Evidence of shooter’s Democrat ties is vanishing.

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Why White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Tomas Allen’s reported link to a group known as “The Wide Awakes” receiving such little scrutiny from the media?

The name is associated with an arts-and-music-adjacent activist collective that describes itself as a creative, pro-democracy movement inspired by the original Civil War-era Wide Awakes. That’s what the media wants you to believe.

But that cultural collective is not the only relevant use of the term: a mainstream progressive group’s own materials repeatedly reference “Wide Awakes” as a direct-action protest tactic. Including specifically targeting the tactic towards Hilton hotels, where the WHCD took place, due to their hospitality of ICE agents in Minnesota.

Though the artsy “Wide Awakes” have denied any affiliation with Allen, the media seems hesitant to probe any further. Given that the relationship was reported by Allen’s sister to law enforcement (read: highly credible), you’d think it would garner more interest. For even more proof, they’re also part of the No Kings movement, which Allen reportedly attended.

The real reason why not?

It leads back to mainstream left-wing donors, protest infrastructure and a coverup — including deleted webpages.

Enter the Sunrise Movement, the left-wing youth climate group that became famous for Green New Deal pressure campaigns and Democratic Party agitation. It has used “Wide Awakes” as the name of a direct-action protest tactic for years. The group revived the term in 2020, promoted “Wide Awake” actions against Republican politicians, and now uses the same language in a recent anti-ICE campaign targeting Hilton hotels.

Now, the same hotel chain whose Washington, D.C. property hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

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The Guardian reported in October 2025 that Sunrise had received $2.1 million from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations from 2019 to 2023.

Other reports have traced earlier Soros-linked funding. The Washington Free Beacon reported that Open Society Foundations gave $500,000 to Sunrise in 2019, and that Democracy PAC, described as heavily funded by Soros, contributed $250,000 to Sunrise’s political action committee in April 2020.

InfluenceWatch also lists 2019 grants to Sunrise Movement including $175,000 from Tides Advocacy and $28,750 from the Tides Foundation, placing Sunrise within the broader mainstream progressive donor infrastructure.

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The strongest receipt is the one Sunrise appears to have deleted from its website.

Sunrise previously maintained a page titled “Summer 2020 — Wide Awake Actions” at a URL that now returns “Not Found / Error 404.”

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