Asra Nomani on X
WATCH and READ to learn. I wanted to hear it straight from the source—so on Tuesday, I tuned into a live town hall with AF Tunion’s, R Weingarten, the Reverend Al Sharpton, National Action, and Leah Greenberg of Indivisible Team.
They proudly laid out the nationwide anti-Trump protests they’ve planned for this Saturday, June 14, under the banner No Kings.
I recorded the town hall—and I’m sharing the video with you here.
They admit they’re organizing these protests. And they’re not grassroots players. These are top-tier Democratic Party operatives, with enormous influence and funding.
But when I started following the money behind the full list of protest “partners,” I realized that these three are just the tip of the iceberg
According to research by the Pearl Project—a nonprofit journalism initiative I lead, named in honor of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl—the 198 organizations that say they are organizers of the No Kings protests are not just grassroots citizens. They’re all aligned with the Democratic Party, and many claim to be “nonpartisan” despite acting as political operatives.
Together, these groups report more than $2.1 BILLION in total annual revenue.
Why follow the money? Because from Los Angeles to D.C., we’ve seen these protests escalate into violence—and we must understand who’s behind them to understand why. These aren’t mom-and-pop protestors. This is an elite class of political influencers using nonprofit structures to operate like a shadow government. Just look at their annual salaries:
- Randi Weingarten: $474,951
- Al Sharpton: $648,786
- ACLU’s Anthony Romero: $1.3 million
Fairfax County citizen Lissa Kenkel ho helped me cull the financial data, puts it well:
“The very people bankrolling and leading these so-called grassroots movements are the crowned royalty of the nonprofit world, sitting in their air-conditioned offices, collecting six-figure salaries, while encouraging the common folk to torch their own cities in the name of ‘saving democracy.’”
“It’s manufactured chaos, sold as revolution, by people who wouldn’t last five minutes in the rubble they’re creating.”
Here’s the No Kings protest funding breakdown, and I’ll list all the groups in a thread:
- 3 official entities of the Democratic National Committee: College Democrats of America, Manhattan Young Democrats and Westside Democratic Headquarters in Norwalk, Calif.
- 16 Democratic political action committees, or PACs, including Friends of Bernie Sanders, Progressive Democrats of America and Vote Blue — with about $19.4 million in spending power for Democratic political candidates.
- 18 Democratic-aligned 501(c)(5) labor unions, including lead organizer, the American Federation of Teachers, along with the United Auto Workers, the Communications Workers of America and the National Treasury Employees Union, with a total of $1.1 billion in revenues, most of their political contributions going to Democratic candidates.
- 76 Democratic-aligned 501(c)(4) political nonprofits, including the ACLU, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Working Families Organization Inc., Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood Action Fund and lead organizer Indivisible Project, all with another $734.3 million in revenues.
- 47 501(c)(3) nonprofits, legally restricted from partisan advocacy, including innocuous-sounding groups like the Unitarian Universalist Association, Accountable US and the American Humanist Association, with $286.7 million to the cause.
- 38 additional Democratic-aligned groups, including Michigan Resistance Coalition, Families Over Billionaires, 50501, Tax the Greedy Billionaire and Mennonite Action, with undisclosed financials.
TOTAL: 198 groups with $2.1 billion in annual revenue behind No Kings
But this isn’t just about June 14.
Many of the same groups also organized earlier protests like Tesla Takedown, Hands Off, and May Day. In those protests, we identified 267 more organizations with a combined $1.3 billion in annual revenue.
That brings the total to:
- 475 organizations
- $3.4 billion in annual budgets
- All aligned against Trump’s movement
And we’re not done. My database includes another 1,500+ organizations—many involved in anti-Israel protests, anti-ICE demonstrations, and other coordinated mass mobilizations. Stay tuned for those results.
This is not a grassroots movement. It’s a billion-dollar machine dressed in protest gear.
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I’d say these top-tier organizations are all that’s left of the Democrat party; where they lead very few Democrats are willing to follow.
I’d say this is their leadership’s way of making a last gasp effort, a big splash, to rejuvenate the Party by doing something specatacular to attract and rally the followers they hemorraged. I doubt that they’ll succeed since many of their followers don’t want to be ‘transformed’ from being Americans into something foreign that isn’t American. Ideas such as DEI are quite foreign, too far Left, after all.