Dialog — a secretive, invite-only network founded two decades ago by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman, the star investors and entrepreneurs — is preparing a major expansion, including a real estate purchase to build a campus in the D.C. suburbs, a tipster familiar with the group’s plans tells Axios.
Why it matters: Dialog, often compared to a tech-era Bilderberg, has quietly become one of the most elite, and mysterious, gatherings for CEOs, elected officials, and intellectual heavyweights.
Dialog leaders are in active discussions to buy a physical venue in Virginia, just outside Washington, to serve as a permanent hub for its off-the-record meetings, the tipster says.
The decision to buy land, then build, within commuting distance of the capital shows the group isn’t just kissing President Trump’s ring, but plans to be engaged in Washington long after this term.
So much of the problem at the root of this is the mythology around America as a democracy. Like, when you think about the OG Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, what you’re describing really is a bunch of rich fucks huddled together in a conference room, plotting to rewrite the legal foundation of their nation in secret.
What you’re taught is to envision this as some grand forum of intellectuals gathering together to charter a liberal utopia. Not a bunch of business goons plotting to hijack an enormous strip of coastal real estate via propaganda and espionage.
The Liberal Peter Thiel Cronies are better than the Conservative Peter Thiel Cronies. And if you don’t agree, you’re probably working for Russia.
Nobody can excuse continuing to invest in Palantir anymore. Even if you could have fooled yourself at one point into thinking it didn’t matter, here’s an official report explaining why it’s wrong.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/