Sorry Rachel Maddow, but radical lefties thumping their chests about protests advocating “workers over billionaires” while getting funding from America’s most notorious billionaire is the most contradictory antithesis of “grassroots.”
As leftist groups across the country (including Hawaii) prepare for a wave of 750+ communist-style protests against President Donald Trump and the bourgeoisies dubbed “May Day Strong,” MRC Business investigated the nearly 500 groups that currently make up the lefty “coalition.” At least 33 of the groups, some of which boast national reach with multiple local chapters hosting events in their jurisdictions, received $115,124,845 from George Soros between 2016 and 2026.
This completely upends the purported mission of the event: “On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping.” The joke writes itself.
As Fox News contextualized, “May Day’s roots trace back to the 19th Century, when Marxists, socialists and labor unions called for a day of strikes in Paris and later became a national holiday in the Soviet Union after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.” Go figure. The list of demands from the coalition reads like an excerpt taken straight from the Communist Manifesto:
That we tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first. No ICE. No war. No private army serving authoritarian power. Expand democracy. Hands off our vote.
Except it’s the “rich” backing some of the powerful groups behind the protests. If it sounds hypocritical, it’s because it is. The coalition website includes a "pledge" prompt for visitors who want to participate and download the so-called "Real Affordability Agenda." The options for the pledge included the following:
- "Stand in Solidarity with Minnesota
- Demand Congress Freeze ICE Funding
- Join Upcoming No Kings Actions
- No Work No School No Shopping on May 1st
- March, picket, educate, agitate and rally May 1st"
When MS Now host Rachel Maddow gave the “May Day Strong” event a free infomercial during the April 28 edition of her show, she immediately characterized it as “grassroots,” emphasizing the fact that she didn’t do her due diligence. But celebrating communist-style disruption is par for the course for Maddow, as she was already on record haphazardly celebrating radical anti-ICE protesters harassing Home Depot employees over immigration raids in December 2025, even though the company had nothing to do with them.
Rachel Maddow ended her weekly show with an unpaid INFOMERCIAL for the “nonviolent grassroots group Indivisible.” This "grassroots" opposition to a "billionaire-fueled regime" is funded by billionaire George Soros.
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 29, 2026
Organizer Ezra Levin says of ICE: “The secret police force that… pic.twitter.com/pzmat9bY2H
“Grassroots?” More like leftist astroturfing personified.
The Soros groups involved included a number of chapters of the infamous Indivisible Project, which was responsible for organizing the infamous “No Kings Protests” in 2025 along with other leftist orgs where some had devolved into violence. Soros had fueled at least $7,610,000 into Indivisible between 2017 and 2023. MRC Business also documented the Soros connection via Indivisible to the Tesla fires that occurred earlier in 2025 as a result of violent protestors seething at Elon Musk in its April 22 report Eco-Kingpins: How the Soros Empire Funds and Steers the Global Climate Change Agendas.
Also involved in the May Day disruption festivities is the radical Working Families Power / Working Families Party apparatus, which together account for $29,165,000 in Soros funding (the largest sum of the groups tallied) from his philanthropic empire and his super PAC respectively.
Following Trump’s 2024 electoral victory, Working Families Party co-launched a recurring string of protests dubbed “Resist Trump Tuesdays,” where activists would hold rallies in the U.S. Senate local offices. One of its affiliated group WFPower’s primary focuses is radical climate change politics and ensuring the green policies it supports are incorporated at both the federal and state levels. WFPower lists itself as a co-leader who helped “build and steer” the Green New Deal Network (GNDN), a project of the Soros-backed Tides Advocacy group. Soros personally seeded the Network with $525,000 in 2020 around the time that the coalition of at least 14 so-called “social justice organizations” was birthed. Both the Working Families Party, which helped finance communist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, its local chapters, and WFPower were signatories of the “May Day Strong” coalition.
Another unironic Soros-funded signatory to the coalition was another radical climate change group called the Sunrise Movement, which was already named in a groundbreaking Capital Research Center investigation as one of a collective of pro-terrorism groups that received at least $80 million from the Soros empire. CRC noted that Sunrise “endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments.” That coalition, noted then-CRC Investigative Researcher Ryan Mauro, “engaged in arson, property damage and violence against law enforcement personnel and utility workers to try to stop construction of this local police training center.” But that’s not all.
Following the Trump Justice Department’s announcement of an investigation into the Open Society Foundations based on the CRC report, Sunrise launched an all-out war against the president in part to protect its “major” financier in Soros, according to The Intercept October 2, 2025. Is it really any surprise then that the group would also join another leftist screech fest to cause more disorder? Soros fueled Sunrise’s coffers with at least $2 million between 2019 and 2023.
In addition to the Soros-backed groups, other dishonorable mentions included a number of unions (e.g. Teamsters 492 Local in New Mexico), chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the unhinged climate change group Extinction Rebellion NYC, the Twin Cities Club of the Communist Party USA, in addition to multiple affiliates of Randi Weingarten’s extremist American Federation of Teachers.
Disruption is synonymous with the Soros brand. The late journalist Stefan Kanfer once dubbed Soros in 2017 a “Connoisseur of Chaos,” because he routinely benefits from the mayhem he’s fomented over the decades with his fortune, which now rests under the control of his more unhinged son Alex. As the elder Soros himself said according to The Los Angeles Times in 2004: “Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad.”
The “May Day Strong” events can be called many things. “Grassroots” is absolutely not one of them.
