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If I click Join I am immediately redirected to a "Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access doge.gov" CloudFlare page. That's odd.

same, i'm assuming they've set up a firewall rule on the cloudflare dashboard to block non-internal ips for certain routes

It's a block for non-US IPs, I think. The page is an application form for joining them, and it only accepts US citizens.

I think this is it, in eu i get blocked but if I access it via VPN I can open the page

US citizens have to pay federal taxes abroad but now can't view federal websites.

Yup, that checks out

That's been the case for a long time. I made a big stink about not being able to fill out my census survey to my congresswomen. It got nowhere.