The Trump Justice Department has secured roughly two dozen non-citizens voting arrests, prosecutions or convictions in the last few months, with another nearly 90 more cases under investigation.
Just the News reports that the wave of prosecutions represents a growing number of individuals charged in the last year with illegally voting in U.S. federal elections as foreigners.
Department of Justice (DOJ) officials say all 50 states were sent notices this month that election officials can and will be prosecuted too if they allow non-citizens to vote.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told the Just the News, “This is not some idle threat.”
The letters state that state election officers face potential criminal penalties for “aiding and abetting” non-citizen voting. This includes knowingly retaining non-citizens on voting registration lists or assisting them with obtaining and casting ballots.
State officials were given a strict 5-day deadline by the DOJ to submit explanations of how they are complying with federal voter eligibility laws.
Dhillon drew a clear line on non-citizen voting, saying:
It isn’t just bad policy to let non-citizens vote in federal elections, it’s a crime. And this Department of Justice will intend to prosecute that crime if these election officials, having been informed that they are non-citizens on the voter rolls, knowingly allow those people to vote, enable their enrollment on the voter rolls, are passive in the face of this knowledge, etc.
Dhillon believes the numbers of foreigners illicitly voting in elections is probably higher but has been frustrated that U.S. Attorney offices across the country haven’t made illegal voting a larger priority until just recently.
Federal law requires voters to be American citizens to vote on the federal level, but some states and cities allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.
The DOJ push comes as President Donald Trump tries to persuade a hesitant U.S. Senate to pass the Save America Act that would impose citizenship and voter ID on all federal election voters.
Beware: The Chinese Communist Party is plainly exploiting the opaque ownership structure of multinational tech companies to fund far-left political subversion across America.
Shanghai-based Maoist tech millionaire Neville Roy Singham is a notorious funder of outfits like the crypto-communist People’s Forum, which organizes radical protest-riots in support of Hamas terrorism and protecting the butchers who control Iran; his wife co-leads extremist Code Pink while his niece is a big player in the Democratic Socialists of America and a prominent adviser to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The Singhams got crazy-rich in the tech industry, but you have to wonder if Beijing staged their success to “wash” a vast fortune that could then undermine the United States, the chief barrier to CCP world domination.
The State Department has identified the Singham network as a tool of Chinese propaganda and influence operations, and it looks like it’s not unique.
The new “antizionist” American Priorities supported nearly all the recent Democratic primary wins of far-left House candidates — and the PAC gets much of its cash from techies made rich by Beijing-favored mobile-ad and data company AppLovin, as Liel Liebovitz reports at Tablet.
But in a curious twist, the lefty Democratic megadonor has poured nearly a half-billion dollars into activist campaigns that have made it harder to run animal farms and contributed to the rising cost of eggs and meat for millions of American consumers — all while one of Moskovitz’s foundations holds a nearly $89 million stake in plant-based company Impossible Foods — meaning it could benefit if pricier meat pushes more consumers toward meat alternatives, The California Post has learned.
The money trail runs through two closely linked entities of Moskovitz’s philanthropic empire: Coefficient Giving — the nonprofit formerly known as Open Philanthropy — and Good Ventures, the private foundation run by Moskovitz and his wife, former journalist Cari Tuna.
Cari Tuna, wife of Moskovitz, plays a key role in the couple’s philanthropic efforts. The Washington Post via Getty Images
But farmers and industry insiders told The Post the operation amounts to a well-funded pressure campaign, bankrolling activist groups, ballot measures, corporate pressure tactics, lawsuits and media projects that they say have helped drive up the cost of meat, eggs and pork for everyday Americans.
Hannah Thompson-Weeman, president and CEO of the Animal Agriculture Alliance, told The Post that consumers often picture animal-rights activism as a loose network of shaggy volunteers with protest signs.
That image, she said, badly understates the sophistication and funding behind the movement, which combined withinflationis the reason many grocery shoppers are suffering from post-traumatic sticker shock.On paper, Coefficient Giving says its mission is simple: reduce suffering on factory farms. Since 2016, the nonprofit has handed out more than $480 million toward that cause.
“These groups are all connected, it’s the same people, it’s the same money flowing back and forth,” Thompson-Weeman said. “Those different public personas are a very intentional strategy to work differently towards the same goal.”
The Post’s review of donations listed on Coefficient Giving’s website found that money has been spread across nearly every part of the animal rights activist ecosystem.
The biggest recipients include The Humane League with $94.5 million, Mercy For Animals ($38.7 million), Anima International ($21.1 million), Compassion in World Farming ($27 million), and The Good Food Institute ($32.5 million), a nonprofit that promotes plant- and cell-based alternatives to animal products.
Mark Zuckerberg and Moskovitz became two of the richest people in the world after launching Facebook. REUTERS
Moskovitz’s money — he’s estimated by Forbes to be worth $10.5 billion and has contributed almost $135 million to Democratic campaigns, according to Federal Election Commission records — also went to media outlets and communications groups, including The Guardian. The outlet’s nonprofit arm received three grants totaling $2.24 million from Open Philanthropy (Coefficient Giving’s name until late last year) for a sprawling, multi-year series on factory farming and animal cruelty.
Stories on pig slaughterhouses and “dairy cruelty” cited officials from groups like Compassion in World Farming and the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation, respectively, both of which have received millions from Coefficient Giving.
The stories did not disclose the circular nature of funding sources, and any mention of Open Philanthropy can only be found on a separate webpage on the Guardian’s website.
“Make no mistake,” Thompson-Weeman said, “this is a very well funded and strategic movement that’s targeting animal agriculture.”
Mike Weber, owner of Sunrise Farms in Sonoma County, says animal rights groups often misunderstand his mission. Paul Kuroda for CA Post
The Chicken and the Egg Fight
The activist war on animal farms is not some abstract policy debate for Mike Weber, whose family owns Sunrise Farms in Sonoma County, just north of San Francisco.
In 2018, activists raided his farm in what they thought would be a viral sting operation.
“They showed up with buses, hundreds of people,” Weber said of the activists who targeted his family’s 114-year-old poultry farm.
Sunrise Farms was targeted in a raid by animal rights activists in 2018. Paul Kuroda for CA Post
“They coordinated this whole event to storm onto our farm illegally, pry open the doors and run through the chicken houses, trying to steal the chickens.”
Forty activists involved in the incident were reportedly arrested for trespassing, according to Politico. Activists claimed the barns were filled with bloody, injured and dead birds, Weber said, but his own footage showed a different story in court.
The cost of producing eggs has gone up after Coefficient Giving and others passed Proposition 12. Paul Kuroda for CA Post
The same year, California voters passed Proposition 12, which required farm animals to receive more space and egg-producing chickens to go cage-free. Weber said the new requirements forced him to overhaul the design of his farm, leading to extra costs being passed on to consumers while also making it more likely that his chickens could contract disease, leading to additional measures to vaccinate the birds.
“The small guys like us, at some point we have to tap out, because we just can’t afford to keep borrowing money to swim like crazy to stand still,” Weber said.
Chickens at Sunrise Farms. Paul Kuroda for CA Post
A spokesperson for Coefficient Giving denied any financial motive in its philanthropic efforts around animal farms, saying the group’s work is driven solely by animal welfare.
“Coefficient Giving is proud to support advocacy, scientific research, and movement-building efforts to improve the awful conditions on factory farms in which billions of animals live,” Officials said. “Reducing their suffering is the sole motivation of our work in this area.”
The nonprofit said that its giving to organizations focused on non-animal products represents only a small fraction of its grantmaking, and any profits on Good Ventures’ Impossible Foods investment are legally required to go to charity.
Weber has taken issue with billionaire-backed activism. Paul Kuroda for CA Post
Weber’s farm was not targeted by a group funded by Moskovitz, but he told The Post that he considers Coefficient Giving’s network to be in league with the same bad actors. Coefficient Giving also lists more than $5 million in grants to fund litigation.
Coefficient Giving noted that it does not fund anyone to enter agricultural facilities without authorization.
The activists funded by Moskovitz’s operations, Weber said, often present themselves as experts on farming while lacking any formal education or experience in agriculture, animal husbandry or biosecurity.
“It’s as if you’ve got a chiropractor who’s impersonating a brain surgeon,” Weber said. “When you scratch below the surface, you realize you’re just talking to somebody who’s a fanatic.”
Moskovitz and Tuna put their Impossible Foods investment under control of Good Ventures. givingpledge.org
A Steak in the Future
Will Coggin, research director at the Center for the Environment and Welfare, said the real fight is not over whether animals should be treated humanely, but whether billionaire-backed activists can make animal farming so expensive and legally risky that producers eventually give up.
“It was billed as one of these humane farming laws,” Coggin said of Prop. 12. “But what it really does, in effect, is that you can’t buy regular eggs anymore in California like you could anywhere else — or regular pork products.”
The California ballot measure did not just regulate farms inside the Golden State. It also imposed California’s standards on pork, eggs and veal sold in the state, forcing out-of-state producers to comply if they wanted access to one of the country’s largest consumer markets.
Weber says smaller operations are being put at risk of shutting down due to overly restrictive laws. Paul Kuroda for CA Post
The Post’s review found Coefficient Giving gave $4 million to Prevent Cruelty California for the “Yes on Prop 12” campaign. Its grant database also shows millions more flowing to groups pushing cage-free egg campaigns, broiler chicken campaigns, corporate pledges, shareholder pressure efforts and litigation targeting animal agriculture.
Coggin said the campaigns continuously move the goalposts for farmers until compliance costs become too steep for smaller producers, leading to the cost of meat and eggs becoming more expensive for consumers. Meanwhile, the same groups vilify large-scale farms.
“It raises the cost of animal protein and it reduces consumer choice,” Coggin said. “It’s part of a long-term strategy that we’ve identified by the animal rights movement to drive up costs for consumers, reduce demand for animal products and put farmers out of business.”
He added, “If Moskovitz-funded groups can come in and raise the price of eggs and pork or other animal protein at the supermarket, then all of a sudden Impossible Foods products become more cost-competitive, and that helps the bottom line for the investment.”
Thompson-Weeman said the group’s paid activists often target brands and farms that have already adopted higher welfare practices. The point is not to improve animal agriculture, she said, but to make the public believe the entire system is inherently cruel and should be replaced.
“They believe there’s no way to ethically and responsibly raise animals for food,” Thompson-Weeman said.
Coggin suggested the endgame in this Moskovitz-funded operation targeting animal farms will eventually benefit the source.
“They want to ban and get rid of standard animal farming,” Coggin said. “And in the long run, they want to replace it with things like Impossible Foods products or lab-grown meat.”
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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