Who’s Funding the LP Protest in PA?

If you’ve been following the national Libertarian Party lately, you probably saw this post promoting that June 6 visibility event outside the GEO Group facility in Philipsburg, PA: https://x.com/LPNational/status/2063199640690852178

It was organized under the Indivisible: Mayday name and called on Citizens Bank to stop financing private prison and detention companies. The stated focus was getting better medical care for a guy named Izzy Aly who’s locked up there.

On paper it sounds like something a lot of libertarians could get behind. We’ve been against corporate welfare and government-contracted incarceration for a long time. But when the national party starts amplifying these events, it’s worth asking who’s actually running the show and where the money is coming from.

I looked into it. Here’s what turned up.

The Event and the Group Behind It

The action was a nonviolent protest demanding medical care for people in ICE detention and pressuring Citizens Bank to cut ties with GEO Group and CoreCivic. Indivisible chapters have been doing similar stuff around the country.

The national infrastructure comes from the Indivisible Project, the 501(c)(4) that provides toolkits, coordination, and support to local groups. They also have a 501(c)(3) arm called Indivisible Civics. It’s presented as grassroots, but the scale and the money tell a different story.

The Pulse on X

The replies to the national LP post were mostly critical. A lot of people saw it as further proof that the party has drifted left.

Common themes included accusations that the LP is now run by progressives or “ancoms,” frustration that the party seems willing to work with left-wing groups but not the right, and direct pushback on the Soros/Open Society funding behind Indivisible.

Some defended it, saying private prisons and medical neglect in detention are fair libertarian issues. But the louder reaction was skepticism and disappointment with the national party’s direction.

The Soros Money Is Real and Documented

The biggest name that keeps showing up is the Open Society Foundations, started and funded by George Soros.

Their own public grants database lists several grants to the Indivisible Project:

• 2023: $3 million from the Open Society Action Fund (two-year grant) for social welfare activities
• 2022: $1.135 million from the Open Society Policy Center
• 2021: $500k plus another $375k
• 2019: $1.75 million
• Smaller ones in 2018 and 2017 (one went through Tides Advocacy)

That adds up to roughly $7.61 million since 2017. As of right now in June 2026, there are no newer grants listed beyond the 2023 one.

You can go look for yourself: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?filter_keyword=indivisible

These are listed as general support, not specifically for one protest. Still, when you’re running the operation that makes all these actions happen, that money is doing work.

Other Funders in the Mix

Open Society isn’t the only one writing checks. Here’s what else shows up in the records:

• Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy: Several million over the years. Tides itself has taken tens of millions from Open Society Foundations in recent years.
• Fund for a Better Future Inc.: Multiple grants in the $750k to $1 million range to Indivisible in the last few years.
• Sixteen Thirty Fund (part of the Arabella Advisors dark money setup): Smaller grants, but this fund has also received money directly from Open Society entities.
• Democracy Alliance network: Indivisible people have spoken at their events. The Alliance has long included Soros-aligned donors.
• Regular individual donors through ActBlue and direct contributions. Recent tax filings show Indivisible Project bringing in $10 to $14 million a year, with most of it coming from contributions.

The Real Question for Libertarians

Some people say this is just normal coalition work. Private prisons and detention profiteering have been on our radar forever. If the issue lines up, why not show up?

Fair point on the surface. But when the national infrastructure and the coordination for these events are heavily backed by networks tied to one of the biggest political billionaires out there, and those same networks fund a much wider progressive agenda that usually clashes with us on borders, speech, and economics, it’s worth asking what we’re actually getting into.

We spend a lot of time complaining about both major parties taking money from powerful interests that come with baggage. It feels inconsistent to give a pass when it’s our own party platforming events from groups this deep in that same donor class.

Yeah, most of the regular people showing up at these things are probably just regular people who care about the medical care issue. But the money and the structure behind it aren’t coming from nowhere. Pretending it’s all pure grassroots is giving folks too much credit.

Bottom Line

If we’re serious about staying independent and actually advancing liberty instead of just adding bodies to someone else’s operation, we should know exactly who’s funding the groups we’re platforming. The records are public. The grants are listed on the funders’ own sites.

I’m not saying we can never work with anyone on a single issue. But we ought to be a lot more careful about whose events we lend the Libertarian Party name to, especially when the money trail leads straight back to the same networks we’ve spent years criticizing.

What do you think? Should the national party be promoting events from groups this tied into the progressive donor machine, even when one narrow issue overlaps? The information is right there for anyone who wants to check it.

Quick References to Fact Check

• LP National post promoting the event: https://x.com/LPNational/status/2063199640690852178
• Open Society Foundations grants database (filtered for Indivisible): https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?filter_keyword=indivisible
• InfluenceWatch profile on Indivisible Project funding and connections: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-indivisible-project-indivisible/
• ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer for Indivisible Project 990 filings: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/814944067

Everything I pulled is from public records. Go look for yourself.