Sen. Chris Murphy sends funds to anti-Trump organizing groups, the latest in a million-dollar effort

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy is donating $100,000 from his political fund to the progressive organizing group Indivisible — the latest in a series of donations totaling nearly $1 million to various grassroots groups across the country taking on President Donald Trump’s administration.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy is donating $100,000 from his political fund to the progressive organizing group Indivisible — the latest in a series of donations he says total nearly $1 million to grassroots groups across the country taking on the Trump administration.

Murphy, of Connecticut, declared in an interview that the usual way politicians raise money — stockpiling assets in the years before they’re on the ballot again — doesn’t meet the moment for the Democratic Party, which is trying to mobilize against President Donald Trump and Republicans. And he claimed that the stakes of this political moment are about democracy itself.

“We may not have another election, at least a free and fair election, if we don’t stop this slide away from free speech and democracy quickly. And what we know from history is that the only way to stop a, you know, would-be tyrant from cratering, from destroying a democracy is mass mobilization,” Murphy said.

“There’s something magic that happens when millions of people are mobilized all around the country,” he continued. “It just throws sand in the gears of an effort to try to convert a democracy to something very different.”

In response, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement, "Right before Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Chris Murphy told his supporters they were in a 'war' and needed to do 'whatever is necessary' to win. In the wake of radical left-wing violence, Murphy has doubled down by peddling insane conspiracy theories like this one."