California under Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom has funneled around $18 million to the Tides Center, a dark money nonprofit that directs donor cash to various leftist projects, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
The San Francisco-based Tides Center and its sister nonprofits, the Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy, direct money to in-house projects known as “fiscal sponsorships,” alongside separate nonprofit entities. This enables Tides to cloak which projects receive the money. The Golden State’s spending database shows that 18 agencies sent payments to the Tides Center, but the database does not reveal which projects received the money, the Free Beacon reported.
California officials told the Free Beacon that the database is missing information from some departments, meaning total payments to the Tides Center likely add up to more than $18 million.
A dozen state agencies either did not respond or told the Free Beacon that they couldn’t easily find records demonstrating exactly which program received the money in question. Six agencies, however, told the outlet exactly where the money went. Those six awarded only $4 million of the nearly $18 million—merely 22% of the money the Newsom administration sent to Tides.
For example, the California Air Regulatory Board gave the Tides Center $100,000 in a “community air grant” for “financial assistance.” An agency spokeswoman told the Free Beacon that the grant actually went to one of the Tides Center’s sponsored projects, the Oakland-based Hope Collaborative. The sponsored project says it works to “advance racial, economic, and health equity in Oakland’s food system.”
As governor, Newsom has raised more than $1 million for the Tides Center and more than $11 million for the Tides Foundation, the Free Beacon previously reported.
As I noted in my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” the Tides Center and its sister nonprofits form part of the Left’s dark money network, which funds the woke nonprofits that infiltrated and advised the federal government in the Biden administration, using the bureaucracy to force their ideology on the American people through regulations.
The Tides Foundation, Tides Advocacy, or the Tides Center have funded:
- the Center for American Progress (which fed more than 60 officials into the Biden administration, pushing both open borders and climate funding)
- the Natural Resources Defense Fund and the Sierra Club (which pushed a crackdown on oil and gas)
- the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Southern Poverty Law Center (which pushed the weaponization of federal law enforcement agencies against conservatives)
- the American Civil Liberties Union (which pushed open borders in the Biden administration and is now suing to block President Donald Trump’s border policies)
The Tides Center launched an organization, Palestine Legal, that represents anti-Israel rioters in court and gives them legal advice. A Palestine Legal senior attorney told a leftist magazine in January that the group has “represented or advised hundreds of students” since Oct. 7, 2023.
The Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy have together funneled more than $3 million to the Indivisible Project, which published guidance on how activists should protest Elon Musk and Tesla.
The Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros—who has funded nearly every leftist cause you’ve ever heard of—has also contributed to Tides.
Newsom, who appears to be mulling a run for president in 2028, has recently acknowledged the unfairness of males who claim to identify as transgender competing in women’s sports, though he has not championed any policy changes to address this concern.
Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Tyler O’Neil
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Sounds a lot like fraud, waste and abuse by Gov. Newsom and his confederate administration. How much of this money is actually ending up in the pockets of these “CORRUPT” officials? No one will ever find out since CA has too many corrupt officials covering up the truth.
18 million that should have gone to all the fire victims that lost everything due to Newsome and all the liberal far left democrats’ corrupt handling of the state’s government affairs.
There is no end to this crooked politician, Newscum. When will California remove him from office?
This Newsome is a “useful idiot” for Marxist China, and the Mexican Drug Cartels
Democrats are no good and enemies to the American People!
Only $18 million? I suspect there is a lot more money than that missing.
The State of California needs to get this jerk Newsom out of here ASAP. How in the world did the State of California get such corrupt officials??? This behavior by officials in charge of the State really burns me up.
The man is still a Governor , intends to become a presidential candidate , not enough voters screaming for his removal, there is something rotten in the state of California
Imagine the pleasure that would come from seeing Newsom in handcuffs and prison coveralls.
Newscum is on crack if he thinks he has even a tiny chance to become the candidate in 2028! The rest of the country laughs at California! Newsome is a criminal.
Newsom is a total empty shirt who constantly pretends to care about Americans but lies so frequently that I get sick to my stomach by just looking at him. If our country is so insane as to pick him for president, then our Republic could very well end up breathing its last breath. We are still a very young country, Hopefully, we will be around for many centuries to come.
For those interested about the downfall of America, go to perrystone.org, scroll down to the Mana-fest program, click on the lower left tab “for more episodes”, scroll down to episode 1216 (done early 2024) titled “History reveals how America will eventually fall”. It is an eye opener of what is being revealed about our nation.
The last thing we need is Newsom as President.
Soros hasn’t just “contributed” to Tides; he FOUNDED them. Why should an accomplice to Nazism be allowed to do things that are sinking our country?
The dems cannot be trusted. Newsom cannot be trusted. They will undermine this country every day till they have their power back. Tariffs will work give it time. Canada has already changed their mind. Europe will change their mind. At a minimum a dialogue will get started. Only the dems can’t stand it that Trump is successful. He does it for America only the left hate America so much they will destroy his plans at every turn. More and more we learn the organizations that are in place in this country to destroy the country and thereby Trump and his supporters. Whoever heard of these Tides groups.
This is why we need DOGE.
Gavin NewSCUM – the Damnocraps newest two-faced, lying sack of shizz. Trust this moral-less corrupt hypocrite like you would ANY other Damnocrap.
Sounds like one of brandon’s partnership schemes to launder money back to the politicians. The people keep electing them, they get what they want.
Hey Newsom…how about low Cost Loans with this Money to those who lost their
Homes/Property?? Something has to give about ‘Hollywood Newsom’ and soon.
Didn’t this pig ask the federal government for 80 million more dollars to cover Medicaid costs for ILLEGALS!!!!???????
Last Saturday there was an anti-Elon protest here in Col. OH. I went as part of the counter-protest.
But ever since then, my Jeep has identified as a Tesla! It’s now on a Trans-mission. SMH
I thought Gavin Newsom was crying for the government to give him more money, now , he’s getting 18M?? Is there anyone in CA that don’t lie?
Waste, fraud, and abuse? They should be investigating outright theft.
keep up the investigative journalism! Open the windows and doors! Let the light in on the darkness!
We need to get rid of him I still think he lost the election but somehow ‘illegally’ ended up in the capitol bldg in Sac anyway. VOTE THE POS OUT. He is NOT good for our state….or our country.
Newsom is weaving a snare for himself with his vile, nefarious racketeering. There is a God of justice who proclaims that the wicked will not go unpunished and he and his jackals will face judgment.
What Dems always DO BUT NOT prosecuted
California’s Tax Dollars ay work! If the “Big One” earthquake they have been predicting for as long as I can remember happens it will cost us less to rebuild California from the ground up than it will if the state remains intact as is!
Lest we forget Newsome is Pelosi’s nephew….Pelosi and Clinton were the two idiots who during Trumps first presidency, kept him in court throughout his term, vomiting out the most asinine and unbelievable charges ever seen in a courtroom!….but he still got more accomplished (IE: everything he said he would!) than all the #!!&%!! demorats have in the last decade. Newsome who during the “covid” epidemic (think comrade Fauci) Newsance and his buddies would dine at expensive outdoor restaurants, sans masks, while those trying desperately to keep their own businesses going were fighting just to stay alive with all the “edicts” Newsance kept shoving in their faces. Newsance and Polis the “governor” we’re stuck with in the once awesome ranching, conservative state of Colorado is bleeding from the eyes to disarm us one “rule” at a time and had the grandiose idea that he could become president….GAAACK!!! Can’t imagine our once Constitutional Republic introducing “President Polis and his husband”.
Corruption and being desperate to rule this nation are what demorats are all about. One thing that would be a major breath of fresh air is somehow without becoming an other Pravda, figuring out a way to get the lamestream “media” to quit lying through their yellowed teeth…but censorship isn’t the way to do it. Interesting that one can find online quotes from previous “Dear Leaders” IE: Lenin, Hitler, Stalin about how to use media…hmm, perhaps our present left “media” took their que from them.
Hollywood want-to-be actor, G. Newsome made the big emotional step down from Gov, but WHEN IS THE IDIOT LEAVING? I don’t even live there and I am feeling for the people who are drowning because they own property but cannot afford to live there, don’t want to educate their kids there, and don’t want to conform to rainbow pie in the sky rules at workplaces! The people of California should have an accounting of where they money is coming from and what is it feeding back to, the Governor???? He is a Charleton and a quack with a personality disorder. Another puppet for light brained leftists who want someone else to pay for their destructive lifestyles and gaiety. WHAT A TOTAL JOKE. AND LOOK WHO IS TRYING TO REPLACE HIM…..MORE HEARTLESS IDIOTS WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA AND ARE ONLY WANTING TO BECOME MILLIONAIRES BY CROOKED DEALING WITH EU AND OTHER COUNTRIES.
It should be illegal to have
The organizations that go against our constitution and are fighting to destroy the American people. Why do those people live here? Why aren’t they living in socialist countries? They have no idea what they’re doing to their souls. We all will step into eternity one day and have to answer for our actions. God sees all and hears all.
But Newsom hasn’t raised or donated I dollar to all the home owners that lost their homes because the state had no water in pipes to use to safe the homes.If he cares about people of CA.you would think running for the president job,it would benefit him to show support for people who will be voting for him.Just another Democrat looking to live off the taxpayers as long as they can get away with it.
That 18 million should go to the flood victims in 2024. NOT one cent to Gavin Newsom a proven cheat and liar.
Newsom only says what he doesn’t mean… unless he’s alternately admitting and then denying… in which case, he’ll claim no adherence to either position… while remaining in his comfort zone. It runs in his family. I knew and worked with one of his cousins, who specialized in the dirtiest of office politics. She has made a living off of his shady “democrat” name.
Newsome should be Removed from The Governors office and charged with Treason against the United States.
We all know President Trump will deal with these Blue States.
It’s just a matter of timing!
It will happen!
Gavin Newsom is inviting fascists like Bannon onto his podcast in hopes of scoring points with the AMAC audience. I’m glad you’re still dragging him. He’s totally unworthy of being a Democrat even as the party has become a haven for watered-down centrism.
King nusiance’s priorities are twisted in the wrong way.Why doesn’t he take care of the people that were burned out when the leftists were the main reason there were such destructive wildfires.But then they are leftist democRATS.Translation:lacks common sense,a leftist trait.
DonorstTrust is a right wing, conservative/libertarian 501(c)3 that does the same thing. On Nov 19, 2024, the Washington Examiner said DonorsTrust “issued a record $351 million in grants last year.” What the heck is the difference, other than ideology?