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Feb 17, 2025 21 tweets 11 min read Read on X
EXC: Here’s a LONG list of groups funded by Mark Zuckerberg that are actively sabotaging the Trump presidency through lawfare, ICE raid interference, lobbying, and mass protest.

Funds comes from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative or Forward US (founded by Zuck in 2013).

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Zuckerberg ran to the @NYTimes for cover after I exposed his ties to nonprofits bankrolling lawsuits against President Trump.

You thought this would intimidate me?

It proves I hit a nerve.
1) CASA is currently suing the Trump administration over their Birthright Citizenship Executive Order.

CASA also has an active tip hotline to dox ICE raids and agents.

They’ve received at least $250,000 from Forward US. Image
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2) Forward US has donated to Make The Road States, which published a “Deportation Defense Manual,” instructing illegal aliens how to avoid ICE raids.

This includes instructing them to lie to ICE agents and law enforcement.

The group is also suing Trump over mass deportations. Image
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3) Forward US has donated to VoteVets Action Fund, an organization the actively opposed and campaigned against the nomination of @PeteHegseth.

They also put out ads attacking Trump’s spending freeze and smeared his immigration crackdown. Image
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4) CZI donated at least $500,000 to Common Justice, a far-left group pledging to “resist POTUS’s efforts to criminalize immigration.”

Common Justice is also part of Protect Democracy, the leading coalition of left-wing groups suing Trump. Image
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5) The Obama alum hotbed think tank - the Center for American Progress - is currently lobbying Congress to “defend America against Trump’s Power Grab” and mobilizing academics and activists to achieve this.

CAP belongs to Democracy Forward, the leading legal organization of left-wing groups suing Trump.Image
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6) CZI has given $550,000 to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center per @capitalresearch.

This group has condemned Trump’s immigration agenda, pledging to “continue to work to defeat Trump’s immigration enforcement priorities.” Image
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7) CZI has given $200,000 to American Immigration Council, an open borders advocacy group that has criticized Trump’s immigration crackdown as “propaganda” and “fearmongering.”

They’ve pledged to fight all his Executive Orders. Image
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8) MoveOn, a notorious far-left organizing group, is gathering activists to oppose Trump via mass demonstrations, petitions, and calls to lawmakers.

They were a key 2016 Resistance organization. Image
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9) House Majority Forward, which has received $150,000 from Forward US, has cut several anti-Trump ads airing across national media. Image
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10) LUCHA, another Forward US grant recipient, has pledged to “never cede ground” or “back down” against the Trump presidency and their immigration agenda. Image
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11) CZI also supported the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which opposed the Laken Riley Act claiming it was “anti-black.” Image
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12) CZI has repeatedly given six-figure grants to Haitian Bridge Alliance, which opposed the Laken Riley Act, TPS termination for Venezuelans, and using Gitmo to detain illegal aliens. Image
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13) Radical immigration activist group America’s Voice has received $200,000 from Forward US while lobbying against Trump’s “enforcement” of immigration law and attacking his policies as “harmful.” Image
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14) The Justice Action Center has pledged to fight Trump in court over immigration restrictions and has received grants from Forward US. Image
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15) The Latin American Association, a Forward US grant recipient, is helping illegal aliens avoid deportation. Image
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16) United We Dream is running several pressure campaigns against lawmakers to ensure they oppose Trump's immigration agenda and is threatening lawsuits. Image
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So, yet again, the @nytimes is wrong.

Would you like to update this story @teddyschleifer? Image
@nytimes @teddyschleifer Also, they're deleting grants from the CZI website!

MASSIVE attempted coverup underway.

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Jul 27
REVEALED: Here Are the Mainstream Journalists on China’s Payroll 🚨

I exclusively uncovered the identities of prominent U.S. journalists flown to China by a CCP-linked influence operation seeking “favorable coverage” and “positive messages” about Beijing. 🧵
The names include:

- Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist
- Matthew Yglesias, Vox co-founder
- Ronald Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst
- Bradford Plumer, New York Times reporter
- Marjorie Miller, former Associated Press vice president
Also identified:

- Steve Clemons, former The Hill editor-at-large
- David Rohde, MS NOW senior national security reporter
- Jonathan Alter, NBC News and MSNBC political analyst
- David Sweeney, former NPR managing editor
- Daniel Gross, former Yahoo Finance columnist
Read 17 tweets
Jul 20
EXCLUSIVE: MS NOW national security reporter @RohdeD attacked President Trump’s election warning about China.

@RohdeD traveled to China with a leading Chinese Communist Party influence org offering these trips in exchange for “favorable coverage.”

Conflict of interest? 🧵
The China-United States Exchange Foundation is tied to China’s United Front system, which works to “co-opt and neutralize sources of opposition” to the Chinese Communist Party.

The State Department has described it as a “magic weapon” for advancing CCP political influence overseas.
Rohde disclosed his participation in one of CUSEF’s journalist delegations in a Reuters article that has since been deleted:

“Four other journalists and myself are visiting China this week on a trip organized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation.”

He described CUSEF as an organization “run by businessmen with close ties to the Chinese government.”Image
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Read 8 tweets
Jul 17
EXC: Some of the biggest names in media participated in private dinners and China trips organized by a Chinese Communist Party influence operation seeking to generate “favorable coverage” and “disseminate positive messages” about China.

The outlets named include:

• CNN
• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• Reuters
• The Wall Street Journal
• Bloomberg
• BBC
• Associated Press
• TIME
• The Atlantic

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The group behind the effort was the China-United States Exchange Foundation.

CUSEF was founded the Vice Chairman of China’s leading international influence and espionage organization — the United Front.

The U.S. government says its purpose is to:

“co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition” to the Chinese Communist Party.
CUSEF’s American lobbying firm described its objective in a FARA filing:

“effectively disseminate positive messages to the media, key influencers and opinion leaders, and the general public.”

The filings then explain exactly how the group planned to achieve it.
Read 6 tweets
Jul 13
EXCLUSIVE: The Left is building a new voting bloc out of America’s homeless population.

Documents reveal a coordinated operation turning shelters and housing providers into voter-registration hubs, mail-ballot sites, and turnout machines.

Here’s how it works. 🧵 Image
The instructions are explicit:

“Shelters and social services agencies should also consider allowing clients to use their addresses and to receive mail-in ballots at their sites.”

Shelters would no longer just house people. They would become part of the ballot infrastructure. Image
Other guidance says homeless voters can use a shelter or other “place of temporary residence” as the address for requesting a ballot.

That means ballots can be sent to shelters and service providers while organizers use those same facilities to register and mobilize voters.
Read 5 tweets
Jul 8
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: I uncovered documents showing a Berlin-based network steering foreign donors toward a $19 million, Hillary-linked voter operation designed to “change the outcomes of national elections” and generate 200,000+ votes in key U.S. races.

(Just $94 a vote!)
The documents say it plainly:

“Freedom2Vote… can receive funds from both US and foreign donors.”

And:

“A non-partisan organisation under US tax law… It can receive funds from both US and foreign donors.”

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The American machinery behind Freedom2Vote is Civitech, an explicitly Democratic political-tech firm led by a former Hillary Clinton voter-protection official.

Civitech says its partisan models “minimize unintended Republican registrations.” Image
Read 14 tweets
Mar 20
EXC: Left-wing foundations are backing a campaign to bring the Qur’an into American churches.

A Chicago group is urging pastors to read it from the pulpit — telling Christians:

“Be as generous a reader of the Quran as you are of the Bible.”

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This isn’t random activism.

CITC is tied to Interfaith Alliance — a national network pulling in millions.

In 2023 alone:
➡️ ~$2.87M revenue
➡️ ~$1.4M in grants

Donors include the Rockefeller Family Fund and Communities Foundation of Texas.
CITC’s leaders just published a book: Confronting Islamophobia in the Church: Liturgical Tools for Justice.

It explicitly calls on churches to “weave Islamic scripture into the lectionary calendar” and to stop seeing Islam as “a security threat” and instead as something they “ought to know about.”Image
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