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Several people and groups in the Better Together America (BTA) / Healthy Democracy civic-hubs ecosystem were recently highlighted by @DataRepublican for participating in Renew American Democracy (RAD) strategy forums and planning exercises alongside former USAID democracy ielle M. Reiff and Paul Zeitz.
April 10, 2026 R2T core team call (recorded on Fathom), from DataRepublican’s recent reporting (with research leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan).
Full recent documentation: x.com/DataRepublican…
Thread maps the local hubs, national support layer, funders, and trainer connections. 🧵
Several people and groups in the Better Together America (BTA) / Healthy Democracy civic-hubs ecosystem were recently highlighted by @DataRepublican for participating in Renew American Democracy (RAD) strategy forums and planning exercises alongside former USAID democracy ielle M. Reiff and Paul Zeitz.
April 10, 2026 R2T core team call (recorded on Fathom), from DataRepublican’s recent reporting (with research leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan).
Full recent documentation: x.com/DataRepublican…
Thread maps the local hubs, national support layer, funders, and trainer connections. 🧵
The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan .
You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits. rd is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.
Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic.
The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change.
Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
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Leigh Marcotte retweeted
@CynicalPublius The sad thing is that they've likely all coordinated with each other to overthrow governments many times (see how they swooped in to congratulate Lula). This is "normal" to them. Hence why the book is called UNELECTED.
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BTA's Tech hub is the digital layer for the same network.
RAD/R2T is testing Pol.is for the Nationwide Deliberation Campaign (NDC), aiming at "millions of Americans starting in 2027." @DataRepublican's Part 8 already flags NDC.
• Eli Pariser: ex MoveOn ED; ountries); co-directs New_Public; Omidyar Fellow; on OSF's US Programs Board. BTA map notes: "Connected with Sterling, could equip hubs with tech platform"
• Liz Barry: Metagov ED; co-founded Computational Democracy Project, which stewards Pol.is
• Pol.is: used in Taiwan's vTaiwan. Audrey Tang says X's Community Notes was inspired by its algorithm. Community Notes is on the map too, noted as "Twitter (X) fact check feature"
• Decidim: born at Barcelona City Council, adopted by Catalonia's government
• Also: Center for Humane Technology (Tristan Harris, ex-Google), Citizens.is (Iceland), Talk to the City (AI Objectives Institute), John Gable (AllSides), Open Impact
International tools. Same people.
RAD/R2T is testing Pol.is for the Nationwide Deliberation Campaign (NDC), aiming at "millions of Americans starting in 2027." @DataRepublican's Part 8 already flags NDC.
• Eli Pariser: ex MoveOn ED; ountries); co-directs New_Public; Omidyar Fellow; on OSF's US Programs Board. BTA map notes: "Connected with Sterling, could equip hubs with tech platform"
• Liz Barry: Metagov ED; co-founded Computational Democracy Project, which stewards Pol.is
• Pol.is: used in Taiwan's vTaiwan. Audrey Tang says X's Community Notes was inspired by its algorithm. Community Notes is on the map too, noted as "Twitter (X) fact check feature"
• Decidim: born at Barcelona City Council, adopted by Catalonia's government
• Also: Center for Humane Technology (Tristan Harris, ex-Google), Citizens.is (Iceland), Talk to the City (AI Objectives Institute), John Gable (AllSides), Open Impact
International tools. Same people.
🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 8: THE COMPLICIT FEDERAL WORKERS 🚨
In Drop 7, we saw Paul Zeitz type during a Zoom call:
"We are also starting to consult federal workers on how to do some blocking inside the govt agencies during emergency situations - hat on the form."
Excuse me? Actively blocking the federal government during an "emergency situation?"
And how are federal workers involved with Renew American Democracy (RAD), a group whose primary mission is to a fundamental rewrite of our Constitution?
Turns out, a certain federal workers alliance, FWAD, is working closely with RAD on their goal to rewrite America.
FWAD is the Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy, formerly known as "Federal Workers Against DOGE."
RAD's published strategy lists FWAD among its endorsers. But FWAD isn't just an endorser. It is a founding partner of the Nationwide Deliberation Campaign (NDC). The goal is "a national People's Proposal of structural reforms" - which, in RAD's other videos and strategy documents, is planned to occur just after the federal government has been declared illegitimate. In a nutshell: with no federal government, a representative (read: DEI) panel of citizens will be assembled, their input collated and stitched into a new constitution for the Fourth Founding.
But that is not the only path for restructuring. A concept note also proposes "Constitutional amendments," with "state ratification strategies." Either way, all evidence points to that the NGOs in the Block lane know their goal is to rewrite American governance.
All the receipts are in this video. 👇
Note: two current federal workers were in the files. As they are not public figures, I withheld these names. I gave them over to contacts in their agencies instead.
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3/ Decidim, the Barcelona platform, is coming to the US.
• June 24, 2026: Decidim Assoc and NYC's Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) signed an MoU in NYC, with Barcelona City Council and Catalan government delegates present
• Same day, Decidim met Mayor Mamdani's new Office of Mass Engagement (created Jan 2, 2026) about using it for "the new administration's projects"
• Decidim's other govt partners include Brazil's federal govt, whose Brasil Participativo platform runs on Decidim
• Metagov's Joshua Tan speaks at Decidim Fest 2026. Liz Barry (Pol.is) runs Metagov
Deliberation tech from Barcelona, Taiwan and Iceland, run through BTA's Tech hub.
Receipts below 👇
• June 24, 2026: Decidim Assoc and NYC's Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) signed an MoU in NYC, with Barcelona City Council and Catalan government delegates present
• Same day, Decidim met Mayor Mamdani's new Office of Mass Engagement (created Jan 2, 2026) about using it for "the new administration's projects"
• Decidim's other govt partners include Brazil's federal govt, whose Brasil Participativo platform runs on Decidim
• Metagov's Joshua Tan speaks at Decidim Fest 2026. Liz Barry (Pol.is) runs Metagov
Deliberation tech from Barcelona, Taiwan and Iceland, run through BTA's Tech hub.
Receipts below 👇
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Receipts:
• RAD pol[.]is/NDC: renewoursystem.com/deliberation
• Pariser bio: elipariser.org
• Audrey Tang on Community Notes: web.archive.org/web/2026051904…
• Liz Barry: metagov.org/people/liz
• NCoC 2020 report: ncoc.org/wp-content/upl…
• PACE webinar: pacefunders.org/webinar-re-env…
• Meta convening: listenfirstproject.org/bridging-movem…
• NYC MoU: decidim.org/blog/2026-07-0…
• Mamdani EO 07: nyc.gov/mayors-office/…
• Brazil on Decidim: decidim.org/case-studies/b…
• Decidim Fest 2026 speakers: meta.decidim.org/en/conferences…
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• RAD pol[.]is/NDC: renewoursystem.com/deliberation
• Pariser bio: elipariser.org
• Audrey Tang on Community Notes: web.archive.org/web/2026051904…
• Liz Barry: metagov.org/people/liz
• NCoC 2020 report: ncoc.org/wp-content/upl…
• PACE webinar: pacefunders.org/webinar-re-env…
• Meta convening: listenfirstproject.org/bridging-movem…
• NYC MoU: decidim.org/blog/2026-07-0…
• Mamdani EO 07: nyc.gov/mayors-office/…
• Brazil on Decidim: decidim.org/case-studies/b…
• Decidim Fest 2026 speakers: meta.decidim.org/en/conferences…
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Leigh Marcotte retweeted
🚨@DataRepublican has been documenting the network discussing a “Fourth Founding,” with a political crisis potentially creating an opening for major structural reform.
I have been reviewing the Democracy Files exposed by @DataRepublican, @SKDoubleDub33, and @iamlisalogan. While tumbled upon this document.
It matters because it shows what one possible legal vehicle looks like.
It is a ready made “Emergency Application” for a state legislature to invoke Article V:
“Be it resolved by the legislature of the State of ______”
If 34 state legislatures submit qualifying applications, Congress must call a convention to propose constitutional amendments. Any amendment would still need approval from 38 states.
The draft proposes changes involving federal power, spending, term limits, checks and balances, and Citizens’ Assemblies.
It also says convention delegates would be elected by popular vote, instructed through state Citizens’ Assemblies, and subject to immediate recall if they departed from their mandate.
No Article V convention has taken place, and the Constitution does not answer many of the procedural questions raised by this proposal.
An attached comment then suggests launching a January 2026 campaign for an Article VII “National Citizens’ and Constitutional Convention.”
That creates an even larger legal question..
Article VII was used to ratify the Constitution written in 1787. It does not provide a modern process for calling another convention or replacing the current Constitution.
This document adds an important piece to what @DataRepublican has been reporting.
The “Fourth Founding” discussion was not limited to just rhetoric about a future crisis. The documents include reusable legislative language for opening the constitutional amendment process, along with comments exploring an “Article VII” route that the Constitution does not actually provide.
I have been reviewing the Democracy Files exposed by @DataRepublican, @SKDoubleDub33, and @iamlisalogan. While tumbled upon this document.
It matters because it shows what one possible legal vehicle looks like.
It is a ready made “Emergency Application” for a state legislature to invoke Article V:
“Be it resolved by the legislature of the State of ______”
If 34 state legislatures submit qualifying applications, Congress must call a convention to propose constitutional amendments. Any amendment would still need approval from 38 states.
The draft proposes changes involving federal power, spending, term limits, checks and balances, and Citizens’ Assemblies.
It also says convention delegates would be elected by popular vote, instructed through state Citizens’ Assemblies, and subject to immediate recall if they departed from their mandate.
No Article V convention has taken place, and the Constitution does not answer many of the procedural questions raised by this proposal.
An attached comment then suggests launching a January 2026 campaign for an Article VII “National Citizens’ and Constitutional Convention.”
That creates an even larger legal question..
Article VII was used to ratify the Constitution written in 1787. It does not provide a modern process for calling another convention or replacing the current Constitution.
This document adds an important piece to what @DataRepublican has been reporting.
The “Fourth Founding” discussion was not limited to just rhetoric about a future crisis. The documents include reusable legislative language for opening the constitutional amendment process, along with comments exploring an “Article VII” route that the Constitution does not actually provide.
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UPDATE: the people, not just the orgs.
My pinned thread mapped the BTA/Healthy Democracy hubs. Here's who sits at the center and also helped write or run the RAD Strategy.
• Advisory hub (the "brain"): Walt Roberts (IMIP / Thriving Together US / Renew to Thrive, R2T) and ealth Project)
• Core Team includes Vinay Orekondy (BTA co-founder, #UnifyUSA senior advisor) and Duncan Autrey ("Horizons Librarian")
• #UnifyUSA: Paul Zeitz, Danielle Reiff, Rosarie Tucci are all named RAD contributors. Zeitz and Reiff were on the April 10, 2026 R2T core team call with Walt Roberts.
My pinned thread mapped the BTA/Healthy Democracy hubs. Here's who sits at the center and also helped write or run the RAD Strategy.
• Advisory hub (the "brain"): Walt Roberts (IMIP / Thriving Together US / Renew to Thrive, R2T) and ealth Project)
• Core Team includes Vinay Orekondy (BTA co-founder, #UnifyUSA senior advisor) and Duncan Autrey ("Horizons Librarian")
• #UnifyUSA: Paul Zeitz, Danielle Reiff, Rosarie Tucci are all named RAD contributors. Zeitz and Reiff were on the April 10, 2026 R2T core team call with Walt Roberts.
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Several people and groups in the Better Together America (BTA) / Healthy Democracy civic-hubs ecosystem were recently highlighted by @DataRepublican for participating in Renew American Democracy (RAD) strategy forums and planning exercises alongside former USAID democracy ielle M. Reiff and Paul Zeitz.
April 10, 2026 R2T core team call (recorded on Fathom), from DataRepublican’s recent reporting (with research leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan).
Full recent documentation: x.com/DataRepublican…
Thread maps the local hubs, national support layer, funders, and trainer connections. 🧵
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3/ Adding to the thread: Sterling Speirn (Advisory hub) bridges BTA's Advisory and Funders hubs.
• Ex W.K. Kellogg Foundation President & CEO (2006-2013); later National Conference on Citizenship CEO; earlier led Peninsula Community Foundation (now Silicon Valley CF)
• Listed indilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement). He also says he's a Democracy Funders Network (DFN) member
• On Convergence's Leader Council. Convergence is also on the BTA/HD map
• 2020: called himself a Bridge Alliance senior fellow. Bridge Alliance is a BTA Core Partner
• Aug 6, 2024: guest on Caleb Christen's Civic Hub Builder call (Walt Roberts was on the prior one) about hubs partnering with community foundations
• Kumu map: Advisory hub, with arrows to PACE and Democracy Funders Network in Funders.
• Not seen as a named RAD contributor
Same people, plus the funders layer.
Receipts below 👇
• Ex W.K. Kellogg Foundation President & CEO (2006-2013); later National Conference on Citizenship CEO; earlier led Peninsula Community Foundation (now Silicon Valley CF)
• Listed indilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement). He also says he's a Democracy Funders Network (DFN) member
• On Convergence's Leader Council. Convergence is also on the BTA/HD map
• 2020: called himself a Bridge Alliance senior fellow. Bridge Alliance is a BTA Core Partner
• Aug 6, 2024: guest on Caleb Christen's Civic Hub Builder call (Walt Roberts was on the prior one) about hubs partnering with community foundations
• Kumu map: Advisory hub, with arrows to PACE and Democracy Funders Network in Funders.
• Not seen as a named RAD contributor
Same people, plus the funders layer.
Receipts below 👇
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• Kellogg CEO, NCoC: amacad.org/person/sterlin…
• PACE member: pacefunders.org/members
• DFN member, Convergence Leader Council: convergencepolicy.org/leader_council…
• Bridge Alliance senior fellow: thefulcrum.us/big-picture/st…
• Civic Hub Builder call: calebchristen.substack.com/p/today-partne…
The Fulcrum sits on the National Support hub of the BTA/Healthy Democracy hubs map. It is a project of the Bridge Alliance Education fund. Bridge Alliance is on the Core Partner hub of the BTA hubs map.
END THREAD 🧵
• Kellogg CEO, NCoC: amacad.org/person/sterlin…
• PACE member: pacefunders.org/members
• DFN member, Convergence Leader Council: convergencepolicy.org/leader_council…
• Bridge Alliance senior fellow: thefulcrum.us/big-picture/st…
• Civic Hub Builder call: calebchristen.substack.com/p/today-partne…
The Fulcrum sits on the National Support hub of the BTA/Healthy Democracy hubs map. It is a project of the Bridge Alliance Education fund. Bridge Alliance is on the Core Partner hub of the BTA hubs map.
END THREAD 🧵
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Leigh Marcotte retweeted
Good
THE CEASEFIRE HAS COMMENCED
The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.
Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.
General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.
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Hundreds of ballots left exposed at Skid Row homeless center ahead of LA election trib.al/jDflz8e
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Too many of you are sitting out the primaries and midterms like they don’t matter. Wake up. We’re in the middle of an Islamist-socialist takeover, and staying home is just handing them the keys. Not voting is surrendering your freedom. Stop them while we still can. Get off the couch and GO VOTE RED!!!
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Elisa Slotkin and 5 others committed the act of sedition less than a year ago.
Now she threatens to use “the process is punishment” tactic to force any young conservatives to bring legal counsel with them should they choose a career in conservative administrations.
Lulu, Chavez and Maduro are thrilled with her work
Now she threatens to use “the process is punishment” tactic to force any young conservatives to bring legal counsel with them should they choose a career in conservative administrations.
Lulu, Chavez and Maduro are thrilled with her work
President Trump said again that I should be put on trial because I deigned to say that if you break the law and abuse taxpayer dollars, you should be held accountable.
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@bravoCo104498 It's all coordinated using the same playbook and funders.
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Leigh Marcotte retweeted
This might be actual treason.
The crimes usually committed are sedition, not treason. Treason requires a foreign component.
The crimes usually committed are sedition, not treason. Treason requires a foreign component.
More on the Barcelona event: it's hosted at the national HQ of Esquerra Republicana (ERC), the Catalan pro-independence party.
• Speakers: Julia Roig, "founder of Horizons Project," and her husband Enrique Roig, "former senior official of the Biden administration"
• While VP at Human Rights a named contributor to R2T's RAD Strategy (June 2026). HRF also endorsed it.
• Topic: the US midterms "in a context of the wearing down of Trumpism"
• "Escac a Trump" is Catalan for "Check to Trump"
Horizons leads the United Democracy Alliance and is on the BTA/Healthy Democracy Hubs Map.
Receipts in my pinned post /12
![Contributors page of the Renew American Democracy Strategy. Renew to Thrive thanks contributors including lead writer Daniel Calingaert and, in a highlighted box, Danielle Reiff, Walt Roberts, Enrique Roig, Prabha Sankaranarayan, Rosarie [Ro] Tucci and Paul Zeitz. Below, the strategy is listed as endorsed by Renew to Thrive and the Democracy Renewal Group, additional orgs not shown.](/pic/orig/media%2FHVmiResXkAAEUIO.png)
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I'm not sure what to call this exactly. It's not technically a Color Revolution, as the current government is not being overthrown, but the tactics still feel the same.
Tyranny.
Tyranny.
BREAKING:
Flávio Bolsonaro has been summoned by the Federal Police to hand over his passport within 24 hours by order of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
The Supreme Court Justice argues that there is a risk that Bolsonaro could flee abroad to avoid prosecution.
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@CynicalPublius Think of civil society as an immune system that's continuously ongoing and activates to various degrees. Color revolution is just the most dramatic event.
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@DataRepublican Exactly. That network looks like white blood cells under a microscope, an immune response in moderation.
In some leukemias the WBCs proliferate so heavily they suppress the red cells. Oxygen delivery collapses.
Civil society as an immune system is the right frame, until the response itself
(Video from a November 2025 post by @DataRepublican of the interactive Mesa Sebree / Mediators Foundation BTA/ Healthy Democracy Hubs Map; public version later taken down.)
In some leukemias the WBCs proliferate so heavily they suppress the red cells. Oxygen delivery collapses.
Civil society as an immune system is the right frame, until the response itself
(Video from a November 2025 post by @DataRepublican of the interactive Mesa Sebree / Mediators Foundation BTA/ Healthy Democracy Hubs Map; public version later taken down.)
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Thanks Blago.
🚨 Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is breaking with his old party and calling on Americans to vote Republican, warning that the Democratic Party has abandoned the values he once represented.
“The Democratic Party has been hijacked by socialists and communists who hate danis all across America, then stay home.”
Blagojevich urged voters concerned about the country’s future to head to the polls and support Republican candidates in the upcoming election.
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Leigh Marcotte retweeted
🗳️🚨 Today, the Justice Department announced charges involving 48 ALIENS in Pennsylvania, California, Florida, New York, and Nevada in connection with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, and related election crimes.
The cases include voting by aliens in federal ims of U.S. citizenship to register to vote or to vote.
Read more about EACH election crime case here: justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
The cases include voting by aliens in federal ims of U.S. citizenship to register to vote or to vote.
Read more about EACH election crime case here: justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
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Leigh Marcotte retweeted
Now all of these connected orgs are supposed to be lovey dovey bridge builders. Meanwhile they are partnered with and funded by hard core Trump resistance groups operating for a decade.
Is it no surprise that we have the No Kings and Tesla bullcrap now? Is it no surprise that we They are the true authoritarians trying to steal our country. I’m still the same person I was decades ago as a democrat. I haven’t changed, the party has.
⭕️JOIN US!!!! 6/30/25 POST 22CI CONFERENCE TTUS HUDDLE // TOWARDS A BIGGER WE: 22CI, NO KINGS, MOVEMENT TO THRIVE TOGETHER, DEMOCRACY-AID
(Thrive Together has been renamed to Renew To Thrive (R2T)
“What happened on No Kings Day proved we can mobilize millions. Now we must prove we can sustain them, organize them, and deploy them in the strategic, creative, disciplined resistance that authoritarianism cannot survive.”
archive.is/Sa2zy
Is it no surprise that we have the No Kings and Tesla bullcrap now? Is it no surprise that we They are the true authoritarians trying to steal our country. I’m still the same person I was decades ago as a democrat. I haven’t changed, the party has.
⭕️JOIN US!!!! 6/30/25 POST 22CI CONFERENCE TTUS HUDDLE // TOWARDS A BIGGER WE: 22CI, NO KINGS, MOVEMENT TO THRIVE TOGETHER, DEMOCRACY-AID
(Thrive Together has been renamed to Renew To Thrive (R2T)
“What happened on No Kings Day proved we can mobilize millions. Now we must prove we can sustain them, organize them, and deploy them in the strategic, creative, disciplined resistance that authoritarianism cannot survive.”
archive.is/Sa2zy
🔥🔥🔥Update to Data Republicans reporting that can’t be ignored! Funding for Demaids, Danielle Reiff’s, Democracy Renewal Group originates at its parent. The parent org, Action Center on Race and The Economy Institute, being funded by the Proteus Fund and others such as CIA linked Rockefeller.
The Proteus Fund is the most important. Proteus has coordinated the efforts of state, local, and national activist groups for the Trump resistance since 2016.
“On Nov 16, 2016, the Solidaire Network, Women Donors Network, Threshold Foundation and the Soros Democracy Alliance — came together to create the Emergent Fund. A rapid response fund to help move quick resources with no strings attached. The Emergent Fund is ran by the Proteus fund. Proteus coordinates the efforts of state, local, and national activist groups.”
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