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INVESTIGATION: The Grassroots Campaign That Never Existed
X ^ | June 30, 2025 | Sam E. Antar

Posted on 07/03/2025 5:07:13 PM PDT by Twotone

Zohran Mamdani built his entire political brand on being "people-powered" and "grassroots." But when you examine the actual data, a very different picture emerges.

🔗 Full investigation with receipts: ➡️ https://whitecollarfraud.com/2025/06/30/the-mamdani-deception-the-grassroots-campaign-that-never-existed/

THE SETUP: → 2.8 million Instagram followers → 1.7 million YouTube views → Extensive favorable media coverage → Professional campaign website with prominent "DONATE" button → Public appearances and interviews → Massive online reach designed to capture small-dollar donations

THE REALITY: Out of 27,674 individual contributions to Mamdani's campaign, exactly 77 had no bundler attribution — and collectively, they amounted to $0.00.

Let me repeat that: ZERO DOLLARS in organic donations.

Every single dollar of his $1.7 million in private fundraising came through political intermediaries, with 94% funneled through a single professional fundraiser.

THE TECHNICAL EVIDENCE: We examined the source code behind his donation infrastructure. His campaign website's "DONATE" button links directly to the NYC Campaign Finance Board's tracking system — a platform that distinguishes between bundled contributions and organic donations from the public.

Even his Instagram Linktree has a direct "Donate" button giving 2.8 million followers one-click access to contribute.

The tracking data doesn't lie: Despite massive public exposure across every channel, not a single person was inspired to donate organically.

THE BROADER DECEPTION: Allied PAC spending ($1.9 million) actually exceeded even his bundling operation ($1.7 million) — meaning outside political groups spent more supporting Mamdani than his supposed "grassroots" donors.

This wasn't grassroots. It was astroturfing with a professional PR campaign.

You can't call a campaign "people-powered" when 100% of your financial support comes through political intermediaries rather than from people who discovered you organically.

The revolution didn't start with a $10 donation from someone who watched a video or saw an Instagram post.

It started with a spreadsheet full of bundlers.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: astroturf; bundlers; campaign; donations; grassroots; mamdani; noroots; zohranmamdani

1 posted on 07/03/2025 5:07:13 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

It started with a spreadsheet full of bundlers.


2 posted on 07/03/2025 5:16:23 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Twotone
THIS is what REAL investigative journalism looks like!
3 posted on 07/03/2025 5:53:41 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Twotone

Bambooroots.


4 posted on 07/03/2025 6:36:59 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Pretty smart wouldn’t you say?


5 posted on 07/03/2025 6:51:50 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Twotone

i think the silver-lining in all of this is that there is zero grass roots support for this fool ... he can astro-turf “donations” all he wants, but astro-turfing funding doesn’t translate into grass roots votes ...


6 posted on 07/03/2025 7:48:08 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman

“i think the silver-lining in all of this is that there is zero grass roots support for this fool ... he can astro-turf “donations” all he wants, but astro-turfing funding doesn’t translate into grass roots votes ...”
Maybe so but the majority of NYC’s population is pretty stupid.


7 posted on 07/03/2025 8:26:25 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: Twotone

bkmk New York


8 posted on 07/04/2025 3:33:44 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Twotone

So who are the bundlers, who are the behind guys and who are the behind guys in the PACS. IOWs how is Soros trying to destroy NYC this time.


9 posted on 07/04/2025 4:32:11 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Twotone

Pajama Boy is a total creation of the machine.


10 posted on 07/04/2025 4:44:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Twotone

He is so Obama.


11 posted on 07/04/2025 4:46:31 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: catnipman

i think the silver-lining in all of this is that there is zero grass roots support for this fool ...

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There was an article posted on here a few days ago, stating that there was a flurry of new ‘voters’ registering, supposedly just for Mamdani. I wonder if those aren’t being created, too. NY’rs better get out in droves for Adams (although I could wish it was Sliwa), or they’ll get stuck with a truly bad apple.


12 posted on 07/04/2025 4:50:36 AM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: wjcsux

Debate Mamdanis policies without vitriol (I know it’s hard) because it may drive some right into his camp for spite.
IMO the way to deal with NYC turning democratic socialist is to insulate the rest of the population from their bad decisions. Avoid another 1975 crisis


13 posted on 07/04/2025 5:52:48 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: wjcsux

there is zero grass roots support for this fool ... he can astro-turf “donations” all he wants, but astro-turfing funding doesn’t translate into grass roots votes

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It does if he has DOMINION over his voters maybe.

;-)


14 posted on 07/04/2025 6:07:52 AM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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To: Twotone

Hmm.. For someone like him that managed to win a primary, I find it hard to believe that he actually has, specifically, ZERO actual donations. There’s no way thousands of people support a candidate for absolutely none of them to donate to him...?


15 posted on 07/06/2025 9:47:24 AM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: Svartalfiar

Also, how do you have 77 donors that donated $0? That makes no sense unless you a) built your own donation submission code from scratch and b) had an idiot coding that didn’t sanitize inputs to be at least >0.


16 posted on 07/06/2025 9:49:25 AM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: Svartalfiar

There’s no way thousands of people support a candidate for absolutely none of them to donate to him...?


On the other hand, his supporters are those that want everyone ELSE to pay for what they want. So maybe it makes sense after all.


17 posted on 07/06/2025 11:41:40 AM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Svartalfiar
how do you have 77 donors that donated $0? The full article says:

As of June 27, 2025, out of 27,674 individual contributions made to Mamdani’s campaign, exactly 77 had no bundler attribution — and collectively, they amounted to $0.00. These entries appear to be refunds, chargebacks, or bookkeeping adjustments rather than legitimate standalone donations.

-PJ

18 posted on 07/06/2025 12:04:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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