The States Are Dialing “Zuck Bucks” out of Elections for Good
A flurry of bills in the past few weeks brings the total number of states that have banned or restricted Zuck bucks to 16, with more on the way. Thanks…
Arabella Advisors
What Is Arabella Advisors Holdings? And What Is It Hiding?
Arabella Advisors likes to present itself as a smallish consultancy that likes to help apolitical do-gooders do pretty much anything but politics, despite its $1.7 billion nonprofit empire that is…
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Demand Justice’s Nominee for the Supreme Court
President Joe Biden has nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. To no one’s surprise, she’s on the “dark money” Left’s shortlist. Biden…
Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: The Ford Foundation’s Millions
One “lefty” billionaire that has been exerting a big influence on our politics for decades and yet escapes nearly all media scrutiny. This is more striking because Henry Ford died…
Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: The Climate Hypocrites
In January 2019, more than 600 left-leaning policy and climate organizations co-signed a letter to members of Congress demanding “renewable energy” and “100 percent decarbonization.” The Ford Foundation has spent…
Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: Subsidizing the Big Labor Left
Large labor unions, particularly the powerful and often left-wing public employee unions, are major supporters of Democratic and left-leaning causes. The Ford Foundation gave grants totaling $44.5 million in 2021…
Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: The “Dark Money” Arabella Network
According to its online grants database, the Ford Foundation gave nearly $13 million to left-leaning projects run by Arabella’s Hopewell Fund and New Venture Fund in 2021. An April 2021…
CRC’s 2021 Year in Review
In 2021, Capital Research Center’s ironclad research exposed power-seeking influencers and helped citizens reclaim their freedom. Our work was featured in seven new books released last year—on everything from the…
Arabella’s “Dark Money” Blowout Targeted 29 States in 2020 . . . and Fell Flat
The year 2020 was a blowout year for political spending. The nonpartisan watchdog OpenSecrets estimates that the 2020 election cost a record $14.4 billion, more than twice as much…
Who Are Arabella’s Big-Dollar Donors?
The “dark money” network created and run by Arabella Advisors is perhaps the most powerful and, until recently, the least-reported-on player in Washington politics. Tracing the Arabella network’s donors is…