Democrat Senator Chris Murphy has been funding left-wing group behind anti-ICE protests, mass unrest strategy
by Steve Richards, JusttheNews.com, June 6, 2026Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., created a political committee that has funded the Indivisible Project, a group at the center of coordinating anti-ICE protests alongside anti-Israel, Marxist and left-wing organizations, several with questionable foreign actor relationships.
The political committee of Democratic Senator Chris Murphy — himself well versed in the "Resistance" talking points against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — is dedicated to resisting President Donald Trump and has funded a prominent left-wing nonprofit that has been at the center of highly organized, “mass mobilization” anti-ICE protests around the country.
Murphy’s newly rebranded Political Action Committee, American Mobilization, donated $100,000 last year to Indivisible, a progressive movement and organization formed in the wake of Trump’s first election in 2016 and dedicated to resisting the Trump agenda, Federal Election Commission records for the PAC show.
Indivisible says that it “drives coordinated campaigns, powering the grassroots Indivisible movement to defeat the rightwing takeover of American government” and it claims that “an alliance of white nationalists and the ultra-rich have been actively working to further undermine democracy.”
Indivisible is part of a network of left-wing organizations that have recently been at the center of various protest movements against the Trump administration, from being the lead organizer of the No Kings rallies, to anti-ICE protests, to opposing the U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro earlier this year.
President Trump when are you going to turn the military loose on these insurrectionist?? Why can Antifa break the laws of this nation with impunity? They did it in 2020 and you did NOTHING! The did it in Minneapolis and you did NOTHING! They are doing it NOW in New Jersey! We the… https://t.co/4myQgzV53P
— Tom Zawistowski (@TomZWTPC) June 6, 2026
Network includes entities under subpoena regarding the Foreign Agent Registration Act
Some of its partners in this network, including the People’s Forum, funded by self-proclaimed Marxist Neville Roy Singham, have drawn scrutiny from lawmakers for alleged foreign ties, specifically to China and Cuba, as well as possible violations of nonprofit laws. This network has been responsible for organizing the most prominent demonstrations against the Trump administration. Just the News previously reported on the subpoena targeting Singham.
Murphy’s PAC has also partnered with organizations that provide legal representation to illegal immigrants in both Texas and Minnesota. Both states have been rocked by anti-ICE protests and alleged left-wing anarchist activity targeting immigration facilities.
The American Mobilization PAC did not respond to a request for comment from Just the News.
The Connecticut senator said the purpose behind the new PAC was to achieve “mass mobilization” to ensure that President Trump is unable to “convert a democracy to something very different.”
“We may not have another election, at least a free and fair election, if we don’t stop this slide away from free speech and democracy quickly,” Murphy said. And what we know from history is that the only way to stop a, you know, would-be tyrant from cratering, from destroying a democracy is mass mobilization.”
Murphy, who was first elected to the Senate in 2012, originally built a reputation in the chamber as a bipartisan operator willing to seek out deals with the other side. But, after President Trump returned to office last year, the senator went all in on a new, aggressively partisan message, a shift that he has publicly acknowledged.
Murphy: "This threat is unique"
Indivisible is unique as one of the single largest recipients of funds from Murphy’s PAC in 2025. In December 2025, the American Mobilization PAC donated $100,000 in two separate payments to Indivisible, one from its political account and one from its non-contribution account, records show.
Murphy's own website confirms the partnership, describing the funds as going to help Indivisible "ramp up for their next chapter of work and build up durable mass mobilization capacity across the country," including "training staff and volunteers, paying for materials, recruiting volunteers, acquiring permits, and more."
The Indivisible Project was the primary organizer for No Kings protests in 2025, coordinating demonstrations in nearly every U.S. state. The NoKings.org website identifies Indivisible as a founding coalition partner.
At the same time, its "Halt the ICE Terror Machine" campaign, was primarily geared towards pushing back on the administration’s enforcement actions in Minnesota last year, where confrontations between protesters and immigration officers resulted in two shootings. The Trump administration eventually scaled back its operations there in response to the pushback.
Years of strategic planning
Indivisible was again at the forefront of the latest round of organized anti-ICE demonstrations, this time in Newark, New Jersey, that have been ongoing for weeks, at Delaney Hall, the Newark, N.J., ICE detention facility. The local New York chapter of Indivisible teamed up with a coterie of anti-Israel, Marxist and Democratic organizations, including "Palestine Solidarity Working Group" to Al-Awda and 50501.
A Fox News Digital investigation found that the protests there are far from a spontaneous demonstration of rage, but rather are the “result of years of strategic planning” by the network of groups seeking to exploit a local controversy to carry out a wider attack on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.
The operation bears other signs of advanced planning, including tents stocked with respirators, goggles, protective pads, and decontamination supplies, Fox News Digital reported.
🚨 BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin EXPOSES the TRUTH — Portland Antifa Invaders Turning NJ ICE Facility Into a War Zone! 🔥
— CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOT🇺🇸 (@ConstitustionX) June 5, 2026
In this explosive presser, Secretary Mullin drops bombshells: Violent protesters didn’t come from New Jersey — they were shipped in from Portland,… pic.twitter.com/iUAcFUhFuM
Just the News has previously reported on the work of the at times amorphous network of protest groups and organizers that surface at such demonstrations. For example, the radical Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), the left-wing BreakThrough News media outlet, and the Manhattan-based Marxist revolutionary People’s Forum were all involved in either promoting or organizing Minnesota-based anti-ICE protests and boycotts.
Murphy's American Mobilization Project represents a significant and deliberate shift for the Connecticut senator, from bipartisan dealmaker to financier of the activist left's protest infrastructure, whose organization is helping build, fund, and sustain a nationwide protest apparatus whose reach extends well beyond the Democratic mainstream Murphy long called home.
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