
3. You have the right to remain silent. You do not have to answer questions beyond identifying yourself (in stop-and-identify states).
4. You have the right to an attorney. Say: “I want a lawyer.”
5. Do not physically resist — even an unlawful arrest. Resist legally, not physically.
6. Document everything after the encounter — time, location, badge numbers, witness names.

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10. Troubleshooting

AI Advisor offline or not responding

1. Check your internet connection.
2. The backend may be temporarily down — try again in a few minutes.
3. For legal help that does not require internet: 1-888-654-3326 (National Lawyers Guild).

Content not loading or out of date

1. Hard-refresh the page (Ctrl+Shift+R / Cmd+Shift+R).
2. Try a private/incognito browser window to rule out a browser cache issue.
3. If a specific document seems outdated, use the contact form to report it.

Voting guide not displaying (WordPress embeds)

1. Check the WordPress admin (Settings → Patriot University) that the API URL is correct.
2. Verify the API token has been entered and saved.
3. Check the PHP error log for patriot_api_error entries.
4. Ensure the server can reach the API URL (check firewall rules and that sslverify is true).

Knowledge Base browser not showing results

1. Verify the [patriot_knowledge_base] shortcode is on the page.
2. Check that the plugin is activated and configured with a valid API URL.
3. Check the browser console for AJAX errors.

AI chatbot not appearing

1. Confirm the [patriot_chatbot] or [patriot_chatbot_button] shortcode is present on the page.
2. Check for JavaScript errors in the browser console that might indicate a conflict with another plugin.
3. Verify the API token is set in plugin settings.

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11. Emergency Contacts

Save these numbers before you need them — they work without internet.

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Legal Emergencies

National Lawyers Guild Legal Hotline 📞 1-888-654-3326 (toll-free, 24/7) Civil liberties emergencies — arrest, detention, police encounters.

ACLU Know Your Rights 📞 1-800-775-2258 Legal referrals and rights information.

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Voting Rights

Election Protection / Voter Protection Hotline 📞 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683) If you are denied the right to vote or experience voter intimidation.

DOJ Voting Rights Hotline 📞 1-800-253-3931 Report voter intimidation, suppression, or discrimination.

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Immigration

CLINIC Immigration Legal Help 📞 1-301-565-4800 Immigration legal assistance referrals.

RAICES 📞 1-210-222-0734 Immigration legal services and family separation.

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Related Documentation

Document	Audience	Location
Editor’s Manual	Content creators, editors, researchers	docs/EDITORS-MANUAL.md
Administrator’s Manual	Platform administrators, DevOps	docs/administrators/ADMINISTRATORS-MANUAL.md
Category Taxonomy	Editors, administrators	docs/category-taxonomy.yaml
Frontmatter Schema	Editors	docs/frontmatter-schema.md

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Patriot University — Civil Rights & Voting Rights Platform Version 1.5.0 · May 2026 Updated · July 2026

This document is for educational purposes only and is not legal advice.