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‘Follow the Money’ - Dark Money Pipeline Uncovered Behind Minnesota Riots? | 2.21.26
21 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What is the context behind the Minnesota riots and protests?
Federal immigration crackdowns and fraud investigations in deep blue states, including Minnesota and California, have been met by protests, some of which have devolved into violence and riots.
Rather than organic, the Trump administration says that many of these protests are not only highly orchestrated, but funded by dark money groups. And now investigative researchers say they've uncovered an elaborate network of nonprofits linking left-wing immigration, election, and protest efforts.
In this episode, we follow the money with the head of the Government Accountability Institute's Research Division, Seamus Bruner. I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
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Chapter 2: How does the Trump administration describe the protests in Minnesota?
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Joining us to discuss what's behind the wave of anti-ICE protests, what his team calls Migrant Inc., Election Inc., and Riot Inc., is Seamus Bruner, the director of research at the Government Accountability Institute. Seamus, great to have you back on.
Always happy to. Thanks, John.
So President Trump won at least twice, in large part because of his illegal immigration agenda. His team has been warning all along that there's interconnectedness between illegal immigration, mass migration, and government fraud, which they've also been looking into. We're seeing this play out in Minnesota in a way that's very dramatic.
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Chapter 3: What is the 'border to ballot box' pipeline in Minnesota?
It takes a lot of time to build such a case. But the other thing I would just say about the continuously funding violent activity is the bail funds. These same NGOs, the Tide, Soros, Arabella-linked network, they fund bail funds to get these violent Antifa types back onto the streets as quickly as possible.
It's hard to say that you didn't know that they were violent criminals after they've been arrested for you know, throwing Molotov cocktails into a police car.
And like you said, encouraging them to do things like resisting arrest that leads to the kinds of tragic incidents we saw in Minneapolis. Hard to see that there's not some culpability there for some of these organizations. Seamus, thanks so much for joining us. Always great to have you on. We appreciate your work. Thanks so much, John.
That was Seamus Bruner, Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute. And this has been a weekend edition of Morning Wire.