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Local #TeslaTakedown reveals ‘grassroots’ protests are AstroTurf​


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Shouts rang out last Saturday at the Tesla dealership on Tyco Road in Tysons, as they have across the country since late February when fiery #TeslaTakedown protests started targeting Tesla founder Elon Musk for his work in the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

“Recall Elon!”

“People over profits!”

A man shouted into a bullhorn: “Tell me what democracy looks like.”

The crowd responded, “This is what democracy looks like.”

But as the man juggled an anti-Elon sign, his bullhorn and a script with pre-written chants, the Tyco Road protest, its organizers, and its participants revealed a broader story about the #TeslaTakedown events popping up nationwide: the AstroTurf nature of the multimillion-dollar professional protest industry, with the footprints of two behemoth enterprises, a $12.6 million political nonprofit, the Indivisible Project, and the Democratic Party. While local chapters of the Democratic Party have put their names to only a small percentage of the protests, their direct involvement is important because it underscores the partisan motivation behind some of the protests.

While the local #TeslaTakedown protest may appear spontaneous and community-driven, it is the product of a well-funded, tightly coordinated campaign led by national political organizations like the Indivisible Project, MoveOn.org, and professional protest firms. These groups use digital platforms, pre-scripted chants, pre-printed signs, and nationwide toolkits to manufacture the appearance of grassroots activism, and the messages on Tyco Road mirror the language of protests nationwide. This kind of organizing is known as “AstroTurfing”—a term used to describe top-down efforts that mimic authentic, bottom-up civic engagement.

Critics say these operations mislead the public, distort the media narrative, and erode trust in genuine democratic movements by masking partisan objectives behind a veneer of local outrage.

A protester had parked a wagon nearby with a sign, “Poster lending library.”
Coordinated Professional Protest Network

Earlier this month, MSNBC host Chris Hayes touted the “organic, bottom-up movement.” But details from the Tyco Road protest underscore that the “movement” was a staged partisan political action campaign led by Democratic Party political operatives, multimillion-dollar organizations enjoying 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofit status, and professional protest companies that specialize in “direct action.”

The Fairfax County Times and the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative, created a chronology of the protest actions, building a public database of anti-Tesla protests published online on ActionAlert.com and Mobilize.us, which support the Democratic Party. According to internet records, someone anonymously purchased TeslaTakedown.com on Feb. 12. As of March 25 at 11 a.m., the database currently includes 304 published events and will be regularly updated.

According to the data:

  • Groups and individuals allied with the Democratic Party have organized 100% of the protests.
  • Only about 15 organizations and their affiliates are behind all of the protests.
  • Groups involved in the #TeslaTakedown protests have combined revenues of at least $43.1 million.
  • Troublemakers, a Seattle-based professional protest organization, and the Disruption Project, a Philadelphia group that describes itself as “dedicated to supporting uprisings, resistance, and mass direct action,” have sponsored about 70%, or 220, of the protests.
  • The Indivisible Project has organized at least about 29%, or 87, of the protests.
  • Local Democratic Party chapters have organized some protests, including members' participation in the Fairfax County protest.
  • Other Democratic organizations have sponsored protests, including the AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org, Swing Left, Third Act Initiative Inc., the Democratic Socialists of America, the Fight Oligarchy Club, 50501, and Tax Reformers LLC, which organize under the platform TaxElon.us.
Third Act Initiative Inc., a Madison Avenue political nonprofit based in New York City, promoted the Tyco Road protest through its local “Rocking Chair Rebellion” chapter. It organized people aged 60 and over and promoted the protest with a call to action that said, “Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk.” For most people, the sight of senior citizens and retirees protesting seems organic and grassroots but the reality is they are part of a highly-funded and lucrative political operation. According to its 2023 tax filing, Third Act Inititative Inc. has revenues of $2 million.
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I see at least one Tesla car on the road every week. Won't be long before these attacks become close to home.
 
"Elon has to go, no one unelected him. Fauci was appointed by a president.
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Of course vandalism is wrong, but see how quickly they use "left versus right" to quickly change the mentality of "republicans"? Now the "republicans" have no problem with "garbage electric vehicles" and non-elected Technocratic Corporatists running government. Which, btw, Elon is sharing X user data with an Israeli Corporation, and will be stepping down to concentrate on his Neuralink venture.


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'Musk’s AI Company Acquires X, Accesses and Shares 600 Million Users’ Data With Israeli Company'

March 30, 2025


Billionaire tech tycoon Elon Musk announced on X (formerly Twitter) that xAI, his artificial intelligence (AI) company, has acquired X. Critics are concerned that xAI, which developed the AI chatbot Grok that is built into X, will now have direct access to data shared by more than 600 million active users of the social media platform.


X currently shares user data with Au10tix, an Israeli cyber security company that verifies government ID from users who pay to have verified blue check accounts.


Elon Musk aims to create a payments processing mechanism...
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PAF said:
Of course vandalism is wrong, but see how quickly they use "left versus right" to quickly change the mentality of "republicans"? Now the "republicans" have no problem with "garbage electric vehicles" and non-elected Technocratic Corporatists running government. Which, btw, Elon is sharing X user data with an Israeli Corporation, and will be stepping down to concentrate on his Neuralink venture.


PAF

'Musk’s AI Company Acquires X, Accesses and Shares 600 Million Users’ Data With Israeli Company'

March 30, 2025


Billionaire tech tycoon Elon Musk announced on X (formerly Twitter) that xAI, his artificial intelligence (AI) company, has acquired X. Critics are concerned that xAI, which developed the AI chatbot Grok that is built into X, will now have direct access to data shared by more than 600 million active users of the social media platform.


X currently shares user data with Au10tix, an Israeli cyber security company that verifies government ID from users who pay to have verified blue check accounts.


Elon Musk aims to create a payments processing mechanism...
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I hope the Bolshies double down on their efforts.

Maybe when they start killing people, Remnant America might find it's balls and start fighting back.

But I doubt it.

 
For a party that claims to hate swastikas and Nazi's, they sure do love vandalizing cybertrucks by drawing swastikas on them.
 
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