What is unfolding in Minnesota is not a spontaneous uprising or a loosely organized protest movement. It is something far more deliberate. Agitators — including elected officials — have been coordinating efforts to stalk, harass, and effectively hunt ICE agents using encrypted Signal group chats. Thanks to the work of Cam Higby and others who infiltrated these chats, the public is now getting a rare look inside how this operation actually functions.
🚨💵 BREAKING: SIGNALGATE DONORS LIST AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD; POLITICIANS + FOREIGN LEADERSHIP CONFIRMED?
In one of the files revealed by @camhigby , a resources file directs people with money to a website, Stand with Minnesota, which in turns directs donors to a campaign ran by… pic.twitter.com/5CDhWxRKhk
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 26, 2026
The messages themselves are startling, not just for their tone, but for the level of coordination and the identities of the people involved. These are not anonymous radicals shouting into the void. They are organized actors, working assigned roles, operating on schedules, and communicating in real time as they track federal law enforcement officers across the state.
Now, the picture has grown even darker. DataRepublican has obtained and released the donor list — the people funding this operation. These are not just ideological supporters cheering from the sidelines. These are individuals and organizations putting real money behind an effort designed to obstruct federal law enforcement.
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— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 26, 2026
At the center of that funding pipeline is a campaign run by Tending the Soil and hosted on the crowdfunding platform Chuffed. The first recorded donation came from Jonny Soppotiuk, a Canada-based community organizer who is part of Chuffed’s leadership and specializes in fundraising. That detail alone raises serious questions. When the earliest funding originates from a foreign national embedded within the infrastructure of the platform hosting the campaign, it is no longer paranoid to ask whether outside actors are helping drive this effort.
And I’m passing all the screenshots to the powers that be in a big zip folder linked to each donation ID. Womp womp
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 26, 2026
DataRepublican has compiled a spreadsheet identifying more than 4,000 donors and their possible identities. That information has already been circulated to federal authorities. The scale of the funding suggests this is not a fringe effort scraping together spare change, but a well-resourced operation capable of sustaining long-term coordination, logistics, and legal support for those involved.
They’re getting a different version of this spreadsheet… one that’s much, much less sanitized.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 26, 2026
All of this reinforces what the Signal chat leaks already suggested: this is not protest. It is not organic outrage. It is a structured, financed campaign aimed at interfering with lawful federal operations. The involvement of elected officials, sympathetic media figures, and now potentially foreign-linked fundraising makes the situation even more alarming.
