Cole Tomas Allen reportedly took part in No Kings rallies. Well-educated and socially integrated, he is not a marginalized outcast. Indeed, his views as expressed in his manifesto are representative of a large swath of the American electorate.
A poll last year by the Network Contagion Research Institute revealed a terrifying trend. Nearly 55% of respondents identifying themselves as left-of-center would justify the assassination of Donald Trump. In Virginia, voters recently elected Jay Jones as Attorney General, even after his texts surfaced wishing death on Republicans and their families. Indivisible, the primary organizer of No Kings, publicly celebrated his victory. Such murderous vitriol is apparently now perfectly acceptable.
Indivisible Co-Executive Director Ezra Levin responded to the reports of Allen’s No Kings participation by not responding. In an email Monday night, Levin referenced Allen as a “fringe extremist,” but did not even state his name. Instead, he took the opportunity to double down on over-the-top hysteria. Here’s a taste:
Trump is an authoritarian. He’s a convicted rapist who’s all over the Epstein files. His secret police force has murdered Americans. His regime serves billionaires and himself at the expense of everyone else.
(Levin’s statement that Trump is a convicted rapist is false.)
Allen’s manifesto could have been taken right off the Indivisible website. The group cannot escape responsibility for violence by disowning Allen, who is hardly “fringe” in Levin’s world. Nor can George Soros and his so-called Open Society Foundations (OSF). As the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has documented, OSF has provided millions to Indivisible and made a foundational grant that allowed the group to get started.
In the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder, and the emerging “assassination culture,” NLPC wrote Alex Soros, who now runs the Foundations, in November 2025 and asked him to end support for Indivisible and Move On, citing the protests’ “persistent and dominant messaging, both from participants and organizers, that President Trump and his supporters are Nazis, fascists, authoritarians, white supremacists and worse…” Soros did not respond.
There is no “cycle of violence,” only a cycle of left-wing violence that is designed to provoke a response that can be used to justify more left-wing violence. Now we learn that even the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was likely a false-flag operation from beginning to end, funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), another Soros grantee.
It is exactly what I believed at the time but lacked the proof to put in writing. I was in Charlottesville just days after the incident and spoke with individuals with first-hand knowledge that even town officials were in on the plan to make sure the two opposing groups (who apparently were in cahoots) would clash.
When the Justice Department announced SPLC indictments, Indivisible reacted with its usual moderation and subtlety by asserting, “A white supremacist authoritarian regime that’s gone after perceived political enemies since Inauguration Day was always going to try to take on the nation’s premier organization fighting to dismantle white supremacy.”
More recently, the provocateurs have targeted ICE. For weeks, Minneapolis was ground zero. On January 7, a woman named Renee Nicole Good, who was following around ICE agents in an SUV, was shot by an ICE agent who had been previously injured in a car-ramming incident. On January 24, political agitator Alex Pretti, described in the media as a “nurse,” was shot after several physical assaults on federal agents. The Trump administration did not take the bait and ICE withdrew from Minneapolis.
For Indivisible, the No Kings protests are not about Trump but instead about control of progressive politics. Fueled by Soros money, the hard left is knocking off moderates in primaries and demonstrating the kind of organizing and energy that scares all Democrats into submission. That is why the nonstop extremist rhetoric comes from elected Democratic official at all levels, including those otherwise believed to be sane.
Indivisible’s real goals are to make civil discourse impossible and make violence an acceptable path to political power. They are winning.
Peter Flaherty is the Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center.
