The New Venture Fund’s Gun Grabbers
You may have seen the Capital Research Center’s groundbreaking report on Arabella Advisors and its four sister nonprofit organizations, the New Venture Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Hopewell…
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Tom Steyer’s Itching, Scratching Need to Impeach
This article originally appeared in American Greatness on April 18, 2019. As special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s two-year, $34 million investigation into the Trump campaign’s supposed “collusion” with Russia in…
Out of Darkness, Cash: A Consultancy Hides “Dark Money”
If there’s one game the professional Left is good at playing, it’s fake “grassroots” activism. Nonpartisan, supposedly neutral groups with provocative names seem to pop up almost every week “demanding”…
Out of Darkness, Cash: Pop! Goes the Protest
But funding is only half the picture, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s real value to the Left is in its fiscal sponsorship services. At a glance, these campaigns are spontaneous…
Out of Darkness, Cash: Sixteen Thirty in Action
Arabella Advisors doesn’t like to advertise just how influential its Sixteen Thirty Fund really is. In 2015, for instance, the firm detailed the work of the Media Democracy Fund, a…
Liberals in San Francisco Eat their Own Over Israel
To activists in the Mission District of San Francisco, it doesn’t matter if your liberal credentials include working in President Obama’s administration and for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign: if you…
How Weird Is the Electoral College, Anyway?
Liberals complain often about the Electoral College, America’s unique body for selecting its chief executive. Citing small-d “democracy,” groups such as National Popular Vote (NPV), FairVote, and a…
Another NeverTrump Network Is Receiving Left-wing Cash
Most political observers know that Trump critic and former Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol launched groups that receive funding from left-wing heavyweights, but Capital Research Center has uncovered another #NeverTrump network that…
A SURJ of Social Justice from the Social Good Fund
The Social Good Fund is a nonprofit funder created in 2012 that aims to “create and establish positive influences for individuals, communities, and the environment.” To this end,…
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Staff Has “No Comment” After She Unfollows Anti-Semitic Instagram Page
On Friday, the Capital Research Center (CRC) exposed Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) who was following an inflammatory anti-Semitic Instagram account. After the original report, Tlaib quietly unfollowed the account…