Don't Be Distracted by the Minneapolis Protests

There are no coincidences in politics. Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes, you just have to look below the surface and not be distracted by what is transpiring on top.

Take Minnesota for instance and Minneapolis in particular.

Two weeks ago, the media was zeroing in on the Somalian daycare scandal and the rampant corruption taking place throughout the state that has cost taxpayers billions of dollars. But no sooner were investigators starting to implicate Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Rep. Ilhan Omar in the mass corruption and its coverup, but protests began springing up in the streets of Minneapolis like weeds in a once finely manicured lawn.

Coincidence? I think not.

Where did they come from and how did they get there? And why would protesters take to the streets amid the bone-chilling temperatures in Minneapolis while nary a peep is being heard from Progressives in other liberal bastions such as Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.?

Follow the money, my friends.

On one hand, money is pouring into Minneapolis from outside groups whose primary goal is to disrupt President Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda. For instance, the Indivisible Project in Washington, DC, which bills itself as a movement to defeat the “Trump agenda,” received $7,850,000 from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2018 and 2023, according to public records. In turn, the Indivisible Project funds Indivisible Twin Cities, which has led many of the protests against ICE raids in Minnesota.

Indivisible Twin Cities – with a straight face, I might add – bills itself as a “grassroots group of volunteers” despite having their hands in George Soros’s deep pockets.

It’s just a matter of connecting the dots, folks.
Other protest leaders include the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an anti-Israel group with a $9.1 million annual budget. CAIR has been designated a terrorist organization by both the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the State of Texas because of its alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of CAIR’s Minnesota chapter, has led multiple rallies against ICE. So has Nekima Levy Armstrong, the founder of the Racial Justice Network, who played a key role in the George Floyd riots in 2020.

In case you’re wondering, the Racial Justice Network closely collaborates with Black Lives Matter, another organization under federal organization for money laundering, and one of their primary goals is “reparation-based justice”. They also call to “free” Palestine, Venezuela, Congo, and Sudan.

In other words, these anti-ICE demonstrations are not organic nor are they spontaneous. Instead, there are carefully choreographed and heavily funded protests designed to undermine not only President Trump’s policies, but the very foundations of American culture and society.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, other dark money networks – including the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund – are pouring millions into the anti-ICE protests.

At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to change course to fight the Trump administration instead. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means tormenting ICE agents on the ground. The group holds in-person “action trainings” on how to “stop ICE & build a revolution.” It also maintains a running list of the Twin Cities hotels housing ICE agents and organizes late-night “noise demonstrations” aimed at making it “impossible” for those hotels to operate.

Sunrise is bankrolled by a who’s who of deep-pocketed left-wing organizations. Soros’ Open Society Foundations has donated $2 million to it since 2019, according to its grant database. Meanwhile, The Ford Foundation contributed $150,000 in 2024 and $550,000 in 2025, and the MacArthur Foundation – the 12th-largest private charity in America – gave $250,000 in 2024, according to tax filings and grant disclosures.

Sunrise Twin Cities also works closely with two other radical groups, Defend the 612 and Unidos MN. Defend the 612’s vison is “a connected community working together to be safe from abductions and state terror”.

Sounds pretty mainstream to me... NOT!

From their website… “Day after day we go out into the cold together to protect our neighbors from masked Federal shock troops who have invaded and descended on our community to spread chaos & terror, to abduct our neighbors and separate families, and to commit extra-judicial executions and bring violence to our communities without any shred of accountability.”

Defend the 612 claims to have “80,000 of our Minneapolis neighbors involved in Rapid Response groups and support networks across the entire city who are working tirelessly day in and day out to actively show up [at ICE operations].

“Minneapolis simply will not accept federal occupation… and we will not accept the violent invasion by immoral storm-troopers who have been given orders to terrorize our community and riot in our streets,” their website states, because “Masked agents try to kidnap our babies and tear families apart again and again.”

Are these people crazy or what? And what exactly is in the drinking water in Minneapolis?

As for Unidos MN, according to its website, their goal is to “organize for system change that seeks to transform the systems and power structures impacting our communities.” In layman’s terms, they are calling for a revolution.

Like a dog chasing a cat only to spot a squirrel out of the corner of its eye, the media has obligingly changed their focus from the Somalian daycare scandal and the rampant corruption in Minnesota to cover these corporate-sponsored anti-ICE protests. In doing so, not only are they playing into the hands of George Soros and his cronies, but they are also sacrificing what little journalistic integrity they have left.

And yes, potentially allowing Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar and company to get away with stealing billions and bankrupting their state.

If you ask me, Walz is simply incompetent whereas Omar is a crook, through and through. Frey and Ellison probably fall somewhere on the spectrum between the two.

Hopefully, federal investigators will dig deeply enough into all their backgrounds to discover the truth.

Editor’s Note: The plot continues to thicken. The Legal Rights Center, a Minnesota-based nonprofit organization that focuses on “racial equity” and “restorative justice”, received nearly $5.7 million – roughly two-thirds of its total revenue – in grants from the state government (i.e. taxpayers) between 2021 and 2024, according to the Minnesota attorney general’s office. In turn, the Legal Rights Center is using those funds and soliciting additional donations for the People’s Bail Fund of Minnesota that’s helping to free anti-ICE agitators and illegal immigrants detained in Minneapolis.