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The Left’s overlooked money hub allegedly broke the law in administering federal grants

Ken Braun quoted in The Daily Signal

October 25, 2026

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a left-leaning funding hub, received more than $50 million from federal agencies even as a former executive alleged serious compliance, accounting, and cybersecurity failures.

“As a donor advised fund, RPA takes in funding from sources it need not name and then either sends the money out as grants to left-leaning NGOs or creates fiscally sponsored projects to do some of the same work in-house,” Ken Braun, director of content at the Capital Research Center, told the Daily Signal.

With $706 million in reported revenue in 2024 and more than 100 sponsored projects, RPA operates at a scale comparable to some of the best-known nonprofit funding intermediaries on the Left. Yet unlike organizations such as Tides, RPA has largely escaped public scrutiny.

Harris County accused of racial targeting in early voting reminders

Parker Thayer quoted in The Texas Scorecard

October 27, 2026

Capital Research Center investigative researcher Parker Thayer called attention to the issue in a post to X on Monday, stating that Harris County spent $43,000 on the ads, with many using filters “clearly intended to discriminate on the basis of race.”

“This is an official government office. Race shouldn’t even be a consideration for them, and DEFINITELY not for their ‘remember to vote’ ads,” Thayer wrote. “This seems like a clear attempt to try and boost turnout among the demographics most favorable to Talarico.”

“It’s sad to see government election offices betraying the trust of citizens by going out of their way to play games with reminders to vote,” Thayer told Texas Scorecard. “The county could easily have just used geographical filters to target the ads at the whole county, which they did, but then they took it a step further and decided that they needed to play partisan demographic games in a hotly contested election year.

U.S. must expose communist propaganda networks

Sean Durns’ commentary in The Washington Times

October 29, 2026

In mid-October, CodePink, a self-described anti-war group, launched what it called a “community trip” to communist China as part of the group’s “China Is Not Our Enemy” campaign.

To say the trip was “guided” would be an understatement. Communist China is the largest surveillance state known to man, but participants could take solace knowing they were in safe hands.

Privileged Westerners have a long and sordid history of boosting authoritarian regimes. CodePink is not the first; if the U.S. fails to expose communist propaganda networks, it will not be the last.

Mao’s ‘magic weapon’: Hegseth just exposed 80 rebranded Chinese cells on campus

Sean Durns’ op-ed in The Washington Examiner

November 2, 2026

The Pentagon recently designated China’s Confucius Institutes as national security threats. The Department of War’s decision is the right one, but more work remains to combat the Chinese Communist Party’s extensive influence on American soil.

The CCP has long used China’s ancient history and rich culture as a selling point. In many respects, the Confucius Institutes are the perfect embodiment of this tactic. The objective is to prey on the enemy’s interests while simultaneously appearing innocuous.

To fight back, U.S. policymakers must be proactive in their approach, and the American public itself must understand that the CCP has been waging a war against the West for decades.

United in burning down America: The red-green alliance

Sean Durns quoted in CBN

November 9, 2026

“What the Islamists want to do and what the Marxist Left wants to do is to change this country,” Durns said. “And they’re united in burning it down.”

Durns says, “Singham, who is based in Shanghai and whose wife is one of the leaders of CodePink, a woman named Jodie Evans, has been connected to various different groups that are supporting some of these protests that unfolded in Europe, and which they’re promising to bring to American shores.”

Durns warns that the Red-Green Alliance “should not be underestimated. They should not be taken for granted. They’re very organized. They’re very clear about their objectives. And unfortunately, I think a lot of Americans have been asleep at the wheel.”

Gaza protests continue same revolutionary ‘omni-cause’ given life by Black Lives Matter

Sean Durns quoted in The Washington Examiner

November 9, 2026

“America absolutely has a ‘professional rioter’ class,” Sean Durns, director of counter-extremism research at Capital Research Center, told the Washington Examiner. “Organizations like the National Lawyers Guild, Palestine Action, and others are a part of it.”

“It takes big money, and expansive networks, to equip and fuel what might seem to the disinterested observer like an ‘organic’ protest,” Durns said. “But there’s nothing organic about it. They’re carefully planned, well-funded, and highly organized.”

“The far left has become increasingly good at co-opting moments of outrage and fitting them into their omni-cause,” Durns told the Washington Examiner.