No More Kings was funded by many of the same people and entities that funded Hands Off Iran, anti-ICE, pro-Hamas, and pro-Cuba regime protests. Photo by G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The No Kings movement began in June 2025 and has grown through three major mobilization rounds: June 14, 2025, October 18, 2025, and March 28, 2026. Organizers describe it as a coalition of more than 270 partner organizations and a decentralized movement driven by volunteers. Permit records and financial investigations, however, suggest it is more structured than organizers claim.
The No Kings theme originated with 50501, short for 50 protests, 50 states, one movement. The protests were organized by Indivisible and other progressive organizations as part of a coalition of more than 200 groups, including the Third Act Movement, the American Federation of Teachers, Social Security Works, the Communications Workers of America, the ACLU, Public Citizen, and MoveOn.
According to the permit for the flagship march in St. Paul, Minnesota, Indivisible is the lead coordinator. Indivisible was founded by former congressional staffers Leah Greenberg, who worked as an aide to Democratic Representative Tom Perriello of Virginia, and Ezra Levin, her husband, who worked as an aide to Democratic Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas. Greenberg received a master’s degree in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University and began her career at the philanthropic foundation Humanity United.
Levin earned a master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. After the 2016 election, the two published a 23-page online guide titled Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, which went viral and became the foundation of the organization.
The financial ties between Indivisible and the Soros network are direct and documented. Open Society Foundations (OSF), founded by George Soros and now run by his son Alex, awarded $7.61 million in grants to Indivisible between 2017 and 2023, including a two-year, $3 million grant in 2023 described as being for general social welfare activities. Leah Greenberg previously served as policy director for Tom Perriello’s Virginia gubernatorial campaign. Perriello was executive director of the Open Society Foundations from October 2018 to July 2023. Heather C. McGhee, an Indivisible board member, also serves on the board of Open Society Foundations.
In 2017, Indivisible received a $350,000 grant from Tides Advocacy, a group affiliated with the Tides Network. The New York Times reported in October 2017 that Indivisible had received almost $6 million since its founding, including donations from Reid Hoffman and organizations linked to Democracy Alliance, a donor network tied to Arabella Advisors and funded by approximately 25 affluent progressive patrons. OSF states it does not pay, train, or coordinate protesters, and that its grants were not specifically earmarked for the No Kings protests.
A Fox News Digital investigation found that a network of about 500 groups, with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues, is behind the coordinated No Kings protests, including communist organizations that have stated their intent to use the demonstrations to call for revolution.
The October 2025 coalition formally included the ACLU, Democratic Socialists of America, American Federation of Teachers, Common Defense, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, League of Conservation Voters, MoveOn, Public Citizen, United We Dream, Working Families Power, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Social Security Works, Communications Workers of America, Freedom From Religion Foundation, League of Women Voters, and American Federation of Government Employees.
A nonprofit called Home of the Brave ran a $1 million advertising campaign in hundreds of newspapers nationwide to promote the March 2026 protests, with an advisory board that has included attorney George Conway. The Liberty Hill Foundation, one of the leading groups involved in the Los Angeles No Kings event, receives $14 million in funding from the city of Los Angeles for tenant outreach and housing programs. Billionaire heiress Christy Walton bought a full-page ad in the New York Times promoting the protests.
Fox News Digital also identified key participation by a network of socialist and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon and self-described communist living in Shanghai. Singham sold his IT consulting company in 2017 for $785 million. The New York Times reported in 2023 that he works closely with the Chinese government media machine and donates to activist groups, news organizations, and other entities through nonprofits and shell companies that spread pro-CCP narratives.
Chinese state media accounts retweeted people and organizations in Singham’s network 122 times between February 2020 and the date of reporting. Over nearly a decade, Singham has financed the People’s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition, and CodePink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans he married in 2017 at a ceremony called Revolutionary Love. Public reporting suggests the People’s Forum received over $20 million from Singham and Evans between 2017 and 2022 through shell companies and donor-advised funds.
These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. According to Fox News Digital’s count, the People’s Forum, ANSWER Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and CodePink have organized at least 300 protests over the past ten years, including the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba.
The operational structure of the Singham network follows a consistent sequence. Within minutes of a headline event, a call to action goes out from the organizing wing and is then amplified by the Singham-funded media outlets BreakThrough News, People’s Dispatch, and Tricontinental. Days of footage from the protest build the public narrative of an organic grassroots movement.
The network’s messaging for No Kings echoes Singham’s own rhetoric, describing the United States as a form of fascism, and draws on organizing strategies rooted in Mao Zedong’s doctrine of People’s War, which calls for revolutionary movements to embed themselves within broader political struggles and radicalize them from within.
Posts circulating among socialist activist networks in the days before March 28 stated that it was time to go out, join the people, spread the revolutionary message, and turn a day of protest into long-term gains for the people’s movement. On the eve of the rally, members of the Twin Cities chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation packed a car with protest signs reading “NO KINGS” and “NO WAR,” with “PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION” printed at the bottom, preparing to distribute them at the state capitol in St. Paul, where the group was listed as a co-sponsor.
In Detroit, activists from Anakbayan, an organization aligned with communist movements in the Philippines, joined other groups within the Singham ecosystem. Posts from the Denver chapter of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization included imagery referencing the Red Army Choir and Soviet symbolism.
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