Inside the billion-dollar pipeline funding the deep state



In a column earlier this month, I argued the deep state is no longer deniable, thanks to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. I outlined the structural design of the deep state as revealed by two recent declassifications: Gabbard’s ODNI report and the Durham annex released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

These documents expose a transnational apparatus of intelligence agencies, media platforms, think tanks, and NGOs operating as a parallel government.

The deep state is funded by elite donors, shielded by bureaucracies, and perpetuated by operatives who drift between public office and private influence without accountability.

But institutions are only part of the story. This web of influence is made possible by people — and by money. This follow-up to the first piece traces the key operatives and financial networks fueling the deep state’s most consequential manipulations, including the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

Architects and operatives

At the top of the intelligence pyramid sits John Brennan, President Obama’s CIA director and one of the principal architects of the manipulated 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.

James Clapper, who served as director of national intelligence, signed off on that same ICA and later joined 50 other former officials in concluding the Hunter Biden laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” ahead of the 2020 election. The timing, once again, served a political objective.

James Comey, then FBI director, presided over Crossfire Hurricane. According to the Durham annex, he also allowed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server to collapse after it became entangled with “sensitive intelligence” revealing her plan to tie President Donald Trump to Russia.

That plan, as documented in the annex, originated with Hillary Clinton herself and was personally pushed by President Obama. Her campaign, through law firm Perkins Coie, hired Fusion GPS, which commissioned the now-debunked Steele dossier — a document used to justify surveillance warrants on Trump associates.

Several individuals orbiting the Clinton operation have remained influential. Jake Sullivan, who served as President Biden’s national security adviser, was a foreign policy aide to Clinton during her 2016 campaign. He was named in 2021 as a figure involved in circulating the collusion narrative, and his presence in successive Democratic administrations suggests institutional continuity.

Andrew McCabe, then the FBI’s deputy director, approved the use of FISA warrants derived from unverified sources. His connection to the internal “insurance policy” discussion — described in a 2016 text by FBI official Peter Strzok to colleague Lisa Page — underscores the Bureau’s political posture during that election cycle.

The list of political enablers is long but revealing:

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who, as a former representative from California, chaired the House Intelligence Committee at the time and publicly promoted the collusion narrative while having access to intelligence that contradicted it.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), both members of the “Gang of Eight” with oversight of intelligence operations, advanced the same narrative despite receiving classified briefings.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, exchanged encrypted text messages with a Russian lobbyist in efforts to speak with Christopher Steele.

These were not passive recipients of flawed intelligence. They were participants in its amplification.

The funding networks behind the machine

The deep state’s operations are not possible without financing — much of it indirect, routed through a nexus of private foundations, quasi-governmental entities, and federal agencies.

George Soros’ Open Society Foundations appear throughout the Durham annex. In one instance, Open Society Foundations documents were intercepted by foreign intelligence and used to track coordination between NGOs and the Clinton campaign’s anti-Trump strategy.

This system was not designed for transparency but for control.

Soros has also been a principal funder of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which ran a project during the Trump administration called the Moscow Project, dedicated to promoting the Russia collusion narrative.

The Tides Foundation and Arabella Advisors both specialize in “dark money” donor-advised funds that obscure the source and destination of political funding. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was the biggest donor to the Arabella Advisors by far, which routed $127 million through Arabella’s network in 2020 alone and nearly $500 million in total.

The MacArthur Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation also financed many of the think tanks named in the Durham annex, including the Council on Foreign Relations.

Federal funding pipelines

Parallel to the private networks are government-funded influence operations, often justified under the guise of “democracy promotion” or counter-disinformation initiatives.

USAID directed $270 million to Soros-affiliated organizations for overseas “democracy” programs, a significant portion of which has reverberated back into domestic influence campaigns.

The State Department funds the National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-governmental organization with a $315 million annual budget and ties to narrative engineering projects.

The Department of Homeland Security underwrote entities involved in online censorship programs targeting American citizens.

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The Pentagon, from 2020 to 2024, awarded over $2.4 trillion to private contractors — many with domestic intelligence capabilities. It also directed $1.4 billion to select think tanks since 2019.

According to public records compiled by DataRepublican, these tax-funded flows often support the very actors shaping U.S. political discourse and global perception campaigns.

Not just domestic — but global

What these disclosures confirm is that the deep state is not a theory. It is a documented structure — funded by elite donors, shielded by bureaucracies, and perpetuated by operatives who drift between public office and private influence without accountability.

This system was not designed for transparency but for control. It launders narratives, neutralizes opposition, and overrides democratic will by leveraging the very institutions meant to protect it.

With the Durham annex and the ODNI report, we now see the network's architecture and its actors — names, agencies, funding trails — all laid bare. What remains is the task of dismantling it before its next iteration takes shape.

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A senior prosecutor who works for George Soros-backed Virginia commonwealth's attorney Steve Descano (D.) was cited this month after police found him drinking beer outside an animal hospital at 8 a.m., according to a Wednesday report.

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Soros-Funded Dark Money Group Manufactures Chaos at GOP Senator’s Town Hall

A Soros-funded dark money group that has offered to pay for protests was behind an unruly demonstration at a recent town hall event featuring Sen. Bernie Moreno (R., Ohio), a fact that went unmentioned in media coverage of the event.

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EXCLUSIVE: Founder of Soros-Backed Legal Group Resigned Amid Internal Accusations of Racism

Progressive activist Miriam Krinsky was at the top of her game in early 2024. As the founder and leader of Soros-backed Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), she helped support the day-to-day work of the nationwide wave of progressive prosecutors elected in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Then it all came to a screeching halt when her own staff accused her of being a racist, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

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Leftist media accidentally crowns Sara Gonzales a MAGA star for exposing ‘ghetto hood rat’ Jasmine Crockett



Last Thursday, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales did what most conservative commentators aren’t willing to do: She walked boldly into enemy territory and confronted the opposition.

At a Soros-funded rally for Rep. Jasmine Crockett — who’s gained national attention for her inflammatory anti-Trump rhetoric, lack of professionalism, and mocking of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s disability — Sara called out the Texas Democrat for her “fake ghetto hood rat” persona.

“I went there with a mission, and I would say that it was mission accomplished,” she says, playing the clip of her heated encounter.

As Crockett began her speech with an anecdote about spending time with her grandmother in yet another effort to portray herself as coming from humble, relatable origins, Sara shouted, “Jasmine, the people of Dallas deserve better than a fake ghetto hood rat! Do they know you’re a spoiled rich kid from Missouri?”

Her words sparked an uproar that resulted in her being swarmed by Crockett supporters and forcibly removed from the venue, even though her comments are undeniably true — Crockett has been repeatedly lambasted for portraying herself as a poor inner-city girl, when the truth is that she was raised in a privileged environment in St. Louis, Missouri, attending elite schools like Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, and earning degrees from Rhodes College and the University of Houston Law Center.

“[Crockett] sent her goons over to immediately put hands all over me, lift me from the ground, and hoist me out when I would have been happy to just leave,” Sara says, recounting the clash. “A woman gets in my face. She assaults me; she claims she’s standing still. It’s so weird because she’s hitting me as she’s saying that, and I’m the one whose safety is in jeopardy, and yet they’re scared of little old me.”

She points out the glaring irony of her removal: “They want to talk a big game about fascism and dictatorships and all of that, and I think this is what the First Amendment was actually created for, was to give me the right to criticize the government.”

Many of the mainstream news outlets have covered Sara’s stunt with the intention of framing her as a raging far-right extremist, but Sara revels in their labeling her a “MAGA host” and a “MAGA celeb.”

“That’s awesome. That sounds super cool,” she laughs, proudly displaying her gold MAGA necklace.

To see the footage of Sara’s fiery stunt and hear more of her commentary, watch the episode above.

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Soros empire finally crumbling? The proof is piling up



Globalist progressive puppet master George Soros turned 95 years old last week on August 12.

“He's outlived almost all of the people that tried to stop him and, to be honest, most of the economies that he tried to collapse,” says Glenn Beck.

“You have toppled a few currencies just for sport; you have funded enough political movements all over the world to keep small nations in coups for over a century now; and you've turned philanthropy into a really terrifying word,” he adds, congratulating the billionaire on reaching his 95th birthday only “to see [his empire] all come apart at the very end.”

Since Alex Soros, George’s second son, was given control of Open Society Foundations and related financial entities in 2023, Glenn has reveled in watching him send the family empire spiraling into chaos.

You’re “the man who broke the Bank of England,” he says to George. “Your son is breaking another bank, but it seems to be yours.”

Glenn points out some of Alex’s biggest failures, most notably his decision to invest roughly $2 billion in an electric vehicle company called Rivian Automotive. Under Alex’s oversight, Soros Fund Management purchased nearly 20 million shares at $70-$100 per share, but in just a year’s time, the stock dropped to a laughable $18 per share, resulting in over $1 billion in losses.

According to HedgeFollow, a website that tracks and ranks U.S. hedge fund performances, Soros Fund Management currently holds a performance rating of one out of five stars, indicating it is among the least successful hedge funds in the country.

In July 2023 after Alex assumed control of operations, Open Society Foundations cut 40% of its staff worldwide, drastically limited new grants, and made significant changes to its operating model — all signs that the nonprofit organization was running “out of money,” says Glenn.

However, Alex’s “crowning achievement,” he says, was his involvement in Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, with OSF spending $1.6 million to lobby for provisions like electric vehicle tax credits tied to its Rivian investment.

But now that the Trump administration is taking drastic moves to repeal and limit the Inflation Reduction Act’s provisions, it seems that’s become yet another failure of Alex’s, too.

But it’s just the beginning of his long list of misfires. While Alex was pumping money into the Inflation Reduction Act, he was simultaneously “spending at least $4 million on Stacey Abrams' failed gubernatorial campaign,” says Glenn.

“Who would be this stupid? Certainly not George Soros’ son,” he mocks.

“Now it could be because at the time Rivian was starting to build a gigafactory right there in [Abrams’] state and he was asking the state for some subsidies. … Then she didn't win, and all that money was flushed down the toilet.”

Even the Soros-funded DAs who were installed to “collapse this country” are beginning to fail, as “more than a dozen have been removed from office by recalls and scandals,” says Glenn, adding that the dramatic increase in urban crime thanks to these soft-on-crime DAs was a “key factor” in the defeat of the Democratic Party in 2024.

“The second election of Donald Trump, you know — crime, immigration, and the economy were the big topics, which had to bother you because those were your big topics, too,” he taunts.

The Trump administration “cutting electric car subsidies,” “closing the borders, defunding all your little NGOs,” “going after your sanctuary cities, and, this week, taking crime on in D.C.” has got to be “mental torture” for 95-year-old George, who’s “just trying to make it to the pudding in the afternoon,” Glenn mocks. “To see your world fall apart. That torture must be relentless.”

To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the video above.

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Paxton unleashes fury on Soros-backed group allegedly funding runaway Texas Democrats



Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced this week action against the groups allegedly responsible for assisting Texas state House Democrats who fled the state to avoid a redistricting vote.

On Thursday, Paxton's office issued a press release declaring that it had opened another investigation, this time into a George Soros-funded political action committee that allegedly funded the Democrats' abrupt exit.

'The Governor fully supports using all necessary tools to discover potential legal violations connected to their refusal to appear for a quorum, conduct business, and cast votes.'

Texas Majority PAC, founded in December 2022 by campaign staffers of former Rep. Beto O-Rourke (D-Texas), was accused of "attempting to subvert the will of Texas voters" by "play[ing] a coordinating role in assisting with illegal fundraising and potentially the bribery of Texas House members."

Paxton's office described TMP as an "extremist group" with "a large, radical donor base."

"If Texas lawmakers are bowing to the Soros Slush Fund rather than the will of the voters, Texans deserve to know. Getting financial payouts under the table to abandon your legislative duties is bribery," Paxton said. "Texas Majority PAC's actions seem to indicate that it may be using its Soros-funded resources to break the law and fund the illegal abandonment of public office. If that's the case as determined by this investigation, there will be a heavy price to pay."

Earlier this week, Paxton opened an investigation into O'Rourke's Powered by People, accusing the organization of similar alleged "unlawful activity" regarding the House Democrats.

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According to Paxton's office, Powered by People potentially operated "an illegal financial influence scheme to bribe runaway Democrats who fled Texas to break quorum."

The office's press release on the matter claimed that the group may have "violated bribery laws," as well as laws "governing campaign or officeholder contributions and expenditures, coercion of a public servant, and abuse of office."

Paxton issued a request to examine both TMP and Powered by People, which requires the groups to provide his office with documents related to the investigations.

O'Rourke responded to Paxton's probe into Powered by People in a post on social media, stating, "The guy impeached for bribery is going after the folks trying to stop the theft of five Congressional seats."

He added, "Let's stop these thugs before they steal our country."

Paxton was acquitted of all 16 articles of impeachment in 2023.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) has also taken a firm stance against the Democratic House members, advocating for the potential arrest of absentee representatives and asking the state's supreme court to remove those who have abandoned their offices.

The governor's press secretary, Andrew Mahaleris, told Blaze News, "Governor Abbott directed the Texas Rangers to investigate delinquent Texas House Democrats on potential violations of Texas law, including bribery. The Governor fully supports using all necessary tools to discover potential legal violations connected to their refusal to appear for a quorum, conduct business, and cast votes."

Neither TMP nor Powered by People responded to a request for comment.

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Durham annex proves Russiagate was a coordinated smear



Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last week declassified a 29-page document known as the Durham annex. Its publication has received remarkably little attention from major media outlets, despite containing one of the most significant intelligence disclosures since the origins of the Russiagate investigation.

The Durham annex is not conjecture, analysis, or political spin. It is a collection of sensitive intelligence reports, internal memos, and declassified emails compiled by the intelligence community and withheld from public view for years under the pretext of “source protection.”

The Durham annex reveals that the FBI ignored evidence in 2015 and 2016 suggesting that foreign governments were attempting to collude not with Trump, but with Clinton.

The declassified document offers a clearer view of what many Americans have long suspected: that the narrative surrounding Trump-Russia collusion was not only politically motivated but deliberately constructed by the Clinton campaign, facilitated by sympathetic actors within U.S. intelligence agencies, and ultimately endorsed by senior members of the Obama administration.

This trove of documents does not merely reinforce existing criticisms of the FBI’s conduct during the 2016 election. It provides evidence that the Clinton campaign approved a strategy to discredit Donald Trump by promoting a false association with Vladimir Putin. And it does so using intelligence collected from foreign surveillance of American political actors — surveillance that the CIA deemed credible enough to brief President Barack Obama directly.

The cover-up unraveled

Central to the Durham annex is a source codenamed “T1” — a foreign intelligence asset who intercepted Russian cyber-espionage activity targeting American entities, including George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, the Clinton campaign, and U.S. think tanks. The reports T1 relayed to U.S. intelligence included detailed assessments of internal American political strategy. In effect, T1 was watching Russian spies watch us — and reporting back.

T1’s identity remains classified, but strong circumstantial evidence points to a Dutch intelligence source. The Netherlands reportedly gained access to Russian cyber operations as early as 2014. Regardless of who provided it, U.S. agencies treated the intelligence from T1 as credible.

Then-CIA Director John Brennan quickly briefed President Obama, Vice President Biden, FBI Director James Comey, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Those briefings included memos indicating Hillary Clinton had personally approved a plan to tie Donald Trump to Russian election interference.

One memo, dated 2016 and reportedly obtained through Russian surveillance of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, outlined a Clinton campaign strategy: “Smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal” over Russia’s preference for Trump. That memo laid the groundwork for the Trump-Russia collusion hoax now known as Russiagate.

Intelligence running Clinton’s interference

The CIA labeled the intelligence “sensitive” and credible. The FBI rejected it. Agents claimed it relied on hearsay, appeared exaggerated, and might have suffered from translation errors.

That kind of skepticism might seem reasonable — if the FBI had applied the same scrutiny to the Steele dossier. Instead, they accepted that now-debunked document without verification and used it to justify surveillance warrants.

The inconsistency runs deeper than analysis. The Durham annex reveals that the FBI ignored evidence from 2015 and 2016 showing that foreign governments weren’t courting Trump — they were cozying up to Clinton.

One memo, written before Trump even announced his candidacy, described a foreign intelligence operative preparing to meet with a Clinton associate to discuss a “plan.” The operative was acting on direct orders from a foreign head of state.

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The precise content of the plan is redacted, but the FBI’s field office viewed it as serious enough to request a FISA warrant. That request, however, was left to “languish in limbo” by senior FBI officials, who subsequently warned Clinton in a defensive briefing.

Frayed trust, no accountability

The documents suggest a coordinated operation — one in which political, bureaucratic, and media institutions aligned to discredit a political opponent using information they had strong reasons to believe was false. The CIA deemed the intelligence worth a presidential briefing. The FBI discarded it. The media ignored it. And Clinton operatives implemented it.

This is not merely a scandal of partisan excess. Nearly 10 years after the first Hillary Clinton email leaks, and eight years after Trump’s unexpected victory, we are only now beginning to see the scope of institutional complicity in the Russiagate deception. The political cost may never be fully calculated, but the institutional damage — to the FBI, to the intelligence community, and to the trust of the American people — is already done.

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