This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. – Che Guevara

At its inception, the Sunrise Movement was a youth-led climate advocacy organization. The group made a major splash during the first Trump administration, with high-visibility protests, like a 2018 sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s office—featuring New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—and a clear focus on climate change.

But, like many peer organizations, Sunrise underwent what some have described as an “identity crisis” during the Biden administration. Its ambit grew broader and more radical, especially after it broke decisively with mainstream Democrats following Biden’s support for Israel after the October 7 Hamas attacks. Last September, after years of mission drift, Sunrise shifted its purpose to “getting rid of the authoritarian government we’re in.”

As part of this revamped mission, Sunrise has embraced increasingly confrontational tactics: training students to manufacture conflict with college administrators, coordinating campaigns to pressure corporations linked to ICE, disrupting hotel guests with late-night protests, goading workers into non-cooperation with federal law enforcement, and laying the groundwork for student mass general strikes. What was once a narrowly focused activist organization has increasingly become an incubator for a wide array of legally questionable tactics.

Sunrise’s drift highlights the growing extremism of America’s activist infrastructure—extremism that routinely turns to lawbreaking. Indeed, the group’s actions raise questions about whether Sunrise is still operating in a manner consistent with its original nonprofit filing status or has instead become a vehicle for organized disruption that crosses legal and regulatory lines.

[L}egally questionable tactics indeed! Here are some examples:

The organization has ties to the group President Trump’s would-be assassin Cole Thomas Allen.

This is an very good thread revealing how the Sunrise Movement’s efforts are bankrolled.

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Although the Sunrise Movement holds 501(c)(4) status as a “social welfare organization” subject to strict legal mandates, several aspects of its operations—including its rebranding, strategic opacity, focus on university administrations, advocacy for general strikes, and disruptive actions against entities like Hilton Hotels and major corporations—appear inconsistent with that classification.

These discrepancies warrant increased federal investigation. A definitive metric for such scrutiny would be criminality: specifically, determining if leadership is actively instigating unlawful conduct in practice, rather than merely through rhetoric. In the case of the Sunrise Movement, this behavior seems embedded in a long-term strategy where directives flow from top leadership to grassroots activists who execute the protests. Thankfully, there has been some action in this regard.

Congress’s powerful Ways and Means Committee is expanding its investigation into an alleged “foreign-aligned influence network” that happened to be at the heart of the anti-American, pro-communist protests unleashed on the country’s streets on May Day. …

… Fox News Digital has now learned that House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith is escalating an investigation into an alleged malign influence of Neville Roy Singham, an American-born Marxist tech tycoon living in Shanghai, funding the People’s Forum and two other pro-communist, pro-China nonprofits headquartered in the U.S., BreakThrough BT Media Inc. and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, which regularly publish pro-China propaganda criticizing the U.S. as the “belly of the beast” and an “imperialist” power.

On Monday, Smith sent letters, obtained by Fox News Digital, to the three groups, raising “significant concerns” about “foreign influence or control” in the U.S. and the “financing arrangements and the structure of a foreign-aligned influence network, not protected speech or association.”

According to a Fox News Digital investigation published into the so-called “House of Singham,” the wealthy tech mogul has pumped a documented $278 million into a network of nonprofits, including the three groups, since 2017, pressing anti-American, pro-communist ideology in the U.S. and globally.

Smith repeatedly describes the three groups as part of an “interconnected network of organizations,” telling each nonprofit, “The Committee is considering whether legislative or regulatory reform is necessary to ensure that tax-exempt status is not used to facilitate or obscure foreign influence across an interconnected network of organizations.”

Regardless of the measures implemented, the increase in left-wing violent activity requires intervention. Such activities are allegedly funded by wealthy left-leaning donors through nonprofit organizations. These groups’ disruptive actions if not outright terrorism should be addressed through maximum legal enforcement. Without intervention, the situation could escalate. With focused coordination, hopefully this movement will ultimately be curtailed and it can’t happen a moment too soon.

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