On September 20, 2026, ICE officers shot a Venezuelan national during a traffic stop in Austin, TX.
The ink was not even dry on the report when Democrats started to push the narrative that this was yet another example of Trump’s Gestapo, rogue ICE agents who were out for blood.
It seemed as though “spontaneous” protests had erupted not only in Austin, but around the country in response to the shooting. At the heart of the initial protests was the Austin chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
They published an “Emergency Demonstration” graphic, calling it a “spontaneous protest.”
Within five hours of the shooting, video of the “protest” was being pushed out to DSA supporters with Rage Against the Machine’s “We’ve Got To Take the Power Back” as its soundtrack.
The media played right along, using the talking points being pushed by the DSA. But to me, this was George Floyd all over again, only on steroids. They learned from that first incident, and now have the “spontaneity” down to a science.
This was not about justice. It was not a protest. It is and always has been organized chaos to influence who holds political power in this country. It is about creating fear among those in the middle to push them left when they walk into a voting booth solely to avoid the chaos that ensues when something like this happens and a Republican is in office.
Think I am off base? How many minorities were shot and killed by police when Joe Biden was in office? How many illegal immigrants were arrested or shot by ICE or other branches of immigration enforcement when he was in office? See if you can remember how many protests took place. Better yet, how many protests were organized, mobilized, and promoted within hours of the incident?
What Happened in Austin?
The shooting is still under investigation, but there are some facts we do know:
What Took Place
Within hours of the shooting, socialist and communist organizations operating in this country organized street demonstrations at the location of the shooting. The media reported these demonstrations as “spontaneous,” much like the Floyd protests were “mostly peaceful.”
| Time (CT) | Organization | Action | Reach / Engagement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:56 p.m. Sunday | ICE / Federal Authorities | Officer shoots Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez during traffic stop at Anderson Square and Research Boulevard. | Local incident. No public coverage yet. |
| 4:19 p.m. Sunday | @PSLNational (Party for Socialism and Liberation) | Posts explosive "BREAKING" message on X in all caps: "MAN SHOT BY ICE AGENTS IN AUSTIN." Calls for immediate protest. "ICE OUT OF AUSTIN NOW!" | National X account with hundreds of thousands of followers. |
| ~4:20 p.m. Sunday | PSL Austin + four other Texas chapters (Houston, San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, Waco) | Coordinated Instagram sharing of "BREAKING" graphic across all five Texas chapters plus national HQ. | 5,402 likes, 2,016 reposts, 2,391 shares within 24 hours. |
| ~5:00 p.m. Sunday | BreakThrough News (Singham-funded) | Publishes "BREAKING NEWS" report from Texas: "Austin erupts in protest…" Amplifies to a national audience through a pro-communist media platform. | Instagram account with substantial national reach. |
| 5:30 p.m. Sunday | DSA Austin (Democratic Socialists of America) | Posts "Emergency Demonstration/Vigil" graphic labeling event a "spontaneous protest." Directs supporters to 8121 Research Boulevard 5 p.m.–8 p.m. Sunday. Note the timing: the "spontaneous" call went out at 5:30 for an event that supposedly began at 5:00. | Austin chapter of the same organization that elected NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. |
| ~5:30 p.m. Sunday | Freedom Road Socialist Organization Austin chapter | Publishes graphic "ICE SHOOTS AN UNARMED CIVILIAN" and frames incident as part of pattern of "ICE violence and killings." | 620 likes, 214 reposts, 156 shares within 24 hours. |
| 5:44 p.m. Sunday | @PSLNational | Posts video from scene: "LIVE: A crowd has gathered…" Synchronizes Instagram version with Rage Against the Machine's "We've Got to Take the Power Back." Frames scene as "Austinites flooding the streets." | Coordinated national and Austin account amplification. |
| 8:27 p.m. Sunday | @PSLNational | Publishes expanded statement "Justice for Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez." Demands detainee's release, agent's arrest, and tells supporters to "follow the example of Minneapolis earlier this year until ICE terror is defeated!" | 10,600 likes, 3,616 reposts, 2,343 shares by Monday evening. |
| ~5:00 p.m. Monday | PSL / Coordinated Network | Issues new call to action moving activists to Pearsal Detention Center: "WE NEED YOU BOOTS ON THE GROUND…!!!" | Escalation to secondary protest location within 24 hours. |
| Three and a half hours after an ICE shooting in Austin, Texas, a coordinated network of socialist and communist organizations from Texas to New York was pushing synchronized messaging to hundreds of thousands of followers. Pre-printed signs appeared at the scene. National and local accounts coordinated in real time. A Chinese-funded media platform provided national amplification. The Associated Press called this a "spontaneous" community response. The receipts say otherwise.
Sources: Fox News Digital investigation (September 21, 2026); social media posts documented by Fox News Digital; engagement metrics as reported at the time of publication. |
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Protesting out of grief is not even on the board here. This is a group of organizations who are literally monitoring newswires for something they can rally behind.
For hours immediately after the shooting, a synchronized message was being broadcast across five Texas chapters, a national X account, a Chinese-funded media platform, and half a dozen aligned nonprofits.
All the key talking points were within the message:
This was not a response to the shooting; it was a production organized by these groups to create chaos and division.
Who Are These Groups?
The media did not dare to call them out by name, instead labeling them as "activists," "community groups," and "demonstrators."
The groups themselves are not so shy about their purpose, openly publishing official manifestos on their own websites, describing explicitly revolutionary Marxist, socialist, and communist objectives.
| Organization | Stated Ideology | Foreign Ties | Documented Coordination |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) | Democratic socialist political organization. Endorses socialist candidates. Endorsed and elected NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. | Domestic — but ideologically aligned with international socialist movements. | Austin chapter published "Emergency Demonstration" graphic Sunday, labeled event "spontaneous protest." |
| Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) | Official manifesto: "revolutionary socialist" movement that "will open the way to communism and the end of class society." Describes police as "tools of capitalist rule." | Co-founder Brian Becker traveled to Venezuela "as comrades in solidarity." Participated in Cuba and Venezuela solidarity delegations. | National account + five Texas chapters coordinated within four hours of the shooting. |
| Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) | Openly Marxist-Leninist. Official program describes goal of building "a new, revolutionary, communist party" to replace capitalism through socialist revolution. | July 2026 official statement "salutes the Communist Party of China on the 105th anniversary of its founding." Sent delegations to Cuba and Venezuela. | Austin chapter published "ICE SHOOTS AN UNARMED CIVILIAN" graphic Sunday. |
| BreakThrough News | Pro-communist media platform operated by BreakThrough BT Media Inc. | Funded by Neville Roy Singham (Shanghai). Under federal grand jury investigation. Subpoenaed by House Ways and Means Committee July 24, 2026. | Published "BREAKING NEWS: Austin erupts in protest" report Sunday evening. |
| People's Forum | 501(c)(3) nonprofit self-describes as hub for 200+ activist organizations. Publicly supported Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel. | Received $22.5 million from Singham network. Subpoenaed by the House Ways and Means Committee. Alleged CCP-funded propaganda arm. | Central coordinating hub for U.S. left-wing protest infrastructure. |
| CodePink | Pro-communist, pro-China nonprofit. | Co-founder Jodie Evans married to Neville Roy Singham. Receives Singham funding. Regularly participates in anti-ICE, anti-Israel, pro-Iran protests. | Coordinates with PSL and FRSO across anti-imperialist coalitions. |
| ANSWER Coalition | Anti-imperialist coalition allied with PSL. | Works closely with Singham-funded organizations. Founded by PSL leadership. | Standard participant in coordinated anti-ICE, anti-Israel protest infrastructure. |
| Tricontinental Institute for Social Research | Self-describes work as rooted in "national liberation Marxism." | Received approximately $15 million from Singham network. Subpoenaed by House Ways and Means Committee July 24, 2026. | Provides ideological framework for network's activism. |
| Every organization named in Sunday's Austin protest coordination is either explicitly revolutionary in its own official manifesto, funded by a Chinese Communist Party-connected billionaire currently under federal grand jury investigation, or both. These are not community activist groups. These are the ideological outputs of their own founding documents. The mainstream media described the Austin protest as a "spontaneous community response." The organizations that coordinated it describe themselves in their own words as revolutionary movements working to replace American constitutional government.
Sources: Official organizational manifestos and program documents (published on each organization's own website); House Ways and Means Committee investigations; Fox News Digital investigations; federal grand jury records. |
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Look at the names of those groups… they are not about justice or police reform. This is about ideology and destroying the very foundation of this country. One group openly "salutes the Communist Party of China." Terms like “comrades in solidarity" are used. Yet, the media still labeled these protests as “spontaneous” for fear of rocking the boat.
Perfecting the Playbook
Protests over police shootings are nothing in this country, but they used to be organic, even going back to the Rodney King shooting. They usually turned into an opportunity for nefarious actors, but the origins of the rioting were people being outraged or passionate about something that happened; then opportunists turned it into a reason to loot and set the streets on fire.
When George Floyd happened, I would be willing to bet that very few of those people actually cared about Floyd himself. This was the rise of groups like Black Lives Matter (BLM), which saw an opportunity to fundraise and push an agenda.
This was the beginning of truly organized, violent, modern protesting in this country. And it was fed by the media, who literally said these were “mostly peaceful protests” while streets, buildings, and cars were on fire in the background.
This, however, served as the training ground for what we are seeing today. You could even call it the beginning of the learning curve. For instance, it took about 72 hours before we truly saw organized protests erupting around the country in various cities (compare that to literally hours after the recent ICE shooting).
Money came pouring into BLM, which was the backbone of all these protests, to the tune of more than $90 million. This was akin to sending out bogus invoices only to have everyone pay them. BLM officials were likely giddy, but also asking the very same question that was asked at the end of “The Candidate” by Robert Redford… “What do we do now?”
The BLM Money Trail
Ninety million is a big number, and big numbers promote corruption and grand ideas, which is exactly what happened with BLM when the money started to pour in…
| Recipient / Category | Amount | Connection to BLM Leadership | Documented Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total donations raised (2020) | $90 million | BLM Global Network Foundation (Patrisse Cullors, Executive Director) | Raised in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, May-December 2020. |
| Distributed to local grassroots BLM chapters | ~$23 million (25%) | Local chapters and organizations. | The only portion of the $90 million that reached the communities donors thought they were supporting. |
| "The Campus" — Studio City, CA mansion | $6 million | Purchased by BLM Global Network Foundation. Used by Patrisse Cullors for personal events including her son's birthday party and an inauguration party with 15 guests. | Six bedrooms, six bathrooms, swimming pool, soundstage. Cullors admitted personal use to Associated Press. |
| Payment to Damon Turner's firm (Trap Heals) | $6 million | Damon Turner is the father of Patrisse Cullors' child. | Contracted for "creative services." Personal relationship to executive director not disclosed to donors. |
| Payment to Paul Cullors' firm | $2.1 million | Paul Cullors is Patrisse Cullors' brother. | Contracted for "security services" at the Studio City mansion. |
| Patrisse Cullors' consulting firm income | $20,000+/month | Cullors' personal firm. | Paid while she simultaneously chaired the LA Jail Reform Group. |
| Charitable programs (percentage of donations) | 33% | Per BLM Global Network Foundation's own 2021 IRS filings. | Two-thirds of donations went to overhead, staff, real estate, and consulting rather than the causes donors funded. |
| Cullors' reaction to IRS transparency requirements | — | Cullors, on record at Vashon Center for the Arts. | Called financial disclosure Form 990 "triggering." Complained transparency caused "trauma." |
| Loss of tax-exempt status (multiple states) | — | BLM Global Network Foundation. | Lost tax-exempt status in several states for failing to file required financial disclosures. |
| Ninety million dollars raised in the name of George Floyd. Approximately 25% reached the communities donors intended to help. Six million dollars went to a Studio City mansion. Eight million dollars went to companies run by the executive director's brother and the father of her child. When required to file financial disclosures under standard IRS transparency laws, the executive director called the process "triggering" and complained about the "trauma" of accountability. The same infrastructure that produced this financial record is producing Sunday's Austin "spontaneous" protest.
Sources: Associated Press interview with Patrisse Cullors (April 2022); Sean Campbell / Columbia Journalism School / New York Magazine investigation; National Legal and Policy Center IRS complaint; Fox News Digital reporting; BLM Global Network Foundation's own 2021 IRS Form 990 filings. |
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About 25% of the money went to help the grassroots local chapters, but what happened to the rest of the money? It surely was not spent in local communities to help the very people BLM pretended to represent.
Instead, $6 million was spent on a studio mansion by the executive director. Millions more were funneled to companies by her family. When it came time to show accountability, all the usual cards were played. It was a racist witch hunt; it was triggering; it was causing her trauma.
I stated then, and I continue to say it now… This was a grift; it was not activism. Not even close.
But as I said, this was the training ground for what we are seeing today. Now, these groups are far more organized, quicker to react, and they are now tied to foreign governments that would love to see our Constitution set on fire.
The China Connection
If you were a reader when I first started in publications like Conservative Journal Review, you know I have always believed that our enemies are playing the long game by infiltrating from within. You will sometimes hear this referred to as the 50-year plan or death by a thousand cuts.
This is how we get people like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) into office, and people like John Brennan running the CIA. This is how you have Iranian operatives saturating the Biden administration who were clearly more interested in protecting Iran than they were America (see Rob Malley, Biden’s special envoy on Iran).
How else can you possibly explain Americans who have deep ties to communist countries and causes who are backing this bogus activism?
For instance, Neville Roy Singham is an American tech billionaire who sold his consulting firm Thoughtworks in 2017 for approximately $785 million and moved to Shanghai. His wife is Jodie Evans. If that name sounds familiar, it is because Ms. Evans is the co-founder of CodePink.
If congressional reports are accurate, Singham has moved nearly $300 million into socialist, communist, and pro-Beijing organizations since 2017.
Earlier this year, a federal grand jury was convened to investigate him for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. That investigation is currently being headed by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton.
In late July, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) issued subpoenas to three Singham-funded nonprofits: BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and the People's Forum. All three had refused to voluntarily comply with congressional document requests.
The People's Forum, according to its own statements, serves as a hub for more than 200 activist organizations. BreakThrough News published the "BREAKING NEWS" Austin report on Sunday evening within hours of the shooting.
The Bitcoin Policy Institute estimates that Singham-linked organizations have blocked roughly $23.6 billion in AI infrastructure projects across 14 states, an infrastructure that would advance American competitiveness against China. Now think about who is outright trying to block AI in this country. The first name that comes to mind in Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). So, please, tell me the long game is not being played in this country by members of the left right now.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, CodePink, the ANSWER Coalition, and Tricontinental - every organization named in Sunday's Austin coordination - are either directly funded by Singham or work closely with organizations he funds.
Just look at this connection for one second:
The Bottom Line
When all was said and done, it was not about Rodney King; it was about destruction. It was never really about George Floyd, either. And now, incidents like the ICE shooting are clearly not about justice or accountability; it’s merely about an opportunity.
The mainstream media is a significant part of the problem because it is either in on the ruse or terrified to report truthfully about what is taking place. So, the result is a “mostly peaceful protest” or a “spontaneous protest.”
Then, when Fox News or someone like myself calls it coordinated or organized, the “ist” words start to get tossed around. When we show the dark money that funds these protests, we are called conspiracy theorists.
Let me ask you something…
Have you seen tables like the ones I have presented here on any outlet, including Fox News? Of course not, because they are all terrified of these groups. They are afraid of having a label slapped on them for truthfully reporting because they are more worried about clicks, shares, and likes than they are about telling the truth.
This is not activism. This is not a community coming together. And this is surely not about justice. It is one thing and one thing only… a chaos machine.
Was the ICE shooting justified? We don’t know yet, but that did not stop Democrats from pushing a bogus narrative and condemning both the agency and the agent within minutes of the news breaking.
Chaos. Outrage. Power. That is the endgame here.
