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Trevor Loudon: Communist Organizations Influence Groups Mobilizing Voters Who Lean Democrat
Communist organizations in the United States organize groups that systematically target potential voters who rarely vote such as minorities, low-income workers, young people to encourage them to vote for Democrats. These groups register them for voting and provide transportation to polling stations, said Trevor Loudon, author, and filmmaker.
While it is legal to provide voter registration services, some voter registration groups work with foreign actors such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Loudon said in an interview on The Epoch Times’ investigative documentary.
There are communist organizations in America that owe allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party, one of them is Liberation Road and its subgroup called Left Roots, the Communist Party USA, and others, Loudon said.
These groups have been involved for several years in “setting up voter registration groups in key states. States that could be flipped from Republican to Democrat,” Loudon said.
These communist groups target minority voters who lean democrat but don’t normally vote and try to convince them to get to the polls, Loudon said.
Liberation Road is a socialist organization, drawing from Marxist, Leninist, and Maoist ideologies, “with a clear focus on building the resistance to Trump,” its website said.
“We learn from the Chinese leader Mao Zedong, with his insistence that all correct ideas come ‘from the masses to the masses,’” the Liberation Road website said.
Seed the Vote
There is a project in San Francisco called “Seed the Vote” to organize volunteers to defeat President Donald Trump and win the Senate, according to its website.
Loudon said that Seed the Vote is “a front for the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) in San Francisco which is a big voter registration group [and] community organizing group.”
Founded in the 1970’s CPA has close ties to the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco and “has always been a tool of the Chinese Communist Party [CCP],” Loudon said.
“Seed the Vote has run a whole network of these big voter registration organizations and they targeted seven states this year: Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, all the key swing states,” Loudon said.
The organization registered hundreds of thousands of voters who typically do not vote and helped them get to the polls, Loudon explained adding that “they openly claim credit for winning the election for Biden.”
This is legal, “they’re working legally in voter registration,” Loudon said. “What is not legal is the fact that they’re cooperating with the Communist Party of China and taking direction from the Communist Party of China.”
One of the key people of Seed the Votes is Alex Tom, a former Executive Director of the CPA in San Francisco, who “openly boasts about his deep connection to the Chinese officials in San Francisco. He talks about how he has regular conversations with them, he runs his positioning past them,” Laudon said.
“China has had a very important role in funding left experiments and we have a relationship with the Chinese Embassy, like we actually have, so you know, I’ve had to have various conversations with them about our positioning,” Tom said in a video featured by the Epoch Times documentary.
Tom is currently executive director of the Center for Empowered Politics which has ties with the CPA in San Francisco, according to Loudon. Tom is also U.S.’s Soros Equality Fellow at the Open Society Foundations founded and chaired by George Soros.
Seed the Vote did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Flipping Virginia From Red to Blue
In Virginia, a group called New Virginia Majority (NVM) has been working on voter registration for over 10 years and took credit for flipping Virginia state from Republican to Democrat, Loudon said.
After the 2019 election, NVM said in a statement, “With a remarkable turnout for an off-off election year, Virginians elected a majority of Democrats to the General Assembly. For the first time since 1993, Democrats govern all three legislative bodies.”
“In 2019, we knocked on over 500,000 doors, and we talked to voters about protecting their healthcare, and ensuring their children are safe in their neighborhoods and schools, regardless of where they live or where they come from,” Maya Castillo, New Virginia Majority’s Political Director, said in the statement adding, “Voters want to see themselves and their communities reflected in the people they elect to govern Virginia and were very clear in making that choice at the polls.”
NVM Co-Chair Tram Nguyen published an op-ed in The New York Times titled, “Democrats could learn a lot from what happened in Virginia.” “We try to reach voters of all colors, women, low-income workers, and young people where they are,” Nguyen wrote.
“We organized formerly incarcerated women and men to help them demand that their full civil rights be restored” including voting rights, she continued. “They were a key voting bloc [in 2016] in Virginia, the only Southern state that Hillary Clinton won.”
“Part of the failure of the Democratic Party and many mainstream political organizations in the past has come out of their belief that these communities weren’t worth investing in. … We don’t just sweep in and register voters before an election; we are registering people every day. … And we talk to people, all year, about issues that are important to them: affordable health care, access to a good education, reforming the criminal justice system, protecting voting rights, and making sure our communities have clean air, water, and public lands,” Nguyen said.
“NVM has sent hundreds of paid workers and volunteers out across the commonwealth to register and send to the polls hundreds of thousands of new voters—all under the nose of the Virginia Republican Party,” Loudon wrote for The Epoch Times.
To identify potential voters, NVM used GIS (Geographic Information System), a very sophisticated technology, to present in a form of a map, voter demographic data such as ethnicity, voting patterns, income levels, Loudon said. GIS maps can be interactive and allow the user to build large and complex queries.
GIS maps that NVM used to identify specific precincts and districts where the number of voters who could potentially vote for Democrats was high, were generated by Stephen McClure, a U.S. research associate working at Wuhan University in China, Loudon said.
McClure posted in his blog in 2011, “I have been recently working with New Virginia Majority to make a series of maps to inform planning for precinct walks in Virginia Statehouse districts. … The results are subjective but do suggest … the ways that actual communities conform or diverge from the discrete territorial units which define an electoral terrain in a democracy,” according to Loudon.
McClure works at a Chinese university “using Chinese equipment, using Chinese computers, probably paid a salary by the Chinese Communist Party to basically interfere in American politics. So this is happening right under our very noses,” Loudon said.
Co-founder and co-director of NVM Jon Liss has been a longtime member of the Liberation Road, Loudon wrote for The Epoch Times.
New Virginia Majority did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Epoch Times was unable to contact Stephen McClure for comment.
George Soros’ Foundations
“George Soros, alone, has put something like $18 billion into the Left in the last three or four years. That buys a lot of votes, that sets up a lot of voter registration groups, that buys a lot of buses to ship people to the polls,” Loudon said. “What these people are doing is legal and that it’s not illegal to sign up voters or get them to the polls but they’ve worked with organizations that definitely have histories of … illegal voting activity, vote fraud.”
Moreover, some organizations supported financially by the money donated by Soros “are working with entities connected to the Communist Party of China [and] that puts a whole different spin on it,” Loudon added.
In 2017, Soros donated “$18 billion of his fortune towards funding the future work of the Foundations, bringing his total giving to the Foundations since 1984 to over $32 billion,” according to the Open Society Foundations’ website.
“Every year, the Open Society Foundations give thousands of grants to groups and individuals that work on the issues we focus on—promoting justice, transparency, and open debate,” the foundations’ website said.
The Open Society Foundations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
