A new investigation spearheaded by Peter Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute has ripped the curtain off what hardworking Americans have long suspected: the so-called “No Kings” protests were not a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens but a manufactured operation bankrolled from the top. GAI’s team says it traced nearly three hundred million dollars funneled to official No Kings partners and organizers through an elaborate web of foundations and dark-money intermediaries, and that figure should alarm every patriot who cares about the rule of law.
GAI researchers and their team member Seamus Bruner laid out a clear money trail, showing large sums routed through networks tied to Arabella, George Soros’s Open Society, the Ford Foundation, Tides, Rockefeller, and even Buffett-linked vehicles. Those are not small donations to civic life — this is funding on an industrial scale that buys an army of organizers, media messaging, and on-the-ground coordination meant to shape our politics.
The Arabella Advisors ecosystem emerges as the operational hub in the reporting, with investigators saying it funneled more than a hundred million dollars into partners and affiliates linked to No Kings between recent reporting windows. This is the playbook conservatives warned about: professional NGO networks that package donor money into looks-like-grassroots campaigns while shielding the originators from scrutiny.
Schweizer and his colleagues have a name for the machine behind these events — Riot, Inc. — and they document how modern protest infrastructure is financed, coordinated, and amplified by elites who profit politically when chaos weakens civic confidence. Call it what it is: a permanent protest-industrial complex whose purpose is not civic discourse but political disruption, and that model is dangerous to liberty and order.
The reporting even names individual players beyond the familiar Soros network, including billionaire funders like Neville Roy Singham who have been accused by investigators of financing radical outfits and maintaining troubling international ties. When billionaires and foundations are orchestrating cross-country mobilizations, voters deserve full transparency and immediate answers about who is pushing what agenda and why.
Worse still, the spectacle was not the groundswell the Left advertised; critics and analysts observed the mobilization fall flat in key cities even as the machine behind it worked overtime. That mismatch between money and turnout only proves the point: the operation was built to look spontaneous while being anything but, and that should prompt real investigations by prosecutors and oversight bodies rather than partisan shrugging.
Now is the time for patriotic Americans to demand answers — from Congress, from state attorneys general, and yes, from law enforcement agencies entrusted with stopping covert foreign influence and unlawful coordination. If our institutions fail to follow the money, we will wake up to a country where public opinion is manufactured by a hidden elite and the rest of us are left to clean up the wreckage. Hope, faith in the Republic, and our votes are not gifts for sale to the highest-funded agitator.
