Fake MAGA? Anti-AI Group’s Conservative Branding Crumbles

An organization that poses as conservative and is rallying opposition to artificial intelligence infrastructure is using a leftist network to set up protests against AI data centers.

Humans First burst onto the scene recently with an announcement that it would stage simultaneous demonstrations in more than a dozen cities this summer, targeting what it characterizes as the reckless proliferation of AI data centers. The group’s chair, Amy Kremer — a veteran of the Tea Party era and a figure who played a prominent role in events surrounding January 6, 2021 — has cast the effort as a bottom-up conservative revolt against a Washington establishment that has surrendered to Silicon Valley’s interests.

“I was one of the earliest leaders of the Tea Party movement in 2009, and I can tell you that the disconnect between the elites and the base that gave rise to the Tea Party movement can be seen today in the battle over AI data centers,” Kremer said, according to Axios.

The populist packaging is familiar. The contents are something else entirely.

Reporting by NBC News found that the organization is less a conservative outfit than an ideological patchwork. Key figures within Humans First come from the leftist movement’s activist core — one prominent organizer spent years working on climate campaigns as part of the Sunrise Movement, a group defined by its virulent opposition to the Trump administration.

Another senior figure heading the group’s Left-leaning outreach worked to turn out voters for Kamala Harris’ presidential bid. Humans First has acknowledged the mixed composition, describing itself as nonpartisan — a significant walk-back from its “America First AI policy” positioning.

More telling than its membership, however, is the digital infrastructure undergirding the operation. An oversight on the group’s own website — an uncensored privacy policy — exposed its use of Action Network, a platform that markets itself explicitly as a tool for building “progressive” political power, as pointed out by Capital Research Center investigator Parker Thayer.

The “conservative” group planning this protest (Humans First) forgot to censor their website’s privacy policy, which shows they’re using The Action Network, which is basically ActBlue for nonprofits.

Don’t fall for the psyop, folks. https://t.co/ETS1CpP7JR pic.twitter.com/JfSUqNlbHa

— Parker Thayer (@ParkerThayer) June 18, 2026

The service limits access to causes aligned with the political Left and is widely understood as a fundraising and organizing backbone for leftist nonprofits, analogous to what ActBlue is for Democratic campaigns. It is difficult to imagine a genuinely right-leaning organization either choosing or qualifying to use it.

The protests themselves — focused on concerns like water consumption, energy use, local noise, and the national security implications of sprawling data infrastructure — are issues that have historically animated environmentalists and Left-leaning community groups more than Republican voters.

A Daily Wire investigation published earlier this week found that another anti-AI group, “Say NO to Data Centers,” is being channeled by Democratic operatives linked to Soros-funded organizations — and is part of an openly stated effort to turn local frustration over data centers into votes and candidates for the Left.