A former CIA officer turned Biden DHS insider — now raking in tens of millions in no-bid Department of Energy contracts tied to America’s nuclear arsenal — is openly recommending a Serbian-style “color revolution” manual as the blueprint for resisting President Trump’s second term.
His name is Steven A. Cash.
And the receipts are ironclad: USAspending.gov contract data, FEC filings, and multiple videos of the man himself.
Cash isn’t some random activist shouting into the void. He’s a connected player with deep roots in the intelligence community, a history of treating Donald Trump as an “existential threat,” and a company, Deck Prism LLC, that has secured more than $15 million in Department of Energy contracts — many of them sole-source or non-competed. One of those contracts is with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the agency responsible for America’s nuclear weapons program. The government justified keeping the details secret because “disclosure would compromise national security.”Yet while Cash’s firm holds those sensitive contracts, he’s been caught on camera twice helping organize resistance against the very administration now overseeing them — and partnering with the NoKings protest network.
From Clinton-Era CIA to Biden’s DHS and Back to ‘The Resistance’
Cash served as a CIA officer during the Clinton administration, focused on the Balkans. After Trump’s 2016 victory, he didn’t sit on the sidelines. The very next day, Cash co-founded “The Steady State,” a network of more than 340 former intelligence community officials who publicly declared Trump an existential danger to the country.
When Biden won in 2020, the panic suddenly evaporated. Cash slid seamlessly into a plum role inside the Biden administration: Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary at DHS Intelligence & Analysis.
In his own words, captured on video: “We disappeared.”But when Trump won again in 2024, the “existential threat” was magically back. The Steady State reactivated and is now a planning partner with the NoKings protest movement, the latest vehicle for organized anti-Trump demonstrations.
On Camera: Recommending the Otpor Documentary as a ‘How-To’
GuideIn footage from a recent strategy meeting tied to NoKings planning, Cash explicitly recommends the 2001 documentary “Bringing Down a Dictator,” the story of the Otpor! movement that helped topple Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević using nonviolent resistance, mass mobilization, and color-revolution tactics.
He presents it not as a historical curiosity, but as a practical “how-to” manual for the current moment.
This is the same man whose company is still actively contracted on nuclear security work for the United States government.
Follow the Money: Taxpayer-Funded Nuclear Contracts + 100% Democrat
DonationsDeck Prism LLC’s contract history is jaw-dropping. According to USAspending.gov, the firm has pulled in over $15 million from the Department of Energy. The overwhelming majority were awarded without competition — sole-source deals that bypassed normal bidding processes.
One NNSA contract was explicitly shielded from public scrutiny on national security grounds.
Meanwhile, Cash’s personal political giving tells the real story. FEC records show more than 20 donations spanning two decades — 100% to Democrats, zero to Republicans. That includes a $1,001 contribution to Kamala Harris on August 4, 2024 — right in the middle of his active NNSA nuclear contract. No ambiguity. No “both sides.” Just a steady pipeline of taxpayer dollars flowing to a man who views one political party as an existential threat — and who is now helping script the resistance playbook against it.
This isn’t “peaceful protest.” This is a highly connected former intelligence operative with ongoing access to some of the most sensitive national security contracts in the federal government, openly coaching activists on how to bring down a democratically elected president using the same tactics once deployed against foreign dictators.
The Steady State didn’t fade away when Trump left office. It simply went underground — into the Biden administration — and roared back the moment Trump returned.
Americans have every right to ask: How many more Steven A. Cashes are embedded inside the federal bureaucracy and its contractor class, still holding security clearances and nuclear-related contracts while they plot the next phase of the resistance?TheBlaze will continue to follow this story as more footage, contracts, and connections surface. The American people deserve full transparency on who is being paid by their tax dollars to undermine their vote.
