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Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« on: January 26, 2026, 05:23:24 pm »
Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI

 By Charlie McCarthy    |   Monday, 26 January 2026 01:15 PM EST

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday the bureau has identified people and groups who are funding leftist protests aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota.

During an appearance on conservative commentator Benny Johnson's podcast, Patel confirmed that the FBI's investigation into the unrest is active and expanding.

"We've got … investigations ongoing into the funding of this," Patel told Johnson, stressing that the protests are "not happening organically" and that investigators have made "substantial progress" in uncovering groups and individuals financially backing them.

Patel also asserted that federal authorities are examining encrypted left-wing chats connected to protest organizers in Minnesota — warning those involved that they "should be worried" if they have violated federal statutes.

The revelations come as Minnesota remains a flashpoint in national debates over immigration enforcement.

Federal immigration operations in the Twin Cities, including "Operation Metro Surge," which has seen thousands of arrests, have drawn fierce criticism from local officials and left-leaning groups.

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Re: Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2026, 05:24:56 pm »
That’s nice, but stop flapping your gums and start doing something about it!!!!!!
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2026, 05:29:34 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on January 26, 2026, 05:24:56 pm
That’s nice, but stop flapping your gums and start doing something about it!!!!!!

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Re: Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2026, 06:08:30 pm »
I hope they froze the accounts before they announced that.

Otherwise, they're off to a series of NGOs and LLCs and God knows what else.
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Re: Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2026, 06:20:07 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on January 26, 2026, 05:24:56 pm
That’s nice, but stop flapping your gums and start doing something about it!!!!!!

Everyone is frustrated --- what the heck is being done about anything?  Nothing but lip service and inaction.
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Re: Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2026, 09:19:01 pm »
Quote from: bigheadfred on January 26, 2026, 05:29:34 pm
“We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”

Yup.
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Re: Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2026, 09:26:42 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on January 26, 2026, 06:20:07 pm
Everyone is frustrated --- what the heck is being done about anything?  Nothing but lip service and inaction.

I'm beyond frustrated..every day it's something else.
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2026, 09:35:56 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on January 26, 2026, 06:20:07 pm
Everyone is frustrated --- what the heck is being done about anything?  Nothing but lip service and inaction.

Completely.  It's really frustrating.
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2026, 10:23:36 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on January 26, 2026, 09:26:42 pm
I'm beyond frustrated..every day it's something else.

Completely impotent response by this administration. How very disappointing.
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2026, 10:51:26 pm »
As has been said previously, "The Republic is lost!"
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2026, 11:15:01 pm »
Cloward-Piven in action.
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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2026, 11:17:28 pm »
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Re: Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2026, 01:29:36 am »
They need to announce this while they perp walk the a$$hat in to be processed.

Until then, anything else just pisses me off.



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Re: Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2026, 10:04:43 am »
Quote from: Luis Gonzalez on January 27, 2026, 01:29:36 am
They need to announce this while they perp walk the a$$hat in to be processed.

Until then, anything else just pisses me off.

:yowsa: Absolutely!
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Re: Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2026, 06:13:58 pm »
Bigun wails (in bold text, no less):
"The Republic is lost!"

And Smokin' Joe fulminates with:
"Cloward-Piven in action."

When are those on the right going to come to the realization that not all 50 states can or should remain part of the [now crumbling] "Union" ?

To keep hoping for as much will lead only to... despair.

Well, it might be possible to bring the antifa/communist states "back into the fold".
But that will only be accomplished by turning to the modern-day equivalent of these guys:

THEY knew how to get the commies out...
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« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2026, 12:23:06 pm »
I Got Inside the Signal Chats Used by Far-Left Extremists in Minnesota—Here’s What I Saw
Inside the paranoia consuming the far-left encrypted chatrooms that are organizing the mass mobilization against the U.S. government
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The mass mobilization agitation now unfolding in Minneapolis and St. Paul by far-left, open-border extremists bears the hallmarks of a coordinated and professional operation designed to obstruct federal law enforcement. None of this should come as a surprise. These tactics are an evolution of methods tested during the deadly 2020 BLM–Antifa riots, which were centered largely in the Twin Cities.

In recent weeks, numerous Antifa-linked revolutionary anarchist collectives have promoted organizing guides that explicitly instruct extremists on how to carry out obstructionist campaigns. These materials consistently recommend the encrypted messaging app Signal as the primary tool for coordination. Alex Pretti and Renee Good, two militant leftist activists shot dead this month, may have been part of these groups.

What are militants saying to one another inside these chats?

As journalist Cam Higby and others have documented, Signal has become the preferred platform for mass coordination — used to share real-time locations, vehicle descriptions, and individual targets, as well as tips for minimizing legal accountability. Several high-level Democrat politicians and operatives were allegedly present in some of these groups, though this has not been independently confirmed. ...
The funding may be coming from big billionaires, but the people wearing the boots on the ground are absolute nutjobs.

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Re: Patel: Funders of Minneapolis Protests Identified by FBI
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2026, 12:56:03 pm »
I want all these fools to go to jail, and while I'm no fan of civil forfeiture, just charge them for whatever they're doing, then freeze their money and take all their stuff. Let them file suit to get it back while you're making the effort to convict them.

Do that and it all stops immediately. Bureaucratically slow walk the bastards into oblivion just like they do us..
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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2026, 01:36:34 pm »
Here is a photo of the funders:



Balance the budget, and this all goes away.  Continue to fund fraudsters and see how many protesters $19 billion buys.
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« Reply #18 on: February 01, 2026, 07:38:37 am »
Bill Wells, mayor of El Cajon in San Diego County, says top anti-ICE protesters are being paid $80k–$100k a year and are flown city to city to confront U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/2017932427847712903
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« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2026, 02:45:22 pm »
Protesters are getting government funding?
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Let me introduce you to the Legal Rights Center. (THREAD🧵)

In a "protester" handbook type document that I got ahold of, they are one of the recommended legal sources for anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, so I decided to do some digging (with some help from @incidnt_tracker).

It turns out, they're getting on average 68.24% (SOMETIMES AS HIGH AS 75%) of their revenue from government funding! ...

https://twitter.com/LeftismForU/status/2017345944438640677
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« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2026, 04:40:29 pm »
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Protesters are getting government funding?

https://twitter.com/LeftismForU/status/2017345944438640677

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It turns out, they're getting on average 68.24% (SOMETIMES AS HIGH AS 75%) of their revenue from government funding!

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