Secret $70M Network Controlling America's Sanctuary Cities
While Americans watched ICE agents storm Chicago last week, they missed the real story. Operation Midway Blitz isn't just targeting immigrants. It's about dismantling a $70 million annually into an established progressive infrastructure network, operating in the shadow of the Democratic Party. Built to systematically, through grassroots methods, overthrow both Republican AND Democratic Party leadership in America's major cities and replace it with Progressive leadership. This secretive alliance seeks to create a Progressive governance structure where labor unions and progressive elites govern over traditional democratic institutions.
Armored vehicles positioned outside Naval Station Great Lakes in early September made it appear as though Chicago was under invasion. However, the reality is quite the opposite. Illinois has already been infiltrated by this progressive infrastructure through years of coordinated investment and political maneuvering. The current resistance to federal assistance in dismantling the crime plaguing the city's streets represents the completion of a long-term takeover strategy that has already captured the governing apparatus.
Great Lakes Navel Station; cc screen shot
This pattern extends far beyond Chicago's troubled neighborhoods. The deployment locations for ICE operations and the Justice Department's official "sanctuary jurisdictions" list reveal a stunning correlation with what the Democracy Alliance calls their "champion states."
According to the Justice Department's August 2025 official designation, the following 12 states have been classified as sanctuary jurisdictions:
ALLIANCE
Founded in 2006 by Rob Stein
Champion States
The Powers Behind America's Sanctuary States
These are precisely the same states targeted by the Democracy Alliance's "2020 Vision" strategy for progressive infrastructure investment. In the Democracy Alliance's own words: "We must take the fight to the states, and put our dollars where they are most needed. To paint the future in places where we have some power, like Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, and California".
The Democracy Alliance's State Engagement Initiative has systematically invested over $70 million annually in building what they call “state power infrastructure” in these exact jurisdictions. Their internal documents reveal a coordinated donor network requiring minimum $200,000 annual contributions per partner, specifically targeting these states for what they describe as “long-term power building independent of traditional party structures.”
Chicago has long hosted the Democracy Alliance Spring Conference, making it the central hub of the Democracy Alliance network. Boston serves as the Northeast progressive hub, Minnesota acts as the testing ground for progressive “narrative” strategies and state infrastructure experiments, and Los Angeles anchors West Coast operations.
Why is this important? Elected officials in these cities receive campaign support and policy backing from Democracy Alliance–affiliated groups through pass-through funding and state engagement initiatives. One prominent example is the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed lawsuits and amicus briefs to defend sanctuary policies in California, Illinois, New York, and other champion states.
The ACLU has become a supporter of open borders and benefits from media attention and donations when standing up for the “right” to allow illegal citizens to live within the United States. According to the ACLU, “The immigration system contains an unnecessary and unconstitutional lack of rights that is unheard of in the criminal justice system. No one should be in immigration detention without a constitutionally adequate bond hearing in which the government bears the burden of showing that detention is necessary—to protect against danger to the community or flight risk—and that no alternative release conditions would suffice.”
The ACLU continues to benefit from donations tied to the biggest players in progressive advocacy. According to DiscoverTheNetwork.org (see document attached), the ACLU has received significant contributions from the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute (Soros), Carnegie, MacArthur, Rockefeller, Joyce, Hewlett, Tides Foundation, and many other top-tier entities closely aligned with the Democracy Alliance’s funding network. At the same time, the consequences of these funding pipelines and resulting policy battles are playing out in real communities. To often coming to a head in moments of public crisis.
No matter the cost to the lives of citizens, it appears that the United States has had enough. As the progressive movement uses times of tragedy to make a move—such as their organizations that stood on the steps of Minnesota’s Capitol in late August after the tragic shooting at Ascension School Mass—so too does the right respond to tragedy.
Eliza Glass
Investigative Researcher & Journalist
Specializing in dark money networks and institutional infiltration. 5+ years exposing complex connections others won't investigate.