Executive Order 2029-10: Prohibition of Psychological Warfare and Establishing the National Psychological Integrity Task Force | Executive Order

Executive Summary

Executive Order 2029-10 is built on a simple premise: a democratic republic cannot remain meaningfully free if public institutions, contractors, and concentrated private systems learn to govern the population through fear, emotional destabilization, dependency, coercive information environments, and engineered hopelessness. The order treats psychological warfare as a public-integrity issue, a health issue, a democracy issue, and a rule-of-law issue.

The order does not target ordinary speech, criticism, journalism, or public disagreement. Instead, it targets systematic frameworks that intentionally exploit cognitive vulnerability, trauma, confusion, and behavioral pressure to weaken judgment and secure compliance. It also establishes a federal task force to investigate where these frameworks exist and how they should be dismantled.

Key Provisions of Executive Order 2029-10

Section 1. Purpose

This Executive Order declares that the American people must not be governed through psychological degradation, mass manipulation, coercive behavioral engineering, dependency conditioning, or state-enabled information environments designed to confuse, exhaust, and destabilize the public mind. The purpose of this order is to identify, prohibit, and dismantle institutional practices that function as psychological warfare against the people of the United States.

Section 2. Findings

The order finds that a nation cannot remain free if its population is persistently subjected to fear saturation, engineered confusion, dependency pressure, predatory attention capture, manipulative digital architectures, and public-private systems that profit from anxiety, isolation, despair, and social fragmentation. The order further finds that psychological harm can be operationalized at scale through surveillance, propaganda, disinformation laundering, algorithmic amplification, behavioral targeting, economic precarity, and institutional gaslighting.

Section 3. Prohibition

No executive department, agency, contractor, grantee, federally regulated partner, or federally funded initiative may develop, coordinate, fund, conceal, or materially support programs that intentionally manipulate the population through psychological warfare tactics. Prohibited tactics include fear conditioning, mass behavioral destabilization, coercive persuasion, trauma exploitation, suppression of dissent through psychological intimidation, and information operations designed to fracture the public into states of confusion, passivity, or self-destructive compliance.

Section 4. National Psychological Integrity Task Force

This order establishes the National Psychological Integrity Task Force as an interagency and public-accountability body charged with investigating institutional psychological harm, recommending enforcement actions, coordinating public reporting, and developing national standards for psychological integrity in governance, education, health, labor, digital systems, and public communications.

Section 5. Public Rights

The American people are recognized as possessing a public right to psychological integrity. That right includes the right not to be intentionally governed through engineered fear, manipulated dependency, cognitive overload, covert behavioral targeting, institutional emotional abuse, or state-enabled propaganda ecosystems designed to weaken democratic judgment.

Section 6. Enforcement and Reporting

The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Education, and all relevant agencies shall coordinate enforcement and produce a public report identifying harmful frameworks, enforcement priorities, regulatory gaps, and recommendations for immediate legislative action. The first public report shall be issued within 180 days of formal implementation.

Full HTML Text of the Executive Order

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in recognition that a nation cannot remain free if its people are psychologically destabilized into submission, it is hereby ordered as follows. SECTION 1. PURPOSE. The purpose of this order is to prohibit the use of psychological warfare frameworks against the American people and to establish a durable federal mechanism for identifying, reporting, and dismantling institutional practices that function as coercive mass manipulation. SECTION 2. POLICY. It is the policy of the United States that the people shall not be managed as a population to be conditioned, exhausted, destabilized, distracted, or behaviorally shaped for the convenience of concentrated power. Government exists to serve a free people, not to psychologically engineer them into compliance. SECTION 3. FINDINGS. The President finds that the public can be injured not only through direct physical force, but also through persistent exposure to fear architectures, destabilizing economic frameworks, manipulative information systems, dependency-based governance, predatory digital ecosystems, and institutional gaslighting. These conditions can degrade democratic capacity, distort judgment, and undermine public trust on a national scale. SECTION 4. PROHIBITED PRACTICES. No department or agency of the Executive Branch, and no contractor, grantee, or partner receiving federal support, shall knowingly design, deploy, conceal, or materially support programs or systems that: (a) weaponize fear, confusion, trauma, or dependency to produce political passivity or obedience; (b) manipulate public behavior through covert behavioral targeting designed to exploit psychological vulnerability; (c) coordinate information operations intended to destabilize democratic participation or fracture social trust; (d) suppress lawful dissent through intimidation frameworks intended to induce hopelessness, exhaustion, or learned helplessness; or (e) profit from public psychological degradation while claiming public service. SECTION 5. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL INTEGRITY TASK FORCE. (a) There is hereby established the National Psychological Integrity Task Force. (b) The Task Force shall include representatives from the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, civil liberties experts, trauma-informed public-health professionals, and independent public-interest advisors. (c) The Task Force shall investigate frameworks that may constitute institutional psychological warfare, issue findings, recommend enforcement actions, identify responsible actors or structures where evidence supports doing so, and propose reforms that restore public psychological integrity. SECTION 6. PUBLIC RIGHTS AND NOTICE. The people of the United States possess a public right to psychological integrity. That right includes freedom from intentional mass manipulation, coercive dependency systems, covert behavioral exploitation, and institutional emotional abuse carried out or enabled through public power. All executive agencies shall treat psychological integrity as a legitimate public-interest concern in rulemaking, procurement, communications, and enforcement. SECTION 7. ENFORCEMENT. The Attorney General shall review all existing authorities for civil, criminal, consumer-protection, civil-rights, labor, education, and communications enforcement relevant to the objectives of this order. Agencies shall coordinate within 90 days to identify immediate actions available under existing law. SECTION 8. REPORTING. Within 180 days of implementation, the Task Force shall issue a public report describing: (a) the primary frameworks of institutional psychological harm identified; (b) public and private mechanisms that may be producing or amplifying such harm; (c) immediate federal actions recommended; (d) proposed legislative measures; and (e) recommendations for public education and long-term prevention. SECTION 9. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. Nothing in this order shall be construed to restrict lawful public health messaging, emergency communications, or constitutionally protected speech. The objective of this order is not censorship. It is the prevention of coercive, manipulative, and psychologically injurious governance frameworks. SECTION 10. EFFECTIVE DATE. This order shall take effect on January 20, 2029, at 12:00 noon Eastern Time. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of January, 2029. Vincent Cordova President of the United States

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