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Antifa, like the Democrat Party, is built on the model of nonprofit support infrastructure.
In the party, that means everything except the most direct campaign activities are outsourced to networks of nonprofits that use tax-deductible donations for everything from voter registration and outreach, media and messaging, to funding election infrastructure ‘Zuckerbucks’ style.
Unlike its Black Lives Matter allies, the Antifa networks aren’t funded by a single nonprofit. Antifa’s illegal activities and the radical tendencies of its participants, many of whom are involved in a variety of radical groups, some of them domestic terrorist organizations, makes that a non-starter. However, unlike conservative groups which have been ‘debanked’ from Big Tech fundraising platforms, Antifa gains support through leftist 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) groups which includes fundraising platforms, bail funds, street medics and promotional media organizations.
One of the worst examples also operates arm in arm with the Democratic Party.
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund raises money through crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe, Patreon and FundRazr (also utilized by the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Cambridge) despite clear bans on raising money for illegal or criminal activity.
But its primary fundraising platform is also utilized by the Democratic National Committee.
Connected by a shortlink titled ‘DefendAntifa’, the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund, its fundraising page flying the Antifa flag and bearing a banner “Free All Antifa Prisoners” describes itself as providing “direct, immediate support to anti-fascists” including medical bills, legal defense and an “antifa prisoner fund”, uses the Action Network: a leftist 501(c)(4) and (c)(3).
The Action Network boasts that “after three months of using Action Network the DNC shattered all sorts of fundraising records.” The Antifa defense fund, which claims to have dispensed $75,000 in three years, is apparently also doing well with the overlapping DNC donor base.
What is the Antifa defense fund raising money for?
While the Action Network home page shows off a picture of Biden to promote its DNC fundraising, the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund’s blog features a story about helping out during the Biden inauguration riots featuring of black masked antifa thugs bearing a banner featuring an AK-47 and the message, “We don’t want Biden, we want revenge.”
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund post describes how “stuff got vandalized and Dak, one of the sole arrestees, was left holding the bag, taking a plea deal that kept him out of prison but also left him on the hook to pay for all of the property damage done in both actions – nearly $50,000USD in all!.That’s a lot of money for anyone to come up with. A donation page has been set up to help with those costs and the Defence Fund… decided to help contribute directly.”
This would appear to refer to the Biden inauguration riots in Portland during which the windows of the Democratic Party of Oregon headquarters were smashed and vandalized with the anarchist ‘A’. Police seized “Molotov cocktails, knives, batons, chemical spray and a crow bar”.
Is a fundraising platform used by the DNC also raising money for antifa rioters smashing Democrat offices? If so it would be one of many examples of Democrats incubating the leftist radicals who are destroying their party and the country.
The Action Network was set up by Senator John Kerry’s digital director during the Occupy Wall Street riots, is emblematic of the relationship between the Democrat establishment and the most extreme elements of the Left. As is an antifa defense fund raising money for a defendant in the Biden inauguration riots using the Action Network whose home page features Biden’s picture.
Beyond the DNC, the Action Network is the fundraising platform for the AFL-CIO, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March, the DSA and Communist Party USA. The spectrum reflects the growing extremism that the Democrats have become complicit in and even directly support.
The Action Network is a 501(c)(4) and while the C4 status comes with greater freedom to engage in lobbying, it does not sanction any involvement in illegal activities.
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund is quite cheerful about them.
One post on the Antifa defense fund’s blog is titled, “Found Out” and features a photo of a man’s bloody head while raising money for the perpetrators.
The Antifa defense fund claims that the police “decided to charge someone, someone who asked us to help with their legal defense. And help is what we did. Because teaching people like Adam Kelly how the sentence ‘Fuck around…’ ends is never a crime.”
The legal system disagrees. The DNC and the Action Network clearly do not. But does the IRS?
Raising money to finance illegal activity is illegal for anyone, but nonprofits have their status regulated by the IRS.
IRS regulations state that, “not only is the actual conduct of illegal activities inconsistent with exemption, but the planning and sponsoring of such activities are also incompatible with charity and social welfare.” For example, “Rev. Rul. 75-384 holds that an organization formed to promote world peace that planned and sponsored protest demonstrations at which members were urged to commit acts of civil disobedience did not qualify for IRC 501(c)(3) or (4) exemption.”
“G.C.M. 36153, dated January 31, 1975, states that because planning and sponsoring illegal acts are in themselves inconsistent with charity and social welfare it is not necessary to determine whether illegal acts were, in fact, committed in connection with the resulting demonstrations or whether such a determination can be made prior to conviction of an accused.”
These rules have not been applied to the Left in some time. But they ought to be.
They don’t seem to need defence funds, who’s going to prosecute them?
Money laundering is what this is.
This is money laundering of the worst kind imaginable
Virginia Senator Timmy Kaine, father of the terrorist antifa soldier Woody fully supports antifa, and one of his aides indicated that a % of his campaign contributions would go to support his boy’s organization.
Where’s my baseball bat when I need it?
Virginia Senator Timmy Kaine, father of the terrorist antifa soldier Woody fully supports antifa, and one of his aides indicated that a % of his campaign contributions would go to support his boy’s organization.
Look at the wayward, hippie terrorist son, with his unkempt long hair. I’d wager my retirement account that this shiftless, ne’er-do-well little terrorist has never held an honest private sector job in his entire shiftless, useless and miserable existence.
The left has allies, judges beauracrats, etc. in high places who ensure they don’t have to abide by rules made for others (a.k.a. we the peasants).
ANTIFA MEMBERS are the most radical members of Communist groups like ANSWER, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Revolutionary Communist Party. Another one, but in the shadows, is the Communist Party USA and without them, and their fronts, none of the other Communist groups would exist. When Communism fell, except for here with the most hardcore Communists here, the CPUSA lost many members who then started their own groups.
Occupy Wall Street was organized by the CPUSA and Code Pink/Medea Benjamin as a Day of Rage. Then as it grew to a national movement, the Communists hid in the shadows with Pelosi naming it, “a grassroots organization.” Then the “leaderless organization.” Judith Leblanc and Leslie Cagan, both in the Politburo of the CPUSA, and traitors who have aided and abetted every enemy, rallied their fronts to support, fund, and direct OWS.
ANTIFA PORTLAND was directed by college professors with one getting caught and unmasked. It would seem that when ANTIFA shows up, violence and destruction is guaranteed so why aren’t the police surrounding the area to arrest them when they do act violently, throw bricks at them?
ANTIFA ALBUQUERQUE is led by Joel Marcos Gallegos, on FB “Marxist-Leninist” and head of The Party for Socialism and Liberation and The Revolutionary Communist Party.
PART TWO: Their first appearance was at a speech by Milo Yiannapolus. Destruction of UNM property and the Student Union director didn’t make a police report. (On September 16, Tomi Lahren’s speech was shut down due to the protesters crashing the doors to get into the building. I called 911 three times. Fire alarms were illegally pulled. Holes put in the walls. Police shoved. NO POLICE REPORTS except mine that went no where with UNMPD and the Dean of Students, even with their own videos for proof! They tried the same with Charlie Kirk but failed due to massive police presence. Milo’s had four police agencies, a swat team, with horses. The place was surrounded and audience members escorted to the parking garage. Even after me detailing the Code of Conduct Rules that were broken, UNM took no action.)
BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! No matter how much we kick and scream, NOTHING HAPPENS because the cities and universities SUPPORT THEM!
Thanks for the info. We’re screwed.
Yes, we are, but we got this way on and after Nov. 4, 2008 – the day the fools among us elected a lying, thieving, neo-Marxist malcontent wearing the disguise of a “liberal” Democrat. Once there, he teamed up with the traitor Comey to steal CIA software for his personal use. The rest is fake history.
BLM and ANTIFA are the brown shirts of the radical left. They are made of mostly criminals and other losers who have zero respect for other people, or law and order. They are hate groups by every definition of the word.
They are in the game to get free stuff, and to bully others.
BLM and Antifa are the military wing of the Democratic Party. Recall that Pres. BO actually invited BLM to the White House.
The “Leader” and the SS purged the SA, killed the SA Stabschef, Ernst Roehm, and hundreds of others on June 30, 1934, “the Night of Long Knives.”
Don’t think that our Leader isn’t capable of a similar purge if BLM / Antifa ever embarrass him,
I wonder who is financing these criminal’s where did they get their black hooded sweatshirts and Shields why are they not arresting these Anarchist’s and those who are financing them as well there is a conspiracy going on here and the DNC should made to answer for it
Who funds their bus trips to protest locations, feeds them and puts them up in hotels? This info needs to be published and investigate the money trail so that American who don’t want to fund these groups can boycott products the funders own.
The DNC is coordinating a massive money-laundering operation n behalf of nonprofits. The new House of Representatives needs to conduct a massive probe. Rep. Jim Jordan is just the man to do it.
Daniel, check with Dr. Eoin Lenihan www.minds.com
He has done much work digging into Antifa’s fundraising/supporters. (Freespoke is a better search engine than Ggl and doesn’t suppress this type of info.)
One leader’s father is a very wealthy man and a major DNC donor.
Don’t forget Soros.
First during the election year of 2020 the vicious violent malicious subversive Marxist domestic terrorist organization backed and support the Joe Biden campaign for the Presidents for Joe Biden.
Biden did accept their support. That alone reveals much the horrendous evil charter of Joe Biden
Second, a number of members of the Democrat party actually approve, but not often openly approve, of the violent looting shooters and arsonists of the hooligans who are members of Antifa
Those members of the Democratic Party who condone and even encourage the violence of arson looting and shooting by Antifa have conveniently forgotten the truth spoken by their Democrat hero President, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Who in a speech declared “There is no American right to loot stores, or to burn buildings, or to fire rifles from the rooftops. That is crime – the crime must be dealt with forcefully and swiftly, and certainly –under the law.”
The way to handle the problem of those vicious violent and rioting Marxist hooligans of Antifa is by the use of the strong power and might of the police and the National Guard.
This is necessary because those violent vicious criminals of Antifa cannot and will not be reasoned with. In other words, they will not respond to reason and logic.
Therefore, it’s necessary and fitting to send them a message, to behave themselves, by the only language that those Antifa thugs will understand. Which is the language of harsh powerful and strong National Guard and police might.
As Thomas Jefferson had, so wisely , written “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
Unfortunately, their strategy is to strike here and there with criminal, but non-lethal force and then dare the police to escalate the use of force. If they see the National Guard, they’ll simply run or melt into the crowd. They’re cowards. .
Of course, the Democrat Reich and its stormtrooper/terrorist arm Antifa/BLM operate in lockstep.
Antifa is a marxist/fascist terrorist organization. All members should be executed on sight.
We have Barack Obama, Soros and Lois Lerner to thank for the hideous abuse and criminality of 501 (c)s plus all kinds of radical leftist lawyers showing them the way.
Financing these criminals should come under RICO laws and those found Guilty should get life without parole no matter who they are Soros, Sanders or the DNC, UN
The progressive Democratic support of this is just monstrous.
The Left has figured out how to monetize guilt trips and urban violence; so taxpayers now fund the extortion rackets. And it seems the FBI is their protection crew.
The real sinister and evil characters are the RINOs. Without the help of RINOs the demonRATs/antifa/blm would have been arrested and put out of business years ago.