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Bob, this is amazing and very scary information. Thanks for the revealing postings! 
I’m staying on this because this runs deep into foreign involvement in interfering and influencing our elections. And it’s being done thru academic channels, social media, NGO’s and charities.
We actually helped fund this thru USAID, which Trump & Rubio shut down.
We actually helped fund this thru USAID, which Trump & Rubio shut down.
And the gift just keeps on giving and the ties keep going back to the same groups.
So evidence is mounting. At the same timeframe the Democrat legislators made their TV commercial telling soldiers to disobey "illegal orders" that were never issued, the National Lawyers Guild published a page saying the same. And in the same timeframe, billboards showed up posted by the group WIN WITHOUT WAR and they are linked to George Soros.
RICO cases take a lot of investigation. Its hard to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, collusion, so masses of evidence need to be in place.
BREAKING: It's been revealed that a nonprofit linked to George Soros is fomenting sedition within the military around the same time a "script" went out to Democrat members of Congress urging rebellion within the ranks against President Trump.There are also links to ANTIFA.On November 11th - just days before the video - the National Lawyers Guild published a page urging service members to refuse "illegal" orders.
The same talking point in the video.Win Without War has put up a billboard in NC urging chaos and dissent within the ranks, a group linked to a 501(c)(4) backed by Soros' Open Society. The group was previously named New Security Action.As per @DataRepublican,
Win Without War is partnered with the National Lawyers Guild.National Lawyers Guild is a supporter of antifa.And to wrap it all together? Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said on national TV a "script" was sent to him. He ended up not participating, but admitted it was coordinated from an external party. There it is.
Rope them ALL IN to this investigation. THIS RUNS DEEP.
So evidence is mounting. At the same timeframe the Democrat legislators made their TV commercial telling soldiers to disobey "illegal orders" that were never issued, the National Lawyers Guild published a page saying the same. And in the same timeframe, billboards showed up posted by the group WIN WITHOUT WAR and they are linked to George Soros.
RICO cases take a lot of investigation. Its hard to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, collusion, so masses of evidence need to be in place.
BREAKING: It's been revealed that a nonprofit linked to George Soros is fomenting sedition within the military around the same time a "script" went out to Democrat members of Congress urging rebellion within the ranks against President Trump.There are also links to ANTIFA.On November 11th - just days before the video - the National Lawyers Guild published a page urging service members to refuse "illegal" orders.
The same talking point in the video.Win Without War has put up a billboard in NC urging chaos and dissent within the ranks, a group linked to a 501(c)(4) backed by Soros' Open Society. The group was previously named New Security Action.As per @DataRepublican,
Win Without War is partnered with the National Lawyers Guild.National Lawyers Guild is a supporter of antifa.And to wrap it all together? Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said on national TV a "script" was sent to him. He ended up not participating, but admitted it was coordinated from an external party. There it is.
Rope them ALL IN to this investigation. THIS RUNS DEEP.
These are the kind of things that happened to President Lincoln before the War Between the States. Democrats were behind it then as now.
Bob, this is amazing and very scary information. Thanks for the revealing postings!
Well well well it looks like more is happening.
Arabella Partners is shutting down.
And if you forgot from the earlier posts, they are a huge DARK MONEY funding operation. Who do they fund? Well also sorts of urban liberal causes, which seem to include people and groups that might funnel money to ANTIFA members. And illegal immigrants, and organizations that support them. As well as groups that support protests against the US government, specifically the conservative political ideals.
But, POOF! they are gone now.
Their funding seems to have dried up as the money trial leads to individuals that might be held complicit? This is big news. So you'll never see it reported. Because in the realm of Racketeering and Conspiracy (RICO) almost everything flies under the radar.
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What, Exactly, Just Happened to the Left’s Dark Money Behemoth Arabella Advisors?
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Bill Gates speaks in New York on Sept. 24. (REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs)
Arabella Advisors, a for-profit company that managed services for many influential dark money nonprofits on the Left, is no more—or so it seems.
Sunflower Services, a new public benefit corporation, announced on Monday that it would be acquiring “Arabella Advisors’ fiscal sponsorship servicing business.” Meanwhile, Arabella’s former CEO, Himesh Bhise, announced that he would lead a supposedly new company, Vital Impact.
A Nov. 19 email to Arabella Advisors received an automated response stating, “As of November 17, 2025 Arabella Advisors has ceased operations.”
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What, exactly, is Sunflower Services? Well, it’s a completely new company financed by… lead investor New Venture Fund, with financial support from the Windward and Hopewell Funds.
These names should be familiar to longtime observers of Arabella Advisors. New Venture Fund, Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund are three of the “seven sisters” dark money nonprofits that received services from Arabella. These are the nonprofits organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
These groups acted as “fiscal sponsors,” housing various quasi-independent projects that did not register as separate entities. Critics say this system allows donors to fund activist projects through the nonprofits—cloaking what their dollars are actually paying for. These groups funded many of the left-wing activist groups that fed staff and ideas into the Biden administration, particularly pushing climate alarmism. The Open Society Foundations, founded by Hungarian American billionaire George Soros and now run by his son, Alex, has contributed millions to the nonprofits who were Arabella’s clients.
The other nonprofits—Sixteen Thirty Fund, North Fund, and Impetus Fund—more politically active groups organized under Section 501(c)(4), were notably absent from the Sunflower Services press release.
Vital Impact told The Daily Signal that “none” of these nonprofits “will be clients of Vital Impact.”
“Arabella Advisors’ fiscal sponsorship business, including its existing infrastructure and operations team, was acquired by Sunflower Services, which is unrelated to Vital Impact,” Vital Impact said in a statement Tuesday. “Vital Impact is a new, nonpartisan professional services firm focused on strategy, operations, and technology support for the social sector.”
According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Sunflower Services will absorb roughly 243 staff from Arabella Advisors, which had 425 employees in 2023. It remains unclear how many staff will move to Vital Impact.
The Gates Foundation dealt a major blow to Arabella Advisors earlier this year, ending its longstanding partnership with the for-profit company.
Elias Law Group, which previously represented Arabella Advisors, did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment as to whether it still represents the nonprofits, or Sunflower Services or Vital Impact.
What Is Vital Impact?
Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, directed The Daily Signal to a document that might shed light on the relationship between Arabella Advisors and Vital Impact.
On Monday, Arabella Advisors filed “Articles of Amendment” with the Virginia State Corporation Commission, seeking a “Name Change” to “Vital Impact.” In the Virginia system, the same entity (Number S1572793) merely altered the name from Arabella Advisors to Vital Impact.
“What will Vital Impact be doing and how is it different from what Arabella Advisors was doing?” Sutherland asked.
When asked about this document, Vital Impact repeated the claim that it is a new firm.
“This is a straightforward administrative point,” the company told The Daily Signal. “The legal entity formerly known as Arabella Advisors, LLC filed a name change following the sale of its fiscal sponsorship services business — long associated with Arabella Advisors — to Sunflower Services.”
“Vital Impact is a new, nonpartisan firm built from the business assets acquired over the past several years — including Redstone Strategy Group, Kiwi Partners, and Ribbon Technology,” the company added. “These teams now operate together as Vital Impact, completely separate from the fiscal sponsorship services business purchased by Sunflower Services.”
The Funds Respond
The 501(c)(3) nonprofits that previously worked with Arabella each praised Sunflower Services.
“New Venture Fund is proud to serve as lead investor in Sunflower Services because we see it as a strategic opportunity to strengthen the entire social impact ecosystem,” the fund told The Daily Signal Wednesday. “The Public Benefit Corporation structure ensures that Sunflower’s success is directly tied to the success of the organizations it supports. Because Sunflower is owned by nonprofits, the work remains deeply mission-aligned, ensuring that every resource is directed toward meaningful impact.”
“Hopewell is investing in Sunflower because we believe that when social justice organizations have world-class infrastructure, they can focus their energy where it belongs – on building power and creating change,” Hopewell Fund told The Daily Signal.
“Sunflower’s commitment to directness, accountability, and responsible business practices is exactly what organizations—especially those working on climate and environmental solutions—need from a true values-aligned partner,” Windward Fund told The Daily Signal.
Why the Change?
Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center and author of the book “Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America,” characterized the transition as a “rebrand” and took credit for making the Arabella Advisors brand “toxic.”
“We’re proud of ourselves for what we’ve been able to do,” Walter told The Daily Signal in a phone call Tuesday. “Why do you rebrand? To make yourself less toxic.”
Walter dismissed the idea that Arabella Advisors might have been going out of business. He noted that the 2024 IRS records for the Arabella-connected nonprofits recently became public, and “total nonprofit revenues were up a bit in 2024.”
“It is just a rebranding and a complexifying and maybe it’s also a c3-c4 splitting,” he theorized.
Walter has repeatedly testified before Congress, sometimes alongside me, on how Americans’ tax dollars supported left-leaning groups such as the nonprofits linked to Arabella. His work on Arabella, along with my research, highlighted the structure and political influence of the Left’s dark money network.
Walter suggested Sunflower Services acquired Arabella Advisors in part to make the dark money funding trail more complex. “The more complex this story is, the harder it is for you or me to explain it anywhere,” he said.
A Threat from the Trump Administration?
The Arabella move comes two months after President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on “countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence” that highlights domestic threats allegedly motivated by “anti-fascist” forces and targets “organized structures, networks, entities, organizations,” and funding sources allegedly behind the violence.
The Free Press reported that Trump’s memo had a “chilling effect” on major liberal foundations.
Lawson Bader, president and CEO of Donors Trust, told The Daily Signal that he did not think Arabella had anything to do with violence, but suggested that Arabella’s dissolution is “in part” a “response to the White House directive.”
“No question, ‘progressive’ or ‘liberal’ organizations are feeling the pressure of the public statements from the White House,” Bader said. He suggested some of them regret not being “as aggressively critical of Barack Obama and Joe Biden when conservative nonprofits were getting harassed.”
Bader expressed hope that nonprofits on the Right and the Left can form “multi-ideological alliances to keep the IRS away from everybody (except those obviously doing actual illegal things).”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson emphasized the focus on illegality in her statement to The Daily Signal on the issue.
“The president’s executive actions to address left-wing violence will employ a whole-of-government approach to end to any illegal activities,” she told The Daily Signal.
Sunflower Services, Sixteen Thirty Fund, North Fund, and Impetus Fund did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.
This thread just keeps chugging along. Why? Because the same groups keep popping up under different circumstances.
Why this time?
Because Nicolas' Maduro, the former dictator of Venezuela, was just captured by the US Special Forces so the left, specifically the Democratic Socialists of America and also the Chinese connected billionaire Neville Roy Singham, who supported groups that helped fund/organize NO KINGS as well as collegiate demonstrations and unrest, seem to keep hope alive for a collapse of the USA.
From ZEROHEDGE
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Why this time?
Because Nicolas' Maduro, the former dictator of Venezuela, was just captured by the US Special Forces so the left, specifically the Democratic Socialists of America and also the Chinese connected billionaire Neville Roy Singham, who supported groups that helped fund/organize NO KINGS as well as collegiate demonstrations and unrest, seem to keep hope alive for a collapse of the USA.
From ZEROHEDGE
Cuba, Venezuela, China, And America's Left-Wing Revolution | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Cuba, Venezuela, China, And America's Left-Wing Revolution
Yesterday's spectacle would have been unthinkable a generation ago.
Donald Trump retrieved Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela and brought him to New York to be arraigned in the Southern District. Venezuelans in the diaspora celebrated the symbolic end of a tyrant's impunity. Meanwhile, in the United States, something stranger happened: American socialist organizations erupted in rage.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) issued a statement condemning the action and demanding Maduro's release. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani—a DSA member—reportedly consulted with Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer infamous for representing al-Qaeda figures, and allegedly called President Trump to "register his opposition." At the same time, Neville Roy Singham's network hosted a pro-Maduro protest in Times Square, even as Venezuelan exiles celebrated freedom from the man who ruined their country.
Meanwhile, actual Venezuelans...
So we must ask the obvious question: why? Why are ostensibly American organizations so emotionally invested in the fate of a foreign dictator? Why does the capture of a Venezuelan strongman trigger outrage in gentrified Brooklyn, rather than relief?
The first answer is ideological. Socialists, even those who insist on calling themselves "democratic", do not fundamentally support American interests.
The branding is marketing. "Democratic socialism" is designed to sound like Scandinavia with better coffee. In practice, their heroes are Havana and Caracas, not Helsinki. They tell voters they want the Nordic model; what they defend, reflexively and ferociously, is the Cuban and Venezuelan model: centralized power, ideological conformity, and permanent opposition to the United States.
The second answer is historical and structural. The modern American left did not materialize spontaneously on college campuses. It was built, carefully, deliberately, over decades, beginning with Soviet influence operations and later absorbed by Cuban intelligence. And today, that network is materially dependent on Venezuela. Without Venezuelan oil, Cuba collapses. When Maduro falls, the lights quite literally go out in Havana.
As ZeroHedge noted...
To understand how we got here, we need to go back.
The first organization to understand the context of foreign front groups is the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), founded in 1919 and still operating out of New York City. CPUSA was a member of the Communist International (Comintern) from 1919 to 1943, the Soviet apparatus that coordinated global communist movements. The party received substantial covert funding from Moscow. Its leaders, like William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, were trained in the Soviet Union where they learned Marxist-Leninist tactics and internal discipline. CPUSA became an instrument of foreign power.
Next came the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), founded in 1937. As the Capital Research Center notes, the NLG has been consistently identified with radical-left politics and was heavily influenced by communists in its early years. Key Weather Underground figures like Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers had strong ties to the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Dohrn served as the first law student organizer.
Today, the Guild provides legal support and protest training for Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other left-wing street movements, teaching activists how to push confrontation to the legal edge without crossing into prosecutable domestic terrorism.
Third is the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), founded in 1963 with seed money from the Samuel Rubin Foundation. Rubin was a CPUSA member. His daughter, Cora Weiss, and her husband Peter Weiss, who also held senior roles in the National Lawyers Guild, ran the foundation and guided IPS for decades. IPS presented itself as a benign progressive think tank. Its real objective was more ambitious: to move American law, culture, and foreign policy leftward, aligning with Soviet interests.
IPS quickly became a safe haven for America's radical left. It worked with the Castro regime on anti-war activism, hosted Black Panther figures, and nurtured activists like Barbara Ehrenreich who went on to become an early leader in the Democratic Socialists of America. It also attracted the attention of the KGB; agents from the nearby Soviet embassy reportedly convened there and attempted recruitment. In the 1960s, IPS sponsored the Venceremos Brigades, whose members were organized and trained by Fidel Castro's intelligence service.
IPS perfected a model that still defines the American left: front groups. New issue? New organization. Feminism, NATO opposition, racial activism, each sprouted its own institute, foundation, or coalition, often sharing staff, donors, and ideology. It became a printer for anti-western astroturf groups.
Closely linked was the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), founded in 1966 by civil-rights attorneys, many of them NLG members. CCR co-founder Arthur Kinoy had ties to CPUSA. CCR lawyers collaborated with IPS scholars on civil liberties cases and campaigns, especially during the Church Committee era. Yesterday, CCR condemned Trump's action against Venezuela as "unlawful aggression," describing it as a "caricature of imperialism." The language has not evolved; only the villains have.
According to a defected Cuban intelligence officer, sometime in the 1970s—after Cuba's deep integration with the Soviet Union—the Cuban intelligence service (DGI) gained operational control over CPUSA, the National Lawyers Guild, and the Venceremos Brigade.
Fast-forward to today. The DSA, who just won NYC's mayoralty, has direct roots in IPS. CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans sits on the IPS board. IPS receives funding from Neville Roy Singham. Singham activists like Manolo De Los Santos don't just organize protests on behalf of the Maduro regime, they're actually friends in real life.
All of these networks—whether the Singham organizations, the DSA, or the fake "civil rights groups" that are actually organizing protests—have been traveling to Cuba for years, where they interact with the Cuban Intelligence Service through its front group, ICAP.
Omar in Havana. Opening daycare centers?
This matters because Cuba is running on fumes, quite literally. With electricity available only a few hours a day, the Cuban regime is utterly dependent on Venezuelan oil. That reality is a huge deal for America's revolutionary left. They see themselves not as observers, but as participants in the Cuban revolution.
When Maduro is threatened, they react as if their own infrastructure is under attack—because it is.
When people tell you who they are, believe them. The American left is not merely influenced by Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, and China. It functions as their domestic network. Yesterday's protests were not a moral response.
They were a supply-chain reaction.
Now FOX News is reporting on these same groups.
And these same groups that are chanting to FREE MADURO are the same crowds that marched in the NO KINGS rallies and the same crowds that mobilized to FREE PALESTINE on our college campuses.
Full story quoted from Fox because it is so good. As you read it, you will see the same names, the same groups, the same activists, the same NGOs.
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And these same groups that are chanting to FREE MADURO are the same crowds that marched in the NO KINGS rallies and the same crowds that mobilized to FREE PALESTINE on our college campuses.
Full story quoted from Fox because it is so good. As you read it, you will see the same names, the same groups, the same activists, the same NGOs.
Second front: How a socialist cell in the US mobilized pro-Maduro foot soldiers within 12 hours
A Fox News DIgital analysis of mobilization efforts to support Maduro reveals a coordinated campaign by a transnational network of self-proclaimed socialist, communist and Marxist groups.
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Second front: How a socialist cell in the US mobilized pro-Maduro foot soldiers within 12 hours
January 3, 2026 8:28pm EST
Fox News correspondent CB Cotton details the conflicted global reaction to the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on ‘The Big Weekend Show.’
As the U.S. military carried out a daring operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, a second front opened up within minutes in the United States an information warfare, psychological and propaganda operation run by a hardened cell of self-described Marxist, socialist and communist leaders.
For years, this cell has fomented anti-American hate in the U.S. under the cover of "anti-war" protests, rallying activists after the 9/11 attacks to condemn the U.S. response, appropriating "anti-racism" protests after the 2020 killing of George Floyd, marching with Antifa agitators, organizing antisemitic campus encampments after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas and activating "working-class Americans" to support Maduro and his regime in a war against "U.S. imperialism."
A Fox News Digital analysis of their minute-by-minute moves overnight reveals how this network activated a coordinated ideological and information warfare campaign, moving through digital social media channels with quickly produced posters to mobilize foot soldiers to the streets for an "EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION" in New York City; Washington, D.C.; and an estimated 100 other cities, moving with the speed and discipline of an organized military operation.
Over 12 hours, a network of self-described socialist, communist and Marxist organizations used social media to launch an anti-American propaganda and street campaign in the U.S. to support Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. (@BTNewsroom/X, @manolo_realengo/X, @answercoalition/X, @PeoplesForumNYC/X, @PSLNational/X, @VijayPrashad/X, @CodePink/X)
At 1:35 a.m., as U.S. special forces teams had just landed in Venezuela, BreakThrough News, a socialist propaganda arm of the network, published some of the first video from the U.S. military strikes, blasting the Trump administration for waging an "illegal bombing campaign of Caracas," the capital of Venezuela. It was a talking point that was going to stick.
Ten minutes later, at 1:45 a.m., one of the key leaders of this network, Manolo De Los Santos, executive director at The People's Forum, a proudly socialist 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in New York City, echoed the narrative on social media of an "illegal bombing."
Less than an hour later, at 2:29 a.m., the ANSWER Coalition, a nonprofit co-founded by a proud Marxist, Brian Becker, published a red siren alert on the social media platform X with a slick new poster, calling supporters to the streets in Times Square for a protest Saturday to support Maduro.
"NO WAR ON VENEZUELA! STOP THE BOMBINGS," the poster screamed, on brand.
Minutes later, at 2:34 a.m., The People’s Forum shared the call-to-action, screaming: "EMERGENCY PROTEST"
Soon after, at 2:43 a.m., the Party for Socialism and Liberation shared the poster on X, saying, "Stop the bombings…!"
Congressional lawmakers are already investigating this socialist network for its ties to Neville Roy Singham, a United States-born technology executive who relocated to Shanghai after selling his software firm and starting work that critics say is aligned closely with interests of the Chinese Communist Party. Singham didn’t respond to a request for comment.
By 3:21 a.m., Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a research institute chaired by Singham that examines issues through the lens of "national liberation Marxism," posted a message, denouncing the military action, declaring, "Down with US imperialism."
Within a few hours, at 6:09 a.m., CodePink, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, condemned the "terrorist United States…"
From a military intelligence perspective, experts say the overnight sequence bears the hallmarks of a pre-positioned influence network executing a rapid-response operation. The synchronization of messaging, the staggered release of content across aligned platforms and the immediate transition from online agitation to physical mobilization point to an ecosystem designed not for spontaneous protest, but for ideological warfare.
In this framework, experts say, the nonprofit leaders are foot soldiers in Maduro’s war on the United States, acting as civilian operatives advancing the strategic interests of a foreign ideological project. Their role is not to fight with weapons, but to contest legitimacy, shape public perception, apply internal pressure on U.S. decision-making during moments of external conflict and further the cause of communism, experts say.
At the center of this domestic front is an international coordination structure known as the International Peoples’ Assembly, which functions as an umbrella organization and political command-and-control hub linking communist parties, socialist movements, activist organizations and state-aligned media outlets worldwide.
One of its media arms, the People’s Dispatch, has explicitly framed its mission as mobilizing global resistance against "American imperialism," including repeated calls to action on behalf of Venezuela. It lists Singham’s Tricontinental as one of its "partners." The North America members of its "coordinating committee" include CodePink; the Popular Education Project, an initiative of The People’s Forum; and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Its Venezuelan member is a group called Francisco de Miranda Front, which works closely with its U.S. allies.
At 7:49 a.m., the International People’s Assembly shared the poster for the "EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION."
It quickly published a statement condemning the U.S. military action as reflective of the country’s "increasingly militaristic and hyper-imperialist orientation" and calling on members to "resist this pursuit of hegemony by any means necessary."
The assembly operates in close alignment with Tricontinental, the SIngham organization that functions as an ideological production center, generating narratives, research and messaging disseminated through aligned media platforms and activated through street-level organizations. Singham’s wife, Evans, sits on the International People’s Assembly, tightening the operational loop between messaging, mobilization and leadership.
Experts say the ideological doctrine guiding this network is shaped in part by Prashad, who also serves as editor of People’s Dispatch.
On the operational side, De Los Santos, executive director at The People’s Forum, has emerged as a visible field organizer. He is listed as a researcher at Tricontinental and has repeatedly appeared at regime-aligned events in Venezuela, functioning as a liaison between the ideological center and street-level mobilization abroad and at home.
In 2003, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez backed a new group in Venezuela, the Francisco de Miranda Front, laying the groundwork for an international solidarity apparatus that joined the International People’s Assembly, working with U.S. groups. That infrastructure matured over time into a durable support system for Maduro when he was elected president in 2013.
By March 2019, that relationship was well-entrenched when De Los Santos organized a pro-Maduro protest outside Venezuela’s consulate in New York, physically denying opposition figures access to the building.
That month, the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Claudia De la Cruz jetted to Venezuela for a four-day conference of the International Peoples’ Assembly in Caracas, urging socialists to "collectivize" their efforts to fight the "capitalist crisis" in the world, according to a video shared from the meeting with the hashtag #HandsOffVenezuela..
"Venezuela is the epicenter," she declared. "Venezuela is the personification of the anti-imperialist struggle."
The next month, The People’s Forum hosted Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza during a talk in which he demanded the U.S. end sanctions on the country, according to an article in "Fight Back! News," a publication by members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. "The evening concluded with Arreaza thanking the crowd and urging people to keep fighting and protesting," the article noted. "Manolo de los Santos, the executive director of The People’s Forum, took up Arreaza on his request and called the crowd to action."
In May 2019, when a coup attempt failed, De Los Santos appeared on teleSUR, the state-funded TV network in Caracas, saying he’d organized a press conference with religious leaders in New York City to "engage in the battle of ideas" against "imperialist aggression."
Two leaders in the global socialist network, Vijay Prashad and Manola De Los Santos, stand with Nicolás Maduro on election day in 2021. They emerged as outspoken leaders in the pro-Maduro protests after Maduro's arrest by U.S. military forces. (@VijayPrashad/X, @manolo_realengo/X)
Two years later, in November 2021, Prashad and De Los Santos shared a photo with Maduro, all of them flashing a thumbs-up, with Prashad writing, "Elections in Venezuela today!" He noted that he stood with De Los Santos and Maduro, supporting "sovereignty against imperialism."
The next month, De Los Santos participated in a Caracas conference livestreamed on Maduro’s X account, speaking at the 59-minute mark and holding up a manifesto, "Plan para salvar la humanidad," or "Plan to save humanity."
He returned to Caracas in April 2022 for the International Anti-Fascist Summit, posting a photo with Eugene Puryear, a senior figure in the Party for Socialism and Liberation, further reinforcing the operational linkage between U.S.-based activists and foreign political structures.
The pattern intensified the next year when De Los Santos and De la Cruz attended a conference sponsored by the Maduro government to explicitly preserve the ideological legacy of "Comandante Chávez," their term of reverence for Chávez.
In late April 2024, Maduro even recognized De Los Santos as he thanked attendees of a conference of the "Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America," established by Cuba and Venezuela in 2004 to unite communist economic interests.
This past fall, a wide network that included the Communist Party USA, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and the Struggle for Socialism Party supported an "urgent call for a week of coordinated protests" to support Maduro. Last month, the network took action again, organizing "NO WAR ON VENEZUELA" protests.
The newest overnight campaign to support Maduro will likely send foot soldiers into the streets to support Maduro and his wife during any trials they face, not just as an expression of protest but as a continued campaign of information warfare on the domestic front.
Experts say the network that spent decades legitimizing and defending communist regimes abroad and now functions as a rapid-response influence force inside the United States is a new threat matrix that amounts to something the FBI and intelligence agencies investigate as malign foreign influence.
Its members operate as ideological foot soldiers, advancing a foreign-aligned narrative during moments of conflict, seeking to fracture public consensus, delegitimize U.S. action and apply pressure from within.
Over the 12 hours of activation to support Maduro, politicians endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America echoed criticism of the U.S. action as illegal, and socialist pro-Maduro organizations in the U.S. activated members to join street protests. (@PeopleAssembl_/X, @RepRashida/X, @AOC/X, @AnswerCoalition/X)
By daylight Saturday morning, at 8:49 a.m., CodePink invoked a slogan used last year as a theme in anti-Trump protests, declaring, "HANDS OFF VENEZUELA," and issuing a statement dismissing criminal proceedings against Maduro as a "sham" prosecution.
By 8:57 a.m., the Democratic Socialists of America, which just saw its star politician, Zohran Mamdani, inaugurated as mayor of New York City, shared a message from U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a member of the organization, condemning the U.S. strike as "illegal."
At 10:29 a.m., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another member of the Democratic Socialists of America, chimed in, saying, "It’s about oil and regime change."
On cue, at 1:06 p.m, Mamdani repeated the refrain established overnight by the socialist network that brought him to the mayor’s office in New York City, blasting the U.S. for the "military capture" of Maduro, calling it an "act of war" and "blatant pursuit of regime change."
The talking points of politicians, activist groups and foot soldiers in the socialist, communist and Marxist network in the U.S. echoed the statements that the two strongest communist powers in the world expressed about their ally, Maduro. China issued a statement saying it opposed the "blatant use of force" by the U.S. in Venezuela. Russia called the news an "act of aggression" against Venezuela.
By afternoon, within 12 hours of first hearing about the military operation in Caracas, the pro-Maduro network started churning out fast clips of its information war on the Trump administration.
At 1:34 p.m., the social media team at the ANSWER Coalition posted a closely cropped video of protesters, holding the ANSWER Coalition’s distinctive yellow-and-black signs and chanting in front of the White House, "Stop the war machine!" The Party for Socialism and Liberation immediately shared the video.
A little over an hour later, at 2:42 p.m., The People’s Forum shared a video of Becker, the co-founder of the ANSWER Coalition, from Times Square in New York City, a camera filming him from behind, as he declared, "This is a capitalist war! It’s a rich man’s war! The kidnapping of Maduro is an imperialist war for a capitalist class!"
MS Now, the new name for MSNBC, reported from the Times Square protest and its reporter only shared a throwaway line about the ANSWER Coalition having a "speakers’ program going on behind us," without cluing viewers into the group’s proud Marxist politics.
Online, at 3 p.m., wearing a black-and-white checkered collared shirt, the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Puryear hosted a YouTube livestream, joined by Tricontinental’s Prashad and others. BreakThrough News promoted the livestream with a new piece of graphic propaganda, showing Trump with a mouth gaping open and Maduro with his chin high, appearing stoic and regal.
At 3:02 p.m., The People’s Forum shared a video clip on its X account of De Los Santos at the Times Square protest, a microphone in his hand as he scanned the crowd and railed against the U.S., calling the Trump administration a "criminal enterprise" for "kidnapping" Maduro.
"Shame!" the crowd responded, in a typical refrain for the group’s protests.
Back on the BreakThrough News livestream, Puryear asked Becker about the "quick turnaround" on organizing the protests.
Becker spoke about the night before like a field marshal.
"A few of us stood up all night last night when we heard the news, conferring with each other, conferring with other organizers and, by 3:30, 4 o’clock this morning, we put out the call for demonstrations to happen today, Saturday, Jan. 3," he said.
Between 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., he said, leaders of anti-Trump groups, including 50501, which organized "HandsOff" and "TakedownTesla" protests, reached out to the pro-Maduro organizers to join their protests, and the protest numbers swelled with the "entrance" of the groups more closely aligned with the Democratic Party.
Now, he bragged, the results were protests in "100-plus cities."
As the jet with Maduro and his wife touched down in the U.S. at Stewart Airport in New Windsor, New York, agents with "DEA" across their jackets boarding the plane, the caption on the livestream said proudly: "ANTI-WAR PROTESTS SWEEP U.S."
"We should be raging!" Becker declared, stoking the "working class" to join the "class war, global war, anti-imperialist war."
The protests today, he warned, "are a harbinger of what’s coming."
I don't remember such organized resistance when we took Noriega in Panama.