The pay-television industry’s newest ally in a fight over media ownership is a virulently anti-Trump, illegal migrant advocacy group.
Mi Familia Vota is currently airing an attack ad targeting President Trump and his Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, in a hamfisted attempt to keep more conservative voices off America’s airwaves, as previously explained here.
The timing is no accident, as the Senate Commerce Committee convenes a hearing on the issue set for Tuesday, February 10, which has also raised eyebrows. The development also puts Chris Ruddy’s Newsmax in a curious alliance with a far-left, open borders group.
This ad has been all over local NBC News shows from “Mi Familia Vota,” ripping FCC chairman Brendan Carr:
Donald Trump said he’d put America first, but he really just cares about THEM. While you wake up to go to work, he rubs elbows with billionaires, while his appointees do… pic.twitter.com/4bq0o4DsKA
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 3, 2026
Waging political war on President Trump and his administration is par for the course for Mi Familia Vota.
The group supports amnesty for illegal immigrants, opposes stronger border enforcement, and wants taxpayer-funded welfare benefits like in-state tuition and Medicaid for illegals. No wonder they’re critical of the man who locked down the border and his agency head, who has stood up for ICE.
On other issues, the Mi Familia Vota organization has opposed tax credits for school choice, worked for “environmental justice,” and “champion[ed] comprehensive reproductive rights for minority communities,” i.e., abortion.
Given those policy positions, it’s little surprise that Mi Familia Vota is harshly critical of Donald Trump. The group has blasted his policies as “hateful and divisive,” lamented the “reign of terror associated with Donald Trump’s harmful MAGA agenda,” and called his 2024 election “a dark day for our democracy.”
In fact, Mi Familia Vota did not think that the American people should even be allowed to vote on whether to elect Trump in 2024.
The group said Trump is “dangerous” and “not fit to hold office” and believed the Supreme Court should have barred him from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. That’s an ironic position for a group that otherwise says it supports voting rights—just not for Republicans who want to vote for Trump, apparently.
And when the election did happen, Mi Familia backed Kamala Harris with its endorsement, with $300,000 in independent expenditures, and with untold millions in generic Get Out the Vote efforts for Democrats, taking credit for wins in Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina.
Mi Familia Vota’s leadership is as left-wing as its policy positions. Its board includes the national teachers union’s senior director for Racial and Social Justice, and the organization’s CEO is himself board chairman for Planned Parenthood Global. He’s also on the board of the Tides Network, a leading progressive dark money network supported by George Soros.
Speaking of Soros, Mi Familia Vota has received over $2 million from Soros’s foundations, the Open Society Foundations, and the Fund for Policy Reform. Its other major donors include the AFSCME public employee union and the League of Conservation Voters.
The Mi Familia Vota ad attacking Trump and Carr was placed by Screen Strategies Media, a left-wing political consulting firm whose past clients include liberal darlings like Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke.
The Latino group joins a number of other committed leftwing activists in opposition to reforming the FCC’s media policy, from Al Sharpton’s National Action Network to a constellation of Hollywood labor unions. Reflecting these same politics, Democratic elected officials also argue against change, including Senators Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, and Sheldon Whitehouse.
That’s not to say that Mi Familia Vota or any other liberal group will have an influence on the final outcome of this fight—they won’t, given the FCC’s 2-to-1 GOP majority. But when the White House, Chairman Carr, or Republican members of Congress think about this issue, they can have a good hint where to land by looking at who’s on the other side.
Daniel Suhr is president of the Center for American Rights, a conservative public-interest law firm focused on media issues.
