Jennica Pounds at RMV Freedom Fest 2026

Jennica Pounds — known online as Data Republican — is an independent data analyst and DOGE contributor whose work has surfaced billions of dollars in federal waste. She speaks Saturday afternoon at the RMV Freedom Festival.

ABOUT JENNICA POUNDS

Jennica Pounds, better known online as Data Republican, is a software engineer and open-source data investigator whose AI-powered analyses of federal spending, NGO funding flows, and government contracts have driven national conversations about waste, fraud, and abuse in U.S. government.

Working independently and with collaborators including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), her data investigations have surfaced billions of dollars in questionable federal payments, prompted congressional inquiries, and influenced federal policy on grant oversight and NGO transparency.

Her approach is technical, methodical, and refreshingly direct: download the public data, run the analysis, publish the results. At Freedom Festival 2026 she walks through what she has found, what she is currently investigating, and what citizens can do with the same public datasets she uses.