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Here are the five radical leftist groups protesting Elon Musk – one of which received $7.6M from George Soros
George Soros gave $7.6 million to one of five groups accused of targeting Elon Musk’s Tesla company, The Post has learned.
Tesla cars, Cybertrucks, dealerships and charging stations have been set on fire, shot at and sprayed with graffiti across the nation in acts of politically charged vandalism since Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency started making government cuts.
While the motives behind individual attacks vary, Musk has identified certain groups who organized protests against him and his company.
“An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla ‘protests’: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America,” he said in a recent X post.
“We do not direct, coordinate, or dictate the strategies or activities of the organizations we support,” said a statement from the Open Society Foundations. “The Open Society Foundations support a broad range of nonprofit organizations that work to strengthen democracy and promote nonviolent civic engagement. Our grantees operate independently and are expected to do so in full adherence to U.S. law.”
ActBlue is a Democratic Party-affiliated fundraising platform, currently under fire for raising funds for anti-Israel terrorists.
Here’s how each of those groups have been involved in protesting against Tesla:
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Indivisible Project
Indivisible Project, a Washington-based non-profit, has been almost entirely financed by Soros’s Open Society. It is coordinating a cross-country protest against Musk, empowering “grassroots” affiliates to “stop the Trump-Musk coup,” according to its website.
The group took in more than $7.6 million from Open Society between 2017 and 2023. It was originally set up in 2016 to protest the election of Donald Trump.
Indivisible Action, a related Political Action Committee, has raised more than $9 million, public records show.
Indivisible Action’s anti-Musk activities include posting a toolkit on its website for a “Musk or US March Recess” demonstration planned for next week during the government’s spring break.
The toolkit includes graphics for signs reading: “GTFO Musk” and “Fire Elon Musk.”
In addition to Soros, the group has received $2 million from the Sandler Foundation, which funds groups such as the progressive news platform ProPublica.
Herbert Sandler, a New York-born banker, set up the foundation with his wife Marion in 1991, and has given out more than $1.2 billion in grants to progressive nonprofits, according to its website.
After Sandler’s death in 2019, the married Congressional staffers who set up Indivisible Project thanked him for his support.
“For the last two years, we’ve counted ourselves as deeply fortunate to know Herb, and to benefit from his advice and guidance,” said Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg in a 2019 press release.
“He was always thinking about the next stage for Indivisible, asking hard questions that pushed us forward. We will miss him deeply.”
Democratic Socialists of America
Indivisible Project is also allied with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which backed the campaigns of progressive Democrats such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
DSA claims on its website it is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 92,000 members and chapters in all 50 states.
On March 6 the group posted on their Instagram: “Every Friday we are joining workers and community organizers at the Henry M. Jackson Federal building downtown Seattle to protest the fascist billionaire takeover of our democracy. See you Friday at 11:30.”
The group has also posted numerous videos of its members protesting outside Tesla buildings and made numerous anti-Musk posts on its various social media platforms.
The group has several chapters across the country. The New York City-based group, Democratic Socialists of America Inc., has revenue of more than $6.1 million, according to public filings. Some chapters across the country have supported Hamas after the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 2023 attacks against Israel, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Disruption Project
Philadelphia-based Disruption Project provides training for grassroots groups to protest climate change and is currently in default with the IRS, according to public records.
Disruption Project, whose latest federal filing shows just over $28,000 in its coffers, is linked to Action Network, a group established as a result of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York in 2011.
Action Network was founded by Mark Fleischman, a former union organizer who was vice president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), New York City’s most powerful union.
Action Network has helped Disruption Project and other grassroots group organize a “Tesla Takedown” last month, encouraging consumers to “sell your Teslas; Dump your stock.”
The joint Disruption Project/Action Network Action also listed the addresses of Tesla dealerships for protestors to target across the country on its website.
Rise & Resist
The New York-based Rise & Resist has also organized protests against Elon Musk, publishing a social media “toolkit” on its website linked to a “Tesla Takedown.” Like Disruption Project, Rise & Resist also appears to be in default with the IRS and shows less than $30,000 in revenue, public records shows. The group organized a recent picket of the Tesla dealership in the Meatpacking district where six protestors were arrested Saturday.
Rise & Resist describes itself as a non-violent “direct action group committed to opposing, disrupting, and defeating any government act that threatens democracy, equality, and our civil liberties,” according to its website.
Troublemakers
The Seattle-based radical environmental organization “committed to taking action for life on Earth.”
They collect donations through Action Network, and are committed to championing environmental issues, posting on their website: “We cannot stand aside while racial capitalism and neocolonialism destroy this beautiful planet, all for the benefit of a few.”
Troublemakers have also been involved in the “Tesla Takedown” events at Tesla dealerships – despite electric cars being better for the environment than ordinary gas powered ones.
On their website they urge people to dump Tesla stock and claim “Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk,” while urging “No one is coming to save us—not politicians.”
Meanwhile the group also claim to “like a good party” and that they go “on hikes together,” and “enjoy life while raising a ruckus.”
The group has previously protested Amazon’s use of “fracked gas” to power its data centers in Oregon. The non-profit was established in 2023, and has no publicly available tax filings.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress will investigate the “sources” of the attacks against Musk and Tesla, with the help of the Department of Justice and the FBI.
“The heroic work of @elonmusk has so panicked the radical Left that they’re now calling him ‘racist”(?!) and engaging in domestic terrorism to attack Tesla owners and their vehicles!” he posted on X Wednesday.
