A new "Recall Jackie Fielder" website is one of at least 10 linked sites targeting Bay Area progressives and tax measures — all traced to a San Diego County political action committee registered just three months ago, backed by a lobbying firm that appears to have almost no real footprint.

The network — which spans fake recall campaigns, AI-generated attack imagery, and detailed political dossiers aimed at figures including SF Supervisor Jackie Fielder, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, and Attorney General Rob Bonta — represents a new strain of astroturf politics: cheap to produce, anonymous by design, and legally toothless but potentially corrosive to Bay Area political discourse. None of the sites constitute formal recall efforts. No notice has been filed with San Francisco's Department of Elections.

When a new website called "Recall Jackie Fielder" appeared last week, it spread quickly through District 9 neighborhood mailing lists and accumulated thousands of views on X, where an associated account claimed 3,400 petition signatures in a single day.

What the site didn't advertise: it's not a recall. Not even close to one.

To recall a San Francisco official, organizers must file formal notice with both the officeholder and the city, then collect signatures on paper petitions reviewed and approved by the Department of Elections — not on a website. Both Fielder's office and the Department of Elections confirmed to Mission Local that no such notice had been received. The petition is, legally speaking, a list-building exercise.

And Fielder is far from the only target.

The site is one of at least 10 linked to a group called "Americans for Opportunity," an independent expenditure committee registered with the Federal Election Commission on March 10 — just three months ago — with an address in Vista, a small city near Carlsbad in San Diego County. The committee's listed treasurer is a Peterson Jackson. Neither Jackson nor the group has responded to media requests for comment, according to Mission Local.

The Lobbying Firm That Isn't

The FEC filings link Americans for Opportunity to "Preston Public Affairs," described as a strategic government relations firm serving the Bay Area. The Dissent visited the firm's website and found a striking mismatch between the grandiose description and the substance behind it.

The site lists offices in Atherton, Marin, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C. — but its primary contact number carries a Washington, D.C. area code. Its "Case Studies" section, which ostensibly demonstrates the firm's track record in real estate, agriculture, and crisis communications, is locked behind a passcode. No employees are named anywhere on the site. The copy reads as though it was generated to fill a template rather than written by anyone with actual Bay Area relationships.

The group's own website says it is "preparing to launch."

The Network

Six of the 10-plus sites explicitly disclose "Americans for Opportunity" in their footers. They target: Fielder; Barbara Lee, the Oakland mayor now running for re-election; Carroll Fife, a progressive Oakland city councilmember; former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and former Alameda County DA Pamela Price (both recalled); and Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Four additional sites are tied to the group through donate links or shared source code, opposing a San Jose hotel tax, a Sonoma County transit measure, an Oakland minimum wage increase, and supporting a small-business tax break that passed in Oakland.

All use a consistent playbook: X accounts with AI-generated images — including fake photos of Thao behind bars and Lee dining on lobster in the Alps — paired with petitions or "exposé" dossiers.

The most elaborate is "Fire Barbara Lee," which presents a 7-part "investigation" into Lee's tenure, citing FEC filings, court records, and city data. The Recall Jackie Fielder site, by contrast, had largely retreated to "Coming Soon" placeholder pages by the time The Dissent visited — suggesting the Mission Local story may have prompted a pullback.

Why It Still Matters

Jim Ross, a longtime Bay Area campaign strategist, told Mission Local he doesn't believe any of these efforts will actually produce a recall. But that's not the point.

"It's going to create more cynicism, it's going to turn voters off, it's going to damage the political discourse and debate," Ross said.

Fielder's office declined to comment. Her staff of legislative aides has been managing District 9 affairs during her mental health leave, which began in April.

The broader pattern is distinct from the tech-billionaire PAC money The Dissent has tracked in recent months: this is not Garry Tan or Chris Larsen putting their names on a committee. It's an operation engineered for maximum anonymity — a San Diego treasurer, a ghost lobbying firm, Vercel-built websites that can spin up and disappear — aimed at an electorate already primed for distrust.