🧵THREAD: Who’s really behind the protests? Today in Manhattan, an "emergency protest" popped up with a professionally…

🧵THREAD: Who’s really behind the protests? Today in Manhattan, an "emergency protest" popped up with a professionally printed banner reading: "𝑾𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅’𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒔? 𝑵𝒐𝒘’𝒔 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆!" This is treading close to an incitement for violence. Let's break down who organized these protests, and who finances these organizers. I'm putting together the thread as I go, so thanks for the patience.👇

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh · May 10, 2025

🚨 UPDATE: Democrats now marching in the streets in New York City saying it's "YOUR CHANCE" to fight N@zis, and to "abolish ICE" after the incident at the New Jersey ICE facility. Dangerous people.

The Manhattan protest had several co-organizers, and we'll go through them one by one. The foremost was Working Families Party:

Working Families Party is a far-left political party associated with the 501(c)(4) Working Families Organization, which is founded by Dan Cantor, an ACORN veteran. It is also the political party under which Letitia James was elected to the New York City council and closely associated with Bill de Blasio.

As for financing, State Democracy Project, Tides Foundation (a DAF), and Open Society Action Fund are its top donors.

And State Democracy Project in turn is financed by Tides Foundation, Crankstart Foundation (family foundation), and Open Society Foundations. So, same backers: Tides Foundation and George Soros.

George Soros has given Working Families Organization nearly $20,000,000 over the past 5 years alone.

These were not the only co-organizers. Make The Road Action and New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice and NYIC Action were in attendance as well.

No surprise, Make the Road Action is funded by George Soros as well.

It is also funded by Sixteen Thirty Fund, another Soros funded NGO.

Reddit post mentions NYIC Action, Popular Democracy, Indivisible BK, Target Majority NYC ( @reddit_lies - do you know anything about AgreeableOnion1453 who made the original post )

@reddit_lies NYIC Action gets funding from DAFs - and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Vera Institute of Justice. Both receive government funding, particularly Vera which is mostly government financed.

@reddit_lies Indivisible of course gets quite a bit of direct Soros funding. Indivisible Brooklyn appears to be one of their local groups.

@reddit_lies Target Majority NYC is also an Indivisible subsidiary. I'm trying to trace the mastermind, but most common threads lead back to Open Society Foundation / George Soros as funancing.

@reddit_lies Allegedly, the Congressional representatives who visited the ICE facility were not coordinating with any protests.

The Working Families Party appears to be the lead organizer and is explicitly using the "fight back" language in its media communications. So the leadership of WFP appears to be behind this. The Democratic party is quite supportive, with Hakeem Jeffries saying "keep your hands off."

@reddit_lies As for identifying specific people, Maurice Mitchell of WFP has been quoted in press releases.

However, my guess as to the actual mastermind is co-NY Director Ann Maria Archilla - because she was the former Co-Executive Director of Center for Popular Democracy and Make The Road New York. These are two organizations mentioned in the Reddit post that was posted this morning and I haven't seen them elsewhere.

@reddit_lies This is the same woman who confronted Jeff Flake in the elevator over the Kavanaugh nomination positioning herself as a sexual assault victim.

@reddit_lies She was invited to join AOC as a guest of honor at the 2018 State of the Union address.

@reddit_lies There are several others who could have been involved, but none as strong a match. So, I'll end my thread here.🫡