Arabella Advisors is a for-profit company in Washington, DC—what we call a Beltway bandit consulting political firm. Arabella Advisors runs a “dark money” empire, which can be visualized as a…
To the outside observer, Arabella Advisors is nothing more than an accounting and human resources firm that helps charities get things done, not a billion-dollar political influence operation helping leftists…
Economic Speakers Bureau (ESB)—a fiscally sponsored project of the Groundwork Collaborative, which is itself a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund—was quietly launched in 2023 to broker connections…
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The story begins in 2015 when the consulting firm Civitas Public Affairs Group produced a private report for the Wyss Foundation, the philanthropy vehicle of Swiss-born Hansjörg Wyss.[1] The report outlined…
Enter the Berger Action Fund, founded in 2007 as the Wyss Action Fund and perhaps the most unusual piece of the puzzle. Foundations are typically wary of associating themselves with 501(c)(4)…
On May 29, 2024, Scott Walter testified about foreign money in elections and other challenges to election integrity before the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs.
An overwhelming majority of Americans want foreign money kept out of our elections, and existing federal and state laws partially bar this outrageous intrusion, but loopholes remain, and abuses continue.
America’s contemporary political parties “are hollow parties,” political scientists Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld pronounce in their new book. They are “[h]ard shells, marked with the scars of interparty electoral conflict.” They “cover disordered cores,…
Arabella Advisors is a for-profit company in Washington, DC, that controls a network of six nonprofit organizations. These six sisters in turn control several hundred small projects masquerading as grassroots…