Three far left nonprofits with combined 2024 revenue of $56.1 million escalated their campaign against SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk by staging a demonstration outside his Austin area home. The Saturday gathering unfolded in West Lake Hills, Texas, where Musk owns a sprawling residence.

The organizations were VOCAL-TX, a fiscally sponsored project of New York nonprofit VOCAL-NY, the Brooklyn based Center for Popular Democracy Inc., and Chicago based People’s Action. Organizers billed the gathering as a “People Over Billionaires Election After Party.”

Two party buses, anti-Musk posters and Cybertruck piñatas show up outside Elon Musk's Texas home. Now, the money behind the protest is drawing attention.

Fox News Digital reports that three progressive organizations involved in Saturday's demonstration reported a combined $56.1 million in revenue in 2024. About 60 protesters gathered outside Musk's Austin-area residence, playing music, delivering speeches and celebrating the election results. Organizers called it a peaceful post-election party aimed at billionaire influence in politics. But the groups' financial filings reveal a much larger organizing network behind the demonstration. And the anti-Musk signs have a backstory of their own. See who commissioned them and how they spread nationwide: https://t.co/PUwJFHfpOp — Fox News (@FoxNews) November 9, 2026

About 60 people attended, according to estimates. Participants arrived aboard two blue Fly-Rides party buses and in additional vehicles, while organizers played music over loudspeakers, including Queen’s “We Will Rock You.”

“We'll bring the music, you bring the dance moves! This is family friendly, peaceful and FUN event!” organizers wrote while promoting the gathering. The event featured music, dancing, speeches, refreshments, party hats and theatrical piñatas.

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The Austin American-Statesman portrayed the scene playfully under the headline “Dozens party outside Elon Musk's West Lake Hills home after campaign donations fell flat.” Organizers also led participants through a “Love Train” conga line and served cider.

Demonstrators carried signs declaring “Texas is not for sale” and “Alright Texas! Now let’s tax Musk.” Attendees smashed star shaped props and piñatas designed like a Tesla Cybertruck as part of the spectacle outside Musk’s home.

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In March 2025, I reported on the big-money network of nonprofits behind “Tesla Takedown." Today for a new article at @FoxNews Digital, I traced that network to the protest outside Elon Musk's Austin home outside Austin. They threw a "People Over Billionaires Election After Party" and made it seem like it was an innocuous "party" protest but I immediately saw a clue that revealed that the protest was part of the professional protest industry I've made it my beat to map, track and follow the money. The San Antonio Austin-Statesmen provided a critical video from the streets during the protest "party." The giveaway? A red poster reading, “I AM STEALING FROM YOU,” with an intentionally creepy image of Musk. I've seen that poster again and again at the manufactured protests that the protest industry has been throwing since early 2025: "Tesla Takedown," "Hands Off," "No Kings," etc. etc. WATCH as I show the posters outside Musk’s home, trace how they were mass-produced by a Democratic PAC and reveal how they appeared at protests nationwide, only to land outside Musk's home this weekend. The three groups behind the "party" protest reported $56.1 million in 2024 revenue: Center for Popular Democracy: $40.9M VOCAL-TX, fiscally sponsored by VOCAL-NY, which had: $13.1M People’s Action: $2.1M The poster was commissioned by the Progressive Change Institute, the 501(c)(3) sister organization of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a Democratic POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, or PAC, and the PAC sells posters for donations. 1 poster: $30 5-pack: $135 10-pack: $250 The red poster is the tell. The protests agaisnt Musk aren't spontaneous grassroots outrage. It's AstroTurf. They are a branded, well-funded, coordinated POLITICAL campaign, raising tax compliance questions about the nonprofits that are sending foot soldiers into the streets to influence elections and politics. The groups involved didn't provide explanations in respons to requests for comments. They claim they are "grassroots." READ the full story: https://t.co/LqO0zhNFim — Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) November 9, 2026

Organizers promoted the event as a celebration of voters rejecting wealthy donors’ political influence. The protest centered on Musk’s spending during the 2026 election cycle, which a New York Times analysis placed at approximately $474 million in disclosed political spending.

Other analyses based more narrowly on Federal Election Commission filings put Musk’s spending at roughly $445 million. About $212 million supported Texas Republican Ken Paxton’s unsuccessful Senate campaign through allied political committees.

The organizations involved also helped lead the “Tesla Takedown” protests last year. A Fox News Digital investigation found that 258 organizations with estimated combined annual revenue of $2.6 billion were behind those demonstrations, some of which turned ugly.

Those earlier protests targeted Tesla and Musk over his political activities and his role in the new Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency, called DOGE. The protests led to vandalism against Tesla vehicles and dealerships.

A broader network of openly pro communist organizations also participated in anti-Musk activism. Groups including the Freedom Road Socialist Organization carried signs stating “DOWN WITH BILLIONAIRES. WE NEED SOCIALISM.”

Congressional lawmakers and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating American born, Shanghai based tycoon Neville Roy Singham for funding and backing pro communist groups. The Party for Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER Coalition, CodePink and People’s Forum have supported regular street protests, including demonstrations against Musk.

Financial filings reveal the considerable infrastructure behind Saturday’s gathering. The Center for Popular Democracy reported $40.9 million in 2024 revenue, People’s Action Institute reported $2.1 million, and VOCAL-NY reported $13.1 million.

Those organizations are separate entities, and the figures do not represent a shared operating budget. The Center for Popular Democracy also reported $38.2 million in contributions and $14.6 million in other salaries and compensation during 2024.

Its two executive leaders received average total compensation of $234,026, including bonuses, according to the latest tax filings. That was about four times the $63,360 median annual earnings of full time, year round American workers that year.

VOCAL-NY reported nearly $3.5 million in other salaries and wages. Its Texas codirector was listed among its highest paid employees, receiving $113,842 in salary and $21,854 in bonuses during 2024.

VOCAL-NY describes itself as a statewide grassroots membership organization focused on building power among lower income people affected by HIV/AIDS, drug policy, mass incarceration, the war on drugs, and homelessness. It says its work is conducted through organizing, campaigns, and harm reduction services.

The Center for Popular Democracy lists VOCAL-TX among its affiliates and describes itself as a grassroots network operating across dozens of states. People’s Action similarly presents itself as a national network promoting economic, racial and social equity through advocacy campaigns.

May Day Strong, another far-left coalition tagged in social media promotion for the event, describes itself as a “constellation” of more than 600 labor and community organizations. Its demands include taxing the rich, opposing ICE, expanding democracy, and organizing workers against the Trump administration.

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It's linked to China-based Neville Singham. IMAGINE THAT. "They're calling for an economic blackout, no work, no school, and no shopping to protest Donald Trump and the billionaire takeover." Per Fox News, 600 GROUPS, including actual communists, are mobilizing this: "...led by chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America and a network of groups – including the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER Coalition and Code Pink – funded by an American-born tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, based in Shanghai, promoting the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party." IT'S PAID, backed by COMMUNIST DOLLARS — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 1, 2026

Protesters also displayed the mass produced “I AM STEALING FROM YOU” poster portraying Musk with creepy eyes. The Progressive Change Institute has taken credit for commissioning the image from Washington, D.C., political street artist Absurdly Well.

Thousands of copies became part of the broader “Hands Off” protest network, while major media outlets featured the image in coverage. At least two copies appeared outside Musk’s home, giving the supposedly local party another piece of nationally coordinated political branding.

Leaders of the three organizations did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment. Although the groups have previously insisted their local protests arise from organic community organizing, Saturday’s buses, coordinated messaging, music and mass produced materials displayed the substantial machinery behind the show.

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