Gara Lamarche’s Civil Discourse
In November, Gara LaMarche announced that he will be stepping down as president of the Democracy Alliance, the network of liberal donors who coordinate their giving. LaMarche has also been president and…
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Plans to Flip Pennsylvania: Gerrymandering Pennsylvania
Keystone Counts is the leading campaign in Pennsylvania to boost the number of Democratic-leaning constituencies in the 2020 Census and the redistricting process. It’s run by Pennsylvania Voice, an affiliate…
The Left’s “Dark Money” Coordinator: Eyes on 2020
Perhaps no project quite illustrates the role NEO Philanthropy plays on the Left better than the Funders Committee for Civic Participation. For one thing, while it’s made up of mega-funders,…
The State of the Left: Donors Take the Reins
Another aspect of the Democracy Alliance worth noting: It quickly included unions—first, the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), which is itself a Left 2.0 entity thanks to Andy Stern’s re-shaping…
Report: Liberal Mega-donors Map Out Spending $275 Million in 2020
Progressive mega-donors gathered last week to discuss how they can strategically distribute $275 million for maximum impact on the 2020 elections, according to an exclusive report by The Washington Free…
Big Labor’s Annual Reports Show Its Ties to the Left
Fresh annual reports for 2023 conclusively demonstrate the institutional connections between Big Labor and the rest of the Left. But these annual reports just skim the surface of the deep…
The Kingmaker of the Left: Arabella Advisors
"If you’re trying to understand American politics and the Left, it is much more important to look at who heads Arabella Advisors, or the Ford Foundation, than it is to…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #310: Big Labor Then, Now, and in the Future
Have you ever wondered how and why Big Labor became such a driving force in American politics, and how it’s come to be associated with the American left and the…
ESG Investing in “Democratic” Companies
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has been rightly criticized for driving the politicization of American business, and it is hard to think of a more politicized method of evaluating corporations…
The Myth of the “Nonpolitical” Labor Union
The labor-conservative faction led by American Compass—an ostensibly conservative think tank funded by liberal Big Philanthropy—has an insurmountable problem in converting the conservative movement and the Republican Party from its…