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Since January 20, 2025, searches for information on government websites often result in a 404 alert, Page Not Found. This administration is literally WHITE washing our history. Search term entered “us forest service lolo native american lands” leads to this:

Thousands of data sets have been scrubbed from federal .gov websites.

Since January a significant number of government websites and resources have been removed or modified. Executive Order 14151, signed on January 20, 2025, resulted in the removal of over 8,000 web pages and approximately 3,000 datasets across multiple federal agencies. Major affected agencies include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Census Bureau, the Department of Justice, NASA, and the Department of Defense.

Information about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women was deleted from the Department of Justice website.

Charlene Aqpik Apok, executive director of Data for Indigenous Justice, said:

“We still know what was said. We still know our truth. We still know our stories, and they can't take that away from us. Our knowledge and our truth is something that cannot be erased.”

The report the DOJ removed, titled “Not One More” can be found here.

Arlington National Cemetery removed content highlighting Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from its website, including:

• Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (first African American in the U.S. space program)

• Major General Marcelite J. Harris (first Black woman major general)

This was always the plan as outlined in Project 2025.

This tracker shows the overall progress toward the Project 2025 objectives to date.

In this time, we must all be the holder and the teller of our true story. The sheer volume and decentralized nature of government websites make it hard to track every deletion or change. You can help, and support work done by the following groups:

• Wayback Machine: resources for historical versions of government websites.

• End of Term Web Archive: libraries and research organizations to preserve U.S. government websites during presidential transitions.

• GovWayback: archived versions of government websites from before January 20, 2025.

• Data Rescue Projects: University and advocacy groups mirroring and archiving government datasets and web content.

We the People must remain vigilant. Attend public meetings. If you have resources and expertise in a particular field, find a way to dig in and help. Gather information, share it in public spaces. Exercise our constitutional right to know, enshrined in Mont. Const. art. II § 9:

No person shall be deprived of the right to examine documents or to observe the deliberations of all public bodies or agencies of state government and its subdivisions, except in cases in which the demand of individual privacy clearly exceeds the merits of public disclosure.

This provision is part of Montana’s Declaration of Rights and establishes a fundamental constitutional right for us to access government information and proceedings.

Media organizations and people who are not residents of Montana can exercise the right to know provision contained in Article II, Section 9: No person shall be deprived of the right to examine documents ... of all public bodies or agencies of state government and its subdivisions.

This administration fears the truth. We the People must hold it accountable for its actions. Find a way to follow information you know should be publicly available, and be the public guardian of democracy. Anyone with a free account can upload media to the Internet Archive.

Exercise our constitutional rights and hold those who work for us accountable.

All together.