To No One's Surprise, Newark Anti-ICE Rioters Coordinate Over Signal Chats and Are Funded by Big Money

If you haven't noticed, the anti-ICE protests in New Jersey have dropped from the headlines, despite the efforts of these Marxist agitators to create Minneapolis-style riots and more martyrs like Renee Good and Alex Pretti. This is in large part due to citizen journalists and media outlets in the know, exposing who is involved in these agitation networks and, more importantly, who is funding them.

According to Fox News Digital's analysis, the network behind the Delaney Hall protests includes about 100 groups, some of them big names like the ACLU, Indivisible and Democratic Socialists of America. Together, these organizations report collective annual revenues of about $825 million, approximately equal to the annual budget of Newark. The groups didn't respond to requests for comment.
About 70 of the groups have received special designations as charities by the IRS, have status as regular 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits, as well as labor union 501(c)(5) and 501(c)(6) nonprofits, enjoying tax-deductible donations and certain tax-free benefits. In recent months, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee have launched investigations into the alleged abuse of nonprofit laws to instigate conflict, sow discord and even inspire political violence.
The Delaneny network — which one expert calls the "Delaney Hall 100" — message around shared language assembled in a strategic communications document, called the "Delaney Hall Creator Brief," which Fox News Digital obtained from X user @b----uneedsoap. The strategy document directs content creators to call the detention center a "concentration camp" and label detainees "imprisoned prisoners" and "captives." It tells activists to eschew saying detainees were arrested, but rather assert they were "kidnapped/abducted/taken."
Their tactics mirror the system deployed in Minneapolis earlier this year to protest ICE actions, and military experts say the operations resemble the tactics of an insurgency.

Boom. And it's also SignalGate all over again, but this time the infiltrated messages are detailing how these leftist groups mobilize and coordinate.

A Fox News Digital investigation, gathering information on the ground in Newark, in secret chat groups on Signal and from scores of tax filings, strategy documents and social media posts, reveals the protests outside Delaney Hall are no organic outpouring of spontaneous rage. They are the result of years of strategic planning by a network of well-funded, well-organized groups that have once again exploited a local controversy to wage a wider attack on federal immigration policies and the U.S. in general.
The activities of this network have motivated a group of tech sleuths on the X — @DataRepublican, @Astrarce, @bitchuneedsoap and @gunshymartyr — to penetrate these groups, their Signal chats and their operations like a digital Avengers squad.

Thank God for these digital warriors, because they are not only doing the heavy lifting on all of this, but they are making average Americans pay attention to the fact that these people have ZERO interest in illegal immigrants or their welfare. They are being well paid and well fed, and their only intent is to overthrow our institutions and watch the world burn.

Homan and GOP Rep Destroy Dem Propaganda on Delaney Hall ICE Facility

It's sickening, and Americans are getting tired of it. This is evidenced by the fact that New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill was backed into a corner and had to release New Jersey state and Newark local law enforcement to take control of the situation — something that should have been done in the first place. Wouldn't you have loved to have been a fly on the wall as the governor's office was inundated with calls, emails, texts, and maybe even angry visits from the actual residents affected by this manufactured madness?

Sherill was also forced to implement a protest zone to keep these agitators away from ICE agents doing their jobs, and then instituted a 9:00 p.m. curfew, forcing the agitators off the street before the witching hour of 10 p.m., which appears to be the time when these miscreants really delight in setting things off. The Signal chat infiltration revealed much of this, as well as just how well oiled this machine is and how determined they are to further the narrative of violence and unrest perpetrated by ICE.

At 11:30 a.m. on June 3, an activation signal went out on social media calling protesters and agitators to swarm Delaney Hall, the Newark, N.J. ICE detention facility that has become one of the nation's most contentious immigration battlegrounds.
"CURFEW IS OVER. BACK TO DELANEY," read an Instagram post, promoted by a fiery collection of anti-Israel, Marxist and Democratic organizations — from "Palestine Solidarity Working Group" and Al-Awda to Indivisible and 50501 — that have joined tumultuous against the ICE, Newark police and New Jersey state troopers over the past couple of weeks.
Within minutes, the call to action spread through secret groups on Signal, an encrypted messaging platform, activating hundreds of anti-ICE activists with secret monikers like "framed.unrest" and "Wicked Something," collaborating on transportation, logistics and supplies, like goggles, protections against pepper spray, respirators and protective knee pads.

And it is not just the organization of people. Millions, and that's a conservative estimate, of NGO dollars are being spent on supplies and equipment, and then purchased and distributed through certain leaders within these networks. As one digital warrior uncovered, these folks have multiple connections within the networks and are being well compensated for their efforts.

WARNING: X User name contains a derogatory slur.

Here’s what one Signal message uncovered.

I messaged a group admin asking how my family in NJ could help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes she sent me a supply list and a Venmo donation link.

The supply list wasn’t water bottles. It was P100 respirators (tear gas… https://t.co/nVKg2EV6B1 pic.twitter.com/C770dDc5J8
— bitchuneedsoap (@bitchuneedsoap) May 30, 2026

Here’s what one Signal message uncovered.
I messaged a group admin asking how my family in NJ could help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes she sent me a supply list and a Venmo donation link.
The supply list wasn’t water bottles. It was P100 respirators (tear gas grade), military-spec impact goggles, welding gloves for picking up hot tear gas canisters, helmets, body armor, and Sudecon chemical decontamination wipes. That’s a military/law enforcement product most people have never heard of.
The Venmo link: @cosechanj. That account belongs to Jenny Garcia. She’s the main organizer of the Delaney Hall protests.
Quoted in the American Prospect, Newsweek, and TIME. Listed as the official press contact.
She is not a volunteer. She is a professional organizer.
Venmo feeds are public. I pulled hers.
Payments labeled “Commissary” (money for detained immigrants to buy food inside the facility). “Commissary / phone accounts fund” (keeping detainees’ phones active). “DSA meeting” (Democratic Socialists of America). “Mutual aid.” “F ICE.”
Same account. Uber rides. Cumbia dance classes. A cafe called Pika’s Fika.
Protest donations and personal spending. One feed. No separation.
So who pays Jenny Garcia?
She holds three titles at three organizations.
Detention Watch Network. DC-based. $7.2 million in assets. Ford Foundation funded.
AFSC. Classified as a church. No public donors. Tides Foundation gave them $221K.
Cosecha NJ. The @cosechanj Venmo name. Files two 990s. Reports $0 in salaries. Every year. Every officer. Nobody gets paid.
Foundation money pays Garcia through DWN and AFSC. She organizes under Cosecha’s name. Cosecha claims to pay nobody.
More coming.

As taxpaying citizens, we're allowed to know how much of our federal dollars are being funneled to these supposedly legitimate churches and NGOs, and demand Congress work to divest our money from their "work." The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted by the Department of Justice for wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. These organizations listed — and many others — appear to be complicit in the same type of actions, and should be ripe for investigation.

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