Elon Musk’s Austin home targeted by well-funded leftist groups aboard party buses
A now-ubiquitous, mass-produced anti-Musk "I AM STEALING FROM YOU" poster, featuring the tech billionaire with creepy eyes, has appeared at demonstrations nationwide and was also on display at the Austin protest outside his home.
- The Austin American-Statesman covered the event and cast it playfully, with the headline "Dozens party outside Elon Musk's West Lake Hills home after campaign donations fell flat." It wrote about how organizers led a "Love Train" conga line and distributed party hats and refreshments, including cider.
- The leaders of the organizations behind the "After Party," held in West Lake Hills, Tex., where Musk owns a sprawling home, didn’t provide comment in response to queries from Fox News Digital, but they have insisted in the past that their local protests are the result of "organic" organizing in communities.
- The demonstration followed in the spirit of the very coordinated "Tesla Takedown" protests launched at Texas dealerships in early 2025, when activists organized demonstrations against Tesla and Musk over his political activities and role in the new Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency, called DOGE.
WE NEED SOCIALISM." Congressional lawmakers and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating an American-born, Shanghai-based tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, for funding and backing pro-communist groups.
At Saturday’s event, participants arrived at the property in two blue Fly-Rides party buses and additional vehicles.
- A wider network of openly pro-communist groups, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization, carried posters with messages like "DOWN WITH BILLIONAIRES.
- While this event was peaceful, the rhetoric of demonization and polarization at protests causes researchers at organizations like the Network Contagion Research Institute to conclude that that they can create a "permission structure" for political violence.
- The three groups reported $56.1 million in combined 2024 revenue, according to their most recent tax filings.
- FOX NATION'S NEW 'RIOT INC.' FOLLOWS THE MONEY TO FIND OUT This weekend’s organizers helped lead the " Tesla Takedown" protests that sometimes turned ugly last year.
- According to a Fox News Digital investigation, 258 organizations with combined annual revenues of an estimated $2.6 billion were behind those protests.
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