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Earlier this week in Maryland, graffiti was found<\/a> at a Tesla dealership a day after a protest that read \u201cNo Musk\u201d with a sign that resembles a swastika. Police in Massachusetts said<\/a> on Tuesday that seven Tesla charging stations were intentionally set on fire, and the incident is being investigated as suspicious. On Thursday, law enforcement in Portland said that at least seven shots were fired at a Tesla dealership, damaging three cars and shattering windows, according<\/a> to the CBS affiliate KOIN.<\/p>\n Also on Thursday, a man in Boston was arrested<\/a> for reportedly placing stickers of Musk on several Teslas, calling the move \u201cfree speech\u201d in a video<\/a>. (His pre-trial hearing for Randall is scheduled for May.)<\/p>\n Musk replied<\/a> to the video on X, his social media site, writing, \u201cDamaging the property of others, aka vandalism, is not free speech!\u201d<\/p>\n The Tesla CEO has also posted other times about the protests this week on X, saying<\/a> that he is investigating groups he claims are behind the demonstrations and asking his followers for any intel they may have.<\/p>\n \u201cAn investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla \u201cprotests\u201d: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America,\u201d Musk posted on Saturday. \u201cActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix.\u201d<\/p>\n As Forbes reported<\/a>, \u201cthere is no other evidence\u201d besides Musk\u2019s investigation \u201clinking Soros or Hoffman to the Tesla protests\u201d and \u201cActBlue does not fund groups, but instead is a platform through which donors can give money to campaigns or organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n In a statement from White House spokesperson Harrison Fields<\/strong> last week, he said that these \u201cProtests will not deter President Trump and Elon Musk from delivering on the promise to establish DOGE and make our federal government more efficient and more accountable to the hardworking American taxpayers across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n Since Trump has been in office, Musk, his boss, and others at the Department of Government Efficiency have, in part, laid off scores of federal workers<\/a> across the country and threatened<\/a> to fire more government workers if they didn\u2019t respond to emails justifying their jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n