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By Timothy Page
On Saturday, March 28, 2026, Vermont—long known for its independent streak and progressive leanings—hosted dozens of “No Kings” rallies across the state, from Montpelier’s Statehouse lawn (where U.S. Sen. Peter Welch and Attorney General Charity Clark spoke) to marches in Burlington, Rutland, Bennington, St. Albans, and more than 40 other towns. Organizers claimed thousands turned out in opposition to Trump administration policies on immigration, the Iran conflict, and executive power. At first glance, these events looked like classic Vermont grassroots activism: neighbors with handmade signs, local speakers, and a distinctly New England flavor.
But a closer look reveals significant outside influence. The Vermont protests were not spontaneous local uprisings. They were coordinated through the national “No Kings” coalition — a network of roughly 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues — and included direct participation from radical socialist organizations tied to controversial national and international funding streams.
Local Faces, National Backbone
Vermont’s events were heavily promoted and organized by local chapters of national groups. Key sponsors included:
- Champlain Valley Indivisible and other Vermont Indivisible chapters (e.g., Burlington Old North End and South End marches, Bennington County Indivisible).
- League of Women Voters of Vermont (a state affiliate of the national LWVUS, listed as an official “No Kings” partner).
- 50501 Vermont (the local arm of the national 50501 movement, which helped coordinate events statewide).
- Third Act, the climate-and-democracy group founded by Vermont-based environmentalist Bill McKibben.
These groups handled logistics, signage, and turnout via platforms like Mobilize.us and the official NoKings.org site. Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) and local coalitions like May Day Strong also played supporting roles. The sheer scale—over 46 planned actions in a state of just 650,000 people—mirrored the national template pushed by Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and the AFL-CIO.
The Singham Network’s Long Shadow
What sets these protests apart from purely local dissent is the involvement of harder-left factions within the coalition. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) — a Marxist-Leninist group with a Vermont chapter — actively promoted and participated in the rallies, often pushing “Socialist Contingents” and revolutionary messaging alongside the more moderate groups.
PSL and its allies (including the ANSWER Coalition and CodePink) are part of a documented funding ecosystem traced to Neville Roy Singham, the American tech billionaire now living in Shanghai who has poured hundreds of millions into global Marxist causes. Fox News Digital’s investigation into the “No Kings” protests highlighted how Singham-backed entities provided pre-printed materials, training toolkits, and mobilization infrastructure for the nationwide day of action.
While no public records show direct Singham grants flowing exclusively to Vermont chapters, the national infrastructure he funds (The People’s Forum, CodePink, PSL) explicitly coordinated with Indivisible and 50501 for March 28 events. PSL Vermont’s social media and joint actions with groups like Green Mountain DSA and Migrant Justice VT further illustrate how national ideological networks amplify local turnout.
Singham’s Shady Background and Funding Web
Neville Roy Singham’s own trajectory adds layers of scrutiny to the network influencing events like Vermont’s protests. Born in 1954 in Middletown, Connecticut, to a Sri Lankan-born Marxist academic father, Singham joined the League of Revolutionary Black Workers — a Maoist-influenced Black nationalist group — as a teenager. He worked on a Chrysler assembly line in Detroit, where the FBI flagged him in 1974 as “potentially dangerous” due to his background and activities. He earned a political science degree from Howard University before founding ThoughtWorks, a global IT consulting firm he sold to Apax Partners in 2017 for approximately $785 million.
That same year, Singham married Jodie Evans, co-founder of CodePink, in a Jamaica ceremony dubbed “Revolutionary Love” attended by leftist activists who later became key figures in his network. He relocated to Shanghai, where he has lived since, openly embracing socialist and Maoist ideas while directing his fortune into activism.
Since the sale, Singham has funneled an estimated $278 million to $591 million (per Fox News analysis of hundreds of transactions) through layered U.S. nonprofits and donor-advised funds — often using generic names and mailbox addresses — into roughly 2,000 organizations worldwide. Major recipients include the People’s Forum (over $20–28 million admitted), CodePink, PSL, and media outlets producing content aligned with Chinese Communist Party narratives. Critics describe the structure as a modern “united front” tactic echoing Mao Zedong’s playbook: seemingly independent groups coordinating messaging while obscuring origins. Singham has shared office space in Shanghai with pro-CCP media firms, attended party workshops, and seen his outlets amplified by Chinese state media.
Ongoing congressional probes by the House Ways and Means, Oversight, and Senate Judiciary Committees are examining potential Foreign Agents Registration Act violations, tax-exempt abuses, and foreign influence. While Singham and associates insist their work reflects personal convictions, the funding trails have drawn calls for greater scrutiny of how such resources shape U.S. protests — including the coordinated “No Kings” actions.
A Pattern in Vermont Politics
This is not the first time outside leftist money has influenced Vermont events. The state’s progressive reputation — home to Bernie Sanders and a strong anti-war, pro-Palestine activist scene — has long attracted national funding. Organizations like Indivisible and Singham-linked networks have repeatedly injected resources into Vermont protests on issues from ICE enforcement to foreign policy. Critics argue this creates an astroturf effect: genuine local frustration is professionalized, scaled up, and steered toward broader anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist goals.
League of Women Voters Vermont’s decision to join as a national partner, alongside openly revolutionary outfits, shows how mainstream civic groups are now rubbing shoulders with Singham-funded radicals in the same coalition. Vermont’s small size and tight-knit activist community make it especially susceptible: a few national grants or toolkits can dominate the messaging.
Vermonters have every right to protest. Yet when events in a small rural state align with a $3 billion national machine — including factions backed by a Mao-admiring billionaire in China — the purely “local” narrative requires scrutiny. This pattern of outside leftist influences professionalizes dissent in Vermont, blending genuine local voices with broader ideological agendas.
The full picture shows how national coalitions and foreign-tied funding streams help shape political events even in the Green Mountains. Vermonters and observers nationwide continue to debate whether this strengthens grassroots democracy or imports external priorities.
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Why can’t our government seize the assets of these organizations and oligarchs that truly are terrorists.
If you remember last years news stories, much of the money is Federal tax money back doored to NGO’s in the name of Government programs
This is the third rally my wife & I attended. It was locally organized and attended by our friends & neighbors. It was not a leftist organized event, just people concerned about Trump’s unlawful actions without the Constitutional protections contained therein.
RICO statutes are difficult to prosecute but could certainly be utilized to take down organized anti-government domestic terrorist groups like antifa and for that matter, the democrat party…
Yes hundreds or even thousands are protesting the Trump administration.. let ‘em run around in their purple hair and frog suits making fools of themselves..but also remember there are hundreds of thousands of us around the country going to work, living our lives and NOT in the streets. Puts it in perspective.
Welch again. How did he get thru the airport lines? Singham’s god child and on the payroll.
Their little collar button id’s permit them to get an escort and bypass security
It would seem to me remembering how the Israelis hunted down the Nazis that fled to South America. They captured some, and executed them. Why not make up a similar network and go after this Singham character. He’s a disruptive terrorist, a total mental case. Russia has ways to eliminate oppositions. Give the guy a radium pill or powder in his meals as was done to a Russian in England. Any thing is possible nowadays. Recalling history
The self-suffocating Blue puffy faced Left have already eliminated 2 of their own ‘Kings,’ worKING and thinKING. Keep up your royal triumphs, Vermont delusionals…
Re: Horace Palmer: This is the third rally my wife & I attended. It was locally organized and attended by our friends & neighbors. It was not a leftist organized event, just people concerned about Trump’s unlawful actions without the Constitutional protections contained therein.
Question 1. Then why did I see No King protesters flying the Hammer & Sickel flag on my tv? And run around with professionally printed signs and banners?
Question 2. What Article and Clause of the Constitution did Trump violate?
THE DUNNING – KRUGER EFFECT
The Dunning-Kruger Effect occurs when incompetent people not only fail to realize their incompetence but consider themselves much more competent than everyone else.
BASICALLY, THEY’RE TOO STUPID TO KNOW THAT THEY’RE STUPID. OR TOO STUPID TO KNOW THEY ARE A COMMUNIST.
I used to worry about an upcoming Civil War in the United States, but after seeing these No Kings protests with their costumed frogs, guitar playing grannies, old men with ponytails, transgenders with bullhorns and face paint and some of the street interviews where they couldn’t even articulate why or what they were protesting, then if this is the enemy it would be over as fast as Trump taking out Iran.
Vermont is complete Astro turf, they have a cell phone and it tells them what to do and what to say, they turn on the propaganda radio and they line up for more vaccines and demand organic chicken, without any consideration for the irony. They talk about the constitution all the while declaring we are a democracy. They go down to Washington on a spontaneous bus trip to the inauguration, with no idea of whom paid for the bus ride while wearing a pink vagina hat!
Friend don’t let friends be useful idiots, below is the video for Horace and his friends at the protest.
https://youtu.be/5gnpCqsXE8g?si=Kq3HsKhhjMMl6isU
…funny how adults across the ideological spectrum may criticize yoots who do whatever their phone tells them to do, like inhaling cinnamon dust. Then when their phone or the front porch forum tells them to jump around like an idiot on the side of the road on a nice saturday, they turn it into a me-too party.
For the Horace Palmers in the audience that may have short attention spans and don’t want to take the time to listen to the entire lecture, try starting after the 9:00 minute mark where he correctly describes the capture of education, media, energy, healthcare, religion, worker-employer relations, finance, etc. All of it mirrors the philosophies of Gramsci (march through the institutions), Cloward-Piven (disrupt, divide and overwhelm social support systems), Marx, etc. The playbook has been known for a long time.
If you have been swimming in those waters your whole life, even generations, and feel no urge to step outside your “tribe” and dig into alternative sources and study history, you may never come to realize the extent we have been brainwashed at some point and to some extent throughout our lives. Among the worst are those who proclaim one crisis after another and produce a front of “experts”, while hiding/censoring evidence that counters their claims. Once everyone is afraid of something they can’t see (climate, plandemic), it’s easy to sell them the solution (the jab, more money), or otherwise lead them astray and give up their sovereignty in exchange for a false sense of security. The psyops are real and ubiquitous; discernment is necessary.
The money has been traced back to Soros and the organizations he supports. He has been trying to gain control here in the US and has already been barred in a few counties he has tried to control. Look up the word king. Nit definitely doesn’t say a leader voted in by the majority of the people.
Funny how Bernie & AOC never seem to bring up “King Soros” (trying to Divide & Conquer Americans renting ‘crisis actors’ & funding Antifa) , nor King Gates of Hell (trying to murder & maim us by C19-injections) … while Bernie & AOC fly around the USA trying to muster up hate against the MAGA peoples dubbing them as dangerous Oligarchs — focusing on Trump (trying to deport Sharia Law illegals threatening National Security) & *Elon (who bought Twitter to give us our Free Speech back). Make it make sense.
I support Horace Palmer’s right to publicly state his position and join a crowd protesting whatever he and his wife choose to protest. I completely disagree with No Kings.
Yes! He has the complete right to be a “useful idiot” as we have the right to criticize his wrongful positions. Because if Trump was really a king as they claim wouldn’t a king have disrupted the protest, put all the protesters in prison without a trial. These “useful idiots” are protesting something that has no basis of fact. They should try reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution that they claim Trump is always violating.
In April, King Charles of England will be making a visit to US to help celebrate 250, will Dems and Bernie Sanders block him from coming in since they want ‘No Kings in America’?
If Trump’s a king, why was he elected? If Trump’s a king, why does he adhere to Supreme Court rulings? Why weren’t you upset and protesting when Biden didn’t (Student loan forgiveness)?