Billionaire liberal donor George Soros didn’t just fund the angry protest that descended on Montgomery Saturday.
He paid millions to make it happen. Soros funded an estimated 109 buses filled with agitators from all over the country to descend on Alabama, and the speakers he helped put on stage insulted every American who showed up to watch.
The “All Roads Lead to the South” rally at the Alabama State Capitol was organized under the banner of the No Kings coalition, the same nationwide protest network that has spent the past year staging anti-Trump demonstrations across the country.
The left-wing operation’s lead coordinator is Indivisible, a Washington-based progressive advocacy nonprofit founded by former Democratic Hill staffers. According to Open Society Foundations’ publicly searchable grants database, George Soros’ foundation has awarded Indivisible $7.61 million in grants since 2017, including a $3 million grant from the Open Society Action Fund in 2023.
They put Soros’ cash to work fast. Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown told Alabama TV station WSFA the day before the rally that in just six days, their organizations had paid to bus protesters and agitators in from all over the country.
“We have over 109 buses that are scheduled to come,” Brown said. The paid buses poured in from Oregon, Ohio, and more than a dozen other states, ready to lecture Alabama on Alabama’s politics from Alabama’s own Capitol steps.
More than 20 Democratic members of Congress shared the stage. Almost none of them were from Alabama.
At the rally, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey called anyone that opposed Democrats, “dumb, fat, and ugly.”
“A lot of people are drinking deeply from wells of freedom and liberty that they did not dig,” Booker said. “They are eating from banquet tables prepared for them by their ancestors, sitting back, getting dumb, fat and ugly, and happy and comfortable. This is one of those moments where we understand our blessings come with obligations.”
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told the angry crowd that Southerners needed to be rescued by New Yorkers.
“It is time for the North to pull up to the South,” she said. “It is time for New York to pull up to Alabama. It is time for all of us to come to Georgia, to Louisiana, to Tennessee, to Mississippi, and let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power, but they do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakened.”
She then declared this was just the “opening silo” in the war… apparently meaning “opening salvo.”
The Soros-funded rally was triggered by Alabama’s new congressional map drawn following the historic Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling last month, which said racist congressional redistricting was unconstitutional. The new map puts Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell’s Birmingham seat at risk and effectively eliminates the state’s sole Democratic congressional district.
Alabama Rep. Robert Aderholt said the redistricting fight could ultimately hand Republicans the House majority in November.
Soros spent $7.61 million to pay for buses full of agitators that showed up in Montgomery on Saturday.
Alabama’s actual voters will have their say in August.