Elon Musk Exposes Democrat Dark Money Tied to New Protests

Those who follow my columns know that I have old adages that come to mind in these modern times we find ourselves living in. The last several days all kinds of news has been breaking about the Democrat’s fundraising operation known as ActBlue. That brought this old adage to mind:

“Oh what a tangled web we weave when it is our intent to deceive.”

By now just about everybody has seen recent news stories of protests calling for President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and DOGE Founder Elon Musk to resign. They are being tagged billionaires and millionaires out to steal from the American public out for themselves. Tesla dealerships have been taking a hit being vandalized around the world. The news media eagerly is reporting on this as relevant and important news.

The only thing is this news is void of the truth as noted here:

• First, this fake narrative is while two of these three men are indeed billionaires, they are also working for free to eliminate government “waste, fraud, and abuse”. There is no personal economic benefit to be gained by them for what they are working to accomplish.
• Second, they want to make the Federal Government come into compliance to be able to pass a financial audit in the same way their own personal companies have to for the IRS every year. Our Federal Government has not been able to pass a financial audit in years.
• Third, these protests are not grassroots organic protests springing up spontaneously. They are carefully organized, crafted, and paid for by leftwing NGOs.
• Fourth, the true intent of these protests is to not just stop the DOGE efforts from downsizing government bureaucracy but also stop DOGE from exposing the Democrat politician’s past criminality (embezzlement and money laundering).

The story of Democrat “dark money” began to blow up when James O’Keefe began streaming a very revealing expose whereby he determined ActBlue was essentially a money laundering operation whereby as much as 60% of their funds were coming from Communist China. American’s credit card accounts were being used to screen hundreds of thousands of dollars in fake donations to the Democrats they never made. The credit cards were never properly used in these donation transactions to allow transparency of the donations and the donors had no idea of the enormity of the amounts they were said to have donated until O’Keefe notified them.

We reported on this news last August:

“ActBlue Being Investigated for Money Laundering” – The Thinking Conservative

Then, as Elon Musk and his DOGE office began to explore the financial side of the Federal Government he recommended President Donald Trump freeze all spending at USAID as he determined money from that office was not going for the original intended purposes of the office but rather a number of off-the-wall Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). All were left-leaning favoring the Democrats within this country and not disadvantaged people of other countries starving to death and living in squalor. 

Shortly thereafter a number of NGO agencies began to face massive layoffs and resignations. One of those was ActBlue.

“ActBlue, the Democratic Fund-Raising Powerhouse, Faces Internal Chaos” – The New York Times

What is most interesting development of this weekend was when two politicians went on the road to massive organized protest rallies this weekend in Michigan and Texas respectively. These two have gained the attention of DOGE by amassing a greater net worth than their annual civil servant’s salaries can justify are Senator Bernie Sanders (I Vermont, net worth $5M) and Liz Warren (D Massachusetts, net worth $75M).

“Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance” – AP

“Elizabeth Warren, Texas democrats speak at Rally for Democracy at Texas Capitol” – Austin American Statesman

So what is really going on?

Well, at this point it is probably anybody’s guess but from one journalist’s perspective it would appear that while ActBlue seems to now be on life support, it (or at least its lefty billionaire donors) are not gone yet.

Elon Musk found the connection of Democrat Dark Money destroying his Tesla dealerships which one can imagine will result in lawsuits for vandalism and loss of revenue due to prospective customers being frightened away. In Toulouse, France, a Tesla dealership was actually set on fire with over a dozen cars lost.

“DNC Donor Platform ActBlue Staff FLEE in MASS Over Money-Laundering Operation Investigation | PANIC” – Benny Johnson

CONCLUSION:

At this point in time it is hard to believe average U.S. American citizens would be so stupid as to be used as useful idiot pawns by these very same Democrats who have been stealing all of our tax dollars… but, then again, as my wife pointed out this weekend a factoid I did not know; 47% of Americans do not pay any Federal Income taxes. I returned a little factoid to her; President Trump and Elon Musk now fear that the Democrat’s graft and corruption of Federal dollars may exceed $1T with much of that money having gone overseas to foreign countries where it never can be traced.

I suppose with all of this money gone missing, and with so many Federal workers suddenly unemployed, it is not unreasonable to assume there is now a new job market for lefty liberal paid protesters!

“‘Takedown Tesla’ protest: Hundreds gather in Chicago to criticize spending cuts by Elon Musk and Donald Trump” – The Chicago Tribune

 “Musk claims George Soros, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman are funding ‘protests’ against Tesla” Fox News

More people now support President Donald Trump than those who voted for him. Trump is doing what Americans want!

While clueless devout Democrats have become critical of Trump, Vance, and Musk, clueless Republicans have become critical of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Pam Bondi has made no arrests yet of these criminal Democrats and nothing seems to be happening. The thing is though, this corruption is so massive and widespread it will take a team of lawyers and paralegals weeks to draft all the legal papers this situation involves. On top of that, not all of the missing tax dollars are traceable by the FBI and IRS.

© 2025 by Mark S. Schwendau