Executive Office of the President awarded a no-bid contract to Parscale's Campaign Nucleus for Freedom 250 sites that collected visitors' data

On July 1, 2026, the Executive Office of the President awarded a non-competitive $66,000 blanket purchase agreement to Campaign Nucleus LLC, a digital firm founded by Brad Parscale, Donald Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaign digital director. The agreement, which runs through 2031 and is described in the federal contract record only as "EVENT PLANNING," formalized Campaign Nucleus's role in operating the public-facing infrastructure of Freedom 250 — the administration's programming around the nation's 250th anniversary.

That infrastructure includes the government-redirect domain 250.gov and the event-registration platform events.freedom250.org, which were built and operated by the National Design Studio, a temporary Executive Office of the President entity created by executive order and staffed largely by former employees of the U.S. DOGE Service. Reporting by The Guardian found that the Freedom 250 sites tracked visitors' precise geolocation — logging latitude, longitude, velocity, and bearing — and captured form-entered personal information through an embedded analytics script. The tracking script was quietly removed around mid-June 2026, shortly after The Guardian sought comment.

Campaign Nucleus separately collects the names, states, ZIP codes, and mobile numbers of people who register for Freedom 250 events, and, according to its own privacy policy and prior reporting on its methods, uses that data to score individuals for "persuadable" voter targeting. Parscale worked with the data firm Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 Trump campaign; Cambridge Analytica later became the subject of a major scandal over the harvesting of tens of millions of Facebook users' data without consent. The arrangement channels taxpayer funds and government-branded web infrastructure to a political operative whose business model is built on assembling and monetizing voter data.