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Natalie Winters

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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.

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Natalie Winters

@nataliegwinters

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. 🧵

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.

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.

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Natalie Winters

@nataliegwinters

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.”

This is their foreign donor pitch.

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.”

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Natalie Winters

@nataliegwinters

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.”

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Natalie Winters

@nataliegwinters

Feb 6

1/ 🚨 EXCLUSIVE

Democrat-aligned activists are war-gaming AI for “tactical” protest operations, including VR training simulations and discussion of drone use, modeled on military-style planning.

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2/ The document - How AI Can Support Democracy Movements - was shaped by figures deeply embedded in Democrat protest politics and USAID-funded “democracy promotion” networks, including Erica Chenoweth, whose work overlaps with progressive activism and lawmakers such as Pramila Jayapal.

This is the same ecosystem long used overseas now applied domestically.

3/ The report begins by identifying what it calls a serious operational weakness in modern protest movements:

“A large gap exists in social movements’ ability to use AI tools for their own tactical, strategic, and organizational needs.”

It then defines what those “needs” actually are.

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Natalie Winters

@nataliegwinters

Feb 3

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A 1,000+ group push to defund ICE and Border Patrol now includes organizations with documented China ties.

Chinese-American Planning Council

A review of CPC’s financial records discovered Chinese government-linked sources pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into the nonprofit in recent years. CPC is currently under investigation for these China ties and immigration enforcement obstructionist agenda.

The council has received as much as $445,969 in donations from sources with ties to the Chinese government since 2018. State-run enterprises such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Bank of China have provided financial assistance to CPC in recent years, records show.

CPC also appears to have significant financial and personnel links to a New York-based nonprofit, which, in turn, has extensive ties to Beijing and a CCP influence and intelligence arm.

The Daily Caller has revealed these ties extensively.

Chinese Progressive Association

CPA has received considerable media attention for its ties to the Chinese Communist Party, dating back to its founding and continuing well into the present.

The association was founded in San Francisco in 1972 by operatives of the Maoist militant group I Wor Kuen, which supported the Chinese Communist Party.

From the start, it was doing pro-China work. As one of its founders, Fay Wong, explained: “China was an inspiration to us, many of us were from China and those us who were not just found what China was able to accomplish, with the revolution, was very inspiring.”

A few years later, I Wor Kuen also set up groups called the Chinese Progressive Association in Boston and New York, the latter of which signed the Amnesty International ICE demand letter.

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