GIL DURAN - The Nerd Reich

Event Date: December 12, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm

Saturday, December 12 at 2:00 pm
Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma
Tickets: $25 for Event – $60 for Event & Reception – Click Here

GIL DURAN
The Nerd Reich

Gil Duran’s NY Times bestseller, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, is an urgent accounting of the techno-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics and Silicon Valley to its current moment on the international stage. Duran explores the manic and dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center – but, more important, he offers a roadmap to resistance.

From The Guardian: 
“Duran, a journalist and former political advisor, lays out the narrative in exacting detail, outlining the connections between these men (and it is all men) and the origins of their often deeply weird beliefs, many of which view everyone outside their circle or opposed to their agenda as expendable.”

Born Tulare, CA, Duran is the grandson of Mexican immigrant farmworkers. He got his first taste of work in the fields, but took an interest in journalism after winning the local newspaper’s “My Mom is theBest” contest in the fifth grade. He graduated from DePauw University in 1988 and started his journalism career at the San Jose Mercury News. As the newspaper industry hit turbulence, he pivote to politics and spend ten years as a advisor to politicians, including Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, and Kamala Harris. In 2018, he returned to journalistm as California opinion editor of the Sacramento Bee, and later became editorial page editor of the San Francisco Examiner. Now, and independent journalist, he publishes two newsletters: The Nerd Reich, focused on tech politics, and FrameLab, focused on political language.

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