Hello friends and @ElonMusk.
In March 2025, I reported on the big-money network of nonprofits behind “Tesla Takedown."
Today for a new article at @FoxNews Digital, I traced that network to the protest outside Elon Musk's Austin home outside Austin. They threw a "People Over Billionaires Election After Party" and made it seem like it was an innocuous "party" protest but I immediately saw a clue that revealed that the protest was part of the professional protest industry I've made it my beat to map, track and follow the money.
The San Antonio Austin-Statesmen provided a critical video from the streets during the protest "party."
The giveaway?
A red poster reading, “I AM STEALING FROM YOU,” with an intentionally creepy image of Musk.
I've seen that poster again and again at the manufactured protests that the protest industry has been throwing since early 2025: "Tesla Takedown," "Hands Off," "No Kings," etc. etc.
WATCH as I show the posters outside Musk’s home, trace how they were mass-produced by a Democratic PAC and reveal how they appeared at protests nationwide, only to land outside Musk's home this weekend.
The three groups behind the "party" protest reported $56.1 million in 2024 revenue:
🟥 Center for Popular Democracy: $40.9M
🟥 VOCAL-TX, fiscally sponsored by VOCAL-NY, which had: $13.1M
🟥 People’s Action: $2.1M
The poster was commissioned by the Progressive Change Institute, the 501(c)(3) sister organization of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a Democratic POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, or PAC, and the PAC sells posters for donations.
🟥 1 poster: $30
🟥 5-pack: $135
🟥 10-pack: $250
The red poster is the tell.
The protests agaisnt Musk aren't spontaneous grassroots outrage. It's AstroTurf.
They are a branded, well-funded, coordinated POLITICAL campaign, raising tax compliance questions about the nonprofits that are sending foot soldiers into the streets to influence elections and politics.
The groups involved didn't provide explanations in respons to requests for comments.
They claim they are "grassroots."
READ the full story: foxnews.com/politics/far-lef…
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Anti-Musk "party" protest leader Center for Popular Democracy says it's anti-wealth.
In 2024, they got $38.2M in contributions
They paid $14.6M in salaries
2 co-executive directors got average $234,026
4x America's $63,360 median earnings
foxnews.com/politics/far-lef…
Thank you @kilby_370 -- and I cut my teeth on reporting on airline safety and transportation safety, so thank you for all of your service for improving public safety. You only have to travel the world to understand how lucky we are.
@elonmusk, Asra’s got deep, bloody wounds, some healed, some left a mark, some indelible, in the pursuit of plain light, and is now exposed.
Just like many a Heroine pursuing Lux et Veritas, I would die for -
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Thank you @PatricePinkFile! My dream is to one day make this knowledge sharing as easy as finding a vehicle on Carvana! I want to arm everyone from parents to police officers with the knowledge of who is behind these street actions — and who is paying for it!
Great job, Asra.
Adding to your report: VOCAL-TX is a member of the People’s Action network (about 38–40 member organizations across 29 states) and is listed under Texas on the site of its 501(c)(3) sister organization, People’s Action Institute.
May Day Strong is part of a coalition that includes People’s Action Institute, the Organizing Revival Networks, and the Elections Safeguard Response Network (ESRN). People’s Action identifies Norm Eisen as ESRN’s executive director, per its post on Iowa CCI Action.
ALT peoplesactioninstitute.org mobile view. Texas expanded, listing Workers Defense Project and VOCAL-TX. Other states: Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia. Bottom: People’s Action Institute logo and mission text on racial, economic, and gender justice.
ALT Coalitions page on peoplesactioninstitute.org. Photos: Capitol protest with “THE ORGANIZING REVIVAL IS HERE!” banner; group of three people. Text: PAI is part of Organizing Revival Networks (ORN), May Day Strong (MDS), and Elections Safeguard Response Network (ESRN) to defend votes. (People’s Action: ~38–40 orgs in 29 states.)
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If you go back into history and look into Jim Jones, crazy kool aid suicide degenerate, he made money by gathering homeless, drunks and drug addicts at the behest of local San Francisco politicans to get people to protest in front of a business or government building. These democratic supporting 501c orgs are full of unethical greed mongers and self anointed elites that are no better than Jim Jones.
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Hello. I saw that video in Instagram too. Very disgraceful. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/mp3461/status/21192213…
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Always violent (mostly peaceful "until you cross them"), Always paid for (by actual communists), Always champagne socialists, Always racist (if they aren't the "right kind" of minorities politically), Always filled with hatred and anger (but wearing shirts that say "love")....THEY ALWAYS SHOW THEIR REAL BELIEFS WHEN THEY THINK THEY ARE IN POWER! And libtards, try to explain the calls for "Murder" and "Theft" 3 seconds after the midterms! 🫠🙃🤣😅
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Why do paid "protesters" fall under peaceful protest rights? This is actually harassment by non-profit companies on a person. @KenPaxtonTX @Austin_Police
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Thank you for your work gathering details of those funding these nonprofits, which l consider a conduit for the spread of a Socialist/Islamist cancer that is spreading fast through our Republic. Sad to say, the progressive Democrats are aiding this through fraud on the American taxpayer, pocketing what they can personally along the way.
Think about the cost of the chaos these destructive organizations have inflicted on our streets, the cost to the communities: the law enforcement officers, the businesses, and the families that are the target of these funded/paid professionals!
Affordability is more than a word. Many factors put great stress on our nation’s economic infrastructure. Democrat policies of open borders and bribing illegal immigrants to vote for them by paying billions to feed, house, and provide healthcare for them, have sold out the American citizens and are destroying our country.
The Democrat leaders are promoting the very actions that are causing much of the affordability crisis that begun before the military action in Iran. They are the problem.
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When will the NGO "Insurrectionists," be held accountable?
This is quite plainly, domestic terrorism.
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@SecScottBessent and @IRS when are you going to strip these political orgs of their 501c3 status?
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