Americans took to the streets Saturday for the latest round of protests targeting Tesla and condemning Elon Musk for his work with President Donald Trump, but these protests trace back to a larger movement with funding from the Left’s dark money network.

Some of the organizations that encouraged and helped organize the protests have raked in millions from arms of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and from other nonprofits that act as middlemen between the Left’s major donors and its operations on the ground. (Open Society claims that it does not fund or direct protests, though public records show that it has funded at least one of the groups helping to organize them.)

In the “Tesla Takedown-Day of Action” Saturday, protesters targeted more than 275 Tesla dealerships in the U.S. and over 500 worldwide, Fox News Digital reported. Protesters held up a sign reading “Burn a Tesla: Save Democracy” at a protest in New York City.

Former Wall Street Journal reporter and propaganda expert Asra Nomani teamed up with the Fairfax County Times to create a chronology of the protest actions, building a public database of anti-Tesla protests published on ActionAlert.com and Mobilize.us. According to Nomani, the Seattle-based protest organization Troublemakers and the Philadelphia-based group Disruption Project have sponsored about 70%, or 220, of the protests. Local chapters of Indivisible Project, a Washington-based nonprofit, have organized about 29%, or 87, of them, according to Nomani.

Indivisible Project told The Daily Signal that it did not organize the Saturday protests, but several of its local chapters participated in them. Indivisible Project may not have directly organized the protests, but it did publish a guide for organizing protests against Musk.

“Indivisible is not focused on Tesla as a business,” Sarah Dohl, Indivisible’s chief communications officer, told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. “This is not about cars, dealerships, or private enterprise. What we are focused on is educating communities and drawing urgent attention to the fact that Elon Musk—an unelected billionaire—is now operating as a de facto government official, wielding power........

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