Fundraiser races past its goal
A GiveSendGo campaign for 25-year-old Dasha Kilpatrick, a Texas medical massage therapist and holistic practitioner, has blown past $86,000 from more than 2,200 donors in only two days, with organizers now pushing toward $100,000. Kilpatrick worked for Massage Forest/Inner Light Holistic Healing in the Conroe area before she was fired after a video of her confrontation at an HEB grocery store went viral and drew accusations of racism and harassment. In the internet age, a bad moment can turn into a career-ending firestorm before the coffee gets cold, and this one spread at full speed.
The video spread fast, but the beginning is missing
The footage shows Kilpatrick saying Islam is a terrorist organization, that America is a Christian country and not a Muslim one, and that the women were not welcome here. She also referenced Muhammad as a warlord and pedophile while rejecting the idea that Muslim immigrants belong here just because they have paperwork. The clip does not show how the argument started, which matters because context is not some optional luxury item the media can skip when it gets inconvenient. Supporters have called her comments uncomfortable truths, while critics have called them hateful and Islamophobic.
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She lost her job and then got threats
Once the clip spread across social media, Kilpatrick was reportedly doxxed, received threats, and lost her job. That is the modern social media machine in a nutshell. One video, one pile-on, one pink slip. Tom Hennessey organized the fundraiser under the title “Stand with brave Texas healthcare worker,” saying he had already seen similar campaigns take off for other people caught in viral controversies. He has become a familiar name in these online fundraising battles, especially when the internet decides someone needs to be publicly punished in record time.
Hennessey’s past campaigns also pulled in huge money
Hennessey has helped run other high-dollar GiveSendGo drives tied to viral incidents. One was for Shiloh Hendrix in Rochester, Minnesota, after a playground video showed her using a racial slur toward a Black child who had taken items from her toddler’s diaper bag. That campaign raised more than $841,000, and Hendrix later confirmed she received the funds. Another involved Crystal Wilsey, a Cinnabon employee in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, whose viral video showed her using the N-word and other slurs toward Somali customers during a dispute over an order. Her campaign raised well over $100,000 after she was fired.
We’ve passed the 50k goal in 9 hours, thank you!
Now onto 100k! https://t.co/fM8Zi9Axls pic.twitter.com/6NpgqTYhLY
— Tom Hennessy (@Tomhennessey69) June 22, 2026
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