“SPLC secretly funneled $3M+ in donor funds to violent racist extremist groups….an SPLC field source was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville — made racist postings under SPLC supervision and helped coordinate transportation to the event.” (Kanekoa, X)
SPLC DEMONIZING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS
“The SPLC has become notorious for two major projects: its ‘hate map’ where it puts mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan”- Tyler O’Neill, Author, Corruption of the SPLC, Congressional testimony, 2024
👉Remember how Obama and Biden’s DHS focused on Christian White Conservative Veteran Patriots as “Domestic Violent Extremists”?
FUNDED BY TIDES
“Tides Foundation has bankrolled the Southern Poverty Law Center…between 2018 and 2022, the Tides Foundation sent the SPLC more
than $1 million” (Tyler O’Neill)
POST- OCTOBER 7 RADICAL PALESTINIAN ACTIVISM
“Scratch a pro-Palestinian radical organization, and you are likely to find Tides’ involvement somewhere.” (Lee Smith)
BLACK LIVES MATTER RADICALISM
“Tides and Soros, poured money into Black Lives Matter and various associated bail funds during the violent summer of 2020”
LITERAL HIDDEN HANDS STEERING THE SHIP
’Tides’ entities…operate as a dark $ group, allowing other organizations to hide sources of funding and expenditures.” (Yahoo)
BILLIONAIRES WRECKING OUR COUNTRY FOR POWER
“Major donors…Soros, Peter Buffett and his NoVo Foundation, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, & the New Venture Fund, controlled by…Eric Kessler’s Arabella Advisors.” (Lee Smith)
LEVERAGING RADICAL BARACK OBAMA TO UNSEAT THE MODERATE CLINTONS
“Tides has become tightly integrated with the ascendant Obama faction of the Democratic Party.” (Lee Smith)
“It has more to do with domestic politics, and we can see this by the language targeting Joe Biden explicitly….a power struggle within the party, between what was formerly an insurgent progressive fringe…and what remains of the teetering old Clintonian establishment….a display of force….Get in line or be destroyed.” (Kyle Shideler, the director for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, in Smith)
THE OBAMA FOUNDATION A PASS THROUGH FOR TIDES
“Millions of dollars sent to Barack Obama’s foundation has ended up being donated to a progressive fund that supported anti-Israel groups, accused of setting up encampments at Ivy League universities, according to public documents.Donations to the Obama Foundation, set up by the former president to build a 19-acre campus including a museum, athletic facility and fruit and vegetable gardens in Chicago, totaling $2 million were instead sent on to Tides Foundation in 2022 and 2023, according to its latest available federal tax filings.” (Isabel Vincent, New York Post)
Sources:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/people-setting-america-on-fire-soros-tides-wespac
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dark-money-group-backing-anti-155407416.html
https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/us-news/money-donated-to-build-obama-library-sent-on-to-tides-group/
https://www.tides.org/statement/tides-partnership-with-usaid/
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-terror-threat-dhs-409236
https://charityandsecurity.org/news/dhs_report_rightwing_extremism_napolitano_defensive/
“Authored by DHS’ Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), the report, Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, was part of a series of publications to ‘facilitate a greater understanding of the phenomenon of violent radicalization in the United States.’….Despite the report’s acknowledgment that there is a lack of evidence for a specific terrorist threat from these groups, it does say that ‘rightwing extremists’ could use ‘several emergent issues,’ such as the election of President Obama, rumors of potential gun control legislation and the economic downturn as recruiting tools. The report drew widespread criticism from Democrats and Republicans and from many veterans’ groups. On April 15, House Minority Leader John Boehner(R-OH) said, ‘To characterize men and women returning home after defending our country as potential terrorists is offensive and unacceptable.’” https://charityandsecurity.org/news/dhs_report_rightwing_extremism_napolitano_defensive/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4568269-Rightwing-Extremism-Current-Economic-and/
Addendum:
The overlap in funding between domestic philanthropic entities like the Tides Foundation and foreign adversaries like China, Russia, and Iran is driven by a phenomenon known as “convergence of interest,” where vastly different actors support the same groups to achieve separate, but mutually beneficial, ends.
For the Tides Foundation, the goal is to seize political power, reshape the platform of the Democratic Party, and redirect American foreign and domestic policy at will, including demonizing conservative Christians and Israel.
For adversaries like China, Russia, and Iran, who support the same kind of polarizing fringe activism as Barack Obama and Tides, these same groups represent a strategic opportunity to weaken their primary global rival by amplifying internal strife, eroding public trust in democratic institutions, and distracting the U.S. government with domestic crises.
This alignment becomes particularly visible in groups that promote anti-interventionist or anti-imperialist rhetoric.
Russia and Iran, much like China, have a vested geopolitical interest in seeing the United States withdraw its military and economic influence from their respective spheres of interest—Ukraine and Eastern Europe for Russia, and the Middle East for Iran.
Consequently, foreign influence operations often amplify the voices of American activist groups that protest U.S. foreign aid, military alliances, or sanctions.
For example, investigative reports have highlighted how networks linked to figures like Neville Roy Singham funnel money into organizations that echo Beijing’s talking points, while U.S. intelligence has simultaneously identified Russian and Iranian campaigns that boost domestic American movements—such as anti-war protests or divisive social justice campaigns—to sow chaos.
Ultimately, while the Tides Foundation may view its funding as a way to support grassroots activism for a “better” America, foreign adversaries view that same activism as a “digital battlefield” or a tool of “hybrid warfare.” Russia and Iran specifically utilize state-sponsored media and covert funding to hijack or boost the visibility of radical domestic groups, knowing that the more the American public is divided by internal radicalism, the less capable the U.S. is of projecting power abroad.
This creates a “dark money” ecosystem where domestic ideological goals and foreign sabotage efforts unintentionally fund the same front lines of American dissent.
Written with the help of AI.
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 
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