There's something really big going down in Europe. You can practically smell the coups and color revolutions in the air, so we started digging into it because of a question that keeps coming up, thanks to the USAID days…

Why does American taxpayer money always seem to turn up in leftwing organizations heavily involved in other countries' elections and political movements?

And what's happened to the organizations who are still operating, even after DC stopped cutting checks?

The coup in Poland and the color revolution unfolding in Serbia got us wondering how much money US taxpayers are unwittingly shelling out for this chaos across the Atlantic.

And it turns out, quite a bit of cash is still flowing overseas, thanks to USAID.

We've traced the money through Serbia and Poland, two countries that have experienced insane political upheaval recently, and what we uncovered will raise a few eyebrows and some blood pressure, to boot.

We're talking about American-funded organizations involved in cough, cough, "election monitoring," voter mobilization, civic activism, and political education. Some of these groups have received millions in US government funding while gleefully declaring how their work has contributed to major political changes. And in case you're wondering, "work" means squashing grassroots right-wing uprisings and political wins.

But it's not as easy as it used to be, since President Trump cut off USAID money. It's getting harder for these groups to work, but we found that they built quite an impressive infrastructure that has sustained them, even when Trump turned off the tap. These orgs spent years building and padding their operations to get them through the "dry times." They have outside donors and European funding networks helping keep parts of the civil-society system operating, but we've uncovered that there's even more to it.