DataRepublican (small r) Profile picture
Nov 6, 2025 32 tweets 15 min read Read on X
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Inside The New Pluralists: how billionaires weaponized the Biden Administration, targeted Charlie Kirk, and are quietly financing America’s color revolution 🚨🚨

In 2017, a quiet meeting brought representatives of Soros, Koch, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations together for one purpose: to rethink how philanthropy influences politics.

Out of that meeting came the “New Pluralists,” a coalition that would go on to shape the Biden White House’s United We Stand summit, fund censorship-adjacent projects, and eventually intersect with investigations into Turning Point USA ... and the color revolution that's brewing in the United States now.

Thanks to @iamlisalogan and @skdoubledub33 for the research.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread in real time. 👇
Our story starts in mid-2017, Mark Gerzon, president and founder of the Mediators Foundation, began organizing a private meeting of major political funders. Scheduled for November on the East Coast, the gathering was to include representatives of both the Soros and Koch families, along with about twenty other donors from across the political spectrum. Gerzon described them as people on the left and right who were disillusioned with how their money was influencing politics and wanted to explore new ways to use their wealth more effectively.
If you’re unfamiliar with Mark Gerzon, he has an extensive background in international diplomacy. He has served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), worked with the Carnegie Council, and was a distinguished fellow at the EastWest Institute, where he facilitated dialogues between the Chinese Communist Party and members of both the Republican and Democratic parties.Image
Image
Image
Image
The meeting did happen - at the Rockefeller Brother Fund's Pocantico Conference Center. The project was launched by John Steiner (vice-chair of Mediators Foundation) and Stephen Heintz, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. A new direction for America was set then. Image
I am keeping this thread focused on events around Turning Point -- so I will only briefly go over this new direction. Stephen Heintz would sit on an American Academy council to come up with a plan to transform America from a Constitutional Republic to an actual democracy. Image
Image
Image
The billionaire philanthropists who attended the mysterious summit organized by Mark Gerzon formed a group called "New Pluralists." Charles Koch Institute, Anti-Defamation League, Ford Foundation, and Soros Fund all were represented. Image
Image
Image
The first project was Communities Overcoming Extremism: the After Charlottesville Project, led by former Charlottesville mayor Michael Signer. Signer says on his (now-deleted) website that he created the coalition which included the ADL, the Ford Foundation, the Charles Koch Institute, the Fetzer Institute, and New America... but elsewhere he says the ADL reached out to him first.Image
Image
This initial project would would set the vocabulary for their long term direction -- "bridging divides" through censoring populists and installing a new democracy. I write a whole chapter on this in my book. Image
Image
Now, fast forward to September 15, 2022, two weeks after the infamous "Soul of the Nation" speech wherein Biden declared "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." Image
Two weeks after that speech, President Biden announced the "United We Stand" summit and would announce a number of measures to combat extremism. Image
Whose idea was it to hold the summit and response? Well, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is mentioned as one of the five organizations that pressed the White House to make it happen. Image
Image
Ok, so it was ADL's idea, the same ADL who collaborated with the Koch brothers, Ford foundation, Soros Fund, etc.

Who bankrolled the United We Stand?

... It was the New Populists. They committed 1 billion dollars to this initiative, proudly announced in a White House press release.Image
Image
Southern Poverty Law Center got involved as well, begging Susan Rice to make United We Stand summit an enduring institution and having a long list of policy recommendations. Image
Merrick Garland the same day announced a nationwide initiative to combat hate speech. They would go onto partner with the ADL on this effort. Image
Image
On November 2, 2022, an article is published on a digital publication widely circulated around foundations called called "Is Philanthropy Taking the Wrong Approach to Addressing Polarization?" It lauds the New Pluralists and their role in the United We Stand summit. Image
But the same article says that there is an obstacle to accomplishing the goals of United We Stand... Christian evangelicals... specifically, Turning Point USA. The article fingers Turning Point USA as an obstacle due to their stubbornness. Image
Image
On 1 December 2022, Merrick Garland's Department of Justice, which administered the United Against Hate programs, issued a subpoena to Turning Point USA in the Arctic Frost investigation. Image
It was also around this time that ADL entered Turning Point USA in its Extremism database. I could not narrow a timestamp more precisely, but the earliest Wayback Machine snapshot is 2 January 2023. Image
Image
Remember - the same ADL that is advising the Department of Justice.
The story doesn't end of the official websites to come out of the "United We Stand" summit... was Dignity [.] us . here.OneImage
Dignity [.] us now points to the Dignity Index. Ermiya Fanaeian is linked as having working on the Dignity Index as one of its original coders.

Yes, the same Fanaeian whose group SLC Armed Queers is under investigation as having potential foreknowledge of Kirk's assassination. Image
Image
You can read all about her in this prior thread. She was awarded by Utah Global Diplomacy for work in advancing the UN 17 SDGs.
The President of Utah Global Diplomacy is Felicia Maxfield-Barrett, who is also on the board of directors for Global Ties US, another State Department cut-out NGO. Global Ties US partners with Utah Valley University. Maxwell-Barrett received an award from UVU. Image
Image
Image
Image
. @iamlisalogan and @SKDoubleDub33 have more information on this -- but they confirm that Global Ties US finances Project UNITE, the organization behind the Dignity Index.
@iamlisalogan @SKDoubleDub33 There's more ties to UVU, but I don't think they're appropriate for X -- you can look up @iamlisalogan 's substack for more on that.

Both @SKDoubleDub33 and Lisa report Global Ties US scrubbed all their social media after the Kirk assassination.
Zooming back out to Mark Gerzon, who coordinated the whole effort with the New Pluralists -- the grand plan of the billionaires did not stop when the Trump administration took over and immediately started prosecuting the weaponization efforts.

Mediators Foundation formed the Inter-Movement Impact Project, an initiative meant to align all the various democracy organizations.Image
The network is huge, compromised of many NGOs. But there are a few "core" groups.

One of them you might recognize: Ro Tucci and DemAID.

Yep, that's right. Inter-Movement Impact Project is directing the actions of ex-USAID employees who are trying to forment a color revolution.Image
Image
Image
@iamlisalogan @SKDoubleDub33 Here's a prior thread on DemAID :
The goal of this group -- implement Rachel Kleinfeld's Strategy #4 to Support US Democracy. Effectively, what it means is they are flooding America with NGOs to transform local communities from inside-out and build support for transforming the USA to a true democracy.

@BasedMikeLee will be amused to know that one of those NGOs is Mormon Women For Ethical Government. If you look at the person on lower left of the second screenshot, that's Jen Thomas of MWEG.Image
Image
@iamlisalogan @SKDoubleDub33 Now, I haven't quite found the link to NoKings or Indivisible yet. The Koch brothers are definitely tied to this initiative, NoKings not as much. But it does have overlap in that some of the more progressive foundations of New Pluralists are also booting No Kings.
There's a lot more to this rabbithole. Like how both David French and Dignity Index are "Founding Field Builder" of New Pluralists. Or like how Nina Jankowicz is a project member of Mediators Foundation - her profile is scrubbed, but I captured the archive. Or like how several of the Mediators Foundation network is involved in UN's Pact for the Future initiative.Image
Image
@iamlisalogan @SKDoubleDub33 But this is enough for now.

Please give @iamlisalogan and @SKDoubleDub33 a follow.

Please also consider subscribing to me for $3 a month here on X -- I am supported by small dollar donations, and I would rather be beholden to a large number of people for tiny amounts.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with DataRepublican (small r)

DataRepublican (small r) Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @DataRepublican

May 5
I've been relatively quiet on the subject of right-wing influencers who defected from MAGA.

But if they are actually proposing unity with left wing populist movements, then they are proposing unity with Communists.

That is the red line for me.
Everyone has their opinion on the Iran war or Israel. Maybe that opinion is enough to deter them from supporting Trump. I may not agree with it, but I understand where it comes from and it's a free country.

But when that turns into allying with Communists - that's when I have to speak up.
Institutional left-wing populism IS Communism. I'm not using it as a slur as in everyone to the left is a Communist. I mean it literally.

I'm talking about PSL, CODEPINK, Singham groups. The movements on the left that are anti-globalist are overwhelmingly Marxist.
Read 4 tweets
May 4
🚨🧵 BREAKING: Former DHS Chief Miles Taylor's prank site collected death threats against the President and 4,000+ people's personal data. Then exposed them through all an open API. 🚨

Two days ago, I showed you how Miles Taylor's GTFO ICE site exposed 17,000+ people's data on an open API. That site halted sign-ups and is still "under construction."

But Taylor's organization DEFIANCE[.]org didn't just build one leaky site. They built two. On the same server.

UndoTrump[.]org — launched April 1, 2026 as an "April Fools' joke" — collects names, emails, and political messages from people signing up for fictional "Removal Parties" at government buildings. The White House Ballroom. The Kennedy Center. The DOJ. Battleships.

4,000+ signup records. 3,300+ unique people. Same vulnerability. Same API. Same zero authentication.

And this one has death threats against a sitting President in the database.

The man who was deputy chief of staff for the department that houses the Secret Service couldn't secure a sign-up form. Again.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇Image
Image
Here's a video of Miles himself soliciting PII in sign-ups. He implies he's not saving the user data... but he did.
Same server. Same IP address. 34.111.179.208. Google Cloud Platform. Same React 19 frontend. Same Express.js backend. Same registrar. Domains registered 13 days apart.

This wasn't two mistakes. This was one codebase deployed twice. Name.comImage
Image
Image
Read 12 tweets
May 2
🧵🚨 BREAKING: Miles Taylor: "Anonymous," former DHS Chief of Staff, Google security executive launched a website called GTFO ICE that collects your full name, email, phone number, and zip code to join an anti-ICE "rapid response network." And publishes the user infromation via a public API. 🚨

17,662 people have signed up.

The sign-up data is exposed on a public REST API. No true authentication. No rate limiting. Full records: names, emails, phone numbers, zip codes, timestamps.

The man who ran the third-largest federal department (250,000 employees, $60 billion budget) who oversaw election security architecture and led counterterrorism operations, then served as Google's Head of National Security Policy...

...can't secure a sign-up form. But he does milk hundreds of thousands of NGO dollars on these credentials. While freeloading off his fame as the person who wrote the infamous NYT article "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration."

And despite me pinging @MilesTaylorUSA about this 12 hours ago, the REST API is still wide open and exposed as of now. Everything has been turned over to FBI, HSI, ICE, and more agencies.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇Image
Image
Taylor's security clearance was suspended by presidential memorandum in April 2025. Trump called his conduct "treasonous." Five months later, Taylor launched DEFIANCE dot org. Five months after that... GTFO ICE. Image
Image
Image
Image
GTFO ICE is a coalition of three orgs:

1. DEFIANCE dot org : Miles Taylor + Xander Schultz
2. Save America Movement : Steve Schmidt (yes, of the Lincoln Project)
3. Project Salt Box Image
Read 10 tweets
Apr 23
🧵 THREAD: You've heard the phrase "OUR DEMOCRACY" a million times. But what exactly is "OUR DEMOCRACY"? 🤔

When they say "democracy," they don't mean a republic. They don't mean consent of the governed. They don't mean your right to choose your own leaders.

They mean a system where "institutions" - NGOs, multilaterals, the permanent bureaucracy - advance a set of values they consider settled: equality, social justice, cosmopolitanism, global governance. These values aren't proposals to be voted on. They're treated as moral prerequisites that must be true *before* your vote counts.

Despite what they say, they aren't for checks and balances. Checks and balances limit what government can do to you. This limits what you can do to *them*. The brakes are on accountability, not power. The institutions that set the boundaries of acceptable policy have put themselves beyond the reach of the electorate, and they call that arrangement "democracy."

Trump has been an existential threat to this system since the moment he said "drain the swamp" ... because the swamp IS the system. When he threatened those institutions, he didn't threaten the republic. He threatened their immunity from it.

And they said so. On camera. At their own events. In their own words.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇
Robert Kagan:
"I would say there is an argument for saying give me some smoke filled rooms... they weeded out the Donald Trumps of this world."

Backroom deals instead of primaries. Because primaries are how you got Trump... and the old gatekeepers would have stopped him.
Think Kagan's an outlier? Here's Brookings senior fellow William Galston at the National Endowment for Democracy's (NED) most prestigious annual lecture.

He explains that "liberal democracy" requires "some abridgement of majoritarianism."

Translation: democracy means limiting what the majority can do.
Read 14 tweets
Apr 22
🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨

11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:

• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper

I report. You draw your own conclusions.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇Image
Image
It is NOT confirmed fact that Chesny, who appeared to be encouraging running over protesters, was SPLC's informant.

But the indictment (paragraph 11a) describes informant F-37, and it matches Chesny:

• Member of the online leadership chat that planned Unite the Right
• Attended Charlottesville (at SPLC's direction)
• Made racist postings (under SPLC's supervision)
• Helped coordinate transportation for attendeesImage
Image
Now here's why this matters beyond the fraud charges.

Charlottesville became the single most consequential founding event in modern American political infrastructure. Every one of these organizations says... in their own words.... that they exist or were transformed because of August 12, 2017.

👇
Read 12 tweets
Apr 21
🧵 THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup

@PeteHegseth named the institutions... CFR, Brookings, the general class... in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a color revolution planning document cited him as an insider threat.

They didn't go after him because of drinking. They didn't go after him because of women. They went after him because every color revolution manual ever written says the same thing: you cannot topple a government unless the security forces defect. And a loyal Secretary of Defense is the one person who makes sure they don't.

I have the receipts. Their own documents. Their own training sessions. Their own words on camera.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
@PeteHegseth @Liz_Wheeler This is not my theory. This is theirs.

Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan — the two most cited scholars in the color revolution field — studied 323 regime change campaigns. Their finding:

Security force defections make campaigns FORTY-SIX TIMES more likely to succeed. Image
Image
@PeteHegseth @Liz_Wheeler So what did co-author Maria Stephan do next?

She became Chief Organizer of the Horizons Project. And on July 16, 2025, she trained New Kings participants on video.

"Security forces refused to obey orders to repress protesters."
Read 19 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(