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Dark-Money Network Funneled Millions Into 'No Kings' Nationwide Color Revolution Operation
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dark-money-network-funneled-millions-no-kings-nationwide-color-revolution-operation
This weekend's day of demonstrations is dubbed "No Kings," a purpose-built protest brand created by an entity called The Indivisible Project (or "Indivisible"). That entity and its eponymous offshoots – "Indivisible Civics," "Indivisible Action," "Indivisible East Bay," et al – sprung up as an activist mobilization machine in response to Trump's 2016 victory.
Led by activists Ezra Levin and his spouse, Leah Greenberg, Indivisible has helped organize numerous anti-Trump protests. Among the partners and affiliates of No Kings are familiar names such as the ACLU and Sierra Club, and more controversial groups such as 350, which promoted and participated in the 2023 "Stop Cop City" direct actions in Atlanta which ultimately descended into firebombing chaos and saw more than 60 rioters arrested and charged with various crimes, including RICO.
Two of Arabella's top benefactors – the godfather of dark money, George Soros, and shadowy Swiss-billionaire Hansjorg Wyss – are anchor investors in Indivisible's operations. Soros's Open Society Network provided important financial support, ultimately upwards of $8 million, while Wyss's political action fund funneled $2.5 million to the Indivisible professional protest machine. LinkedIn founder and Big Tech oligarch Reid Hoffman funded Indivisible's Truth Brigade (a project to combat supposed right-wing disinformation), and the left-wing funding behemoth, Tides Nexus, has given more than $3 million.
Arabella's Sixteen Thirty Fund, which The Atlantic called the "indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money," has cut multiple checks to Indivisible for "civil rights, social action, and advocacy." In its most recently available financial disclosure (2023), Indivisible reported $14.06 million in contributions. And while Indivisible is the credited organizer of the No Kings protests, its "partners" are the real big money players behind the demonstrations.
The Government Accountability Institute obtained the most recent Arabella financial disclosures (2019 through 2023), crunched the numbers and found that, in addition to direct funding to Indivisible, the Arabella network has showered the No Kings protest partners and affiliates with at least $114.8 million.
Three of the largest Arabella-run funds funneling billionaire cash to professional protest groups are the New Venture Fund, the Hopewell Fund, and the Windward Fund.