Communist Affiliated Nonprofit Organized Berkeley Violent Attacks on TPUSA in Berkeley

It amazes me that so many people shrug when radical leftists instigate violence, as if attacking people for the crime of disagreeing with them is just a normal and acceptable part of politics. 

I was born in the mid-60s and was intensely aware of all the political violence around me, although I only vaguely understood all the reasons behind the riots and protests. As I grew older, it struck me as odd and disturbing that so many people looked back on the political turmoil of the 1960s with nostalgia, as if the breakdown of social trust and the violent protests were a sign of moral awakening. 

Perhaps it was the belief that the riots led to the Civil Rights legislation that addressed a moral stain, but of course, they did not do so. The Civil Rights Act preceded the political violence instead of resulting from it, while the riots led to the hollowing out of our cities. Ask Detroiters about that. 

If you’re a conservative in the US radical leftist terrorists can attack you as a mob and the police will arrest you as you are mocked for being white

Don’t tell me about rule of law in the US

There is no rule of law https://t.co/m17rSQAU3o

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) November 12, 2025

Since 2020, the US has been experiencing a new wave of political violence and assassinations, and this time around, there is a lot more radical infrastructure and funding to support the movements. And the Democratic Party seems to be led by radicals who relish the violence. 

Universities aren’t pushing back against the rebels; in many cases, there is a lot of institutional support for the radicals, not the institutions. Radicals have the support of billionaires and are often the recipients, mostly through cutouts, of government support. Not having been an adult in the late 60s and early 70s, I can’t tell you whether this time “feels” different, but the facts on the ground suggest that the current wave of violence will stick around for quite a while because there is money and institutional support. 

🧵 NEW @FoxNews: Who funded the bloody UC Berkeley’s protests of @TPUSA? 👇

I studied the Google Doc metadata on a poster that @MrAndyNgo shared, showing the protest organized by “By Any Means Necessary,” @followbamn, a far-left group that marches in #NoKings protests and Andy… pic.twitter.com/BOpdrEBsHm

— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) November 12, 2025

I studied the Google Doc metadata on a poster that @MrAndyNgo shared, showing the protest organized by “By Any Means Necessary,” 

@followbamn, a far-left group that marches in #NoKings protests and Andy says is Antifa. 

I wanted to follow the money on “By Any Means Necessary.”

In a new @FoxNews investigation, I established that the poster from “By Any Means Necessary” was created by a lawyer with an email address, http://ueaa.net.

Turns out, the Berkeley protestors use the cover of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, “United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund,” to collect tax-deductible donations and establish credibility as a “charity,” all the while allegedly fomenting political violence “by any means necessary.” They didn’t returned requests for comment. 

Tax records show the nonprofit has been federally tax-exempt since March 2022 under the tax number 38-3626850. …

It’s “affiliate” as it stages political warfare? 

An international Trotsky organization promoting communism and a global “revolutionary Marxism.”

@AGPamBondi @HarmeetKDhillon @FBIDirectorKash are investigating the violence as terrorism. Is it also malign foreign influence?

Following the money showed something important. 

The metadata and cross-linked digital trails for the UC Berkeley protest reveal a well-coordinated infrastructure beneath the seemingly spontaneous protests, raising questions about accountability, transparency, and the weaponization of the tax code for political warfare.

A lot for the Justice Department and FBI to investigate. 

Fox News did a dive into a nonprofit that both helped to organize the “No Kings” rallies and the UC Berkeley attack on a TPUSA event that resulted in mass violence. Called By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, it is massively funded and benefits from US tax laws. 

Last month, a band of demonstrators marched across West Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles in the national anti-Trump #NoKings protests, carrying a banner that read: “DEFEAT TRUMP’S FASCIST TAKEOVER. Stop ICE raids and deportations by any means necessary.”

In one corner, four bold letters stood out: “BAMN,” an acronym for “By Any Means Necessary.” The rest of the banner spelled out clues to the group’s full name in smaller print: “Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigration Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary.”

That organization – one of 266 groups with combined annual revenues of $2.9 billion identified by Fox News Digital leading the #NoKings protests – would soon reappear at this week’s flashpoint on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

This isn’t your father’s protest movement. It has the resources to organize, fund, and propagandize a movement at scale, and as its name implies, it will use any means it chooses to make its point, including violence. The violence isn’t random in the least. “Protesters” are highly trained, often paid, and highly mobile because they have the money to move around. 

On Monday night, the group proudly broadcast videos on its Instagram channel of its leaders stoking an angry mob on the streets again, this time on the Berkeley campus, staging a protest that turned into a bloody brawl outside a Turning Point USA event, leading to the arrest of several people.

A flyer circulated before the demonstration urged participants to “End Fascist Turning Point’s Youth-Oriented Campaign of Incitement to Violence!” It announced a rally outside Zellerbach Hall an hour before doors opened for the event.

Buried in the  QR code of the flyer was a digital trail that led to BAMN, and from there to a Trotskyist organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of our country.

Fox News Digital examined the metadata embedded in both documents to follow the money on “By Any Means Necessary.” Each file was created on Nov. 9, a day before the protest, and both listed the “owner” as “[email protected].” The email domain, ueaa.net, links to a far-left Detroit-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit, “United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund,” which “By Any Means Necessary” describes as its nonprofit “affiliate.” They act as a seamless entity at protests, from #NoKings to anti-Israel actions after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists.

BAMN is not, in itself, huge, but it is part of a much larger network with complicated funding streams that often flow through nonprofits with tax benefits, or even that get direct government funding. Indivisible, for instance, is huge, and highly connected to the radical protest movement. 

In the wake of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in September, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance called for closer scrutiny of nonprofits that receive tax benefits while allegedly promoting political violence.

The convergence of tax-exempt organizations, campus unrest and politically motivated violence underscores an emerging challenge in the nonprofit sector. Groups like “By Any Means Necessary” allegedly exploit the credibility and financial protections of charitable status while acting as de facto political operatives, often in coordination with broader ideological movements like Students for Justice in Palestine, first established at UC Berkeley by Palestinian American academic Hatem Bazian.

The metadata and cross-linked digital trails for the UC Berkeley protest reveal a well-coordinated infrastructure beneath the seemingly spontaneous protests, raising questions about accountability, transparency and the weaponization of the tax code for political warfare.

These groups cross in and out of the more peaceful protest movements, and often build relationships with more mainstream groups by “allying” with them on projects such as “No Kings.” 

That’s one of the ways that the more radical groups get the implicit or even explicit support of prominent politicians, who sometimes directly raise funds for radical groups such as the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bails out violent criminals who commit horrific crimes such as rape and murder. 

Kamala Harris pushed bail fund that helped murder and rape suspects get out of jail while awaiting trial https://t.co/FzcQZDlAC6

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 22, 2022

In fact, her tweet asking for donations to the bail fund is literally still up. pic.twitter.com/AuvI4Ngqvt

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 22, 2022

The Democratic Party plays footsie with the radical left and often cheers it on. That’s how you get actual socialists moving up the ladder, and why the next Mayor of New York can pal around with terrorists and people who openly call for the murder of conservatives. 

In recent months, one of the most common phrases you hear from liberals is, “I don’t approve of violence, but…” The “but” is the important part of that sentence, because it wipes away what precedes it. 

Unlike many of you, I still believe in the basic decency of most Democrats. What I question is their judgment and willingness to face hard facts. They are repelled by Republicans for their own reasons, so they look away and/or excuse the horrific things their allies are doing. 

The UC Berkeley protests also raise questions about malign foreign influence. On its “Affiliates” webpage, “By Any Means Necessary” includes a link to the website for the “International Trotskyist Committee for the Regeneration of the Fourth International,” which is organizing “militants” who support early 20th century Soviet communist leader Leon Trotsky and the rise of a global “revolutionary Marxism.” The committee includes the Revolutionary Workers League and the Revolutionary Internationalist League, both self-declared communist groups.

Party leaders know what they are doing; most ordinary Democrats believe we are lying when we tell them what the Democratic Party has become. 

Anti-anti-communism is rampant among Democrats, and it leads them to reject the actual evidence that there is an active and increasingly powerful communist movement in the country that is vastly better funded and much more dangerous than what we faced in the past. 

The Soviets were hideous at propaganda, and Americans were sensitized to the dangers of communism during the Cold War. No longer.