Elon Musk has called the terror attacks against Tesla owners and drivers “psycho” and promised the organizers and funders “will be found and prosecuted.”
Conservative activist Asra Nomani has compiled a list of 24 Democrat organizations with a budget of $124 million that are behind the #TeslaTakedown campaign of terrorist violence.
Most of these groups claim tax-deductible status as “nonpartisan,” even though they are 100% Democrat-aligned—a possible violation of federal law.
“While the local #TeslaTakedown protest may appear spontaneous and community-driven, it is the product of a well-funded, tightly coordinated campaign led by national political organizations like the Indivisible Project, MoveOn.org, and professional protest firms,” Asra Nomani wrote for Fairfax County Times.
“These groups use digital platforms, pre-scripted chants, pre-printed signs, and nationwide toolkits to manufacture the appearance of grassroots activism, and the messages on Tyco Road mirror the language of protests nationwide. This kind of organizing is known as “AstroTurfing”—a term used to describe top-down efforts that mimic authentic, bottom-up civic engagement.”
Asra Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and propaganda expert for the Daniel Pearl Project, who has compiled a database of 2,000 so-called “Non”-Governmental Organizations and Democrat activist groups.
Nomani attended #TeslaTakedown protests in Virginia where she recognized “familiar faces” from Indivisible and the Fairfax County Democratic Party.
She scraped the protest details from ActionNetwork and Mobilize, two platforms promoting the #TeslaTakedown protests aligned with the Democrat Party, and “built a public database of the groups behind the Tesla protest,” Nomani writes.
Her research revealed a “multi-million dollar professional protest industry” that “manufactures outrage in top-down political theater, agitprop, or agitation propaganda, and now criminal offenses,” she wrote on X.
24 Groups Leading and Funding #TeslaTakedown
1. 50501Mission: protesting “anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies”Annual Revenues: not yet foundIRS Status: Not transparentHeadquarters: Not transparentEIN IRS Number: Not transparentKey Leader(s): Not transparentInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: Protests
2. ActionNetworkMission: “trains and educates progressive”Annual Revenues: unknownIRS Status: 501(c)(4)EIN IRS Number: 46-1832144Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Organizing platform.
3. Action Network FundMission: “helps organizations incorporate organizing strategies”Annual Revenues: 195025IRS Status: 501(c)(3)EIN IRS Number: 45-2288010Key Leader(s): Mark FleischmanInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: Organizing platform
4. ActUp New York Inc.Mission: ACT UP NY, the “AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power,” a “diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.”Annual Revenues: $36,411IRS Status: not yet foundHeadquarters: New YorkEIN IRS Number: 13-3501884Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
5. Climate DefendersAnnual Revenues: not yet foundIRS Status: Program of the New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc., 501(c)(3)Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC protests
6. Climate Defenders Action FundMission: Dedicated to “dismantle the fossil fuel industry”Annual Revenues: not yet foundIRS Status: 501(c)(4)Headquarters: San DiegoEIN IRS Number: 82-3232098Key Leader(s): Cecilia Aguillon, Tara Kelly Hammond, Christine James, Lester Machado, David NeisonInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC
7. Democratic Party (local and state chapters)Annual Revenues: Tallying for each chapterInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: Local presence in coordinated events
8. Democratic Socialists of AmericaAnnual Revenues: $5,800,000IRS Status: 501(c)(4)Headquarters: New YorkEIN IRS Number: 13-3109557Key Leader(s): Michael GrochowskiInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: local protests
9. Disruption ProjectAnnual Revenues: 28480IRS Status: 501(c)(4)Headquarters: PhiladelphiaEIN IRS Number: 85-1066939Key Leader(s): Wende Marshall, Kathryn Sipp, Arielle Klagsbrun, Jeffrey OrdowerInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: 218/306 protests
10. Housing Works Inc.Mission: providing “assistance & expertise to homeless persons living with AIDS or HIV-related illnesses”Annual Revenues: $51,762,615IRS Status: 501(c)(3)Headquarters: Brooklyn, N.Y.EIN IRS Number: 13-3584089Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
11. Indivisible ActionAnnual Revenues: $9,922,930IRS Status: Hybrid Political Action CommitteeHeadquarters: Washington, D.C.EIN IRS Number: 83-0529629Key Leader(s): Elizabeth RameyInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: National protests
12. Indivisible Project, organizing “Tesla Takedown” and “Hands Off” protestsAnnual Revenues: 12565196IRS Status: 501(c)(4)Headquarters: Washington, D.C.EIN IRS Number: 81-4944067Key Leader(s): Leah Greenberg, Ezra LevinInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: 88/306; it has bragged it has organized 600 #HandsOff protests for April 5.
13. Mobilize.us, run by MobilizeAmerica Inc. – owned by EveryAction, the parent company of NGP VANAnnual Revenues: not found yetInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: organizing platform
14. MoveOnorg Civic ActionAnnual Revenues: $6,000,000IRS Status: 501(c)(4)Headquarters: Beaverton, Or.EIN IRS Number: 06-1553389Key Leader(s): Rahna EptingInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: #HandsOff “De-escalation Training”
15. Not Above the Law Coalition — counted now as one but includes numerous groupsMembers: As of 6/9/2023: American Oversight; Center for American Progress Action Fund; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW); Common Cause; Congressional Integrity Project; Constitutional Accountability Center; The Criminalization of Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies; Daily Kos; Defend Democracy Action Project; Defend the Vote Action Fund; DemCast USA; End Citizens United/Let America Vote; Fix Democracy First; Free Speech For People; Greenpeace USA; Indivisible; J Street; League of Conservation Voters; MoveOn; NextGen America; Our Revolution; People For the American Way; People Power United; Public Citizen; Public Wise; Secure Elections Network; Sierra Club; Stand Up America; Wisconsin Democracy Campaign; and The Workers Circle. SOURCE: press releaseInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: “Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump’s power grab”
16. Planet Over ProfitAnnual Revenues: not yet foundIRS Status: Program of New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc.EIN IRS Number: not yet foundInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
17. Public Citizen FoundationAnnual Revenues: $13,389,271IRS Status: 501(c)(3)Headquarters: Washington, D.C.EIN IRS Number: 52-1263996Key Leader(s): Mark Chavez, director, chair; Robert Weissman, president; Sid Wolfe, founder, senior fellow;Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
18. Public Citizen Inc.Annual Revenues: $5,728,329IRS Status: 501(c)(4)Headquarters: Washington, D.C.EIN IRS Number: 23-7104508Key Leader(s): JASON ADKINS, DIRECTOR, CHAIR; JOAN CLAYBROOK, DIRECTOR; ROBERT WEISSMAN, PRESIDENTInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: “Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump’s power grab”
19. Rise and Resist Inc.Annual Revenues: $21,999IRS Status: 501(c)(4) (most recent filing 2017)Headquarters: New York, N.Y.EIN IRS Number: 82-2188628Key Leader(s): Ivy Arce, Martin Joseph QUinn, Jamie Ray Bauer, Jay W. Walker, Stuart WaldmanAnnual Revenues: $14,588IRS Status: Fiscal program of A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, 501(c)(3) – EIN No. 23-7379088Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
20. Stand Up America Inc.Mission: Established to “mobilize progressive Americans”Annual Revenues: $9.867,658IRS Status: 501(c)(4)Headquarters: Bethesda, Md.EIN IRS Number: 32-0512546Key Leader(s): Sean Eldridge, Christina Harvey, Joe Hines, Brett Edkins, Monica Garcia, Joi Rae, Brynna QuillinInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: “Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump’s power grab”
21. Swing LeftMission: Dedicated to “help Democrats win”Annual Revenues: $16,523,456IRS Status: Hybrid PAC/Super PACEIN IRS Number: FEC Committee ID: C00632133Key Leader(s): Yasmin RadjyInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: Protests
22. Tax Reformers LLC, running “http://TaxElon.us” “(“an offshoot of http://TeslaTakedown.com”)Annual Revenues: not yet foundIRS Status: not yet foundHeadquarters: Erie, Pa.EIN IRS Number: not yet foundInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: Protests
23. Third Act Initiative Inc.Annual Revenues: $2,008,973IRS Status: 501(c)(4)Headquarters: New YorkEIN IRS Number: 88-0776955Key Leader(s): Bill McKibben, Vanessa Arcara, Akaya WindwoodInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: DC, Virginia and Maryland protests
24. TroublemakersAnnual Revenues: not yet availableIRS Status: not yet availableHeadquarters: SeattleEIN IRS Number: not yet availableKey Leader(s): unknownInvolvement in Tesla Takedown: 224/306 protests
