The Official Donald Trump Resistance 2.0 is portrayed in the media as a groundswell of ordinary Americans fearful of what Trump is doing and wanting to fight it. Groups like Families Over Billionaires and the Rural Victory Fund have channeled millions of dollars into left-wing advocacy groups.
It's a load of codswallop.
“The Resistance is almost pure astroturf, not grassroots,” said Scott Walter, the president of the Capital Research Center, a conservative think tank that investigates left-leaning philanthropies. “It’s a plaything of megadonors uninterested in ordinary Americans’ money.”
The Free Press did a deep dive into "Resistance 2.0," and, as we've been reporting for years at PJ Media, the entire ediface of radical left funding is concentrated in the hands of a few massively rich billionaires and dark money groups.
Matt recently wrote about the huge problems with the Democrats' primary front group for funding, ActBlue. That group has contributed about $16 billion to Democrats and radical left causes since 2004. ActBlue receives much of its funding from small-dollar contributors. $200 or less.
That's nothing compared to what Arabella Advisors has done for the far left. Many radical left groups are the creation of Arabella and, while pretending to be "grassroots," are actually fully bankrolled by a handful of super-rich billionaires.
"Bill Gates, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Democratic megadonor George Soros" are prominent players in the game. "In other words, it’s not Families Over Billionaires so much as it’s billionaires over other billionaires," writes Gabe Kaminsky in The Free Press.
The Arabella-managed entities house and incubate a raft of projects boosting left-leaning causes like Families Over Billionaires. They are unincorporated, with registered trade names but no legal standing. This arrangement allows them to avoid filing their own financial disclosures with the IRS. It also makes it difficult, and often nearly impossible, to trace how all grants into the Arabella network are doled out—prompting concerns about “dark money” from watchdog groups.
The Capital Research Group (CRG) has been tracking left-wing funding groups for two decades and has discovered some eye-popping statistics. A group of four nonprofits, known as "the sisters," control a massive influence operation that America has never seen before. The four groups — the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Windward Fund — "have poured out a combined $3.3 billion into countless groups to court-packing, anti-Trump, 'borking,' environmentalist, gun control, and pro-abortion causes," according to CRG.
This is an organized network with an ungodly amount of money and, what’s worse, an agenda that they are absolutely determined to impose on the rest of us.
The New Venture Fund has about $768 million in assets. Some of the largest donors are the Bill Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Soros-funded Foundation to Promote Open Society, according to The Free Press, which examined tax records.
“The groups that the New Venture Fund house essentially act less as meaningful organs of policy change than as providing cover for billionaires and the consultant class,” said a former New Venture Fund official, who was granted anonymity to speak freely. “They created an intentionally complex web of interrelated organizations that espouse anti-corporatist beliefs and call themselves grassroots — but really serve to consolidate power into the hands of a few influential individuals.”
Can you imagine the reaction to a statement like this from those young, radical journalists who are having a stroke over what Jeff Bezos is doing to the Washington Post?
Another group that's partnered with Arabella is called Indivisible.
Another partner group, Indivisible, is helping to orchestrate protests across the country against the Trump administration. In Montana, more than 250 people marched this month to raise concerns about the government’s policies with the help of Indivisible Bozeman. In Decatur, Georgia, protesters rallied at a Tesla dealership against DOGE leader Elon Musk, the world’s richest man—with local reports identifying an Indivisible chapter as the organizer. Purported grassroots activism in red districts at town hall meetings against Republican lawmakers was aided by the handiwork of Indivisible, The Washington Free Beacon reported, pointing out that Indivisible is heavily funded by Soros.
It used to be that well-meaning do-gooders kept their grubby little hands out of politics. They were too clean to involve themselves in the dirty ideological wars that mark politics today.
Times have changed, and not for the better.
