A week before the 250th anniversary of America declaring independence, more than 1,000 people assembled at the nation’s capital to make a declaration of their own: their vision to dismantle America’s founding institutions. “All of US Next250 National Mobilization” protested the Trump administration, debuted new “founding documents,” and re-envisioned America as seen by Marxist revolutionaries.
“It’s not just a day, it’s a movement, and it’s been three years in the making,” Saru Jayarman, a co-organizer of Next250, told The Federalist. “This is the time to set the tone for what the next 250 years will be.”
Dozens of activist organizations assembled, whose headliners have helmed the largest social-unrest operations in the past decade. On the eve of the nation’s birthday they’re calling for the radical restructuring of America. This Communists have always accomplished through violence, a history eerily recalled at the demonstration, where a squirrel with its throat slit had been laid at the base of a drinking fountain. What appeared to be its blood saturated the fountain during the demonstration.
“The only thing that will save this nation is to create a 250-year progressive route forward,” said speaker Tamika Mallory, a leading force behind the George Floyd riots. “Our assignment is not to preserve institutions and ideologies we inherited from some mythical idea. It is to build a new system worthy of generations to come.”
‘Set Free Our Radical Imaginations’
“Independence is actually a myth created by those with power to erase the work of others that have helped them gain resources and steal resources and status,” said activist Mia Ives-Rublee in a speech at the event. Ives-Rublee said independence impedes the collective mindset Marxists like her coalition desire.
The organizers said they talked to people in “listening groups” across 36 states and 25 tribal nations to free people from the oppression of independence. They propose a new Declaration of Interdependence with a new, communist “bill of rights,” which include: “Right to Climate Justice for All, Right to Protest for All, Right to Gun Safety and Peace for All, Right to Reproductive Health and Health Care for All, Right to Voting Rights for All, Right to Immigration for All, and Right to Living Wage for All.”
Iman Mamdouh, an environmental lawyer and coalition member, told The Federalist the Declaration of Independence was “a beautiful thing, but it was also reflective of an America that existed 250 years ago written by white men. We need to reflect on what was and re-imagine where we are going next in our new vision of America.”
Mamdouh says she can see this new vision reflected in recent elections Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) party members won in New York City and elsewhere: “We’re getting people involved that look, think, and act like us who want to make change.” Stoking grievances is a textbook Marxist tactic to recruit disaffected people.
Saru Jayarman, a co-founder of Next250, said the DSA party has been involved “tangentially” with their cause: “They focus more on winning elections, but they’ve supported all our initiatives,” Jayarman told The Federalist.
‘We’re One Big Family’
Before creating “All of US Next250 mobilization,” Mallory, Linda Sarsour, and Carmen Perez-Jordan were three of the four founders of the anti-Trump 2017 Women’s March. Sarsour and Mallory also co-founded “Until Freedom” in 2019. That was the driving force behind the nationwide Black Lives Matter riots after Floyd’s death.
“We need special opportunities like today to raise awareness to the cause,” Mallory told The Federalist. “But the real work is what our organizations are doing behind the scenes.”
After 2020, Until Freedom’s funding diminished. Then between 2023-2024, it saw a 63 percent increase in revenue from grants, which made up 96 percent of total revenue. The biggest expense was “compensation of current officers,” followed by “travel costs.” The latest federal financial filings from the organization show Sarsour and Mallory made six-figure salaries from Until Freedom, one of their many often-overlapping organizations.
Their “Next250” startup is involved in the “All of U.S. 250” mobilization effort. Numerous chapters of the organizations behind recent anti-Trump ICE Out and No Kings protests, Indivisible and 50501, also partnered with All of U.S. 250. Those groups, which claim to be “grassroots,” are directly linked to funds from foreign leftist billionaires. Indivisible Project, the group’s 501(c) body, has received more than $7.6 million from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, since 2017.
“We’re all one big family here,” Mallory told The Federalist. “We’re sisters in a greater cause.”
Sarsour spearheaded “All of US.” She has also created campaigns for the Council on American Islamic Relations. She serves on the W.K. Kellogg Foundations Solidarity Council on Racial Equity and played a prominent role in the mayoral campaign for DSA affiliate Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s communist mayor.
“I’m unapologetically Palestinian-American, unapologetically Muslim, and unapologetically from New York,” Sarsour said in a speech at the event.
‘Make This Country Ungovernable’
The Floyd riots brought elementary schoolteacher Katie Sayour, a male who claims to be female and a member of the D.C. chapter of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), to identify as a revolutionary, he said.
“The George Floyd rebellion is the biggest struggle of our time,” Sayour told The Federalist. “I mean, we literally burned down police stations and yet six years later we’re still fighting.”
D.C. FRSO is part of the D.C. Coalition Against The Trump Agenda, one of the Next250 hosts. The FRSO had a table at the event.
“It starts with building this united front, with building up the people and showing the people what to fight for and that this is everyone’s fight,” Sayour said. “We follow with the masses and support what they want and what they want is to get rid of Trump. All of us here at this protest are united to fan the flames and make this country ungovernable against him.”
An FBI report describes FRSO as a “revolutionary socialist, Marxist-Leninist” and “domestic terrorist” organization that supports foreign terrorist organizations affiliated with the Communist Party in Palestinian territory, Colombia, and the Philippines. A 2023 post on the D.C. FRSO Facebook page says their “general strategy for revolution in the U.S.” is “focused on recruiting and building towards the creation of a new Communist Party based on Marxism-Leninism.”
Sayour said FRSO does “a lot of work with DSA” but their chapter focuses on demonstrations, while DSA focuses on elections.
‘We Own America’
Sarsour asserted in her speech that she is “even more of a true patriot” than “those who support the Trump agenda.”
“We own America and we will set the tone for what the next 250 years will mean,” Mallory said. “It will take a movement of people who are willing to put their lives on the line to protect what we build.”
Mallory said their cause would “not be possible without the work of the Black Panther Party” and that it is “now up to them to finish the unfinished work that the civil rights movement started.” The Black Panther Party is not only violent but has longstanding Communist ties.
Pastor Michael McBride of The Way Christian Center, came from Berkley, California, for the demonstration. McBride called on the crowd to raise their right fists in the Communist salute and affirm the Declaration of Interdependence. It looked like a foreign country at McPherson Square, with no “Old Glory” flying in sight. But Palestinian, Cuban, and Haitian flags were displayed proudly.
“All power to the people!” the crowd shouted. “The people will have all the power!”
