Those Who Steal Fire: The Marxist Infiltration of MIGOP
Why Susan Kokinda and Promethean PAC should concern every Republican.
At the February 2025 Michigan Republican Party (MIGOP) state convention, an individual previously unknown to many in the party, who had no history of volunteering for the party, was elected Coalitions Vice Chair for the state party with nearly unanimous support of the collectivist voting block of delegates who had previously supported Kristina Karamo.
Since then, Susan Kokinda has been an active vice chair, using the position to promote her podcast and organization, Promethean PAC. Multiple party members have asked me to investigate Kokinda and her organization after observing her promoting candidates for office with longstanding ties with her organization and using those candidates and door-knocking campaigns to distribute Promethean PAC literature—especially focused on recruiting a “youth movement.”
At first blush, her podcast and organization appears to be fiercely pro-Trump. She and her grandmotherly co-host laud praise on President Trump’s economic and foreign policies, in particular. But as I’ve shown with Michael Flynn and his network, not everyone who says they support President Trump is who they say they are.
What I’ve discovered has shocked me: a 55 year pattern of Marxist Russian propaganda that has infiltrated to the highest levels of MIGOP and the MAGA influencer space. Like the best PSYOPs, this one is mostly true, and has strong appeal: two well-versed grandmothers praising President Trump and talking about some grand conspiracy.
The devil, of course, is in the details.
The Shape of Russian Influence Operations
Before examining Promethean PAC, we need to understand how Russian influence operations work. The KGB’s “active measures” didn’t die with the Soviet Union—they evolved. When Russia abandoned communist ideology publicly, it freed Kremlin propagandists to become “much more ecumenical in devising propaganda and disinformation themes,” using diverse tactics and language patterns to target both left and right.
Russia has been particularly active on the American political right, especially in the last 10 years. To understand Russian propaganda, it’s helpful to learn from Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB propagandist who defected from the Soviet Union around 1970.
The modern Russian playbook includes: demoralization by sowing chaos and destabilization within Western political parties, promoting institutional nihilism (“everything is corrupt,” “elections are hopelessly rigged”); promotion of racism, anti-semitism and white nationalism; narratives positioning Russia as “good,” “neutral,” or irrelevant to global problems; and deflecting blame for Russian actions onto other Western nations—particularly Britain and NATO.
This last tactic is crucial. As researchers at the Marshall Center note, Russian propaganda consistently seeks to “blame an Anglo-American cabal for global tensions,” conveniently exonerating Moscow.
Enter Susan Kokinda and Promethean PAC.
Lyndon LaRouche: “The American Lenin”
To understand the organization that became Promethean PAC, we must look at the founder. Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. (1922–2019) began his political career in 1948 by joining the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party—literally calling himself “the American Lenin.” He spent the 1950s and 1960s as an active Marxist, teaching college classes under the alias “Lyn Marcus” and participating in radical Students for a Democratic Society organizing.
In 1968, LaRouche founded the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), which operated as a Marxist cadre organization. During this period, LaRouche claimed his NCLC was coordinating with “allied Communist forces within the world’s Marxist labor movement.”
LaRouche wasn’t just a Marxist theorist—he had direct contact with Soviet officials. In 1974-75, he met with Soviet UN representatives, proposing to fold the Communist Party USA into his organization. A 1983 French intelligence memo (later leaked) warned top officials about “possible ties between the LaRouche network and Moscow.” French intelligence took it seriously enough to circulate a confidential alert within the cabinet.
Even stranger: LaRouche’s followers somehow obtained that secret French memo and published it in a newspaper ad—simultaneously bragging about it and raising questions about how they accessed classified foreign intelligence documents.
Throughout the 1980s, despite superficially anti-communist rhetoric, LaRouche’s publications consistently took positions “favorable to the Soviet Union,” according to a Heritage Foundation analysis. When Poland’s Solidarity movement challenged communism—backed by the West and opposed by Moscow—LaRouche’s New Solidarity newspaper blamed Britain for Poland’s turmoil, echoing Soviet narratives that Solidarity was a Western (British) PSYOP wrecking Poland.
LaRouche also visited Russia in 1994, lecturing at the Duma (Russian parliament) and the Russian Academy of Sciences. His ideas found audiences among Russian Communist Party (KPRF) members and ultra-nationalists. LaRouche and his network often wrote favorably about Vladimir Putin once Putin rose to power.
The Heritage Foundation concluded: “Ultimately the publications and rhetoric of the LaRouche network end up with positions that are favorable to the Soviet Union… their efforts in the long run can only serve to further Soviet propaganda aims within a sector of the population that Moscow could never reach directly.”
Susan Kokinda: A 55-Year Cadre Member
Susan Kokinda joined LaRouche’s NCLC in August 1971—according to her own biography, the day after Nixon ended the gold standard. She told me in an email that she was a young political science and history graduate.
Consider the implications: A woman with a fresh political science and history degree joins an explicitly Marxist organization that was actively teaching Marxist political science and economics. This wasn’t accidental—this was ideological conviction.
When asked what attracted her to an explicitly Marxist organization, Kokinda responded, “I was attracted to Lyndon LaRouche’s commitment to scientific and technological progress and physical production. By the mid-1970s, our organization discovered and embraced the American System of Political Economy—the largely unknown body of economics which addressed the societal problems we were grappling with.”
Her to-be husband Ronald Kokinda (they likely met through the movement) joined around the same time. His Ballotpedia profile explicitly states he “has been affiliated with the LaRouche Political Action Committee” since 1971.
For over fifty years, Susan Kokinda has remained inside this network. By the late 1970s, she was testifying to Congress on behalf of LaRouche orgs. She served as LaRouche’s Washington, D.C. representative and Capitol Hill liaison. She has never left.
The 1973 Narrative Shift: Communism Becomes a “British Psy-Op”
In 1973, LaRouche launched “Operation Mop-Up”—violent physical attacks (reportedly with lead pipes and clubs) against Communist Party USA members—and simultaneously began pushing a bizarre conspiracy theory: that the British Empire, not Soviet Russia, was the true puppet-master behind anti-American world events.
This narrative claimed communism itself was a “British intelligence psy-op” designed to undermine nations. Karl Marx was allegedly a tool of London bankers, and North Korea was formed by the CIA (despite the fact that it became communist before the CIA was established).
These claims tend to be based solely on LaRouchites’ claims of their own authority. Kokinda frequently supports her claims by saying something like, “I’ve been researching these networks for 50 years.” However, no historians, no intelligence agencies, no academic research supports the idea that British intelligence invented communism. The Bolshevik Revolution, the Cold War, Soviet expansion—all are well documented as genuinely Soviet/Russian initiatives.
In fact, this denial of the true nature of communism, the tremendous toll of human suffering, the culpability of Russia and China, and hundreds of millions of murders it is responsible for (including Chinese forced abortions)—is akin to Holocaust denial and should be treated as such.
But consider who benefits from this narrative: If communism is all the fault of England and the CIA, then Russia is exonerated or overlooked. Soviet atrocities become British schemes. Russian aggression becomes British manipulation.
This is how Russian propaganda works—deflecting blame onto Western nations while laundering Moscow’s culpability.
Kokinda has promoted these narratives for decades. She recently claimed on a podcast that “Russiagate was a British intelligence operation.” Her co-host recently claimed that the MAGA black pilling operation is a “British intelligence operation at the highest levels” that “played” Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon, and Alex Jones. They insist Flynn has honest intentions. Of course, all three of these figures have deep and longstanding ties with Russian intelligence, not British.
When asked if she could point to any peer-reviewed studies or credible analysis that supports her claim that British intelligence created or controlled international communism, Kokinda responded, “First, as to the relative animosity of Russia and Britain toward Donald Trump, the Russians did not run Russiagate. Britain did.”
I have studied and reported on Russiagate extensively, and her claim that Britain “ran” Russiagate is factually deficient. It was the FBI, CIA, and DIA with a bit of help from Five Eyes that ran Russiagate. She provided no evidence to support her claim that it was a British op.
Instead, she continued, “As to the British role in creating communism, I recommend the extensively-sourced book by Richard Poe, ‘How the British Created Communism and Blamed it on the Jews.’ If by ‘peer-reviewed’ you mean acceptable to NATO, the neocons, and the foreign policy establishment, I probably have nothing for you.”
Documented Russian Media Connections
The LaRouche network’s ties to Russian state media are well documented.
During the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, RT (Russia Today) interviewed both LaRouche aide Jeffrey Steinberg and Lyndon LaRouche himself. LaRouche dutifully argued that Georgia’s conflict with Russia was “probably a British-led operation with U.S. support”—exactly what the Kremlin wanted Western audiences to hear.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Lyndon’s widow) has appeared multiple times on Radio Sputnik, Russia’s state-run network, praising Russian and Chinese policies while condemning U.S. “imperialism” and NATO.
The Schiller Institute—a LaRouche-founded organization—has been identified by VoxUkraine/VoxCheck researchers as a platform through which LaRouchites and invited speakers “spread narratives that align with pro-Russian views” and “systematically justify Russian aggression.”
Ronald Kokinda is credited as an editor in Schiller Institute publications. Susan Kokinda is listed as a participant in Schiller Institute events, even in the last 10 years. The Kokindas are not distant observers—they are integral members of the LaRouche cadre.
The LaRouche/Promethean core doctrine has been remarkably stable since 1973:
State-led “national development” (infrastructure, credit, industrial policy)
Hostility to “British/Wall Street finance” (a classic LaRouche frame)
Geopolitical alignment with Russia/China against the U.S.(“deep state”)–UK–NATO order
Cross-ideological recruiting (left and right both welcome if they accept the frame)
The “Cult” Question
The LaRouche movement has long been described as a cult by numerous researchers. Members spend decades inside. Internal marriages are common. The organization demands total loyalty. Alternative information sources are dismissed as “enemy propaganda.” They have their own unique end times theories to which they alone hold the political solution.
In 2003, British student Jeremiah Duggan died under murky circumstances after attending a LaRouche-linked conference in Germany. He had reportedly discovered the organization’s extremist nature and tried to flee. His suspicious death was hastily ruled a suicide by German authorities, but a British coroner said the body exhibited indications that he was likely beaten to death.
Jeremiah called his mother at about 4:30am to say he was “in trouble” before the call was disconnected. The British coroner told the media at the time that Jeremiah’s revelations that he was a British Jew during a LaRouche conference “may have put him at risk from members of the organization.”
One former LaRouchite, Yves Messer, told British media the group is “anti-British to the extreme and sickly paranoid.”
Susan Kokinda has spent 55 years inside this environment—entering as a young woman and never leaving.
LaRouche History of Antisemitism
For decades, the LaRouche movement—spanning organizations such as the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), the U.S. Labor Party, and later LaRouchePAC—has faced persistent allegations of antisemitism from civil-rights organizations, journalists, scholars, and courts. The Anti-Defamation League repeatedly characterized Lyndon LaRouche as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist, citing movement publications that blamed Jewish individuals and organizations for international drug trafficking, financial manipulation, and political subversion.
A detailed report by the Heritage Foundation documented LaRouche’s endorsement of Protocols of the Elders of Zion-style narratives, including his claim that the text contained a “kernel of truth.” LaRouche outlets also attacked Jewish civil-rights groups—most notably the ADL—using language such as “Zionist Gestapo,” and were accused of minimizing or reframing the Holocaust as a political “hoax.”
Courts have ruled that labeling the LaRouche movement “antisemitic” constitutes fair comment, finding that the group’s own publications reasonably give rise to that conclusion. While LaRouche organizations deny antisemitism and frame criticism as merely “anti-Zionist,” the record shows a long, well-documented pattern of allegations grounded in the movement’s own words and actions.
Promethean PAC: Same Network, New Name
In April 2024, LaRouche PAC rebranded as Promethean PAC. Their website explicitly states: “Promethean PAC was formerly LaRouche PAC.” The FEC registration (C00309567) dates to December 1995.
Same organization. Same people. Same ideology. New branding.
Kokinda, however, insists that “Promethean Action and Promethean PAC officially separated from the organizations affiliated with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, including the Schiller Institute, The LaRouche Organization, and Executive Intelligence Review, in early 2024. Our support for Donald Trump and the role of a strong and sovereign United States on the world stage were driving factors in that separation.”
Despite her claim, the namesake Kokinda and cohost Barbara Boyd chose for their rebranded org indicates strong ideological continuation with the Marxist LaRouche. Karl Marx wrote in his doctoral dissertation that Prometheus is “the most eminent saint and martyr in the philosophical calendar.” Marx quoted Prometheus’s declaration: “In simple words, I hate all gods.”
For Marx, Prometheus represented human self-consciousness as “the highest divinity”—rejecting all divine authority. Marx explicitly positioned philosophy as making “its own confession, its own aphorism against all heavenly and earthly gods.”
This is antithetical to Biblical Christianity. Prometheus stealing fire from the gods parallels the serpent’s temptation in Eden—”you shall be as gods.” To herald Prometheus is to celebrate rebellion against God.
The Promethean PAC logo, with its upward-thrusting imagery glorifying human power, echoes Soviet propaganda aesthetics that elevated mankind (represented by the state) above all other authorities.
For an organization positioning itself within conservative Republican politics, this Marxist theological symbolism should raise immediate red flags.
The Flynn Connection
On November 6, 2025, General Michael Flynn posted on X calling Susan Kokinda “the queen herself” and declaring: “You should be advising the WH and Congress should make you mandatory listening on a daily basis!”
Flynn has his own documented Russia connections—paid appearances on RT, the infamous dinner seated next to Putin, and his unprecedented meeting as DIA Director in Moscow’s GRU in 2013. Now he’s amplifying a 55-year LaRouche cadre member to his millions of followers.
The LaRouche network has documented ties to Alex Jones (who hosted LaRouche and his associates on InfoWars an astounding 49 times) and Roger Stone (who called LaRouche “a friend of mine, a good friend”). AP News reported that “Alex Jones, Roger Stone… see [LaRouche] as an elder statesman” of conspiracism, “toiling in the same dismal field.”
Alex Jones, in particular, has deep ties with Russia, as he has both appeared on and promoted Russian state-owned media numerous times.
Unsurprisingly, Steve Bannon has also promoted Promethean PAC, hosting Barbara Boyd of Promethean Action on Bannon’s War Room.
Infiltrating Michigan GOP
In February 2025, Susan Kokinda was elected Coalitions Vice Chair of the Michigan Republican Party. She did not work her way up through local GOP ranks—she spent “five decades” in the mostly Democrat LaRouche movement before suddenly appearing in party leadership.
I was a delegate at that convention. Many delegates witnessed how Kokinda’s election was orchestrated through coordination with the Kristina Karamo faction. The same collectivist voting block that elected Mike Flynn and Patrick Byrne puppet Bernadette Smith as MIGOP co-chair dutifully elected Kokinda.
Susan Kokinda has over 50 years of professional political organizing experience—and most of that not for Republicans. She was trained in Marxist cadre organizations and has spent her entire adult life building movements. Those skills transferred directly to infiltrating MIGOP.
Now a 55-year Marxist cadre member holds an official position in Michigan Republican Party leadership, helping shape coalition strategy and grassroots outreach.
The Deflection Pattern
Watch what Promethean PAC does when other Russia-aligned figures face scrutiny for their propaganda: they claim “British intelligence” is responsible.
When Flynn, Jones, or Bannon face criticism, Promethean Action publishes defenses claiming they’ve been “played” by British intelligence operations “at the highest levels.” Their pamphlet “A Police Dossier: It is the British Who Murder Our Presidents” exemplifies this deflection—blame Britain for everything, which deepens confusion and protects the guilty.
The absurdity of Barbara Boyd’s claims in the above video goes well beyond her accusation that 33 year intelligence veteran Flynn was simply “played” by undisclosed British intelligence operatives. In the case of this black pilling operation, it’s clear that many of the leaders of this influence operation do have ties to Russia - Tucker Carlson, Flynn, Alex Jones, Jackson Hinkle, Caleb Maupin, Nick Fuentes and so many more are frequently promoted by RT and Sputnik.
When Dan Bongino recently announced he would speak out against “black pilling” operations targeting MAGA, Promethean rushed to position this as a “British intelligence operation”—conveniently deflecting from the far more documented Russian influence on these same networks.
This is not coincidence. This is the same narrative LaRouche has pushed since 1973—the narrative that conveniently serves Russian intelligence objectives by redirecting scrutiny away from Moscow and onto America’s closest ally.
The Addictive Distraction
The LaRouche/Promethean model follows a pattern: there’s always “something big” about to happen. British intelligence is always about to be exposed. for over 50 years now, the “evil empire” has faced imminent destruction. The truth is always just around the corner.
This creates an addictive information loop that keeps followers engaged while distracting from the actual, documented, historically verified communist conspiracy—one with genuine ties to Russian, Chinese, and compromised domestic actors.
Notice how Promethean content rarely discusses Russia critically. China gets occasional criticism, but it’s almost always framed as “working with” rather than against. Meanwhile, every problem—from the Federal Reserve to drug cartels to assassinations—traces back to London.
This selective blame pattern is itself evidence of ongoing Russian ties. A genuine anti-globalist organization would criticize all foreign interference based on verifiable evidence and historical fact. An organization serving Russian interests would deflect exclusively from Russia while attacking Russia’s historical rivals.
The LaRouche network also maintains ties to pro-Russian communist groups. In 2023, investigators traced connections between LaRouche-associated figures and the Party of Communists USA (PCUSA)—a tiny Marxist group aligned with Russian positions—supporting pro-Russia candidates. The old “communist” enemies and LaRouche followers found common ground: both support Putin’s Russia.
What This Means for Conservatives
The communist infiltration threat is real—but it’s not coming only from the obvious left. These operatives have learned to speak our language, invoke our heroes (Trump, Reagan, the Founders), and channel our legitimate grievances while steering us away from the actual foreign threat and toward manufactured conflicts with allies.
The goal isn’t to make you a communist. The goal is to make you an unwitting amplifier for narratives that serve Russian strategic interests—chaos in American politics, division within the GOP, hostility toward NATO, and blindness to actual Russian influence operations.
And it’s highly effective. Even President Trump has shared a Promethean video that lavished praise on Trump. The praise of Trump helps them not only with the White House, but with you and me. It’s very effective at causing a Trump-supportive audience to believe they are on our side.
Conclusion: We’ve Been Played
The evidence is clear:
Susan Kokinda joined an explicitly Marxist organization in 1971 with a political science and history degree—signaling ideological commitment to Marxism.
The organization had documented contacts with Soviet officials and consistently continues to take positions favorable to Moscow.
The organization’s core narrative—”communism is a British PSYOP”—has zero historical support but perfectly serves Russian disinformation objectives.
The network has many documented appearances on Russian state media (RT, Sputnik).
The organization rebranded with explicitly Marxist symbolism (Prometheus) antithetical to Biblical Christianity and Republican conservatism.
A 55-year continuous member of that cadre now holds official Michigan GOP leadership.
We conservatives have been taught to look left for communists. We weren’t watching for them to arrive from the right, wrapped in MAGA messaging, pushing pro-Trump and “anti-globalist” narratives that happen to align perfectly with Kremlin interests.
The real conspiracy is communism itself—operating for decades with the witting or unwitting help of organizations like LaRouche/Promethean, using American patriots as unwitting amplifiers for Russian active measures.
What follows is an extensive AI deep research report on LaRouche/Promethean ties to Russia in 11 parts, featuring a thorough timeline and dozens of direct links to supporting content, as well as the unedited email sent to Kokinda and her unedited response. This content is only for paid subscribers of Bigger Truth.
