A progressive group founded by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cut a large check recently to a climate change activist hub financing organizations behind disruptive anti-oil protests, bringing the total cash transfers to at least $500,000, records show.
Onward Together, which Clinton launched after losing the 2016 election, says it's "committed to lifting up emerging organizations and leaders who are fighting for our shared progressive values and defending our democracy." That pledge apparently includes funding Climate Emergency Fund , a charity backing groups leading demonstrations to bring awareness to climate change by vandalizing fine art, blocking major roads, gluing themselves to sports cars, and engaging in other extremist forms of protest.
Between April 2022 and March 2023, the nonprofit advocacy arm of Onward Together granted $200,000 to Climate Emergency Fund, according to Onward Together's tax forms filed in 2024.
CEF, which during the preceding fiscal year received $300,000 from the Clinton-tied group, is based in Beverly Hills and props up activists at groups like Just Stop Oil that, in 2022, splattered tomato soup on a Vincent Van Gogh painting at London's National Gallery estimated to be worth $84 million. In March 2024, activists for Declare Emergency, which along with Just Stop Oil is part of a coalition primarily funded by CEF called A22 Network, were charged with vandalizing the display of the U.S. Constitution at the National Archives.
Moreover, CEF funds the Washington, D.C.-based Climate Defiance, the activists of which have also been arrested for unorthodox protests. This upcoming Tuesday, Climate Defiance will host an event in the district for its one-year "birthday" alongside progressive Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), according to an event invitation.
"Anyone who cares about public safety and preventing vandalism should be deeply concerned that money connected to Hillary Clinton is propping up these radicalized eco activists," said Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of the Power the Future energy advocacy group.
The $200,000 grant to CEF was one of seven grants that Onward Together disbursed in its most recent fiscal year, along with support to the affiliated Onward Together charity, left-wing Voter Participation Center, NextGen America founded by billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer , and others.
However, the grant to CEF was by far Onward Together's largest — with others ranging between $25,000 and $50,000.
"Congress would be wise to immediately investigate the shady origins and dastardly flow of this tainted Clinton cash," Turner told the Washington Examiner.
Onward Together is hardly alone in funding CEF, which receives donations from Rory Kennedy, daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Hollywood producer Adam McKay, actor Jeremy Strong, and Abigail Disney, daughter of ex-Disney executive Roy E. Disney, among others, the Washington Examiner reported .
Onward Together has an affiliated political action committee that backs congressional Democrats, Federal Election Commission filings show. According to filings, a PAC affiliated with "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) directed $9,000 to CEF in 2021.
Meanwhile, another key funder to CEF is billionaire philanthropist Aileen Getty, who can thank Big Oil for making her donations possible.
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She's an heiress to the Getty family's petroleum industry fortune.
Climate Emergency Fund and Onward Together did not reply to requests for comment.
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