Independent journalist left Laura Ingraham furious when he exposed what SEIU was just caught recruiting for

The radical left’s carefully crafted image of "grassroots resistance" is crumbling.

One reporter’s eyewitness account pulled back the curtain on what’s really happening at these so-called spontaneous demonstrations.

And an independent journalist shocked Laura Ingraham when he exposed what SEIU was just caught recruiting for at LA protests that will leave forced dues payers fuming.

SEIU caught red-handed running socialist recruitment operation

Independent journalist Anthony Cabassa dropped a bombshell on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle Monday night about what he witnessed during Los Angeles’ recent "No Kings" protest against President Donald Trump.

Millions of anti-Trump protesters flooded streets across major U.S. cities Saturday to "reject" what leftist organizers branded as Trump’s "authoritarianism."

Laura Ingraham pressed Cabassa about his on-the-ground reporting, noting something viewers had observed for years — it seemed to be "the same people at the protests every single time."¹

Cabassa confirmed what many suspected but few could prove. "I think you’re right," Cabassa said. "I’ve been covering the LA protests, going back all the way to the George Floyd protests and riots that happened out here. And I’ve been seeing a lot of the same usual suspects."²

The usual suspects weren’t just random angry citizens. They were professional radical leftist organizations — the Democratic Socialists of America and the Party of Socialism and Liberation.

But Saturday’s protest revealed something even more disturbing.

"And even this Saturday, I witnessed SEIU, which I believe the largest union in the nation, if not the second largest, they had tents out there," Cabassa revealed.³

The Service Employees International Union have 2 million workers under their control across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico — healthcare workers, janitors, government employees, and others who are told dues money will be used to protect their jobs and improve their working conditions.⁴

That’s the big lie in most union workplaces.

The infuriating truth is that the vast majority of these workers who aren’t fortunate enough to reside in a state with Right to Work protections for workers are forced to pay dues or they’ll lose their jobs.

That’s the type of coercion the leftist Big Labor bosses rely on to stuff their political war chest to elect overwhelmingly Democrat, but occasionally RINO, politicians who will vote to give them more power and money.

Union bosses are left-wing plain and simple, except where the workers they have bargaining power over are allowed to vote with their dues dollars then you see the rank-and-file have a financial check on Big Labor’s far-left tendencies.

Cabassa witnessed something that should outrage every SEIU worker, whether they voluntarily pay dues or are forced to at the threat of losing their job.

"They were recruiting people to the Party of Socialism and Liberation and the Democratic Socialists of America," Cabassa explained. "So, I posted that on my socials that they were recruiting the youth, some of these new people coming out and wanting to ‘resist fascism,’ saying that only socialism can defeat fascism."⁵

Union dues funding radical indoctrination pipeline

The implications hit Cabassa immediately. "So, I’m kind of interested to see what some of the union members of SEIU have to feel about the fact that their union due money is being used to recruit the youth and some of these protesters into socialist parties," Cabassa added.⁶

Think about what this means. Healthcare workers, janitors, and government employees across America are having their hard-earned money deducted from their paychecks — money they were told would be used to fight for better wages and working conditions.

Instead, SEIU is setting up recruiting tents at leftist protests to pipeline young people into radical socialist organizations.

The Party of Socialism and Liberation isn’t some moderate political group. They’re self-described revolutionary Marxists who openly advocate for overthrowing capitalism. The Democratic Socialists of America push similar radical leftist ideology.

And SEIU — a union that claims to represent working-class Americans — is actively recruiting impressionable young people into these movements at protests.

The strategic location of these recruiting operations tells you everything.

First California is a forced unionism state, so the SEIU Brass know there isn’t much the forced dues paying workers under their control can do about it if they’re opposed to the union bosses’ left-wing political activism.

And, SEIU knows the few young people who showed up to the anti-Trump protests are already emotionally charged, politically engaged, and looking for somewhere to direct their energy. They’re prime targets for radicalization.

SEIU officials set up their tents, offered materials about "resisting fascism," and funneled eager protesters directly into other hardcore socialist organizations – organizations whose operations it’s almost guaranteed they’ll turn around and fund with more dues dollars come election time.

This wasn’t some rogue local chapter operating independently. These were official SEIU tents with union branding and materials. This was organizational infrastructure in action.

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SEIU’s track record reveals systematic leftist political machine

The SEIU’s radical recruiting operation at Saturday’s protests fits a well-established pattern of using union resources to advance far-left political causes.

Since 1990, SEIU has been the nation’s top organization contributing to federal campaigns, donating $232,694,670 — and 99 percent of that money went to Democrats.⁷

That’s not a typo. Out of $232 million in political contributions over three decades, less than 1% went to Republicans – and you can bet which end of the party they fell toward.

In 2024 alone, SEIU announced plans to spend $200 million to boost President Joe Biden and Democrats in electoral battlegrounds — the union’s largest political investment ever.⁸

The union also spent $19,676,660 on additional lobbying since 1998.⁹

And that’s all just the direct political spending and doesn’t cover their transfers to dark money activist groups.

SEIU endorsed failed Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in 2024 and has been one of the Democrat Party’s most reliable funding sources for decades.¹⁰

But political donations to candidates are just one piece of the puzzle. The more insidious operation happens on the ground at protests where unions like SEIU uses its organizational muscle and financial resources to recruit the next generation of radical leftists.

Cabassa’s reporting from Saturday confirms what many suspected — these "grassroots" protests are actually professionally organized operations backed by major unions and funded by workers who have no idea their dues are being used this way.

The infrastructure required to set up recruiting tents, print materials, staff them with trained organizers, and coordinate with radical socialist groups doesn’t appear overnight. This represents systematic planning and resource allocation.

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House investigation exposes SEIU’s troubling priorities

The timing of SEIU’s recruiting operation is particularly disturbing given recent revelations about the union’s judgment when it comes to protecting young people.

The House Education and Workforce Committee recently opened an investigation into SEIU after the union hired a child molester to a top local chapter role.¹¹

Republican Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg sent a letter to the union on June 24 asking why its San Francisco chapter hired sex offender Noelia Linares as a business agent.¹²

The investigation was opened after the Daily Caller News Foundation revealed the employee’s record.

So SEIU leadership demonstrated catastrophic judgment by hiring a convicted child molester to a position of authority — and now they’re running recruiting tents at protests specifically targeting youth to join radical socialist organizations.

The cognitive dissonance is staggering. Union leadership apparently can’t be trusted to properly vet employees who will work around vulnerable populations, but they’re aggressively recruiting young people at protests to join extremist political movements.

Workers footing the bill deserve answers.

Why are union bosses allowed to siphon off money from their paychecks and use it to recruit youth into radical socialist organizations?

Who approved setting up these recruiting tents? What other "grassroots" protests has SEIU been coordinating behind the scenes?

The protests were anything but peaceful

Media coverage of Saturday’s "No Kings" protests emphasized how "peaceful" the demonstrations were — but the arrest numbers tell a different story.

Reports revealed that at least 34 protesters were arrested during the events for offenses ranging from terroristic threats to assaults.¹³

In Denver, 13 people were arrested after protesters ignored police orders to disperse and attempted to access Interstate 25.¹⁴

Los Angeles police arrested 14 people during the protests, including two minors.¹⁵

In Chicago, where an estimated 250,000 people gathered, tensions ran high as activists could be seen carrying a piñata resembling Trump — with video footage showing a child stabbing and hitting the figure as others watching cheered.¹⁶

It’s no coincidence all those cities are located in forced unionism states, where workers have almost zero recourse to hold union bosses accountable for what they’re fomenting with their dues dollars.

This is what SEIU calls "resisting fascism" — recruiting young people to join socialist parties at protests where children are encouraged to simulate violence against political figures.

Democrats and media allies insisted the protests were peaceful expressions of First Amendment rights. But assault arrests, terroristic threats, and children being encouraged to attack Trump effigies paint a darker picture.

SEIU was right there in the middle of it all, setting up their tents and handing out recruiting materials to radicalize the next generation.

The union did not immediately respond to requests for comment about Cabassa’s eyewitness account of their recruiting operations.¹⁷

Union workers should demand accountability

Here’s what SEIU leadership doesn’t want workers to understand — this recruiting operation at Saturday’s protests exposes the lie at the heart of Big Labor’s claims about unionization’s core purpose.

Unions claim they fight for better wages, safer working conditions, and job security for their members.

Instead, SEIU is diverting resources to set up recruiting tents at anti-Trump protests to pipeline impressionable young people into radical Marxist organizations – all in furtherance of policies that ultimately hurt every Americans’ pocket book.

The healthcare workers, janitors, and government employees paying SEIU dues aren’t funding these operations because they support revolutionary socialism.

Most union dues payers are working-class Americans whose politics couldn’t be further from what those dollars by and large support.

But monopoly bargaining power and the ability to fire workers who don’t cough up dues dollars have transformed a workers’ union into a political action committee and recruiting arm for the radical left.

The pattern Cabassa identified goes back years. SEIU has appeared at every major leftist protest even long before the George Floyd riots, working alongside the Democratic Socialists of America and Party of Socialism and Liberation.

This isn’t organic grassroots activism. It’s systematic political organizing funded by union dues from workers who never agreed to subsidize radical leftist political operations.

The uncomfortable truth for SEIU leadership is that most of their members probably don’t even know these recruiting tents exist at protests. They certainly didn’t vote to fund this activity.

Workers deserve better than having their hard-earned money used to radicalize young Americans into joining organizations that want to destroy the economic system that provides those union jobs in the first place.

The next time SEIU asks for dues increases or seeks member support, workers should remember those recruiting tents at Saturday’s protests and ask some very pointed questions about where their money is really going.

¹ Fox News, "The Ingraham Angle," October 21, 2025.

² Ibid.

³ Ibid.

⁴ Service Employees International Union official website, accessed October 21, 2025.

⁵ Fox News, "The Ingraham Angle," October 21, 2025.

⁶ Ibid.

⁷ OpenSecrets, "Service Employees International Union Profile," accessed October 21, 2025.

⁸ Jenn Gidman, "SEIU to spend $200 million to get working class voters to back Biden, Democrats," The Washington Post, March 13, 2024.

⁹ OpenSecrets, "Service Employees International Union Profile," accessed October 21, 2025.

¹⁰ Service Employees International Union, press releases archive, 2024.

¹¹ Hailey Gomez, "Journalist Says He Saw Pro-Democrat Union ‘Recruiting’ Youth for Socialist Groups During LA’s ‘No Kings’ Protest," Daily Caller News Foundation, October 21, 2025.

¹² Ibid.

¹³ Ibid.

¹⁴ Alex Burness, "13 arrested during Denver’s ‘No Kings’ protests, police say," The Denver Post, October 19, 2025.

¹⁵ "LAPD made 14 arrests at Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protest," LAist, October 20, 2025.

¹⁶ Hailey Gomez, "Journalist Says He Saw Pro-Democrat Union ‘Recruiting’ Youth for Socialist Groups During LA’s ‘No Kings’ Protest," Daily Caller News Foundation, October 21, 2025.

¹⁷ Ibid.