The heavy favorite to capture the Democrat nomination for governor of Michigan has been stung by revelations that she sat on the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center when the disgraced “anti-extremism” activist group paid members of SPLC-designated “hate groups” millions of dollars while raising a mountain of cash fighting such bogeymen. It’s not the only time that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has engaged in efforts funded by George Soros and the dark-money progressive establishment.
“Guess who’s on the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center? Dean Jocelyn Benson,” civil rights attorney Dean Robb gushed on a 2015 Detroit PBS television program. “Yes, I’m very proud,” Benson, then dean of Wayne State University Law School, replied, The Midwesterner reported.
Benson served on the SPLC Board from 2014 to 2019. A grand jury on April 21 indicted the organization on charges of perpetrating a massive fraud. “From 2014 to 2023 ... the SPLC funneled more than $3 million from donors to the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Socialist Party of America, and other racist extremist groups, according to” the Justice Department, the news site noted.
Benson — Local Leaders Must ‘Learn From Foreign Cities’
As she was starting out her career on the political Left, Benson worked as a 19-year-old operative for SPLC, “infiltrating hate groups on the nonprofit’s behalf,” The Midwesterner added. “There I was,” Benson wrote in her 2025 book The Purposeful Warrior, “just shy of 20 years old, posing as a freelance journalist, meeting with leaders and members of hate groups to gather information on their activities and plans. I attended rallies and meetings, collecting and writing stories for the SPLC’s Intelligence Report.”
The title of Benson’s tome was undoubtedly meant as a snappy slogan to propel her up the next step on the Democrat ladder. But it now serves as a warning to her committed radical nature. More red lights are flaring in her background.
In 2022, while serving as Michigan’s secretary of state, Benson chaired a George Soros-funded task force to help US cities conduct their own foreign policy. The Truman Center for National Policy is a Washington, DC-based NGO think tank dedicated to promoting a core leftist agenda “from climate change to immigration to democratic resilience” at the national security level. In February 2022, the Truman Center announced the creation of “a new Task Force on City and State Diplomacy. Supported by the Open Society Foundations, this effort will address states, cities and other subnational actors as essential participants in foreign policy.”
Open Society Foundations is the flagship “philanthropic” organization run by progressive globalist billionaire Soros. OSF also funded the Southern Poverty Law Center during Benson’s time on the board and as the payments to “hate” actors are said to have occurred.
The Truman task force Benson chaired was dedicated to an agenda long championed by Soros and other prominent powerful globalist organizations such as the World Economic Forum. Truman declared the task force would “deepen domestic engagement on transnational issues, including: climate change, migration, and trade.” Along with Benson, other big-name Democrats co-chairing included Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA).
“Local leaders and their communities seek increasing global engagement: to learn from and partner with foreign cities; advocate for shared values and international commitments; and bring home tangible benefits,” a letter by Benson and her fellow co-chairs included in the task force’s final report asserted.
‘Members of International Peer Networks’
The final report declared the United States must be more connected on the internationalist stage, and cities play an integral role in making that happen: “Such connections are not exclusive to the federal government – they exist between cities, states, and their international counterparts as well.”
It's important to note here the unabashed references to open alignment – not just diplomacy – with foreign entities.
“Many city and state governments are also members of international peer networks, sharing ideas and advocacy on transnational issues like climate change and gender equity,” Erin Bromaghim, Truman’s visiting senior fellow for city and state diplomacy, wrote in August 2022 in an article for Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum published two months after Benson’s task force issued its final report.
Bromaghim and the Benson task force both stressed increased city and state coordination with the US State Department in this push, and with good reason. The Biden administration was running the department in 2022, and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was a committed devotee of the urbanite globalist cause.
‘Shaped in Windowless Conference Rooms Around the World’
“Public health, climate, supply chains, the future of technology, economic security – these are the issues that our diplomats, your diplomats, are working on day in and day out,” Blinken told the US Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting in a highly unusual January 2023 address. “It’s what we mean when we talk about a foreign policy for the middle class. It’s what we mean when we say that the line between foreign and domestic policy is more blurred than it’s ever been.”
Blurred lines and an open admission that US cities have their own “diplomats” abroad setting policy, in line with internationalist ruling bodies such as the United Nations.
“We're forging new partnerships to bring our closest economic partners and fellow democracies together to try to shape, uphold, and promote common rules of the road to [address the global technology revolution],” Blinken said to the mayors. “A lot of these rules get shaped in windowless conference rooms around the world, sometimes in the United Nations system. That's where it's actually happening. That's where decisions are made that actually affect the way that everyone gets to use this technology.”
This is the worldview that the leading Democrat candidate to be Michigan’s next governor not only espouses but diligently works to bring to fruition. When Jocelyn Benson calls herself a purposeful warrior, it is crucial to realize precisely what her purpose is.
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