🧵🚨 THREAD: How 50501 Was Co-Opted By the NGO Protest Industry - And Its Creator Doxxed 🚨🧵
50501, one of the most prominent organizations behind the past year's protests, started as a Reddit post.
“50 states. 50 protests. 1 movement.”
Within months:
• Federal trademark filings
• Competing nonprofits
• Moderator purges
• Social media takeover
• Coalition absorption
• The original creator pushed out
And yes... he was doxxed in the process.
This was structural capture by the NGO establishment.
Here are the receipts. 👇
And as always, patience as I pull this thread together:
Here's the timeline.
On January 27, 2025, Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos registers American Opposition Super PAC with FEC, 9 days before 50501's first protest.
I've had a run-in with Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos before. Nice man, as you can see.
I complied with his request and posted a thread on him to correct the record:
Anyway, Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos created the PAC just two days after u/Evolved_Fungi created r/50501.
50501 announced their first nationwide protests - on February 5th, 2025 - with a second PAC, Political Revolution.
The domain fiftyfifty dot one was registered just one day before the protests.
50501 and Political Revolution released a press statement announcing the series of nationwide protests.
Separately (?), American Opposition via Carlo Alvarez-Aranyos claimed to be behind the February 5th protests. So that's two PACs behind it: American Revolution and American Opposition.
Alvarez-Aranyos thanked 50501 publicly in a speech:
Parker, an ally of u/Evolved_Fungi (who created 50501) reports he was pressured to reassign trademarks to an outside entity (50501 Inc.). The original founders on Reddit also report pressure to abandon the nonprofit.
Other moderators report u/Evolved_Fungi for misconduct as a moderator, and he steps down. It is framed as "guy started a movement and got in way over his head and got stressed."
By May, Gloriann Sahay of the Political Revolution PAC has taken over media communications for 50501.
Sahay runs Toolbox for Change, which appears to be the actual operational platform for 50501 and lists 50501 staffers:
u/Evolved_Fungi posted about the takeover and how he was pushed out and then doxxed - the nonprofit staffers appear to have framed it as that 50501 was decentralized anyway, that this would be of legal help:
By March 4th, Indivisible was already hosting 50501 protests:
After the original February 5th protests, Indivisible has appeared to completely taken over the 50501 infrastructure. Although a few skeleton people remain - like Toolbox for Change - it seems that Indivisible is the main coordinator now for everything 50501.
Later in the year, 50501's Hunter Dunn was appearing in press releases from Indivisible:
The original fiftyfifty dot one website, which was pressurized to transfer to the 50501 Inc. nonprofit as mentioned by u/Evolved_Fungi and friends, now stands mostly as a collection of links going out to establishment and Indivisible affiliated websites.
The story gets more complicated here - 50501 Inc. voluntarily shut down on its own, and what remains is what you see above - a messy coalition of people involved in claiming credit and kicking out u/Evolved_Fungi .
My guess: there isn't actually a truly coherent 50501.
The people who took over accomplished their goal - which was to dissolve anything "grassroots" about 50501 with the goal of subordinating the brand to the main protest industrial complex, currently ran by Indivisible.
But even that raises a more disturbing possibility.
Is it the fate of every actual grassroots movement to be co-opted by the NGO-Administrative Complex?
Looking that way...
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I appreciate you engaging, sincerely. You're one of the few people in this space who actually responded, and your tone was decent. So I want to return the courtesy... and this is my first multi-part Hello.
You wrote: "Is any organized effort that involves people working from across the aisle necessarily a conspiracy?"
No. It isn't. And I haven't called it one. I've called it what it is: a funded, coordinated, strategically managed field.
Let me start with you.
You are the National Ambassador of Braver Angels. Braver Angels pulled in $5,651,273 in 2024, up from $958,681 in 2019... mostly from major foundations.
But your public videos repeatedly frame it as a "grassroots" or "national citizens" movement.
These two things cannot both be true. A $5.6 million-per-year operation funded predominantly by major foundations is not a grassroots citizens movement. It is a professionally managed nonprofit. There is nothing wrong with that... unless you describe it as something it isn't.
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Now, here's where it gets interesting. And here's where I think you may genuinely not know the full picture.
In the above video clip, you say:
"We are in this moment where the depolarization movement I think is beginning to coalesce. I mean, I think you and I are in a position to sort of feel it. Braver Angels, Millennial Action Project, all of the amazing organizations in New Pluralists, National Conversations Project."
You named New Pluralists by name. So let's talk about what New Pluralists actually is.
In 2017, Mark Gerzon, president of the Mediators Foundation, consultant to the United Nations Development Programme, distinguished fellow at the EastWest Institute, organized a private meeting of major political funders at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Pocantico Conference Center. Representatives of both the Koch and Soros networks were in the room. The project was co-launched by Stephen Heintz, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Out of that meeting came the New Pluralists.
Today, New Pluralists is a funder collaborative, not a standalone nonprofit. It is fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Templeton, Hewlett, Einhorn, Fetzer, Klarman, Lubetzky, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund are all partners. MacKenzie Scott gave $4 million. The stated goal is $100 million over a decade.
Braver Angels is listed as one of approximately 60 "Field Builders." So is Tim Shriver's Dignity Index. So is Horizons Project. So is David French.
The same foundations that fund the New Pluralists collaborative also fund Braver Angels directly. Templeton gave $1.26 million to Braver Angels. Hewlett gave at least $75,000 plus undisclosed seed funding. They are also governing partners of New Pluralists. The money goes to the funder collaborative AND to the organizations the collaborative funds. It is the same pipeline.
You described this as "a moment where the depolarization movement is beginning to coalesce." New Pluralist's strategic plan describes it as a $100 million coordinated investment in field infrastructure. Both descriptions are accurate. The difference is yours sounds organic. Theirs sounds like what it is.
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You wrote: "I do know Tim Shriver. He and I did a Braver Angels podcast together."
Good. Then you know who runs the Dignity Index.
The Dignity Index is operated by Project Unite. Its theoretical framework was developed by Donna Hicks, a Harvard specialist in international conflict resolution. Its framework was designed for mediating foreign wars. Then it was applied to scoring American political speech on a 1-8 contempt-to-dignity scale. In Utah. And it was piloted at UVU, the same campus where Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
One of the official websites to come out of the Biden White House's "United We Stand" summit was dignity[.]us. That URL now points to the Dignity Index.
Braver Angels has a formal partnership with the Dignity Index. You announced it. The pledge: "connect all 124 Braver Angels alliances" with Dignity Index training.
You wrote in your thread: "The Dignity Index, as I understand it, is meant to be a tool for holding all politicians accountable."
With respect... "as I understand it" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The Dignity Index was built on a foreign conflict resolution framework, launched from a White House summit that identified populist movements as domestic threats, and piloted in the same Utah institutional ecosystem that was hosting MWEG conferences for three consecutive years at UVU. None of that requires a conspiracy. All of it is documented. Most of it is on their own websites.
🧵🚨 THREAD: Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Within TWO HOURS, leaders of 7 "bridge-building" organizations assembled on a conference call. Why so fast? Because UVU was THEIR campus. 🚨
This is Maury Giles, incoming CEO of Braver Angels, admitting on camera at the National Conference on Citizenship:
"Within two hours of the assassination, a group of us, all Utahns, we gathered on a call. We'd become friends over the last 5 years through our work in the community. And we also happen to be leaders in seven different national organizations that work in civic renewal."
Two hours. Seven national organizations. But this wasn't a spontaneous reaction to a tragedy. This was a network protecting its home turf. Because UVU wasn't just the place where Kirk was shot. It was the institutional center of the entire bridge-building / Dignity Index apparatus... and had been for years.
And the kicker?
These seven national organizations don't hide their own intent: replicate color revolution tactics in the United States. And, yes, that includes MWEG - Mormon Women for Ethical Government.
I have the receipts... they all admitted this on camera.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
MWEG on their own GROW video:
"UVU has sponsored for us for the past three years so that we can have it there on their campus."
UVU SPONSORED their annual conference for three consecutive years. UVU is not a neutral venue in this story. It's a partner.
A speaker on MWEG's own Civics Learning Week video from 2023 admits she got a faculty position at UVU partly BECAUSE she was involved with Braver Angels... the same organization whose incoming CEO organized the two-hour call after Kirk was killed.
🧵DC JURY POOL THREAD: DC students can't read. But they can convict.
DC spends more per student than anywhere in America, $31,629/year.
Most kids can't read at grade level.
But DCPS found the time to make progressive activist training mandatory for every student, grades 6-12.
Those students become DC jurors. Full receipts below.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
DC is where federal cases against political figures are tried. All 1,400+ January 6 prosecutions. Stone. Bannon. Navarro. Trump's own federal indictment.
The jury pool draws ONLY from DC residents.
DC voted 92.1% for Biden in 2020. 5.4% for Trump.
The DC Circuit ruled in 2024 (US v. Webster) that this political composition does not make DC juries unfair.
That case effectively foreclosed ALL venue challenges for Jan 6 and politically sensitive federal cases.
🧵 THREAD: How mass immigration came to Japan's shores
𝕏 saw a lovely cultural exchange between Americans and Japanese this past week, which got me wondering how and why Muslims came to Japan... so I spent the weekend looking into it.
Japan went from officially having "no immigration policy" to a formal system with a cap of 820,000 foreign workers. Japan's Muslim population has gone from ~110,000 (2010) to ~420,000 (end of 2024). There are now 149 mosques.
The bill that created this was passed at 4:00 AM in December 2018. The opposition called it a "carte blanche." Deliberations were compressed. It passed anyway.
What I found:
🔹 Three consecutive foreign ministers trained at American universities.
🔹 A foundation run by a Trilateral Commission member and a former US intelligence chief.
🔹 A $69 million fellowship network seeding 69 universities in 44 countries.
🔹 A UN framework signed the same month as the 4 AM vote.
🔹 Sixteen bilateral labor agreements managed through a single coordinating body.
🔹 A Japan-specific immigration program drafted by a Japanese national while he was interning inside the US Senate.
In July 2025, a party that didn't exist before COVID won 14 seats and finished third in the popular vote. By February 2026, the LDP won its biggest parliamentary majority since 1955, running on tighter immigration.
Unfortunately, Americans and Japanese have more in common beyond love of BBQ. They have the mass migration problem in common. Receipts below. 👇
As always, patience as I pull together the thread.
Japan's Muslim population:
2010: ~110,000
2024: ~420,000
Nearly 4x in 14 years.
Mosques: 4 in 1980. 149 as of 2024.
This is not organic. Someone built a pipeline.
The Specified Skilled Worker program. SSW.
Original cap (2019): 345,000 workers.
New cap (March 2024): 820,000 workers.
The law that created SSW passed at **4:00 AM** on December 8, 2018.
The opposition called it a "carte blanche." Deliberations were rushed.
🧵THREAD, NO KINGS IN THE SENATE?: The Helsinki Commission, the almighty foreign democracy operations arm of Congress
The No Kings crowd marched today against the one branch of government where you can actually see who's in charge. They should try the Senate.
At 3 AM on Friday, Thune passed a funding bill by voice vote. Funded everything except immigration enforcement. Just completely gave into the Democratic demands.
Inside that Senate sits a body called the Helsinki Commission. No FOIA. No Inspector General. No records retention policy. It operates in permanent darkness, and what's hiding in there makes the 3 AM vote look transparent.
Look at the two images below.
Left: the booking photo.
Right: the knife Capitol Police seized.
A Helsinki Commission staffer drew this on a Capitol Police officer. March 8, 2019. He was arrested and booked. He was never fired. He was also photographed in Ukrainian military camo at a command post near Bakhmut. Investigators documented $87,400 in cash.
Both parties buried it. The Ryan Routh assassination attempt connection sits in plain sight. The same NGO network running today's color revolution marches connects to the same Helsinki Commission infrastructure.
Receipts below.
As always, patience as I pull together the post. 👇
@shellenberger This photo shows Parker at a Ukrainian military command post near Bakhmut, wearing Ukrainian camo, studying operational maps. According to the investigation, he made 7+ trips to the war zone. I could find no evidence these trips were formally authorized by Congress.
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: A $15+ MILLION DOE contractor and NoKings protest organizer with active nuclear security contracts is on camera recommending a color revolution "how-to" 🚨🚨
His name is Steven A. Cash. Former CIA officer (Balkans, Clinton era). Under Biden: Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary at DHS Intelligence & Analysis.
The day after Trump's 2016 election, Cash co-founded "The Steady State" — a network of more than 340 former intelligence community officials who decided Trump was an "existential threat".
When Biden won, the threat was gone. Cash went into Biden's DHS. His own words: "we disappeared."
Then Trump won again. "Suddenly the existential threat was back." The Steady State reactivated and is now a planning partner with NoKings. In the clip below, their meeting recommends "Bringing Down a Dictator" — the Otpor documentary about toppling Milošević — as "a how-to."
Meanwhile, Cash's company Deck Prism LLC holds $15+ million in Department of Energy contracts. Almost every one: sole-source or non-competed. One is for the National Nuclear Security Administration — our nuclear weapons program — justified because "disclosure would compromise national security."
His FEC records: 20+ donations over 20 years. 100% Democratic. Zero Republican. Including $1,001 to Kamala Harris on August 4, 2024, while his NNSA nuclear contract was active.
I have the USAspending receipts, the FEC filings, and him on camera twice.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
Before proceeding with this thread, please follow @listen_2learn , who tried to expose Cash earlier. Thanks to my new co-visiting fellow with @ItsYourGov , @JeffClarkUS , for help in researching.