Website called 'Dogequest' created to dox Tesla owners nationwide

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 19 March 2025 23:52 EDT


As protests against DOGE head Elon Musk spread across the country, a website called “Dogequest” has reportedly published the personal details of Tesla owners, leading to concerns about privacy and safety.

The site reveals the names, addresses and phone numbers of Tesla owners on an interactive map and uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as a cursor. The operators of the site have stated that they will only remove the information of Tesla owners who prove that they have sold their cars, according to 404 Media.

The new site comes amid a number of attacks on Tesla properties, such as arson at showrooms and service centers, seemingly in protest of Musk and his role in the administration of President Donald Trump. The map on the site also includes the locations of Tesla dealerships and superchargers as well as the personal information of staff at the Department of Government Efficiency, which is led by Musk.

The accuracy of the information remains unclear. Some of the people included on the site are verified Tesla owners, backers of the company or Musk, according to 404 Media.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/tesla-owners-targeted-dogequest-website-musk-b2718404.html

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Heads-up to DU Tesla owners.

[travelingthrulife]

1. This is a really bad move.

Don't go after the car owners, go after Tesla and Musk. These people are already in for a world of hurt when resale value plummets and parts and service become unavailable. Most are just innocent consumers.

[The Grand Illuminist]

4. Yet at the same time....

Unfortunately, innocence can be the most dangerous. They are the contributors, knowingly, yet unknowingly.

[travelingthrulife]

5. So I own a Prius. If Toyota does something bad I can expect to be doxed???

I am at fault???

[Quanto Magnus]

23. I don't think the heads of Toyota

are trying to turn the U.S. into a Fascist Oligarchy.

I don't think violence should be perpetrated against these owners.

[Hekate]

37. How about not endorsing or condoning violence against any car owners at all? Period. Full stop.

[kysrsoze]

8. Contributors? Like me and a number of friends who bought our cars 5 years ago? WTF is wrong with you?

There are hundreds of thousands of people who bought these cars WAY before Musk started acting like a jackass. Do we deserve to be doxxed for knowlingly, yet unknowingly supporting what's happening now? They've been around since 2015.

You know what's dangerous? Broad-brushing a couple of million people for the cars they bought over the last 10 years.

[hueymahl]

13. Terrible take

We should be better than this. A LOT better.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. "We should be better than this" - Who is "we"?

Why is there an assumption that this is sanctioned by the Democratic Party and its members, associates, or followers?

"WE" need to stop broad-brushing the acts of a FEW to somehow represent the sentiments of ALL.

[hueymahl]

20. I have seen a lot of Democrats take joy in the vandalism

Even on this site. Maybe "WE" should stop ignoring reality.

BTW, in no way did I say it was sanctioned by the Democratic Party. Now you are just putting words in my mouth (on my keyboard? 😀

[BumRushDaShow]

21. "I have seen a lot of Democrats take joy in the vandalism"

There is a BIG difference between "taking joy" in or even taking note of something, and actually carrying out any criminal activity like vandalizing.

THAT should be the take-away here. I.e., to establish that there is no "1984"-style "thought police" running amok.

BTW, in no way did I say it was sanctioned by the Democratic Party. Now you are just putting words in my mouth (on my keyboard? 😀

When you say "We" on a discussion board that has a TOS that says this in part -

Core Principles

Democratic Underground is an online community for friendly, politically liberal people who understand the importance of working together to elect more Democrats and fewer Republicans to all levels of American government. Constructive criticism of Democratic politicians, party officials, and public figures is welcome and encouraged, but we expect our members to follow our forum rules and participate in a manner which promotes a positive atmosphere.

Members are not expected to hold across-the-board progressive opinions on every single issue, but we do expect members to be generally progressive and to support Democrats at election time -- remember that and respect it when posting. Harsh, divisive, partisan attacks against Democrats or progressive values (from the right or the left) are not welcome here.

(snip)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=termsofservice

then what else can one assume when one says "We", when associated with the carrying out of clearly criminal acts as if it is "We" who are actually doing such?

[hueymahl]

55. Now you are just creating a tortured argument

To prove your point or maybe get the last word? I’m going to continue to call out bad behavior when I see it. I support Democrats and the Democratic Party 100%. That means calling out bad behavior when I see it, otherwise we end up in an echo chamber and get blindsided when we lose. Hmm. When did that last happen???

[BumRushDaShow]

60. There is no "tortured argument". You can call out "bad behavior"

but I disagree with attributing that bad behavior to "Democrats"/"progressives"/"liberals" by using some all-inclusive "We".

See this - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143422187

I am sure there are lots and lots of "Democrats"/"liberals"/"progressives" running around with "suppressed AR-15"s and molotov cocktails.

[hueymahl]

61. No one said it was exclusively Democrats

Or Democrats at all. I said/implied we should not be cheering them on/engaging in scheudenfraud. But excellent use of a straw man!

[BumRushDaShow]

62. When one says "We" without what you just added now

then one cannot assume what you meant by "We" other than what seems to happen on DU far too often - which is embracing the "negative" and attributing it to something "We" did or do.

[stopdiggin]

32. so the anti-Tesla stuff is driven by the - - right?

com'on, dude! . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
This crap is clearly coming from somewhere left of the center line - and it deserves the loudest and most vocal of condemnation from - guess who? Our side. 'We' should be making very clear, "NOT my people", and "NOT okay with me."

A shrug of the shoulders, and, "Meh ... wasn't me .. " Doesn't quite cut it.

[BumRushDaShow]

35. "so the anti-Tesla stuff is driven by the - - right?"

If a large chunk of the owners of these vehicles are "liberals' and "progressives", why would they torch their own rides?

com'on, dude! . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Dudette.

And a com'on "dude" right back. That argument makes no sense.

This crap is clearly coming from somewhere left of the center line - and it deserves the loudest and most vocal of condemnation from - guess who? Our side. 'We' should be making very clear, "NOT my people", and "NOT okay with me."

No it's not. Yet another trying to accept responsibility for criminal behavior from unknown assailants. That's about as clueless as one can get.

A shrug of the shoulders, and, "Meh ... wasn't me .. " Doesn't quite cut it.

It sure as hell DOES cut it unless you consider yourself idiots like "Black Bloc" or some of anti-fa groups that are out there. They have NOTHING to do with the Democratic Party NOR with "liberals" or "progressives".

People need to get a fucking clue. It's amazing how gullible people are.

NEWSFLASH - there are a whole pile of RW LOONS - many lead by Steve Bannon (remember him?) who HATE Muskrat. Bannon has been the BIGGEST BLOWHARD of their crowd railing against Muskrat. Remember that RW "civil war" talk? The "populists" of the RW loons claim they don't like "oligarchs" either. 45 has been trying to get them to "reconcile" but it hasn't totally happened yet, nor have his followers completely caved.

[Polybius]

41. My take...

This isn't coming from Republicans or Democrats, it's coming from extremists. The kind that protest at college campuses and didn't vote for Harris.

[BumRushDaShow]

53. Exactly

People forget about the types of people/groups who do this stuff - like Black Bloc (or extremists who copy those tactics), who terrorized poor Portland, OR, for what had to be a good part of a year -



https://itsgoingdown.org/disruptj20-takes-portland/

and also did this (this is the first I'm seeing of this story ) -

'F*** Joe Biden': Portland Protesters Vandalize Democrat HQ After Inauguration

You had similar go on with the pro-Palestinian protests, with provocateurs dressing in black with face coverings, vandalizing -



These people aren't "liberals" or "progressives" or "Democrats" and we should NOT somehow assume they are and reach out to embrace false characterizations as being "us".

[Scrivener7]

14. No. Most bought the cars with the best of intentions

before Mump was on the national political scene.

[Miguelito Loveless]

17. Indeed! What's next

going after folks who bought solar?

[The Mouth]

26. California is doing that.

The CPUC wants to cut the NREM payments of even the people who installed their systems years ago.

[Miguelito Loveless]

16. How am I a contributor when I bought my car YEARS before

Musk manifested his fascism fetish? Writing off myself and hundreds of thousands of others who saw buying an EV as helping the planet by reducing pollution is rather unfair, and rather vindictive.

And before you tell me to sell my car and buy another, tell me where I will find the money to do so.

[stopdiggin]

36. This is the kind of nonsense

that burns all of our bridges ...
So every 1940s housewife that buys a sack of sugar, to bake cookies for a birthday - is a 'contributor' 'collaborator' in the slave trade? Rrrrriiight! That'll teach em'!

Lord deliver us from the 'purists'. It's no wonder the people in Reading turn around and walk away ..

[Polybius]

39. So you would look the other way if I died

All because I am stuck in a lease.

[Biglinda 52]

51. Makes me wonder....

if the Right is doing this. Are the protests and blackouts beginning to work? Are we being set up?

Just a thought.

[womanofthehills]

68. There is an even worse problem going on -

Republican reporters and conservative talk show hosts are being “swatted” almost every night for the last week - and it’s being blamed on Democrats on social media. On Twitter, TicToc etc there are ring camera videos every day of police surrounding Republican talks show hosts/reporters houses with their guns drawn - handcuffing some. Often there are kids in the house. Truly psychopathic behavior but Democrats are being blamed. The caller usually says the man of the house just killed his dogs, girlfriend or family. You think the police would be on to it right now but they keep “swatting “ .

Also, most Tesla’s have cameras - so lots of videos of people keying Tesla’s online - clear videos where the person could be easily identified. So lots of posts like “help us make this person famous and identify this Democrat”. It’s out of control - now videos of SICK people smearing their shit on Tesla’s and of road rage on Tesla’s Some very sick people out there and unfortunately social media is blaming it on Dems.

Social media has changed the world - so we will probably see more of this psychopathic stuff.

[mercuryblues]

2. My question is

Who has access to all of this information. All in one nice neat bundle who could it possibly be that knows everything about you through computer searches and such. Who has been collecting all that information

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Like any car company that sends out notices of "Recalls"

there may be some central database for each of the car companies that is used to mail out notices to (probably required by the NHTSA).

Private resellers wouldn't be included (perhaps the original owner might still be listed). But I would expect that if someone buys a car at a dealer, that info is captured.

[defacto7]

3. It's illogical.

How are they going to sell them? To whom? Are they going to go after those who buy them from the original owner?
Round and round ...

[StarryNite]

18. Exactly. There is no logic in this and it's just plain wrong.

[The Mouth]

28. I'll buy a used one, gladly

And give a piece of my mind (or more) to any ignorant twat who has a problem with me driving it.

[defacto7]

42. Freedom!

Your choice. Maybe you'll get a good deal ... ?

Good luck.

[The Mouth]

63. The environmental costs have already been incurred, Musk has already made a profit

As far as someone upset about symbolism? Let 'em be upset, I could not care less.

[Blues Heron]

64. Congrats, you're helping musks brand!

Awesome!

[The Mouth]

69. LOL

[Polybius]

43. When I first got mine, it was the Right who shouted obscenities

Guys in huge pickup trucks with MAGA bumper stickers giving me the finger. Now the attacks are coming from the Left.

[Blues Heron]

70. Gee I wonder why

[Polybius]

71. Because people are idiots

Leave the drivers alone.

[Blues Heron]

72. You should consider selling it- the nazi stigma is only going to get worse as the coup unfolds.

[Polybius]

73. I'm stuck in a lease

I can't get out of it yet.

[Blues Heron]

74. Got it

[IA8IT]

6. Terrible Idea

[Torchlight]

9. Had they been available,

I certainly wouldn't have driven a Mitsubishi down Main Street in 1942.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Or one of these

(1938)

True story but in college, one of my college buddies had a '60s era Bug and the summer before my senior year when working as a New Students Program counselor, a bunch of us hopped in her Bug - literally 9 of us thanks to the front and back bench seats, and drove to Brewster, MA (and later Provincetown) from Amherst, which was about 90 miles away. They are deceptive looking considering how "small" they look from the outside but that hides how roomy they are inside.

[LauraInLA]

22. We bought our car several years ago, as part of CA's green initiative. How is my husband supposed to get to work,

a 1.5 hour trip each way that is not feasible by subway or bus, if he doesn’t use our car? We are purposely a one-car family.

[Torchlight]

24. I spoke only for myself.

I see it as gathering pebbles from a beach. I can't carry them all, of course, but I can certainly carry a handful in my hands each day.

[winstars]

10. Sounds like something a MAGA Lee Atwater wannabe would put out to hurt our side!!!???

[hueymahl]

12. This is ridiculous and immoral

Advocating domestic terrorism, essentially. I'm willing to bet, a lot, that there are far more Democrats that own Teslas than there are Republicans. But even if it was 100% Republican owned, we should be against this and vocally shouting it down.

Morals matter.

[moonshinegnomie]

19. the site is down

i dont condone doxxing owner of the cars.
doxxing tesla executives as well as doge employees I have no problem with.
im torn about doxxing cybertruck owners as they knew what he was when they bought the swaticar

[Polybius]

44. I have a problem with doxing anyone

I'd like to see a new law where it carries 25-life.

[FakeNoose]

54. By naming names and other pertinent info, they are inviting retribution

Why would Repukes do this? They'd be punishing the progressives who supported Tesla's initiative to undock our economy with the fossil fuels industry. They would also be hurting future sales of their dear leader Elon Musk.

I don't see Repukes running out and buying Teslas, do you? This doxxing doesn't make sense.

[The Mouth]

25. Fucking stupid. And we wonder why we lose elections.

LOTS of people bought Teslas because it was a comparatively good enviromental choice.

Stupid, immature, useless assholes that have nothing to do but make progressives look ignorant and piss off all but a few kooks.

Do you want to look for the Republican agents provocateurs? Look at jerks like this.

[BumRushDaShow]

33. "And we wonder why we lose elections."

Who is "We"?

Another broad-brush exhortation that assumes that this is somehow being carried out by Democrats/liberals/progressives.

It's amazing how "We" want so much to "reach out to take blame" for something that most likely had nothing to do with "Us".

[Polybius]

45. It's not being carried out by mainstream Democrats and liberals

Last edited Thu Mar 20, 2025, 02:35 PM - Edit history (1)

It's being carried out by extremists. The kind that don't vote for Democrats anyway.

[cadoman]

67. carried out--no, but situational awareness is a must here

People are being sloppy with their associations. It's very easy to get attached to a bad group. Be cautious.

I hate to say dial back the rhetoric when this is creating heat for "President" Musk and his hoodied gang of nerd misfits, but a boycott is all we really need here. Nazler's foundational customers were mostly progressive, so if we walk the company dies. There's no need for anything further. Verbally shame their customers when the opportunity presents and leave it at that.

Don't underestimate our power to destroy fascism with its favorite tool of oppression: the "free" market.

[stopdiggin]

48. both the vandalism and the doxing, are dumb, dumb, dumb

(and on top of being criminal, oftentimes targeting innocents and even supporters)

and it is not being carried out (nor promoted) by skinheads and Oath Keepers ...

[BumRushDaShow]

57. But one cannot assume this is "liberals"/"progressives"/"Democrats"

as people seem to be asserting.

And the Portland "riots" weren't carried out by skinheads or Oath Keepers either. But they ALSO WEREN'T done by "progressives" or "liberals" or anyone who professes to support what DU stands for.

It's amazing that any Democrat would assert that if it isn't the GOP loons, then it is "us", completely ignoring all the radical, non-affiliated groups that exist out there.

I have a story in a tab right now ready to post of who was arrested for some of the incidents and they don't "fit the description" of the seemingly milquetoast "liberal".

[intheflow]

50. You mean

It's amazing how "We" want so much to "reach out to take blame" for something that most likely had nothing to do with "Us".

Like how this web site wants to blame people who unknowingly bought Teslas prior to DOGE targeting our government? They had nothing to do with DOGE, but these folks want to dox them. That does indeed make liberals look stupid.

[BumRushDaShow]

58. But then WHO were creators of that site?

Why would you automatically assume they were "Democrats"/"progressives"/"liberals"???

Remember these idiots?



https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-van-deusen-green-mountain-anarchist-collective-emergence-of-the-black-bloc-the-movement-t

Why would anyone automatically assume they were the people who support the ideals of DU?

[Blues Heron]

65. Nailed it. They are so obvious

[berksdem]

27. This is wrong...

do what I did about 15 minutes ago and give them the finger on the streets. I just did it to some tool in his cybertruck.

[stopdiggin]

29. this is the kind of mindless 'resistance' (if it is even deserving of that label)

(have no way of knowing who - or what - is behind this 'site' )
That absolutely kills us in the court of public opinion. Same reaction as those that use 'protest' as cover to go out and burn cars and buildings, and loot businesses.

If you are participating in this - or even giving this a thumbs up or a giggle - - YOU'RE A FRIGGIN' MORON !

[Callie1979]

30. Good way wo get yourself shot. Dont be stupid.

Tesla OWNERS have zero to do with Musk

[Owens]

31. Tell Musk to keep his hands off our names and private data!

[Hekate]

34. Bad idea. This includes my niece and her family. They "bought the car before they knew Elon was crazy"

She’s already got several stickers on her car indicating that, and she still cringes when she parks at work.

Do I have to even say this? — Jesus, people, don’t support doxxing.

[BlueKota]

40. I saw one of those stickers locally.

[BlueKota]

38. I don't approve or applaud owners of Teslas

being targeted for violence.

I do applaud the non-violent protests, kicking Teslas out of car shows, other countries banning them from being sold, not buying new or used ones, if you don't already have one, and selling the stock if it's in your investment portfolio.

It's fun watching the stock plummeting faster than one of Eloon's rockets.

[Polybius]

46. Find out who is responsible for this

And give them 25 years to life. I wouldn't even care if they wound up in Guantanamo Bay. FAFO.

[leftyladyfrommo]

47. Well, shit. This is awful. This makes me

really worry about my friends. They bought on good faith back before all the craziness.

And they are staunch Democrats who are really involved locally.

[stopdiggin]

52. yeah. totally BS. and it's the kind of moronic nonsense

that really, REALLY turns people off ....

'Taking it to the streets' - maybe not such a great idea - - if you're an imbecile !

[intheflow]

49. No, this is bullshit!

A lot of people bought Teslas in good faith and for environmental reasons before three months ago. They paid big bucks they will have to eat now if they sell the vehicle. I mean, if they want to dox people who have bought Teslas in the past two months, maaaaybe. But a wholesale doxxing of average, normal people who bought a car before they understood it would benefit a madman bent on world domination? No fucking way.

[JoseBalow]

56. I know which brand I won't be buying

Regardless all the other good reasons not to buy one, it's just not worth the risk.

[mdmc]

59. Riot - the unbeatable high

tomorrow your homeless tonights its a blast

[Montauk6]

66. So, is THIS the anti-MAGA answer to "Wikileaks"...?

[fujiyamasan]

75. I wouldn't be surprised if musk is behind this chaos

Maybe hired a few of his little DOGE brownshirts to cook this website up to gain sympathy and more nefariously give the administration more sweeping powers and ability to crack down on “domestic terrorism”.

Musk really doesn’t give a fuck about Tesla. He clearly no longer cares about the shareholders and he really never cared about the customers given how they try to skirt every regulation they can - and how shoddy the quality is.

That said, anarchists and other likeminded idiots do set shit on fire. It can’t be excused, but sorry it all feels way too coordinated.

[bucolic_frolic]

76. Cue the 'we can protect you and your Tesla' emails

Doxing insurance policies too