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Here’s How Dark Money Uses Children In Deep Red States To Spread LGBT Agenda

Among the rolling hills and twisting rivers of central Indiana stands a bustling city named Carmel. The town is split almost 50-50 Republican and Democrat, which stands out in the largely conservative state where only four out of 92 counties lean Democrat. Yet the city is still small enough, rural enough, that one would not expect an inconspicuous “pride” festival that popped up in 2021 to become the second-largest such event in the state, attracting an estimated 6,000 people last year and hosting a former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant this year.

The question is, how? How does LGBT propaganda infiltrate conservative states and areas, turning them into sensual celebration grounds? The answer: through children backed by big billionaires.

The annual Carmel Pride Festival started in 2021 when a group of high schoolers in the Gender and Sexuality Alliance club (GSA) at their local school decided to create a “pride month” celebration for the city. Around 2,500 people showed up at the modest student-run celebration. The next year, the group of teenagers reached out to It Gets Better and received $10,000 to put toward their next “pride” event.

It Gets Better is a nonprofit organization that targets children to promote LGBT ideologies “to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth around the globe,” its website states. Through its 50 States. 50 Grants. 5000 Voices program, the organization gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to “middle and high schools throughout the United States” to support “projects that uplift and empower LGBTQ+ students.” While reporting on the grant project, PR Newswire bragged that the money went to “many traditionally conservative areas.”

The GSA club in Carmel seems to have received continual funding since 2022 from It Gets Better. An article from 2022 confirms the club received another $10,000 in support for the 2023 event, and the Carmel Pride website currently gives “a big thank you” to It Gets Better under the list of 2025 donors. The left-wing activist group the American Civil Liberties Union and the “gay-owned” pro-LGBT surrogacy agency New Dawn are also listed among the donors.

One of It Gets Better’s biggest donors is American Eagle. On It Gets Better’s financials, it lists American Eagle as a “Ground Shaker” for giving more than $100,000 in 2024 alone. The fashion company recently tried to appeal to conservatives through its Sydney Sweeney ads.

A vast swath of cosmetic brands that support LGBT marketing also back It Gets Better, including MAC VIVA GLAM under the Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation, Bath & Body Works, e.l.f. Cosmetics, and Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation, among many others. The latter two organizations gave at least $50,000, while the other contributed $100,000 or more in the past year.

One common denominator between the cosmetic brands and American Eagle is their ties to BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, or the “Big Three.” The asset firms hold about a fourth of each of the above companies that fund It Gets Better when their shares are combined, and all three firms are known for pushing leftist ideology.

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Trump loyalist Jim Jordan linked to group that received ‘dark money’ from ICE detention contractor

Jim Jordan is among the most famous names in this stretch of Ohio.

The congressman and chair of the powerful House judiciary committee is considered among the most conservative and influential members in Congress, and is a longtime loyalist of Donald Trump.

But a report released last month by Pogo Investigates, a nonprofit newsroom, highlighted the close ties between Jordan and a company profiting from the Trump administration’s anti-immigration crackdown, which has sometimes been violent and even deadly.

The report found that the American Liberty Foundation, a political action committee (Pac) tied to Jordan, last year received $250,000 in “dark money” payments from Geo Group, the Florida-headquartered company that runs dozens of detention centers on behalf of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the country.

The money transfer came 11 days after the passing of the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act last July, which saw the federal government’s budget for ICE and other immigration enforcement efforts trebled to $170bn – an amount greater than the GDP of Morocco.

“A company and or a company’s political action committee is permitted to contribute funds to a Super Pac, but a federal contractor [such as Geo Group] is not,” says Nick Schwellenbach, the author of the Pogo Investigates report.

“Geo Group’s Pac had not disclosed this. Only American Liberty Foundation had. Both have legal obligations to disclose. This raises a lot of questions about the broader universe of dark money contributions from Geo Group or other private prison companies.”

Campaign Legal Center, a litigation advocacy organization, has since filed a complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Geo Group, alleging it violated federal campaign finance laws by making an illegal, misreported contribution.

Critics say that taxpayer money is helping to create a “deportation-industrial complex” that puts Geo Group, which runs ICE detention facilities across 16 states, including Delaney Hall in New Jersey, at the forefront of the benefactors.

All the while, conditions at many of the 52 detention centers that Geo operates on behalf of ICE have been reported as being very poor. Detainees at Delaney Hall last month launched a hunger strike to protest against the state of their living conditions and accused the contractor of denying them access to medical care. This month, the state of New Jersey sued Geo Group, seeking full access in order to inspect the facility.

In Michigan, family members and friends of the estimated 1,500 immigrant detainees held at the North Lake Processing Center have reported being verbally abused by staff and refused permission to see their detained family members.

Repeated emails sent by the Guardian to Geo Group asking why the company donated to Jordan’s Super Pac and if it believes the money represents a conflict of interest were not responded to.

Some rights groups have suggested that the poor living conditions are a tactic to force immigrants to self-deport. Trump’s former attorney general, Pam Bondi, previously worked as a lobbyist for Geo Group before joining the Trump administration.

According to reports, ICE is Geo Group’s biggest source of revenue, with 41% of its 2024 income coming from ICE. That figure is likely to have risen significantly under the Trump administration, with a host of new contracts signed.

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 Bill O’Reilly Demands Criminal Prosecution of E. Jean Carroll After Bombshell Revelation She Pocketed $7 MILLION in Secret Democrat Dark Money to Smear President Trump – Lied Under Oath in Deposition!

In a no-holds-barred takedown that has left the left-wing media scrambling, Fox News legend and bestselling author Bill O’Reilly has called for the immediate criminal prosecution of E. Jean Carroll, the aging advice columnist turned professional Trump accuser.

O’Reilly didn’t mince words: the entire E. Jean Carroll “fraud” against President Donald J. Trump must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Why? Because it turns out Carroll wasn’t some plucky underdog fighting for “justice” on her own dime. She was bankrolled to the tune of $7 MILLION by a shadowy nonprofit tied to billionaire LinkedIn co-founder and hardcore Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman, friend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein.

And here’s the kicker: Carroll swore under oath in a 2022 deposition that no one was helping her financially. No pro bono lawyers and no outside funding. No mysterious benefactors pulling the strings. She claimed it was all on contingency — her lawyers only get paid if she wins.

She lied.

And now the walls are closing in.

According to explosive details broken down by O’Reilly and confirmed across multiple reports, Carroll’s high-powered law firm, Kaplan Hecker & Fink, received a massive $7 million injection from the American Future Republic — a nonprofit where Reid Hoffman serves as president and chairman of the board. Hoffman, a vocal Trump critic, funneled the cash through his organization to fuel the lawfare operation designed to destroy the 45th (and now 47th) President.

This wasn’t pocket change. This was coordinated big-money election interference disguised as a “civil rights” lawsuit.

Carroll’s team only “refreshed” her memory and disclosed the funding right before trial — after she had already testified under penalty of perjury that nothing of the sort existed. The appeals court tried to wave it away, claiming Carroll herself wasn’t “involved.” But that doesn’t change the fact that the public was deceived, the jury was kept in the dark, and President Trump’s legal team was sandbagged.

O’Reilly laid it out plainly: “The E. Jean Carroll fraud should be prosecuted. That is the most outrageous story — It’s so outrageous that the woman testifies in a deposition under oath that nobody is helping her, no lawyer is helping her, no pro bono, and then we find out she got $7 million.”

He’s right. This wasn’t a search for truth — it was a Democrat-funded hit job from start to finish. The same Reid Hoffman who has poured millions into anti-Trump causes and once rubbed elbows with Epstein’s pedo-circle now stands accused of bankrolling a smear campaign that resulted in massive judgments against the President.

And the DOJ under the Trump administration is already on it. A criminal investigation is underway into the funding scheme, with eyes on potential perjury, obstruction, and more. While some in the legacy media are crying “weaponization,” the American people see it for what it is: long-overdue accountability for one of the most blatant lawfare operations in modern political history.

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Bessent Signals Crackdown On Dark-Money Funded NGOs In “Weeks, Months Ahead”

Last year, readers were briefed on what was then the investigative phase into dark-money-funded NGOs and alleged foreign influence operations routed through far-left activist networks. These NGOs and activist networks advance anti-capitalist agendas, mobilize protests and riots to fuel unrest under the banner of toxic social justice, and have also served as a permanent protest-industrial complex designed to delay, deny, and destroy President Trump’s pro-America agenda.

Fast forward to late spring, and there now appears to be a clear transition inside parts of the Trump administration from the investigative phase to the action phase.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled just that during a Thursday press briefing.

Here, the exchange between a reporter and Bessent suggests the potential enforcement phase has already begun:

Reporter: “I want to ask you about Antifa. In October, the Treasury Department started working with the FBI to investigate who’s funding Antifa. Can you give us an update on that investigation? How close are you guys finding out who is funding it?”

Scott Bessent: “It is ongoing. We made substantial progress, and I think in the weeks and months ahead, we are going to have a lot to report“”

(Bessent continues on IRS guidance for nonprofits): “The IRS is now giving guidance on the Form 990, which nonprofits they have to file. We are going to demand that nonprofits know their grant recipients. So if a grant recipient is violent, if they are suppressing people’s rights, then YOU are responsible for that. And I think that’s a very good first step.”

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I-194 Could Cost Montana Millions Without Fixing Campaign Finance

During this election cycle, you will likely be asked to sign petitions to place various proposals on the November ballot. Before signing, it is important to understand exactly what you are supporting. That is especially true for I-194, a proposed ballot initiative aimed at restricting “dark money” in elections.

I-194, known as The Montana Plan, is designed to sharply limit the role of corporations, nonprofits, LLCs, trade associations, and other “artificial persons” in Montana elections. Supporters argue it would reduce dark money in politics by preventing Montana entities, and possibly some out-of-state organizations, from contributing to or spending money on state and local campaigns. But even if this five-page law passes, major loopholes and legal problems would remain.

One of the biggest loopholes is that the proposal targets organizations, not individuals. Wealthy business owners, executives, and nonprofit leaders could still spend large sums of money personally, simply shifting political influence from corporate accounts to billionaire donors rather than reducing money in politics.

Another concern involves PACs and political committees. Depending on how courts interpret the law, organizations could still influence elections indirectly through layered committees or pass-through funding arrangements that hide the original source of the money, much like dark-money systems currently operate.

Out-of-state groups could also restructure themselves to avoid Montana’s definitions. National organizations may create affiliated entities, use contractors, or avoid technically “doing business” in Montana while still influencing public opinion and elections here.

The distinction between direct campaigning and issue advocacy creates another major loophole. Even if an organization cannot explicitly say “Vote for Candidate X,” it may still spend heavily on advertising campaigns criticizing policies, shaping public opinion, or mobilizing voters around political issues tied to an election.

Federal elections present another limitation. Montana may regulate state and local races more easily than federal campaigns for Congress or the presidency, which are governed largely by federal law and constitutional protections. Organizations could still spend heavily on federal races that influence Montana voters indirectly.

I-194 is also vulnerable politically because it is a statutory initiative rather than a constitutional amendment. Future legislatures could weaken, narrow, or partially repeal the law.

Finally, the measure would almost certainly face years of expensive litigation centered on Citizens United and First Amendment protections for political speech. Courts could strike down parts of the law while leaving others intact, creating confusion and weak enforcement. Defending I-194 could cost Montana taxpayers millions of dollars, with a strong possibility that the law would ultimately be ruled partially or wholly unconstitutional.

At first blush, I-194 may sound like a good solution, but as the saying goes, “The devil is in the details.”

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DNC votes down ‘dark money’ resolution singling out AIPAC, defers resolution on military aid to Israel

Members of the Democratic National Committee voted down a symbolic resolution aimed at curbing the “growing influence” of “dark money” corporate groups in Democratic primaries that specifically called out the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Earlier in Thursday’s meeting in New Orleans, committee members approved a broader measure condemning the influence of dark money in the midterms without naming specific groups. They then rejected a separate resolution that singled out AIPAC.

Allison Minnerly, who sponsored the resolution, responded to the criticism that her resolution was singling out AIPAC, the pro-Israel political lobbying group.

“Members like to say that we don’t want to single out AIPAC, but AIPAC will entirely single out them and all of our different progressive leaders when it comes to primary elections,” said Minnerly.

AIPAC’s influence has become a flashpoint inside the Democratic Party, as leaders struggle to respond to rapidly shifting views about Israel among progressives, especially in the wake of the war in Gaza and amid the current U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. 

DNC Chair Ken Martin posted on X, stating, “We had various resolutions that focused on different industries and groups, and instead of going one-by-one, we passed a blanket repudiation.”

The panel’s rejection of the AIPAC resolution means it will not go before the full body for a final vote on Friday.

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Analysis: More Than 90 Percent Of Funds Backing Dems’ Gerrymandering Scheme Come From Outside Virginia

Democrats love to complain about big “dark money” donors trying to influence U.S. elections. But if their concerns were actually genuine, where is their outrage about the massive wave of out-of-state money flooding Virginia to pass their deceptively worded gerrymandering amendment?

According to figures compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP), the wrongly named “Virginians for Fair Elections” has received nearly $50 million to deceive voters into supporting a legally questionable ballot measure allowing the state’s Democrat-run General Assembly to redraw the commonwealth’s congressional map. The party’s current proposal would gerrymander the state’s U.S. House districts from a six Democrat-five Republican map to a 10 Democrat-one Republican map and effectively disenfranchise millions of rural Virginians in the process.

In the months leading up to the April 21 referendum, Virginians for Fair Elections has deployed dishonest ads characterizing Democrats’ gerrymandering scheme as “fair,” and claiming it’s about protecting “democracy,” a much-needed “emergency,” and “level[ing] the playing field.” But it’s clear after examining the funds being poured into the group, however, that most of its financial support isn’t coming from the Virginians it pretends it’s trying to help, but from leftist organizations based outside the state.

A Federalist analysis of the latest donation figures assembled by the Virginia Public Access Project shows that more than 90 percent of Virginians for Fair Elections’ large contributions come from Democrat-aligned out-of-state groups.

The organization’s largest contributor is none other than the D.C.-based House Majority Forward (HMF), a 501(c)(4) that boasts ties to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrat leadership. According to InfluenceWatch, HMF — which has given $29.3 million to Virginians for Fair Elections — “focuses on climate change, social justice, economics, and democracy, and produces ads in favor of Democratic candidates and opposed to Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.”

The second largest donor ($11.02 million) to Virginians for Fair Elections is The Fairness Project. InfluenceWatch describes the D.C.-based 501(c)(4) as a “labor union-backed advocacy organization that finances and supports state ballot initiative campaigns to promote left-of-center policies such as government-mandated comprehensive paid family and medical leave, Medicaid expansion, and minimum wage increases.”

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DNC panel rejects AIPAC-specific resolution, advances broader measure condemning dark money

A Democratic National Committee (DNC) panel voted on Thursday to reject a resolution condemning “the growing influence” of dark money and corporate-backed outside spending in Democratic races, particularly the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). 

At the DNC’s spring meeting in New Orleans this week, the resolutions committee voted to kill the push, which would have been nonbinding, as scrutiny over the pro-Israel lobby grows amid the midterms. 

“The use of massive outside spending to support or oppose candidates based on their positions regarding international conflicts or foreign governments raises concerns about undue influence over democratic debate and policymaking, potentially constraining elected officials’ ability to represent the views of their constituents,” reads the resolution, submitted by Florida DNC member Allison Minnerly, pointing out AIPAC in particular for spending some $14 million in the Illinois Democratic primaries last month. 

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), who was once an AIPAC donor, condemned the group after the primaries — joining a growing number of Democrats once supportive of AIPAC who have turned on the political powerhouse over its involvement in elections this year. 

While the panel on Thursday voted to recommend a broader resolution condemning the influence of dark money in the 2026 Democratic primary elections, it did not specifically call for AIPAC contributions to be rejected, though the attitude was largely implied. 

The resolution calls for “robust” campaign finance transparency and says the DNC “reaffirms its commitment to campaign finance practices that align with the Party’s core values.” It further adds that the aspects of the resolution “shall inform the development of the 2028 Democratic Party Platform.”

The AIPAC resolution’s failure to advance out of the DNC committee shows that while there is an appetite within the party to take a more forceful stance against the organization — an influential pro-Israel group whose opposition against conditions on aid to Israel has made it more divisive in races more recently — it’s not one that many DNC members are comfortable standing behind. 

The DNC resolution panel’s rejection of the resolution means it will not go before the full body for a final vote on Friday. Still, AIPAC remains a wedge issue for the party.

Some political groups cheered the resolutions panel’s decision to reject the resolution.

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Investigation Finds ‘No Kings’ Protests Backed by Network of Hundreds of Groups With Estimated Annual Revenue of $3 Billion

The pointless ‘No Kings’ folks were back out in force this weekend, up to all of their usual antics.

Like many people, you may be wondering who is behind all of this, specifically, who is funding it? Well, it turns out there is an entire network of groups and they have a lot of cash to work with.

According to a recent investigation, there are approximately 500 different groups involved in this and they have an annual revenue stream of approximately $3 billion.

In other words, it’s not just George Soros. It’s a lot of different people and groups. The only thing that is not surprising here, is that these groups are all linked to Marxism and bringing about revolution.

FOX News reported:

500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for ‘revolution’

A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide “No Kings” protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call for a “revolution,” according to a Fox Digital News investigation.

According to a copy of the permit for the “flagship” march in St. Paul, Minn., Indivisible, a national well-heeled Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros, is the lead coordinator for the protest.

But Fox News Digital has also identified key participation by a network of radical socialist and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon and avowed communist living in China.

Over nearly a decade, Singham has financed a constellation of activist institutions that promote revolutionary socialist politics and frequently collaborate in protest campaigns, including the People’s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and CodePink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham. These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

They are all sending members to the protests and one group said they plan to bring a message of “revolution” to the protests…

Across the country, similar preparations have been underway among socialist, communist and Marxist activist groups from the Singham network that have openly discussed using the demonstrations to spread what they describe as revolutionary organizing.

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Following the Dark Money: Turns Out Those Street Protests Aren’t Spontaneous At All

A report highlighted by Fox News Digital details a network of organizations tied to millions of dollars in funding for activist groups across the United States and globally, raising questions about the origins and coordination behind protest movements.

Will Cain discussed the findings, focusing on what he described as a coordinated system behind various demonstrations.

“Let’s talk about the worldwide paid protest pipeline. Who’s funding it and why?” Cain said.

He added that the same patterns appear across different movements, stating, “Because, no matter the cause, anti ICE, pro Palestine, pro Iran, you’ll see different signs, but it’s the same script, and it’s the same networks, the same organizers, the same graphics, the same font.”

Cain said Fox News Digital examined financial transactions spanning several years, stating, “Fox News digital has been digging into this, following the money.”

He said the investigation identified a central figure connected to the funding, adding, “A lot of it, leads back to one man we told you about him in the past, tech tycoon, American born Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai now.”

According to Cain, Singham is alleged to have directed funding through multiple channels, stating, “He allegedly poured millions into these networks to push an overtly pro Chinese Communist Party interest.”

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