“Here Are the Top Billionaires Trying to Keep Montana’s Senate Seat Blue,” Forbes reports. “Jon Tester, running for his fourth term in deep-red Montana, has plenty of billionaire backers—but his single biggest funder can’t be traced.”

So much for Republicans being the “party of the rich” and Democrats being the “party of the common man.” The article lists Tester’s top 10 known donors to the Senate Majority PAC, with the Number One slot held by George Soros, whose “Amount contributed to pro-Tester groups: $10 million.”

Soros, of course, among other leftist “causes,” is a big supporter of Democrat politicians and “legal” efforts to infringe on the Second Amendment and mandate citizen disarmament. Per the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s “Examining the Soros Connection to AG’s Supporting Mexico’s Gun Manufacturer Lawsuit”:

“Open Society Foundation has donated to gun control groups that espouse outright gun bans. Soros lobbyists poured $9 million into getting Congress to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), the chief obstacle to Mexico’s harassing lawsuit. Soros’s Open Society Foundation was instrumental in crafting the Biden administration’s gun control policies.”

The next nine names on the list of SMP donors bankrolling Tester’s and other campaigns are hardly any better:

“It’s also harder to track all of Tester’s biggest supporters, the Forbes report continues. “The super PAC that has spent the most in support of his candidacy, some $5.7 million as of the end of June, is called Last Best Place PAC. LBP in turn is entirely funded by Majority Forward… a ‘dark money’ group—meaning that because of its tax classification, it has more restrictions on its spending but also does not have to disclose its donors.”

What we do know, from Influence Watch, is it is “a Democratic Party-aligned advocacy group that campaigns against Republicans and conservative causes.”

And it’s not just Montana. They mean to rule everywhere, in Everytown.

Gun owners in my own home state, Ohio, just received an urgent warning from Buckeye Firearms Association urging a No vote on Issue 1, ostensibly about ending gerrymandering:

“This short video reveals the dark-money activists from outside Ohio, some from other countries, who want to seize power and rig Ohio elections to elect partisan leftists even in conservative parts of the state.”

It’s a masterwork of gaslighting if you think about it, with hypocrisy so outrageous even those who see through it can be dumbfounded by the sheer gall of it. Some of us remember when the “bipartisan” McCain/Feingold “campaign finance reform” bill threatened to shut down small donor NRA members from banding together for political speech, and yet we see billionaires effortlessly navigate the maze to feed millions to the leftists. We hear Democrats like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris talking about the rich paying “their fair share” (with them being the sole arbiters of what’s fair) and see the ones we think they’re talking about hire the accounting teams to effortlessly navigate that maze as well. They’ll rake it in regardless of who’s “in charge,” above it all, which no doubt explains why they don’t share the concerns of your average Trump supporter. Or so they believe.

Just in case what they’re aiding and abetting gets so scary it threatens their precious hindquarters, some are hedging their bets with escape plans and “Apocalyptic luxury bunkers.” Because, which explains their demand for gun control for you and armed security for themselves, they fear a collectivist monster they helped create might turn its eyes on them. “Universal basic income” just means they’ll be better positioned to act on their envy and demands for “equity.”

But in the meantime, just to prove he’s every bit the good ol’ boy Tim Walz is pretending to be, Jon Tester’s outdistancing his image from the billionaire elites who want him as their Montana puppet by shooting cows in a photo op made possible with, among other things, Soros money.

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.