Refuse Fascism, the radical left-wing group trying to topple the “Fascist Trump Regime” via massive rallies surrounding the White House, is fiscally sponsored by a well-funded charity closely aligned with socialist regimes from Latin America.
The Alliance for Global Justice, an Arizona-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization under scrutiny for rallying behind a number of foreign dictatorships, serves as the fiscal sponsor of Refuse Fascism, an ad hoc coalition of activist agitators committed to ousting the Trump administration through mass political protests.
Inspired by regime changes abroad, AFGJ wants to bring about “revolutionary change in the United States.”
AFGJ arose out of the Nicaragua Network, an organization that supported the Sandinista regime’s rise in Nicaragua. Formerly the Sandinista National Liberation Front, the Sandinistas were a communist paramilitary group, now Nicaragua’s ruling political party, with reported ties to Fidel Castro’s communist regime in Cuba.
Despite the party’s increasing authoritarianism, AFGJ continues to praise the Sandinista regime. AFGJ says that “Nicaragua’s human rights record is head and shoulders above that of the U.S.” and declared that the country’s elections remain “free and fair” following the 2021 reelection of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega to a fourth consecutive term as president of Nicaragua.
In support of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime, AFGJ spearheaded its Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, producing webinars on “Why We Must Defend Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution” and “Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela.” AFGJ also co-sponsored anti-interference demonstrations in 2017, demanding that the U.S. government take its “hands off Venezuela!”
AFGJ has similarly published pro-regime propaganda. James Jordan, a member of AFJC’s delegation, took tours of Cuba in 2015 as a so-called “solidarity activist” and wrote an article afterwards saying he saw “absolutely no evidence” that the country is a highly militarized police state.
In 2013, Marxist writer Stansfield Smith interviewed North Korean tour guides, known to tourists as “government minders,” and penned a piece for AFGJ portraying their responses regarding policy-related topics as representative of the views of everyday North Korean citizens.
While reacting to North Korea’s missile testing in 2017, Refuse Fascism appeared to defend Kim Jong-un against the American media’s “demonization” of him.
“Remember, this is the same playbook of demonization the U.S. has run against anyone they seek to depose or overthrow or go to war against. Remember Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega—weren’t we told that ‘they have to be stopped’?” read a Refuse Fascism press release at the time.
Major left-of-center grantmaking groups have allocated substantial funding to AFGJ, including the Tides Foundation, Arnold Ventures, the New Venture Fund, which was previously managed by the dark money giant Arabella Advisors, and the Foundation to Promote Open Society, one of the primary financing vehicles of Democratic mega-donor George Soros.
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AFGJ, in turn, provides fiscal sponsorship to entities championing revolutionary-left causes, such as Refuse Fascism, which is not a registered organization and therefore does not disclose its sources of funding.
On its website, Refuse Fascism solicits donations via Venmo, paper checks, and money orders. The group says $50,000 is needed through November to pay for on-the-ground organizing in Washington, D.C. So far, nearly half of that goal has been raised. In exchange, donors receive one round-trip bus ticket to D.C. for their contributions.
Since Nov. 5, a year since the 2024 presidential election, thousands of activists led by Refuse Fascism have been descending on the nation’s capital as part of an “unrelenting” campaign to drive President Donald Trump out of office.
“Surround the White House. Surround the Capitol. Surround the illegitimate fascist-packed Supreme Court. Come back again and again,” Refuse Fascism instructs its followers. “Don’t stop until Trump is removed.”
In marketing material, Refuse Fascism accused the Trump administration of “disappearing immigrants and other brown-skinned people into brutal concentration camps,” committing “genocidal white supremacy,” reversing civil rights gains back to slavery times, “erasing LGBT people,” and “enslaving women through the brutality and suffocation of forced motherhood.”
Many of the protesters pouring in are from out of state. Refuse Fascism is currently recruiting volunteers who reside in the area willing to “house out of towners.”
Outside organizations partnering with Refuse Fascism must contribute financially toward logistical expenses, such as staging and sound equipment, and agree to charter buses on the group’s behalf, according to the partnership sign-up portal. Refuse Fascism’s partners for the monthslong mobilization include Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and North Carolina chapters of Indivisible, the Black Panther Party, and RevCom.
Refuse Fascism, which was formed in response to Trump’s first term, is an offshoot of the Revolutionary Communist Party, or RevCom.
In 2017, the Revolutionary Communist Party released a statement claiming responsibility for the formation of Refuse Fascism, saying that a revolution is necessary to remove Trump from power.
Headquartered in Chicago, RevCom seeks to overthrow the country’s capitalist system and replace it with a socialist state, with a broader goal of achieving global communism: a world without borders consolidated into a single socialist society. RevCom’s members aim not merely to “make America socialist” but to create “a world without America and everything it stands for.”
Today, Refuse Fascism operates out of RevCom’s bookshop in New York City.
Refuse Fascism has been involved in a considerable share of antifa uprisings in recent years, including the 2017 counterprotests against Free Speech Week at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Republicans in Congress are reportedly looking into AFGJ’s suspected funding connections to antifa, citing their fiscal sponsorship of Refuse Fascism. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to AFGJ leadership on Nov. 6 telling them to turn over any documents, including communications and financial records, showing their alleged support of antifa activity.
Organizers of Refuse Fascism distinguish themselves from antifa’s forces but tout their common cause. “I think the entire resistance is anti-fascist,” Refuse Fascism leader Jay Walker told Politico.
Although the group’s website hosts a pledge to “nonviolent resistance,” Refuse Fascism co-founder Sunsara Taylor has suggested that political violence is justified to counter “fascism.” According to BuzzFeed, Taylor said she does not condemn certain street tactics because of the “extraordinarily fascist nature of the Trump administration.”
The Washington Examiner contacted Refuse Fascism, AFGJ, and RevCom for comment.