Top 10 leftist groups wreaking havoc across U.S., sabotaging Trump

See who's behind hysteria, 'hate' campaigns, fierce 'resistance' sweeping America

Chelsea Schilling

So America elected Donald Trump as president and you thought it was finished with the likes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, leftist billionaire George Soros and radical socialists hellbent on destroying the U.S.?

Not so fast! The nation is now seeing an explosion of coordinated anti-Trump “resistance” in a fierce, multi-front war on President Trump and America. And a WND investigation has found many groups leading the “Trump resistance movement” have the fingerprints of Soros, Clinton and Obama all over them.

The left has mobilized in a new surge of activism since Trump’s presidential campaign and election. “Resistance” groups – many with the help of Soros and Clinton – are flooding Democratic candidates with volunteers, financial aid and new energy. They’re mobilizing in opposition to President Trump and organizing to help Democrats take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. Activists are launching vicious “hate” campaigns and boycotts against conservatives, loudly disrupting GOP town-hall events and even stalking Republican congressmen by showing up at their homes.

Worse yet, radical socialists and anarchists are taking the opposition to a dangerous new level – disrupting speeches and rallies with bloody riots, brutal stabbings and extreme vandalism. They set fires to college campuses, businesses and vehicles while assaulting police officers with rocks, fireworks, bricks and Molotov cocktails. In a stomach-churning twist, the anarchists appear to favor weapons, such as bottles and balloons, filled with urine and feces.

While the anarchists wreaking havoc in the streets claim to have no structure, organization or leaders, many have strong ties or hold membership in other liberal activist groups leading the “resistance.”



Follow the money: No fingerprints, no trail

cash_magnifying-glassMuch of the funding for the anti-Trump organizations and protest groups in the “Trump resistance movement” comes from third-party, leftist grant-making organizations. This arrangement allows donors to contribute large sums of money while remaining completely anonymous.

Huge amounts of cash.

No fingerprints.

No money trail.

The grant-making organizations accept the contributions and disburse the funds to selected activist groups that launch anti-Trump campaigns and protest on the ground.

Many of the activist groups are linked to a leftist clearinghouse called the Tides Foundation, a 501(c)(3), a third party that accepts contributions from donors and funnels the money to leftist organizations. Leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundation has funded the Tides Foundation to the tune of at least $1.75 million.

And there’s another Soros-linked war chest that feeds leftist activists itching to “resist” all things Trump – the Emergent Fund.



In 2016, three leftist donor networks – the Solidaire Network, the Threshold Foundation and the Women Donors Network – joined forces to launch the Emergent Fund. In April, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the Fund had already raised more than a half-million dollars to fund groups that oppose Republicans, like the Black Lives Matter Network.

“These communities need increased capacity so that they can respond, act nimbly, and develop new strategies in this new period,” the Emergent Fund website states. “The fund will focus on grassroots organizations in communities of color who are facing injustice based on racial, ethnic, religious, and other forms of discrimination. We will provide resources to defend against what’s coming, and to develop innovative strategies to transform our country.”

The Threshold Foundation, which has paid Tides at least $2.5 million since 2001, according to the Washington Free Beacon, is located at the same San Francisco address as the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.

Other grant-making and fundraising organizations include ActBlue, the Advocacy Fund, the Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Philanthropy Project, New Media Ventures, Propel Capital, the Bauman Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, Compton Foundation and the Arkay Foundation.

To shed some light on the leftist chaos, sabotage and disruption, WND has compiled the following list of the Top 10 leftist groups leading the “Trump resistance movement” and wreaking havoc across America.

Number-1 Workers World Party

Members of the Workers World Party, a hard-core Marxist-Leninist group, have appeared at anti-monument and anti-Trump events across America. The party was founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy of the Socialist Workers Party. It has supported the Weather Underground Organization and had a strong presence in the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Workers World Party, or WWP, says it’s “dedicated to organizing and fighting for a socialist revolution in the United States and around the world.” WWP’s 2016 presidential nominee, Monica Moorehead, has vowed to unite with the Black Lives Matter movement. She said the party didn’t nominate anyone for president in 2008 and 2012 because, “Obama was the first black president and we understood the significance of that.” In 2008, Moorehead said, “Black people here and other people of African descent worldwide [should] be overwhelmed with joy and pride that a black man named Obama is the president-elect of the U.S. 250 plus years after George Washington – a slave owner – became president.”



The WWP was part of the so-called “counter-protester” group in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12. As WND reported, there was an explosion of racially charged violence and anger at the protest. A white nationalist named James Alex Fields Jr., 20, was jailed on suspicion of crashing his Dodge Challenger into a crowd, injuring dozens and killing a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer.

The mix of political extremists in Charlottesville included WWP and other radicals aligned with Antifa, a black-clad, helmet-wearing group of self-described anarchists and revolutionary communists known for violence and threats. The crowd gathered in response to a city plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee as part of a nationwide push to tear down Confederate symbols.

At one of its fundraising websites, WWP boasted about its involvement in the Charlottesville protest, writing the following:

“Workers World Party members and friends gathered from all over the East Coast to smash white supremacy in Charlottesville on Saturday, August 12. We did battle alongside a broad coalition of united militants – socialists, communists, anarchists, clergy, and everyday well meaning folks sick of racism – against the klan and their nazi running dogs. We gained a hero in Heather Heyer (¡presente!) but won a victory as we strengthened our resolve, united in the face of the enemy, and ran the Klan rank and file out of town.”

Later, on Aug. 15, three WWP members were arrested and charged with felonies after they toppled a Confederate monument in Durham, North Carolina. Their names are Takiyah Thompson, Dante Strobino and Ngoc Loan Tran. The WWP organized the protest that brought the statue down. The group receives funding through online donations at several websites such as Patreon, a web-based subscription platform.

“The people decided to take matters into our own hands and remove the statue,” said Thompson, the WWP member who tied a rope around the neck of the monument before it was pulled down. “We are tired of waiting on politicians who could have voted to remove the white supremacist statues years ago, but they failed to act. So we acted.”

WWP Durham branch member Alissa Ellis, who took part in the Charlottesville protest, told Raleigh’s WTVD-TV 11: “Charlottesville and racist monuments across the country are the result of centuries of white supremacy. But we cannot ignore the fact that the current Trump administration has emboldened more Nazis, KKK, and white supremacists to target, brutalize, and kill our communities. The White House and its elected white supremacists are just as responsible as hooded Klansmen and racist vigilantes for what happened. They have blood on their hands.”

And on Aug. 21, WWP’s Phil Gregory spoke at a Philadelphia rally, advocating the destruction of a statue of Frank Rizzo, a former Philadelphia police commissioner and mayor in the 1960s and ’70s. Rizzo, who had a reputation as a tough cop, is accused by his critics of waging a campaign to keep black Americans out of middle-class neighborhoods. During his tenure as commissioner, Philly had the lowest crime rate of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. Just before he ran for mayor in 1972, Philadelphia police raided the Black Panthers headquarters, angering many black citizens in Philadelphia. Rizzo died in July 1991.

WWP activists were also present at the Aug. 19 “Fight Supremacy” protest in Boston, Massachusetts. The protests turned violent, and police arrested 27 people for disorderly conduct, assault and battery on police officers and other charges. Police Commissioner William Evans said officers were hit with bottles of urine and rocks. WWP activist Diva T. Williams, who was at the Boston event, wrote: “Black-led, proactive fundraising ahead of the action enabled a swift, organized response to bail out every one of the 37 [sic] people who were unjustly brutalized and arrested by police in full riot gear after the final rally dispersed.”



The WWP showed support for Antifa and By All Means Necessary, or BAMN (see Antifa and BAMN entries below) after a June 2016 white nationalist rally in Sacramento – which was permitted and was organized by the Traditionalist Workers Party and Golden State Skinhheads – turned violent and seven people were stabbed and nine hospitalized. The Los Angeles Times reported that the white nationalists appeared to be “vastly outnumbered by protesters from anti-fascist groups.” The Times also later reported that police said the neo-Nazis, the group permitted to hold the event, didn’t start the violence. In fact, the “anti-fascist” groups initiated the violent clash.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. – one of Trump’s most outspoken haters, as she has called the president “the most deplorable person I’ve ever met in my life” – has indirectly and directly participated in WWP activities, according to Heat Street. In 2004, she was listed as the top guest at a rally put on by the International Action Center, a WWP offshoot that condemns all U.S. military use of force. In 2005, Waters had her aide, April Lawrence, attend and speak on social justice at the WWP “Peace Conference.” And in 2009, Waters spoke at a Michigan Coalition for Human Rights event. WWP organizer Abayomi Azikiwe was on the coalition’s board.

number-2 Color of Change

One group that has attacked President Trump and advocated for removing Confederate symbols across America is Color of Change, a nonprofit that was co-founded by President Obama’s former green-jobs czar, Van Jones, and Huffington Post contributor and former director of MoveOn.org James Rucker. The organization is backed by former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who has praised Color of Change in her tweets.

Color of Change is funded by grants from the Threshold Foundation (see “Follow the money” section of this report). It accepts contributions through the leftist political action committee ActBlue.

The group has launched a new petition titled, “Take Em ALL Down: Remove Every Confederate Symbol in America.” It has also called on members of Congress to remove all Confederate statues in the U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall.



Color of Change, which has partnerships with MoveOn.org and the Services Employees International Union, or SEIU, says it seeks to “strengthen black America’s political voice.” Color of Change Executive Director Rashad Robinson, along with Black Lives Matter co-founder Aislinn Pulley and other so-called “civil rights leaders,” met with President Obama in the White House in February 2016. Obama then praised the black activists as “serious young people” who “are much better organizers than I was at their age.”

Color of Change and its parent organization, Citizen Engagement Laboratory, has received $550,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundation since 2009, according to Activist Facts. Its largest funders, according to Bloomberg, include the Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Soros’ Open Society and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s open Philanthropy Project.

Color of Change states:

We cannot allow these white supremacist terrorists to intimidate us from confronting and working to dismantle systemic white supremacy. Confederate statues are more than a mere symbol of a heritage but instead, they are an assertion of the continued imposition of white supremacy and its current political power. Terrorists in Charlottesville understood this and were willing to kill in the name of this, we must be determined to persist in the face of this white supremacist terror.

We must work to end the influence of today’s White supremacists, removing all Confederate statues would be one step among many in sending the message that we are no longer honoring white supremacy at a societal level. We’ve already seen progress in Tampa and New Orleans, where Confederate symbols are being removed by Black-led organizing in the face of sustained white supremacist opposition. Join with me today and pledge to work to remove all Confederate statues in America.

Color of Change has also launched “Blood Money,” an online tracker that charts payment processing companies such as Paypal, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, demanding the companies stop supporting organizations in a list of more than 100 so-called “hate groups” identified by the extreme left organization the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC.

In the weeks since the Charlottesville violence, SPLC has hit the leftist jackpot, according to Fox News, receiving $1 million from Apple, a half-million from JP Morgan Chase & Co., and another $1 million from actor George Clooney and his wife, Amal. SPLC targets many mainstream conservatives, such as Dr. Ben Carson, and organizations such as the Family Research Council and lumps them together with white nationalists, KKK members and neo-Nazis.

As WND has reported, SPLC’s “hate” map designation has been linked to a mass shooting attempt in Washington, and many groups on the list are fighting back. Suddenly, it’s the SPLC that’s being called a “hate” organization, retractions are being demanded from newspapers that cite its propaganda and lawsuits are being filed.

SPLC is considered the wealthiest “civil rights group” in America. Groups that have contributed large sums of money to the SPLC include: George Soros’ Open Society Institute, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Minneapolis Foundation, Ploughshares Fund, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Vanguard Public Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and many more. SPLC, which has assets exceeding $300 million, owns several foreign corporations and keeps an offshore bank account in the Cayman Islands.

Color of Change also targeted Tiki torches, Airbnb and GoDaddy after the Charlottesville violence. The group coordinated a social-media campaign demanding that executives at PepsiCo Inc., Campbell Soup Co., General Motors Co. and other companies quit President Trump’s business advisory councils. After the resignations, Trump dissolved the councils.



Some of Color of Change’s campaigns include:

A campaign to get President Trump senior adviser for policy Stephen Miller and Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka fired.
A campaign to drop charges against World Workers Party member Takiyah Thompson, who tied a rope around the neck of a Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina, and helpeed pull it down.
A campaign to “kick Trump off Twitter”
A campaign urging secretaries of state and chief election officials to refuse to cooperate with Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Voter Integrity.
A campaign urging Congress to “investigate Trump’s ties to Russia.”
A campaign to pressure “undecided House Republicans” to reject “Trumpcare” health reform.
A campaign to demand U.S. mayors “decline to partner with white supremacist Attorney General Jeff Sessions to execute Trump’s racist and phony ‘law and order’ agenda.”
A campaign to “stop Steve Bannon’s national security takeover.”
A campaign telling Democratic Party representatives, senators and other elected officials to boycott Trump’s inauguration

number-3 Onward Together

Launched by Hillary Clinton in May after her failed bid for the White House, Onward Together is a political action organization that seeks to be “part of the resistance” against President Trump by funding many of the leftist activists organizing against the administration.

Clinton reportedly sent $800,000 from her presidential campaign funds to Onward Together on May 1.

“From the Women’s March to airports across the country where communities are welcoming immigrants and refugees to town hall meetings in every community, Americans are speaking out like never before,” Clinton wrote in an email to supporters in May. “I believe more fiercely than ever that citizen engagement at every level is central to a strong and vibrant democracy.”

“In some cases, we’ll provide direct funding to these organizations. For others, we’ll help amplify their work and do what we can to help them continue to grow their audiences and expand their reach.”

When she launched Onward Together, Clinton said it would be “dedicated to advancing the vision that earned nearly 66 million votes in the last election.” The 66 million number references her popular vote victory over President Trump.

Clinton has tweeted that Onward Together would support leftist organizations such as Color of Change; Emerge America, a group that trains Democratic women to run for political office; Run for Something, a group that backs millennials running for office; Swing Left and Indivisible, groups aiming to help Democrats win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018.

Aside from Clinton’s campaign stash, where else does Onward Together get its money?

Your guess is as good as anyone’s. Onward Together is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, and contributors give unlimited amounts of money while staying anonymous.

number-4 Indivisible

Indivisible is a national anti-Trump movement that often targets members of Congress and calls for resistance against the Trump administration. It’s a collection of leftist activist groups with an average of two chapters in every congressional district, or 5,900 chapters that have popped up across America since Trump’s election. One of its campaigns targeted Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare. Another asks, “Are your members of Congress doing enough to fight white supremacy?” The group states, “President Trump is a white supremacist. How about your members of Congress?”

Indivisible is supported by Hillary Clinton and her organization, Onward Together. It has teamed up with Town Hall Project, a group that wreaks havoc at GOP town-hall forums across America. Town Hall Project was launched by former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer Jimmy Dahman and has close ties to MoveOn.org.



And Indivisible may get much of its funding through “dark money” transactions handled through a third-party leftist organization, the Tides Foundation.

Fox News reported: “On its website, Indivisible advises potential donors that they can make a ‘large gift’ tax deductible if they go through an intermediary group called the Tides Foundation. The foundation funnels more than $100 million a year to left-wing advocacy groups; liberal billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations is one of many groups that gives money to projects through the Tides Foundation, though there is no evidence his group supports Indivisible in particular.”

Indivisible is “a project of The Advocacy Fund,” according to its website. The Advocacy Fund hides its donors as well, but the latest public audit (as of Dec. 31, 2014) reveals “100%” of The Advocacy Fund’s “receivables were from two donors.”

Indivisible press manager Helen Kalla told Fox some of the organization’s donors are public, including:

New Media Ventures: Describes itself as “the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.” New Media Ventures has funded more than 50 other leftist organizations, including the Daily Kos (which partners with Soros-funded groups on a number of causes); Mijente (whose field director is Jacinta Gonzalez, a 2016 Soros Justice Fellow who was arrested at an anti-Trump rally in March 2016); MPower Change (a Muslim organizing platform with connections to the Soros-funded Citizen Engagement Laboratory and Color of Change); Pantsuit Nation (a 3.9 million member group of Hillary Clinton supporters); Sister District Project (a website that backs Democrats in red districts and has recruited at anti-Trump protests); SumOfUs (a nonprofit in D.C. sponsored by the Soros-backed New Organizing Institute Education Fund and the Tides Foundation, which is described at the beginning of this report); SwingLeft (a leftist group that employs former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau and aims to unseat vulnerable Republicans who voted to repeal Obamacare); Town Hall Project (founded by Hillary Clinton field organizer Jimmy Dahman); and Ultraviolet (an anti-Trump group of feminists).
Propel Capital: Describes itself as “a social impact fund that invests in entrepreneurs, innovators and changemakers to create a more just and equitable society.” It aims to alleviate global poverty.
Bauman Foundation: An organization launched by Lionel Bauman in the 1980s to spearhead “systemic progressive social change.” It says it’s “dedicated to achieving the values of a true democratic society – the common good and general welfare, as articulated in the Constitution.” David Brock, founder of the leftist Media Matters and one of Hillary Clinton’s fiercest defenders, sits on The Bauman Foundation’s board of advisers. Since 2008, the Bauman Foundation has given $1.06 million in grants to Media Matters. The Bauman Foundation has also given grants to leftist groups such as the Brennan Center for Justice, the Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress, the NAACP, the Tides Foundation and many others.
Public Welfare Foundation: A foundation that focuses primarily on grants related to criminal justice, juvenile justice and workers’ rights. It finances leftist organizations that support feminism, gay rights, abortion, illegal-alien rights, welfare, gun control and other progressive causes. Its grantees include but are not limited to the following leftist organizations: the American Civil Liberties Union, the (former) Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Brennan Center for Justice, the Soros-funded Human Rights Watch, Planned Parenthood, the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center.
Compton Foundation: A San Francisco organization that provides “financial resources to galvanize the movement for progressive and democratic social change.” Its executive director is Ellen Friedman, former executive vice president of the leftist Tides Foundation. Its grantees include but are not limited to the following leftist organizations: American Civil Liberties Union, Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, the Feminist Majority Foundation, the Greenpeace Fund, Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club Foundation, the Tides Center and others.
Arkay Foundation: A Berkeley, California, organization that says it “envisions a society characterized by strong participatory democracy, economic and social justice, and environmental protection.” It is led by Democrat-backer Marian Penn, who gave $35,000 to David Brock’s Republican targeting organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, in 2013.

Indivisible’s parent company, The Action Network, which was involved in the Ferguson protests, is located at the same Washington, D.C., address as the George Soros-funded United We Dream, which has organized anti-Trump protests on college campuses, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

“Members of the [Indivisible] movement have caused representatives to flee town halls and, at times, cancel public events altogether,” the Los Angeles Times reported. “They’re corralled constituents, visited district offices and made phone calls en masse demanding answers.”