number-8 UltraViolet

ultravioletIn July, a handful of feminists dressed in purple from the group UltraViolet crashed the U.S. Women’s Open at Trump National Golf Club. They wore shirts that read: “USGA: Dump Sexist Trump.”

They began their protest with a rally at Bedminster library and drove up to 40 cars, at 2 miles per hour, to the entrance of Trump’s club, the Washington Post reported.

UltraViolet is part of a network of organizations that called for CEOs to resign from Trump’s business council. The group received $65,000 from MoveOn.org Political Action in 2016. MoveOn.org is a far left group funded by billionaire George Soros.

On Aug. 22, members of UltraViolet stood outside the Gene Snyder Federal Building in Louisville, Kentucky, with a large banner that read: “Trump is racist, Mitch McConnell is his enabler.”

They blasted Trump’s comments after the violence in Charlottesville.

“Our mission today is to have Mitch McConnell call on President Trump to impeach, resign or be censured,” said campaign organizer Melissa Byrne, according to the Courier-Journal. “It’s easy to put out a press statement. It’s much harder to take action. As the Senate majority leader, he has real powers to do something. And right now he is just talking, talk is cheap.”

UltraViolet co-founder Nita Chaudhary told the Courier-Journal: “The president of the United States is a white supremacist sympathizer, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has only enabled this terrifying reality. We demand that McConnell say more than just that Nazis are bad – he must take real action to hold President Trump accountable for sympathizing with neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville.”

In August, Byrne, an UltraViolet activist who has worked for MoveOn.org, Bernie Sanders’ campaign, Obama for America, SEIU and other progressive organizations, said she was detained by the Secret Service after she entered a secure area on the second floor of Trump Tower on Aug. 15. She smuggled a 10-foot banner under her dress and unfurled it. It read: “Women Resist White Supremacy.”



Byrne claimed she was handcuffed and questioned by Secret Service and NYPD officers for an hour. She also claims Secret Service agents questioned her neighbors. However, Byrne didn’t reveal why Secret Service agents and NYPD officers might have considered her a threat.

UltraViolet has trolled President Trump with a “More Popular Than Trump” campaign, in light of his low approval ratings. The organization has sponsored a truck-mounted digital billboard that read: “Abortion Access is more popular than Trump: 70 percent believe women should have access to safe and legal abortions – 42 percent approve of Donald Trump.”

UltraViolet has also received funding from the leftist New Media Ventures, which describes itself as “the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.”

number-9 Industrial Workers of the World

Members of other leftist groups have been appearing at anti-Trump protests, including the Triangle People’s Assembly, Industrial Workers of the World and Democratic Socialists of America.

Members of the Industrial Workers of the World – a Chicago-based organization of socialists, anarchists and Marxists – clashed with police on May 20 while protesting a permitted remembrance of “Confederate Memorial Day” in Graham, North Carolina. Three IWW protesters who were armed with knives were arrested. A protester grabbed a flag, presumably a Confederate banner, according to reports, and tried to rip it up.

One police officer told the Times News that a protester “was struggling to get a water bottle open” after grabbing the flag, leading authorities to believe the person was trying to set the flag on fire.



The IWW protesters shouted: “(Expletive) white supremacy! (Expletive) the police!” and “The cops and the Klan go hand in hand.”

Two IWW members were charged with assaulting the sheriff and police officers.

All three groups – plus Antifa and the Workers World Party – were represented at the Durham, North Carolina, protest where vandals tore down a statue of a Confederate soldier on Aug. 14 and then blocked traffic. The protesters chanted: “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!”

And IWW turned out in force at a Seattle pro-Trump rally. And at a Laguna Beach protest Aug. 20.

The IWW has come out strongly against what it calls “Trump’s Muslim Ban.”

number-10 Organizing for Action

Yes, you guessed it. President Obama has his own links to the Trump resistance movement.

Organizing for Action, the community organizing group that formed from Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and Organizing for America, has offered “online trainings” on how to resist President Trump. Organizing for Action, a nonprofit that has more than 250 chapters across the U.S., partnered with the Indivisible Project (see “Indivisible” entry above) to offer the anti-Trump training, as Breitbart reported in February.



OFA says it is grassroots funded and discloses the names of donors who contribute more than $250.

OFA is now reportedly warring against the Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts. And it will spearhead a massive voter-registration drive in advance of the 2018 election.

Politico reported that OFA has become “the lead organizing hub of the Trump resistance.”

“OFA has organized thousands of people to attend events protesting the president’s policies, while also advising new progressive groups taking shape. Matt Traldi, chief operating officer at Indivisible, met with OFA in January for a primer on what the group does and how. Others, like Swing Left, have come for crash courses. And since April, some 1,000 people in 29 states have participated in the group’s six-week fellowship program.”

As for Obama’s connection to the group, Politico wrote: “OFA staff and Obama’s personal office staff have stayed in touch. But the flow of information has mostly been OFA keeping Obama’s staff up to speed on what it’s doing, and Obama’s staff warning against using quotes or images of the former president in ways that could violate nonprofit tax restrictions.”