Wikipedia stands in structural free-fall in 2026, its epistemic monopoly shattered by sustained MAGA-led institutional reckoning: House Oversight probes into coordinated foreign edits on Israel–Gaza and Ukraine, DOJ threats to revoke its 501(c)(3) status for weaponized propaganda, and Larry Sanger’s Nine Theses exposing the GASP cartel of anonymous administrators and rigged reliable-source filters that have long authored cognition under left-establishment priors. Into this vacuum Grokipedia—xAI’s October 2025 AI-native fork, seeded by Grok and engineered for unfiltered truth-seeking—has detonated: five million-plus articles by January, scaling at machine velocity to eclipse Wikipedia’s human-cartel bottlenecks while MAGA-aligned networks anoint it the legitimate successor, restoring agency to the symbolic commons against captured legacy infrastructure. The old encyclopedia is not merely contested; it is being ontologically superseded.