CNN called the No Kings rallies protests that "popped up" nationwide.
But they didn't pop up.
And a Fox News Digital investigation just proved what millions of Americans already suspected – someone built those "spontaneous" protests from the ground up.
Inside the No Kings Protest Production Machine
Roger Fisk – the Democrat strategist who helped run Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012 – went on LinkedIn after the St. Paul rally and called himself "Senior Advisor to the #NoKings flagship event."
He wasn't bashful about it either.
"Earned media is my main metric," Fisk wrote publicly, boasting that event content generated "between a quarter and a half billion impressions in the 24 hours after the events."
Not a grassroots uprising.
A media operation.
Fox News Digital found nine vendors behind the St. Paul "flagship" event at the Minnesota State Capitol – the one where Bruce Springsteen and Jane Fonda performed while flags of Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba flew in the crowd.
The total bill: an estimated $250,000.
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About 30 semi-trucks rolled into the Capitol grounds the night before the protest to set up what vendors described as a Def Leppard concert – a 40-foot mobile stage, 100 speakers, eight jumbo video screens, 1,700 feet of high-voltage cable, and enough porta-toilets for 300 units.
The stage was fitted with ballistic bullet-resistant glass to protect the celebrities.
Matt Svobodny, production manager at Slamhammer Sound & Roadcase Co. – the main event vendor – gave Fox News Digital a warehouse tour of the operation.
"It has all the elements and infrastructure of a music festival," Svobodny said.
He said his goal was to go unnoticed.
"Hopefully, most people didn't even think about us," he said.
CNN helped him achieve that goal.
George Soros and Indivisible Funded the No Kings Protest
The permit records name "No Kings Coalition and Indivisible Twin Cities" as the organizing entity.
Indivisible footed most of the $250,000 bill, sources told Fox News Digital.
Indivisible isn't a scrappy volunteer network.
It's a $15.6 million political machine – Indivisible Project, a 501(c)(4) with $10.4 million in revenues, and Indivisible Action, a 501(c)(3) with $5.2 million in revenues.
George Soros' Open Society Foundations have funneled $7.61 million into Indivisible since the organization launched in 2017 – every single year since its founding.
That's the group that organized this "spontaneous" protest.
But Indivisible isn't even the most alarming piece of the funding picture.
Fox News Digital previously identified about 500 organizations with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues behind the nationwide No Kings effort.
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That network includes pro-communist groups like the People's Forum, CodePink, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation – backed by American-born tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai and promotes messaging aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.
At the St. Paul event itself, communist and socialist organizations flew the flags of Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba while protesters called America "fascist."
That's the movement CNN said "popped up."
The No Kings Protest Was Staged for the Cameras
Roger Fisk didn't just run logistics.
He ran strategy across three No Kings protests in 2025 and 2026, writing in his LinkedIn profile that he "developed thematic strategies and program frameworks" for Indivisible's mobilizations, engaging 15 million people across every state and 22 countries.
He never disclosed how much he was paid.
Fisk's background is presidential advance work – coordinating media coverage of over 150 Obama campaign events, managing White House advance operations in Virginia, Iowa, and Ohio for the 2012 re-election, serving as a political appointee through two administrations.
The same man who staged Obama's rally appearances applied every one of those tools to a protest Americans were told was a citizens uprising.
Nancy Snow, author of Propaganda and Persuasion, told Fox News Digital: "We are in an age of cognitive warfare, in which there is a competition to shape how people think, and it's always important to follow the money."
The media didn't follow the money – or the 30 semi-trucks.
The Left has spent years perfecting this machine.
The TeslaTakedown earlier in 2025 used the same Indivisible network, the same professional organizers, the same pre-printed signs and pre-written chants.
What changed with No Kings is the scale – and who's pulling the strings from overseas.
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Neville Roy Singham, the American tech tycoon who lives in Shanghai and funds groups that parrot Chinese Communist Party messaging, backs several organizations in the No Kings coalition.
Think about that.
A man living in China – promoting Xi Jinping's worldview – is helping fund the network that flew Iranian, Venezuelan, and Cuban flags at the Minnesota State Capitol while calling America "fascist."
Fisk built his career staging events for the most powerful man in the world.
Now he's applying every one of those same tools to a protest movement funded in part by a man who chose to make his home in communist China.
That's not grassroots democracy.
That's information warfare with a stage and half a billion impressions.
And the media reported it like it came out of nowhere.
Sources:
- Asra Q. Nomani, "Behind 'No Kings' St Paul protest: $250K production machine equal to a Def Leppard concert," Fox News Digital, April 6, 2026.
- "Soros money fuels 'No Kings' protest," Fox News Digital, October 2025.
- "Local #TeslaTakedown reveals 'grassroots' protests are AstroTurf," Fairfax Times, April 2025.
- "Inside the Financial Network Backing 'No Kings'," Daily Wire, April 6, 2026.
- Roger Fisk profile, London Speaker Bureau, londonspeakerbureau.com.