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        <div class="summary"><p>Controversial activist Linda Sarsour is being called out widely for her efforts to solicit donations for a leftist organizing group under the guise of Hurricane Harvey relief.</p>
<p>In an early Tuesday-morning Tweet, Sarsour asked her followers to donate to the “Harvey Hurricane Relief Fund.”</p>
<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Donate to the #Harvey Hurricane Relief Fund. https://t.co/nkFbwgGWDH&amp;mdash; Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) August 29, 2017</p>
<p>That link takes potential donors to a donation page that evokes the devastation of Harvey, clearly mentioning the “Hurricane Harvey Community Relief Fund” next to a picture of flooded Houston highways.</p>
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                <p>Controversial activist Linda Sarsour is being called out widely for her efforts to solicit donations for a leftist organizing group under the guise of Hurricane Harvey relief.</p>

<p>In an early Tuesday-morning Tweet, Sarsour asked her followers to donate to the “Harvey Hurricane Relief Fund.”</p>

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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Donate to the <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash">https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash</a>"&gt;#Harvey Hurricane Relief Fund. <a target="_blank" href="https://t.co/nkFbwgGWDH">https://t.co/nkFbwgGWDH</a>"&gt;<a target="_blank" href="https://t.co/nkFbwgGWDH">https://t.co/nkFbwgGWDH</a>&amp;mdash; Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/902391077046452224">https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/902391077046452224</a>"&gt;August 29, 2017</p>

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<p>That link takes <a target="_blank" href="https://act.myngp.com/Forms/-3833118145683060992">potential donors to a donation page</a> that evokes the devastation of Harvey, clearly mentioning the “Hurricane Harvey Community Relief Fund” next to a picture of flooded Houston highways.</p>

<p>But the page’s donation button doesn’t direct funds to any of the actual groups currently involved in Hurricane relief, like the Houston Food Bank, the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/donate-harvey-charities-scams.html?mcubz=3">Greater Houston Community Foundation</a> or the <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/28/546745827/looking-to-help-those-affected-by-harvey-here-s-a-list" target="_blank">Texas Diaper Bank</a>. Instead, the page funnels money to the “Texas Organizing Project Education Fund,” a nonprofit dedicated to “advancing racial and economic justice through community and electoral organizing.”</p>

<p>Have these advocates of justice decided to help provide food or shelter for the displaced? Not exactly. “All donations made here will only be used to organize in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey,” the group <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/OrganizeTexas/posts/1454841241260386">announced on its Facebook page</a>. “Together we will organize and advocate for our devastated communities, shining a spotlight on inequalities that emerge in the restoration of lives, livelihoods, and homes, amplifying the needs of hard-hit communities, and providing legal assistance for residents wrongfully denied government support.”</p>

<p>Sarsour’s tactics got the attention of conservatives.</p>

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