🚨 NEW: Inside the Neocons’ Secret Plan to Take the Republican Party Back. A Republican organizing network backed by liberal foundation money held private meetings where participants discussed how to “retake the local party apparatus.” A former Soros foundation grantmaker helped advise the effort. The target was local Republican organizations. Their own report records one participant’s assessment that parties were: “strong enough to still matter, but weak enough to be taken over.” Participants in Kansas and Kentucky had already begun developing plans to rebuild local parties. Johns Hopkins’ SNF Agora Institute and the R Street Institute organized the meetings: private dinners followed by full-day, off-the-record sessions. Rules prevented participants’ statements from being attributed to them individually. Johns Hopkins named Brad Raffensperger among the project’s architects. The funding includes: • $1.85 MILLION from Hewlett for the Civic Right project. • $500,000 from Carnegie for the Conservative Agenda for Democracy program. These foundations’ support for conservative organizing fits a broader shift by liberal donors toward funding groups on the right. The Soros connection: adviser Mark de la Iglesia previously awarded grants at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. He also served in the Obama administration. Freedom House confirms his advisory role in this specific initiative. By 2026, organizers reported Signal networks connecting statewide election officials and staff. Their next steps included state-by-state strategies and recruiting and preparing future candidates and public officials. The same report explains that participants feared publicly confronting the administration could cost them seats and credibility. Its wording: “The challenge is to take effective action while not drawing unwanted attention.”