i think they might be getting at least some of it from banks, credit cards and paypal.

Here's a quote: Federal law enforcement officials organized Zoom discussions with financial institutions as part of their investigation into the events of January 6, 2021.78 Participants in these meetings included Barclays, U.S. Bank, Charles Schwab, HSBC, BoA, Paypal, KeyBank, Standard Chartered, Western Union, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Santander, JPMorgan Chase, Union Bank, and MUFG.79 In one meeting, an FBI official from the Washington Field Office reached out to a number of financial institutions to arrange a meeting with the goal of “identifying the best approach to information sharing, both strategic and operational,” in the wake of the events of January 6.

Another quote: In other words, according to the FBI, an American citizen’s opposition to firearm regulations, open borders, or COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates—all of which are viewpoints protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution—“feed into” an “existing narrative many DVEs subscribe to regarding the U.S. government’s exercise of power.”96 Put another way, expressing a belief in the existence of the “deep state,” support for typical conservative policies with respect to firearms or immigration, or doubt about the conventional narrative, may result in an individual being labeled by the FBI as a “DVE Actor” and “Likely to Pose [an] Increasing Threat at Lawful Protests, Rallies, [and] Demonstrations. . .”97 It is disturbing that the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country would consider views widely held by millions of Americans as the signs of domestic violent extremism. Worse yet, the federal government endorsed this determination with its partners by sharing the report with the largest and most powerful for-profit corporations in the world to alert them about potential “threat[s]” from the people it describes.