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Daily Caller News Foundation—‘May Allah Grant Victory’: Hamas-Linked Group Joins DC’s Muslim Advocacy Blob

[American Muslims for Palestine] has continually denied associations with terrorists, but several of its leaders formerly worked for so-called charities that the federal government shut down for funding or otherwise benefitting Hamas, Capital Research Center found, citing AMP’s public webpages and documents.

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Washington Examiner— Texas antifa terrorism case: Confessions mount as Trump DOJ clinches more convictions

Capital Research Center president Scott Walter said their admissions “should destroy the lie that antifa doesn’t exist as organized groups.”

“This is an unprecedented case,” Walter previously told the Washington Examiner. “They have gone on the record, saying, ‘Here’s how we operated. Here are the other people I was working with. Here’s the person I was helping to hide out.’”

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The Daily Signal—8 Political Winners and Losers of 2025

After Scott Walter and I highlighted the leftist nonprofits that worked with Arabella Advisors, Microsoft founder Bill Gates withdrew his foundation’s entanglement with them, and Arabella Advisors purportedly dissolved, leading to the emergence of new entities.

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NewsBusters (Media Research Center)— WATCH: PBS Sucks Toes of Whiny Foreign Censorship Org CEO After Trump Deportation Threat

Oh, but it gets spicier. [Center for Countering Digital Hate] is funded by the Switzerland-based, left-wing Oak Foundation, which the Capital Research Center labeled as “The Left’s Green Giant.” “In 2018, Oak gave $1 million to ClimateWorks Foundation ‘to support the greening of the Belt and Road Initiative,’ a global trade infrastructure project pushed by Chinese President Xi Jinping to link the communist country with the rest of Eurasia,” according to the Capital Research Center.

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The Post Millennial— Soros-linked DC activist group teaches how to be ‘skeptical jurors’ to combat Trump admin policies

Free DC is listed on its website as a “fiscally hosted special project of Community Change and Community Change Action.” Per Influence Watch, Community Change is a “nonprofit that focuses on issues of poverty, race, housing policy,” while Community Change Action is the organization’s affiliated 501(c)(4) that lobbies for progressive policies.

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ZeroHedge— Cuba, Venezuela, China, And America’s Left-Wing Revolution

Next came the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), founded in 1937. As the Capital Research Center notes, the NLG has been consistently identified with radical-left politics and was heavily influenced by communists in its early years. Key Weather Underground figures like Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers had strong ties to the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Dohrn served as the first law student organizer.

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The Alaskan Story— Negative ads keep pounding Sen. Dan Sullivan, but there’s still no viable opponent for ’26

Majority Forward has received funding from the shadowy Arabella Advisors network (now Sunflower Strategies), including the Tides Foundation, Tides Advocacy, the NEO Philanthropy Action Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Environmental Defense Action Fund, the American Health Care Association, Fair Share, Intercontinental Exchange PAC, the National Education Association, and bankrupt cryptocurrency firm FTX, according to Influence Watch.

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The Austin Sound— Texas Antifa Cell Gets Boost From Lawyer-Revolutionaries: Part I of a series on the National Lawyers Guild and the Prairieland ICE ambush

“The NLG has always been associated with the radical left in America,” said the Capital Research Center’s Robert Stilson, who has studied the Guild extensively. “In the beginning it was the Communist Party. Later they were intimately connected with the radical side of the New Left movement, such as the Weather Underground. Today the Guild is one of the very few national groups that openly supports antifa.”

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“This is a group that will always paint the United States and its institutions as in the wrong,” Stilson told the Austin Sound of the NLG. “And it will always defend or justify the actions of those who are opposed to the United States.”

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Grist—Here’s the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest

In October, President Trump ordered federal law enforcement agencies to review reports filed by the Government Accountability Institute and the Capital Research Center, two conservative think tanks, that link progressive organizations with anti-fascist or “antifa” networks. The Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity are listed among these alleged groups.