An eco-extremist group funded by leftist billionaire George Soros is turning from its typical climate change obsessions to launch an all out war against President Donald Trump.
The youth-led Sunrise Movement, which was funded with $2 million between 2019 and 2023 alone by Soros, “expanding its mission to battle ‘authoritarianism’ as the Trump administration targets left-leaning organizations and puts one of the group’s major funders [Soros] in the crosshairs, according to The Intercept October 2.
The radical organization, which has become notorious for unlawful demonstrations and obstructions, was featured in a blockbuster Capital Research Center report detailing how Soros gave $80 million to fund pro-terrorist organizations like Sunrise. The CRC report served as the pretext for the Justice Department directing prosecutors to draft plans to investigate Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
“The group, now eight years old, has decided that it cannot continue to fight climate change without fighting Trump,” The Intercept summarized.
It appears Soros is getting a nice return on his investment in Sunrise by the group fighting Trump on his behalf. Sunrise Executive Director Aru Shiney-Ajay told The Intercept that “‘There is no serious way to think about stopping the climate crisis under a fascist government.’” She continued: “‘The path to climate lies through getting rid of the authoritarian government we’re in.’” If that sounds like it came straight out of the Antifa lexicon, it's because it does.
CRC investigative researcher Ryan Mauro wrote that Sunrise, in particular, “endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments.” That coalition, noted Mauro, “engaged in arson, property damage and violence against law enforcement personnel and utility workers to try to stop construction of this local police training center.” He continued: “Attacks include setting a police vehicle ablaze; throwing Molotov cocktails, bricks and rocks at police; setting construction equipment on fire; blocking roads with obstacles like tires; harming police officers’ eyes with lasers; and attacking the Atlanta Police Foundation’s building with fireworks.”
MRC Business, in partnership with Bongino Report, also released a months-long investigation into Soros’s bankrolling of the global climate change movement in the U.S. and abroad. For Sunrise, which MRC and Bongino Report profiled, engaging in wanton disruption and chaos is its modus operandi.
Here’s a recent example: During the crescendo of the tumultuous 2024 election in April, Sunrise protesters “blocked an intersection on a Monday morning near Vice President Kamala Harris’s Brentwood home, “leading police to arrest six of them without incident,” according to The Los Angeles Times. Sunrise activists would then taunt Harris again outside her home in September 2024, after she stepped out-of-line with the climate religion and bragged about increased levels of gas production under Biden during a debate with Trump.’
To be clear: Sunrise’s Shiney-Ajay insisted that coming to the Godfather of the Left’s defense was part of its overall mission to battle climate change. “We are pretty clear that we are doing this so that we can get on track to win federal climate legislation. That has always been the mission of Sunrise,” Shiny-Ajay exclaimed to The Intercept.
Oh but The Intercept was sure to point out that Soros’s OSF and Sunrise “both say they reject violence.” What a joke.
Read MRC Business and Bongino Report’s complete investigation into George Soros’s financing of the global climate movement below.