Bay Area Activists Canvass Nevada To Flip State to A Progressive Majority, Elect Harris-Walz

A recent report from CBS News reveals that a “progressive nonprofit” out of the Bay Area sent their communist-sympathizing activists to Nevada to canvass on behalf of Nevada Democrats and the Harris-Walz campaign.

According to CBS:

Dozens of volunteers from the Bay Area just returned from a canvassing trip to Reno, Nevada, and many are looking forward to returning to other swing states before the presidential elections.

Seed the Vote currently has more than 1,000 volunteers, and the organization’s goal is to have about 3,000 volunteers from the Bay Area. The plan is to canvass in five swing states: Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.

“This work is so important to democracy because at the end of the day, there’s a lot of misinformation and disinformation out there,” Emily Lee, executive director of Seed the Vote, said.

She said the organization’s volunteers aim to knock on about 70 to 80 doors daily in those swing states.

Digging deeper into the roots of Seed the Vote, the far left-of-center organization is a project of Everyday People PAC.

Both Emily Lee and the Director of Everyday People PAC, Le Tim Ly, worked for the nonprofit Chinese Progressive Association out of San Francisco.

Influence Watch reveals that the Chinese Progressive Association aligns with the values with revolutionary communist groups, including the Chinese Communist Party:

The group grew out of radical-left and pro-People’s Republic of China cadres; academic research has identified the group as historically aligned with the revolutionary Communist groups I Wor Kuen (IWK) and League of Revolutionary Struggle. In the 21st century, the group has faced accusations of aligning with the People’s Republic of China government and has received favorable coverage from the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated news outlet China Daily.

San Francisco community activists, including some with Marxist or other revolutionary Communist sympathies, founded CPA in 1972. In the 1970s, the CPA battled city authorities on wage and housing issues. In recent years, the CPA has focused more on political activism and community organizing

From February 2020 through March 2021, Le Tim Ly gave $181,906 to Everyday People PAC while listing his employer as the Chinese Progressive Association.

Federal Election Commission records highlight that the major funders of Everyday People PAC are millionaires, billionaires, and their heirs with a passion for Marxism, social justice and “equity.”

One of the PAC’s prominent donors, Emunaha Yuka Edinburgh, is an Oakland-based custom furniture maker and woodworker who contributed $200,000 in a period of four months (we are clearly in the wrong business). Prior to her wood whittling business, Yuka founded “Liberation Ink” and partnered with another Bay Area nonprofit that advocates for a cadre of social justice movements, including defunding the police.

Seed the Vote, Everyday People PAC, and Liberation Ink (et.al) has a collective affinity for Communist icon Angela Davis and Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army activist who was convicted of first degree murder of a New Jersey police officer in 1977. With the help of her fellow comrades, Shakur escaped prison and was granted political asylum in Cuba. Shakur remains on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list since 2013.

Amy Mandel, another significant donor to Everyday People PAC was a member of the Marxist Leninist Party who now uses her “privilege to promote equity.”

Over four days last week, Seed the Vote sent their paid volunteers to the Nevada Democratic Party’s headquarters in Washoe County to make calls and knock doors throughout Reno. Another progressive nonprofit, PLAN Nevada, also has office space in that building.

The formation of Seed The Vote was to defeat President Trump in 2020. The intent of Seed the Vote is to “fight the right, build the left.” In the words of Executive Director Emily Lee, “Collective solidarity is central to our movements and everything we do.”

“In 2022, Seed the Vote focused on the mid-term elections in the battleground states of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, partnering with left-of center organizations Unite Here, Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), Asian American Action Fund, and Working Families Party (WFP) to knock on doors and make calls to “defeat the right,” Influence Watch reports.

According to their social media profiles, Seed the Vote is not only working to elect Harris-Walz, their flyers also persuade voters to reelect Senator Jacky Rosen.

In 2024, with funding from radical billionaires and millionaires, Seed The Vote volunteers are canvassing to elect “progressive” democrats throughout Nevada, and will likely ballot harvest with their nonprofit comrades and democrat-aligned unions.

The Globe contacted the Nevada Democratic Party’s Spokesperson Katharine (KC) Kurz for comment on Seed The Vote’s canvassing efforts in Reno. She did not reply to our request for comment.