On September 25, 2025 the Justice Department quietly put the country on notice: a senior official instructed U.S. attorneys around the country to prepare plans to investigate the Open Society Foundations for possible criminal conduct, including everything from racketeering to material support for terrorism. This is not rumor-mongering — mainstream outlets reported the directive and listed the same potential charges prosecutors were asked to consider, which means federal law enforcement is taking the Soros network seriously.
The spark for this action was a damning report by the Capital Research Center, authored by Ryan Mauro, that traced roughly $80 million in grants from Open Society to organizations the CRC says are tied to extremist violence or activities that meet the FBI’s definition of domestic terrorism. Mauro laid out the evidence on Glenn Beck’s program earlier in September, and his findings appear to be the factual foundation the Justice Department asked prosecutors to evaluate. Conservatives should be grateful that investigators are following the money instead of letting billionaires bankroll chaos with impunity.
President Trump and his team have repeatedly signaled they will use every lawful tool to disrupt networks that threaten public safety, and this DOJ move fits that strategy — it isn’t vengeance, it’s law enforcement doing its job. The administration has even moved to tighten financial and tax oversight of organizations suspected of enabling violence, a necessary step after years of left-wing donors operating above scrutiny. If prosecutors find probable cause, applying RICO statutes and financial-crime laws is exactly how you dismantle a sprawling, well-funded political infrastructure.
Legal weapons on the table are straightforward and potent: RICO for coordinated illicit activity, material-support statutes when funds touch groups tied to terrorism, fraud and wire-fraud charges for deceptive transfers, and tax-code enforcement to strip privileges from nonprofits that abet crime. Those are exactly the options the Justice Department asked prosecutors to consider in the memo circulated last week, showing the government knows how to go after a network, not just an individual. Patriotic Americans should want prosecutors to use the full weight of the law to stop political violence and the funding that enables it.
Predictably, the usual defenders of the left cried “political witch hunt” and the Open Society Foundations issued a blanket denial, calling the probe politically motivated and insisting their activities are peaceful. Groups like the ACLU immediately framed this as an attack on civil society, but the proper response to clear evidence is not hand-wringing — it’s investigation and, where warranted, prosecution. The rule of law must apply equally to all donors and foundations, regardless of which coastal elites they bankroll.
For years conservatives warned that a web of billionaires and nonprofit intermediaries had become a shadow government influencing protests, elections, and local prosecutions; now the Justice Department is finally following the paper trail. If the prosecutors do their constitutional duty and pursue charges based on evidence rather than politics, they can cripple the money pipeline that fuels chaos in our streets and undermines public safety. Hardworking Americans deserve a government that protects them from violence and holds powerful movers and shakers to the same legal standard as the rest of us.
