Executive Summary
A 31-year-old man named Cole Thomas Allen rode a train across the country with multiple weapons, walked into the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, and opened fire — and the very next morning Margaret Brennan of CBS pivoted straight to gun control instead of asking how a manifesto written in MSNBC’s voice ended up in the hands of a would-be assassin. This week on Mornings with Mel K, we did the work the legacy press will not do. We named the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ADL, and the NAACP as full operational partners in the deplatforming, lawfare, and election interference campaigns that have been running against patriotic Americans since 2016. We documented the SPLC’s three-million-dollar 2020 cash drop into Fulton County, Georgia for absentee drop boxes. We connected it to the AME Church poll-watcher operation Jim Clyburn helped run. We walked through the fact that American non-profits and NGOs are sitting on fourteen trillion dollars in untaxed assets — bigger than the GDPs of Japan, Germany, and India combined — and we revisited the bipartisan Reece Committee of 1953, which warned the country exactly what the foundations would do if no one stopped them.
We named the five senators blocking the SAVE Act — Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, Thune, and McConnell — and we said out loud what every honest American already knows: requiring citizenship to vote in American elections is not “rigging” anything. It is the bare minimum of self-government. We the People are the answer. We have always been the answer. And the work is local, in person, and starts this week.
Scroll to the bottom for Key Takeaways.
The Shooting at the Correspondents’ Dinner — and the Pivot You Were Supposed to Miss
Saturday night, April 25, 2026. Cole Thomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, opens fire inside the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Witnesses describe four to five distinct shots — “boom, boom, boom, boom” — initially mistaken for a dropped tray of plates. His federal charges include attempted assassination of the President, the Defense Secretary, and the Vice President. His own family had warned the police about him months earlier.
His manifesto, by every account being shared on the show, reads almost word-for-word like a year’s worth of cable news primetime — Trump is a fascist, Trump is a rapist, Trump is a pedophile, Trump deserves a bullet. Every line of it had a documented public source. Ted Lieu said it on the floor of Congress. The Lincoln Project said it on television. Senators said it on livestreams. None of it was new — except the gun.
How did he travel from California to Washington, D.C. on Amtrak with multiple weapons in a city where open carry is illegal? Margaret Brennan of CBS could have asked that question on Sunday morning. She did not. She went to gun control — which makes more sense once you remember that Brennan sits on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an Atlanticist. She does not, in any meaningful operational sense, believe the United States is an independent country. So when a leftist radical raised on her network’s rhetoric picks up a gun, the answer cannot be the rhetoric. The answer must be your guns.
Don’t forget the historical company gun confiscation keeps. Hitler in the 1930s. Stalin. Lenin. Mao. Every single time.
The SPLC, the ADL, and the NAACP — Civil Rights as a Brand, Not a Mission
I have been yelling about the Southern Poverty Law Center for six years. I was personally targeted. The ADL targeted me. They were full partners in the deplatforming sweeps that took down patriotic voices on Facebook, on Google, on PayPal — using the “hate group” label as a passport into every content-moderation team in Silicon Valley.
Here is the disclosure that should end the SPLC as a credible institution. The Southern Poverty Law Center sent three million dollars to Fulton County, Georgia in 2020 to fund additional absentee drop boxes for the general election and the runoffs. That is not civil rights work. That is direct election infrastructure funding from a 501(c)(3) into the most contested county in the most contested state in modern American history. Connect that to the AME Church poll-watcher and ballot-counter network that Jim Clyburn helped operationalize, and the picture sharpens fast.
It does not stop there. The SPLC paid the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers hundreds of thousands of dollars to push SPLC-authored “anti-racism” materials into K-12 public schools across this country for over a decade. Critical race theory in your child’s classroom was not organic. It was bought and paid for. Randi Weingarten and Becky Pringle of the AFT and NEA cashed the checks.
The Norm Eisen Connection
Norm Eisen — a Brookings fixture and lawfare strategist — has been working with the head of the SPLC since 2016. In 2019, Eisen and Susan Corke (then leading the SPLC’s anti-extremism arm) co-authored what they called the “Democracy Playbook” — an actual document outlining how to remove Donald Trump from office and reclassify the entire MAGA movement as a hate group. This is not theory. This is documentary history, in writing. And Eisen was a guest in good standing at the Correspondents’ Dinner this past Saturday — sitting at the table with April Ryan and Jen Rubin while a leftist radical opened fire just outside.
The Fourteen-Trillion-Dollar NGO Pipeline
Here is the number every American should memorize. American non-profits and NGOs hold approximately fourteen trillion dollars in total assets — bigger than the GDPs of Japan, Germany, or India. Untaxed. Unaudited in any meaningful sense. Deployed across lawfare, deplatforming, curriculum capture, color revolution street operations, and the manufactured outrage industry that funds the Lincoln Project, Code Pink, the People’s Forum, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the Palestinian Youth Movement that called for a “mass demonstration” outside the very dinner where Saturday’s shooting took place.
This is not new. The Reece Committee in 1953 — bipartisan, congressional — formally documented that Rockefeller, Ford, and Carnegie were subverting public education, public opinion, and public accountability through their tax-exempt foundations. The Cox Committee in 1952 said the same thing. Both reports were buried. We are now three generations into the consequences.
As one of our guests this week explained beautifully: a business has a feedback mechanism — if it fails to deliver, customers leave and it dies. An NGO has no such mechanism. It just keeps fundraising. Over time the actual mission stops mattering. The fundraising becomes the mission. The dealer does not want the addict to recover. The dealer wants the next donation.
The “Trump Is a Fascist” Lie — Predictive Programming in Plain Sight
Let me ask the question every honest person already knows the answer to. If Donald Trump were the fascist authoritarian dictator they keep telling us he is, why are his executive orders still being litigated? Why hasn’t he ended the filibuster? Why are his judicial nominees being held up by a single Democrat senator under the blue slip custom? Why has he not invoked the Insurrection Act?
Because he is not a fascist. The label is predictive programming. So is “No Kings.” So is “existential threat to democracy.” The point of the label is not to describe — the point is to pre-justify the response that is being engineered. They are baiting the President into a forceful response to the violence they themselves have manufactured this summer, so that they can point at the response and say see, we told you he was a fascist. The label has to exist before the event. That is how this works.
And while we are here — we are not a democracy. We never were. The word does not appear in the Constitution. Our Founders loathed democracy because they understood it is fifty-one percent rule over the forty-nine percent. We are a constitutional republic. A representative form of self-government grounded in natural law and natural rights. I lay all of it out in Infiltration Instead of Invasion: America Betrayed, 1944–1954, out Memorial Day.
The SAVE Act and the Five Senators Blocking Citizen Voting
The SAVE Act would require proof of American citizenship to vote in American federal elections. The opposition’s argument — and this is real — is that Republicans are “rigging” the 2028 election by limiting it to American citizens. Make that make sense.
The bill needs sixty Senate votes to clear the filibuster. Republicans hold fifty-three. The five names blocking it are Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, John Thune, and Mitch McConnell — and the continued participation of McConnell in legislative business is its own elder-abuse scandal. Senator Thune is on record telling reporters that ending the filibuster is “no big deal.” He knows exactly what happens the moment the opposition retakes the chamber. The filibuster dies. The Electoral College dies. The popular vote compact gets activated. The republic gets dismantled in a single legislative session.
We have to call them by name. Murkowski. Collins. Tillis. Thune. McConnell. There are no “moderates” left. Only obstacles.
The Empowerment Pivot — Find Your Tribe, In Person, This Week
Here is where we always land. We the People are not without power. We are the power. The other side is collective by design. We are individuals by nature. But individuals organized in person, with mission over ego, are unstoppable. I just came back from Minneapolis with the Child Protection League — extraordinary patriots, real action-oriented information. Before that, Austin with our friend Roseanne. Same energy everywhere we go.
You are not just one person. The minute you find your tribe, something magical happens. You feel motivated. You take action. You see results. The dealers of conflict and chaos lose another customer. Get involved. Right now. Because America is in the crosshairs — and as Donald Trump has said, they’re not after him, they’re after you, and he’s in the way. The deeper truth is they are not after America. They are after the world. And America is in the way.
Key Takeaways
- Cole Thomas Allen, a radicalized 31-year-old, opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with manifesto language pulled almost verbatim from MSNBC, Ted Lieu, and the Lincoln Project.
- The Southern Poverty Law Center funneled $3 million into Fulton County, Georgia in 2020 for absentee drop boxes — connect that to the AME Church poll-watcher network.
- The SPLC paid the NEA and AFT hundreds of thousands of dollars to inject “anti-racism” curricula into K-12 schools for over a decade. Paid curriculum capture.
- American NGOs hold $14 trillion in untaxed assets — bigger than the GDPs of Japan, Germany, or India. The bipartisan Reece Committee warned us about this in 1953.
- “Trump is a fascist” is predictive programming, designed to pre-justify the response to manufactured summer violence.
- The SAVE Act is being blocked by Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, Thune, and McConnell — five Republican senators, not Democrats. Name them.
- We are a constitutional republic, not a democracy. The word “democracy” does not appear in the Constitution. Our Founders loathed it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is the Southern Poverty Law Center actually a credible civil rights organization anymore? A: The brand was built in a legitimate era — civil rights work in the post-Jim Crow South was real and necessary. The current organization shares the name and the tax status but not the mission. The SPLC of 2026 is in the lawfare, deplatforming, and curriculum-capture business, and the $3 million 2020 Fulton County disclosure should end any remaining institutional credibility it has.
Q: Did the SPLC really pay teachers’ unions to push CRT into public schools? A: Yes. The Southern Poverty Law Center paid the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers hundreds of thousands of dollars across more than a decade to use SPLC-authored materials in K-12 classrooms. This was not organic curriculum development. It was sponsored content from a single advocacy organization, run through the largest teachers’ unions in the country.
Q: How is it possible that NGOs hold $14 trillion in untaxed assets? A: The 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) framework was designed in an era when the foundations and non-profits were a tiny fraction of the economy. The Cox Committee (1952) and Reece Committee (1953) warned Congress that the architecture would metastasize. It did. Today the sector exceeds the GDP of most G-7 nations and is functionally a parallel sovereign wealth fund accountable to no electorate.
Q: Why won’t Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, Thune, and McConnell vote for the SAVE Act? A: That is the question we should be asking them on the record, by name, every single day. There is no defensible policy reason to oppose requiring citizenship to vote in American elections. The opposition is structural — these senators serve the uniparty managerial class, not the American voters who elected them.
Q: What is the single most effective thing one citizen can actually do this week? A: Find your tribe in person and commit to local action. Pick one — a school board parents’ group, a county election integrity team, a child protection organization, a parental rights coalition, a sheriff’s support group — and show up to a meeting in person this week. Then call the five SAVE Act obstructionists and ask them on record why they will not protect citizen voting.
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