During a congressional hearing, a witness testified that at least $60 million in so-called “dark money” has flowed into Minnesota protests, raising new questions about who is funding the unrest.
According to testimony, the funds are believed to be linked to fourteen organizations, including groups described as part of the Soros network. Lawmakers called for greater transparency, demanding to know where the money originated and whether it was used to coordinate or sustain protest activity.
The claims are likely to intensify debate over outside funding, political activism, and disclosure requirements for nonprofit organizations.
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HOLY SHLIT
Witness confirms to Sen Josh Hawley that at least 14 leftist groups including Soros are funneling 60 MILLION DOLLARS to the anti-ICE riots in Minnesota
Hawley Exposes Fraud in State and Federal Programs and Dark Money Funding Web
February 11, 2026
WASHINGTON — Yesterday, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)chaireda hearing in his Homeland Security Subcommittee exposing the widespread fraud in state and federal programs, as well as the dark money groups sponsoring radical left-wing subversion in America’s streets.
“You testified that about a trillion dollars you think is lost in fraud every year. Where’s this money going?” Chairman Hawley asked Haywood Talcove, CEO of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions.
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Talcove responded, “It goes to terrorism, it goes to child trafficking, it goes to drugs… and then it’s used to purchase luxury items, cars, purses, homes. That’s all funded by people like me that pay taxes… $115 million an hour.”
Senator Hawley asked, “How do they get their hands on it?”
Talcove answered, “They go into programs that they know elected and appointed officials won’t touch, and they can steal at scale. And what happened really was during the pandemic… they learned a valuable lesson: the government never runs out of money and the probability of getting caught is virtually zero.”
Senator Hawley asked Minnesota State Senator Mark Koran, “From your vantage point in the state, are the majority of these protests spontaneous or more organized?”
“They’re highly organized and coordinated. In Minnesota, we’ve seen a wide variety of coordinated efforts,” Senator Koran responded. “The agitation groups on the ground, there are a wide variety of them, some national, some very professional. In addition to local reports that state they’ve trained some 30,000 observers to get in the middle of the protests.”
Hawley continued, “How would you describe the tactics that are used during these protests?”
“What we’ve seen is a whole host of doxxing, highly coordinated efforts in doxxing. We’ve seen instance of violence against federal agents. I think in two cases, we’ve had agents that have had – one had their finger bitten off, and they’ve been pelted with frozen bottles, stones and every other type of thing, in addition to directly interfering with legal law enforcement,” Koran answered.
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Hawley also questioned Seamus Bruner, Vice President of the Government Accountability Institute and an expert in dark money networks, asking, “Your organization specialized in following nonprofit funding and organizational networks. Based on your research, what organizations have been active on the ground in Minnesota?”
Bruner said, “We have tracked over $60 million [in payments]… to approximately 14 groups, some of them national, others on the ground.”
“How is it flowing to these groups? Do you have any sense?” the Senator continued.
“We’ve built a database that contains hundreds of thousands of rows from grants from networks of the Soros network, the Arabella funding network, as mentioned, the Neville Roy Singham funding network, many others… These massive NGOs that have billions of dollars to spend on all kinds of coordinated protests, or in this case, riot activity,” Bruner answered.
Senator Hawley concluded, “Over and over again we see this money through these same networks flowing in to create these riots, these protests, these divisions. There need to be prosecutions here. So, I just renew my call to the Department of Justice to investigate these groups, these dark money groups, untangle this web and bring prosecutions wherever you can, because the American people deserve to have control of their government.”
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