🚨ARTICLE: The Shadow Cabinet of Soros🚨
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This is the story of National Security Action, a secretive Soros NGO.
Ten days after Trump's inauguration, a former Pentagon official publicly floated a military coup in Foreign Policy magazine. Within a year, she was advising a new… https://t.co/WnfGTaTg6y pic.twitter.com/DZq25eB43X
Inside the Soros-Funded Nonprofit That Hand-Picked Biden's National Security Team, Then Pretended to Dissolve
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On January 30, 2017 — ten days into the Trump presidency —
published an article in Foreign Policy titled
She outlined four scenarios for removing the new president from office: impeachment, the 25th Amendment, cabinet revolt, and a military coup. Of the last option, Brooks wrote that it was "a possibility that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America."
Brooks was a former
at the Pentagon, where she reported to
from 2009 to 2011. Before that, she served as
— the predecessor name for George Soros's Open Society Foundations. After leaving government, she went to Georgetown Law, where she holds the
.
Within the same year of her article, a new organization was quietly incorporated. National Security Action was
and
. Its co-chairs were
, Obama's deputy national security advisor, and
, who would become Biden's national security advisor. Rosa Brooks sat on its advisory council. So did approximately sixty other people — 88.6% of them Obama administration alumni.
The organization's primary funder was the
, a Soros family 501(c)(4). Brooks also served on the
— the upstream grant-making entity within the same Soros network that was financing the organization whose advisory council she had joined.
This is the story of that organization.
The Roster
National Security Action
— sixty advisory council members and ten staff. Its advisory council included
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— Obama's former national security advisor — served on the advisory council.
— 65.7% — received Biden administration appointments. Sullivan became
. Blinken became
. Burns became
. Haines became
. Power
. Thomas-Greenfield became
. McDonough
. Mayorkas
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that the organization has been "funded largely by Alex Soros since its inception." She called them "the Biden bros." But Biden contributed five or six actual loyalists to a sixty-person advisory council. The other fifty-four were Obama alumni, maintained between administrations by Soros money. These are the Soros boys. They have been since the beginning.
The Pipeline
For
,
oversaw every senior appointment in the federal government. As Director of the
, she oversaw the selection of every cabinet secretary, deputy secretary, assistant secretary, NSC director, and ambassador.
Russell is married to
— the former Obama national security advisor who
. Between ten and fourteen members of that organization received senior national security appointments requiring her office's coordination during her tenure. No public record of formal recusal exists.
Donilon simultaneously
while
. His brother,
, served as Senior Advisor to President Biden until January 2024. Tom Donilon did not take a formal Biden administration position. His wife ran the office that selected the others.
Caroline Tess ran NSA's day-to-day operations as Executive Director. She also
. The person who ran the organization whose members were being placed also ran the process that placed them. She returned to NSA as
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The Money
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The money came through a single chain. George Soros's personal wealth flows into the
, a 501(c)(4) with approximately
. The Fund sends hundreds of millions annually to the
, also called the Open Society Action Fund.
. The Action Fund distributes to NSA:
. Total confirmed from Open Society to NSA: $8.2 million —
.
served simultaneously as Executive Director of the
and as a
, the organization his entity was funding. His
. During that period, the entity he directed issued
,
, and almost 2 million to
.
: "Nobody — not even the various comms people working for N.S.A. — would tell me who is on the organization's board or confirm that the group's funding comes from Soros."
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What They Did in Office
On
, a suicide bomber killed
and 169 Afghan civilians at Abbey Gate during the
. The
, led by Chairman McCaul,
that Sullivan systematically exercised powers over the withdrawal process, with the NSC serving as "the nerve center for critical decision making" — substituting its judgment for that of the State Department and Defense Department on decisions those agencies were designated to make.
, who served as
during this period,
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On
, Hamas launched its attack on Israel. The NSA alumni who occupied every senior intelligence and national security position in the United States government that morning included Sullivan as National Security Advisor, Blinken as Secretary of State, Haines as Director of National Intelligence, and Burns as CIA Director.
At the
, Rhodes confronted Sullivan about the aftermath.
that Rhodes "suggested that Sullivan needed to reckon with the stain of that policy." A former senior State Department official told Puck: "This is the Jake and Jon Show: Redux, and nobody I know is happy about it. The idea that the same foreign policy leadership that brought us the Afghanistan withdrawal and the cover-up of Biden's decline should be in charge of staffing the next Democratic administration and determining its foreign policy is tone deaf at best."
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The "Dissolution"
When Biden took office in January 2021, NSA was supposed to dissolve. Its people were in government. The outside organization was no longer needed. The
show what actually happened.
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In 2021, the "dissolution" year, NSA received $1.5 million from the Open Society Action Fund. Tess was listed as "Interim Executive Director" — the first appearance of the "Interim" designation in the filing record. In 2022, revenue dropped to zero, but NSA spent $660,686 burning the 2021 reserve. In 2023, Open Society sent another $900,000. Tess, now permanent Executive Director, was paid $267,000 for a full-time forty-hour work week. NSA spent $1.8 million — nearly double its revenue — with twenty-three information returns filed against only three W-2 employees, suggesting up to twenty contractor engagements.
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The 2023 990 XML reveals where the money went. Events spending: $742,244 — double the 2024 events budget of $372,482. The primary activity during "dissolution" was convening. The word NSA insiders use is "hibernation."
: NSA "largely went into hibernation" after Sullivan and Finer entered government.
Total received by NSA from its primary funder during the "dormant" period of 2021–2023: $2.4 million.
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The Reactivation
In
from his father. He told the Wall Street Journal he was
than his father. He sat on the boards of both upstream entities in NSA's funding chain — the Fund for Policy Reform and the Open Society Policy Center.
On
, Tom Perriello exited the Open Society Policy Center — three weeks after Alex's takeover.
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Between May and November 2023, four NSA-adjacent personnel left the Biden administration. Susan Rice departed the White House in May. Colin Kahl left the Pentagon in July. Wendy Sherman left the State Department in July. Tom Nides left his ambassadorship that summer. All four exits predated October 7.
They left as Biden's polls were collapsing. In March 2023,
. By August,
found roughly three-quarters of the public — including 69% of Democrats — said Biden was too old to be effective for a second term.
The "relaunch" on
was a press release for a decision already made. Caroline Tess issued a statement: "Our goal was to put ourselves out of business — and to a great extent we did. Yet today, the dire threat of a second Trump Administration necessitates that we once again mobilize." But Tess's full-time $267,000 salary for all of 2023 confirms the operation was running from January at minimum — thirteen months before the public announcement.
The Harris Pivot
In 2020, George Soros poured
— a record at the time. For Biden's reelection, the family's direct support was conspicuously modest: on
, George and Alex Soros each gave the legal maximum of $6,600 to the campaign, then
. I could not find any other direct checks. The larger machinery —
in January 2024 — backed the party's infrastructure, not the president personally.
On
. Within hours,
.
, the primary pro-Harris super PAC. The pivot was instant.
Harris had no independent national security bench — no Ben Rhodes, no Jake Sullivan. Of the NSA members who left the Biden administration before its end, seven joined the Harris campaign.
, NSA advisory council member, became Harris's National Security Advisor — a role he had held since her vice presidency.
The Two Security Actions
At 1 Thomas Circle NW, Suite 700, Washington DC — the offices of the Center for International Policy — there existed a 501(c)(4) called "New Security Action," filing IRS returns under that name since 2009. Its stated mission: "building public support for progressive national security policies."
In February 2018, Rhodes and Sullivan incorporated "
." One word different. Same funder. Same policy space.
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In 2020, the original "New Security Action" formally rebranded. The IRS filing reads: "WIN WITHOUT WAR F/K/A NEW SECURITY ACTION." Win Without War's IRS-registered name remains "New Security Action" to this day. A 2023
grant lists the recipient as "Win Without War dba New Security Action."
was founded in 2002 as a project of the
. Stephen Miles was CIP's Program Director in 2017–2018, then became Win Without War's Executive Director and later President — the organizational bridge between the parent and the spinoff.
Open Society funded both organizations. $8+ million to National Security Action. $1.4+ million to Win Without War. Open Society gave Win Without War's parent, CIP, $3+ million.
In October 2025, Win Without War — the organization still legally named "New Security Action" — launched the
at military bases, directing servicemembers to question their orders, in partnership with the
. One month later, on November 18,
telling active-duty troops: "Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders." One of those six lawmakers was Rep.
of New Hampshire. She is
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The Echo Chamber
In May 2016, the
. He admitted creating an "echo chamber" to sell the Iran nuclear deal: "We created an echo chamber. They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say."
Rhodes now simultaneously holds five positions: Co-Chair of NSA.
. Co-Host of
on Crooked Media, founded by Obama White House communications staff.
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, which
and
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At no point in his cable news appearances is Rhodes routinely identified as "Chair of National Security Action." He is identified as "former Deputy National Security Advisor" — his government credential, not his current advocacy role.
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A search for "National Security Action" across 1,600 transcripts from Brookings, Carnegie, CSIS, the Council on Foreign Relations, Heritage, and dozens of other think tanks returns zero results. Center for American Progress appears twenty-eight times. CNAS appears six times. NSA — the organization that placed forty-six people in the Biden administration — appears zero times. Its co-founders appear in over seventy transcripts combined. The organization does not exist in the public record of Washington's foreign policy conversation.
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Rosa Brooks and the Three-Stage Pipeline
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Brooks's January 2017 article did not exist in isolation. It described a capability she would spend the next three years helping to build.
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In late 2017, she joined the advisory council of the organization assembling the personnel — NSA. She simultaneously sat on the board of the entity funding it — OSF US Programs, which sent $4.9 million to NSA. Then in late 2019, she co-founded the Transition Integrity Project with Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute — the operation that war-gamed scenarios in which the military and federal institutions would refuse to recognize election results. TIP ran under the organizational umbrella of Protect Democracy, Ian Bassin's organization. Its war games ran in the summer of 2020 with approximately 100 participants. Only about ten names are public. The other ninety have never been disclosed.
Three seats. Same years. Same funder behind all of it.
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The woman who publicly floated a military coup ten days into the Trump presidency went on to advise the organization assembling the national security state's next workforce, govern the board of the foundation paying for it, and co-found the project that rehearsed what that workforce would do if it didn't like an election outcome.
In His Own Words
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At 14:27: "I don't think Joe Biden would have won the last election absent a pandemic. Even with that, he like barely eaked out a victory. It wasn't like a correction."
At 10:14: "We as the defenders of democracy became defenders of a system that had lost a constituency."
At 19:33, criticizing the foreign policy approach his organization was built to staff: "Where I've been critical of the Democratic party, including the Biden administration, is there was kind of this desire to run it back, you know, like play the old hits, you know, like talk about NATO a lot, you know, um that's not where anybody is."
At 10:57, describing a class he taught at USC: "Each week we did a different autocrat. And it was meant to go through how the playbooks are similar but slightly different flavors. And we did Orban, Putin, Trump. We also did Modi and Netanyahu and Erdogan and Bolsonaro... and we did the Chinese. So we did eight autocrats."
In that entire speech — sixty-two minutes of direct remarks — Rhodes never once mentions National Security Action.
In May 2026, he told
: "The two most interesting projects to think about are the pipeline of people who might work on campaigns and populate a Democratic administration, and then the ideas that can form a progressive or Democratic foreign policy going forward."
That is the product description, from the manufacturer.
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and the
now house Sullivan as the
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as the
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— nine confirmed NSA alumni at one institution.
has absorbed
and
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— co-founded by NSA members Blinken and Michele Flournoy in 2017 — has taken
and
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In May 2026, NSA
. Bitar came directly from serving as Chief Counsel and National Security Adviser to
. Before that, he served on the Biden NSC as Senior Director for Intelligence Programs and then Deputy Assistant to the President.
An
, salary $100,000 to $110,000, is being hired — explicitly tasked with "building relationships with and conducting outreach to candidates and campaigns at congressional, state, and local levels."
NSA's website still lists no staff by name, no board members, no advisory council, no annual report, no financial disclosures.
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A Hill Democrat told Puck: "They're all canceled and they don't realize it." A second: "Power is never relinquished, it has to be taken — and right now, the legacy folks are holding it."
Same seventy people. Same funder. Same hedge fund office. A decade and counting.
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One of them wrote about a military coup ten days after inauguration. Within a year she was advising the organization that assembled the replacement government. Within three years she was war-gaming how to make the institutions refuse to certify an election. She held a seat on the board writing the checks the entire time.
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The woman who oversaw every senior national security appointment in the Biden administration was married to an advisory council member of the organization whose members she was appointing. The man who ran the Soros checkbook sat on the advisory council of the organization his entity was funding. The woman who ran the organization also ran the transition process that placed its members in government. The co-founder who built an echo chamber to sell the Iran Deal chairs the organization, appears on cable news under his government credential, and has never once mentioned it on camera or in sixty-two minutes of public remarks.
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The organization that placed forty-plus people in the Biden administration appears in zero of 1,600 think tank transcripts. Its own communications staff refused to confirm its funding source to a reporter. It received $2.4 million from that funder during the years it claimed to be dissolved. It spent $742,000 on events during its "dormant" year — double what it spent on events the year it was publicly operational. And its co-founder, on tape, admits the entire project only succeeded because of a pandemic.
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They are meeting at the same hedge fund office. They are funded by the same family. They are already hiring for the next cycle.
Rhodes said it himself: "The next Democratic administration should look quite different from the Biden administration." But the people planning it are the same people who ran the last one.
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