Meet left wing activists fueling anti DOGE protests nationwide

The left-wing teams backing the anti-DOGE protests throughout the nation have been funding a wide range of progressive causes in recent times, together with defunding the police, pushing socialism, anti-Israel protests and opposing President Donald Trump’s agenda basically. 

In a press launch earlier this month, MoveOn.org introduced that it was mobilizing sources as a part of a “Congress Works for Us, Not Musk” initiative “geared toward pressuring lawmakers to struggle again in opposition to the Trump-Musk agenda.”

MoveOn.org has taken thousands and thousands of {dollars} from George Soros and his Open Society Coverage Heart in recent times. Soros is likely one of the most outstanding backers in the US of left-wing points, together with backing progressive district attorneys that got down to “reimagine policing” in the US.

Moreover, Fox Information Digital has beforehand reported on the Soros community’s ties to the anti-Israel protests that swept the nation on faculty campuses final yr. 

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Anti-DOGE protests erupting throughout the nation have been largely backed by a wide range of far-left teams. (Getty)

Elon Musk has ramped up his criticism of Soros in current months, significantly after former President Joe Biden awarded Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

MoveOn.org has additionally taken cash from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which Fox Information Digital beforehand reported has poured tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} into progressive causes in recent times and is bankrolled partially by Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss. 

On June 5, 2020, MoveOn was calling for the defunding of police for the “protection of Black life,” and the group has been a vocal opponent of U.S. Immigration and Customes Enforcement (ICE) whereas selling people who wish to abolish the outfit and sharing a letter in February 2021 claiming that “ICE and CBP have been constructed to terrorize Black and brown communities.”

“It’s no shock the Biden Administration’s favourite billionaires are paying far-left activist teams to carry occasions designed to villainize Republicans,” Congressional Management Fund spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair instructed Fox Information Digital. “Democrats will do something and the whole lot they presumably can to cease President Trump and Home Republicans from carrying out the work the American folks elected them to do.” 

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The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, speaks on the Conservative Political Motion Convention on the Gaylord Nationwide Resort Lodge And Conference Heart on Feb. 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Photograph by Andrew Harnik/Getty Pictures)

One other group getting concerned within the protests in opposition to Musk’s DOGE efforts has lengthy been a significant participant in progressive politics. 

“Constituents braved the bitter chilly at recess actions organized by the Working Households Celebration,” a press launch from the Working Households Celebration (WFP) stated earlier this month, touting the group’s efforts to arrange protests in a number of states on the places of work of Republican officers. 

“The actions passed off in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Rally audio system known as consideration to Donald Trump and the GOP’s plan to intestine Medicaid, Medicare, and abolish the Division of Training.”

The WFP, which self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders as soon as stated is the “closest factor there’s to a political get together that believes in my imaginative and prescient of democratic socialism”, is a vocal supporter of the progressive “Squad” in Congress and has incessantly advocated for defunding the police and ending money bail up to now.

Maurice Mitchell, nationwide director for WFP, hosted a “Progressives for Harris” video name in August 2024 – calling on his “comrades” to search out “solidarity” within the struggle in opposition to “Trumpism” and “American authoritarianism.” 

A yr earlier than that, the WFP was actively criticizing Israel on social media over its speedy response to the Oct. 7 terrorist assault carried out by Hamas that killed over 1,400 folks. 

“We name on President Biden, Secretary Blinken and the administration to do the whole lot of their energy to push for de-escalation, a cease-fire, & adherence to worldwide legislation,” WFP posted on X days after the terrorist assault. “And we renew our name for the occupation to finish as the mandatory situation for any lasting peace.”

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A protester holds up a “NO MUSK” signal on the “No Kings on Presidents Day” protest in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox Information Digital)

Monetary disclosures present that WFP gave cash to a number of progressive candidates throughout the 2024 cycle, together with former Democratic Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, along with Democratic Reps. Greg Casar and Pramila Jayapal. 

Indivisible, a grassroots progressive group, put out a memo encouraging activists to make use of final week’s recess to protest Home lawmakers at their dwelling places of work amid the left’s backlash in opposition to Musk’s DOGE efforts, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported. 

“Recess is when Members of Congress return dwelling to host city halls, meet with constituents, and attempt to paint themselves as aware of the individuals who elected them. Additionally it is when MoCs assume they will keep away from public scrutiny — particularly Republicans who wish to dodge powerful questions on their complicity in Trump and Musk’s coup,” the group’s web site stated.

Indivisible’s web site states that it was initially “introduced collectively by a sensible information to withstand the Trump agenda” and has beforehand supported defunding the police together with ending money bail. 

Indivisible has additionally been concerned in protests calling to “abolish” ICE. 

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Hungarian-born U.S. investor and philanthropist George Soros smiles after delivering a speech on the sidelines of the World Financial Discussion board annual assembly in Davos on Could 24, 2022. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP through Getty Pictures)

“The Democrat Celebration has bought themselves out to the far-left crazies and their mega-donors who’re funding these clown reveals,” NRCC spokesperson Mike Marinella instructed Fox Information Digital. 

“This isn’t grassroots — it’s manufactured outrage to distract from their failed and out of contact file.”

Fox Information Digital reached out to MoveOn, WFP, Indivisible, Open Society Foundations and the Wyss Basis for remark. 

Fox Information Digital’s Liz Elkind contributed to this report