Trump Targets the Left-Wing Money Train

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Hardly anyone attended the "I Have a Dream" remembrance.

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 4 (C-Fam) Political change began to happen in Latin America when the Trump administration turned off the money spigot at the USAID. USAID money was always intended to alleviate poverty around the world, but over the years became the font of left-wing ideology. Even money going to alleviate poverty came with strings attached to gender ideology. And much of it, presumably, went to political organizing for the left. After the spigot was turned off, the left has lost seven national elections throughout Latin America.

It appears that much the same thing is happening on the domestic front in the United States, where government money, laundered through nonprofits, has been used for political purposes, including those massive street demonstrations we have seen over the past several summers, but not over this summer.

It appears there was only a sparse turnout on August 28th for the “March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote.” The march memorialized Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. It was organized by the National Action Network and the Drum Major Institute and 90 partner groups, including the NAACP, the National Urban League, along with various unions. This should have been massive, particularly at a time when the political left claims the vote is under direct threat from the Trump administration and the courts. It is reported that only thousands turned out.

As the United States heads into the midterm elections that will determine the balance of federal political power over the remaining two years of the Trump administration, it is noteworthy that the political left has been largely quiet in street protests and other large demonstrations, such as we have seen in previous summers. Where have the “No Kings” protests gone? Where has black-bloc Antifa gone? Where are the large demonstrations, sometimes turning violent, against U.S. immigration enforcement?

Could it be for lack of money? One of the things that reporters have noted over many Summers is the professional nature of these demonstrations, who seemed to be able to pack buses from faraway places and have perfectly printed signs that they pass out to increasingly professional demonstrators who show up time and again all across the country. They seem to have networks they can call upon at the drop of a hat in practically any large city.

Some call this the NGO-Industrial Complex, where leftists establish non-profit groups that then begin to rake in corporate philanthropic and government funds that they turn around and use for political purposes and often make themselves wealthy in the process. Consider the Black Lives Matter group that raised billions after the death of George Floyd. They used that money to turn out protests all across the country and, in the process, allegedly used a lot of it to buy mansions and fancy cars.

Left-wing Georgia politician Stacy Abrams formed a non-profit called “Rewiring America” that received $20 billion from the Biden administration.

All of this type of funding is under investigation by the Trump administration. It is not legal for non-profits to use their money for political purposes. The New York Post reported earlier this week that the US Treasury Department is now targeting non-governmental organizations that use government funds for nefarious purposes, most explicitly groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that has allegedly laundered its money through phony corporations to keep alive racist groups SPLC uses to frighten their donors.

It could be that the threat of these prosecutions has dampened the enthusiasm of these left-wing groups. It could be that money that was flowing from the federal government to these groups has also been slowly turned off. What we do know is that the sometimes-violent left-wing street demonstrations have largely died off this summer.

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