Megan Basham

Now, according to the signal materials that were leaked over the weekend from these groups, protesters are taking shifts and operations are running 24-7 with dispatch calls maxing out at 50 people at a time.

And they're dividing their patrol zones into districts guiding, quote-unquote, ice chasers on positioning.

And in some of these chats, members are openly acknowledging that they're also fighting a sort of propaganda war.

And the strategies for that include filming escalations, reframing incidents as, quote, executions or murders.

And they're also using inflammatory terms like ICE Gestapo or Nazi-like.

And that's the same kind of messaging that you're hearing from Governor Tim Walz, who invoked the name of Anne Frank during a press conference on Sunday.

Yeah, that is really the key question here, and it is one that federal investigators are now asking.

So publicly, organizers are claiming that these donations come from small donors and community fundraisers, and that is partly true.

But according to Fox's investigation, it is also backed by American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, who is a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist who's now living in China.

Now, Singham has poured money into a group called the People's Forum since 2017.

That's a nonprofit that supports entities like Breakthrough News, which is a left-wing propaganda outfit that has been heavily creating content centered on Minneapolis.

They're doing things like sharing videos and publishing graphics, demanding things like abolishing ICE.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on Monday morning that his office is taking a close look at these organizations for potential charges.

Now, to be clear, not for the propaganda, because that's, of course, protected by the First Amendment, but for this coordinated interference.

You know, it's hard to determine how these materials impact public perception.

You have to try to divine whether it's an organic reaction to circulating video or if it's just effective propaganda.

But I will say that going by the trends on social media, particularly on platforms like Instagram, it looks pretty effective.

Just to give you a couple of examples, I spent the weekend reviewing the accounts of a lot of major fashion and lifestyle influencers, none of whom typically post political content.

And a lot of them are repeating the abolish ICE talking points nearly verbatim.

And they're also linking to fundraising efforts to these groups.