Center for Popular Democracy

Organization Trends
The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration Machine: Activists Pile On
For a nonpartisan, apolitical group, ERIC is beloved of the Left. In Massachusetts, for example, dozens of leftist groups—including the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, Common Cause, and the…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 26, 2022

Organization Trends
The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration Machine: Who Registers and Why?
ERIC’s activities raise serious concerns about who, if anyone, should be registering voters—particularly since the left and the Democratic Party have gone in for government-run voter registration drives. Last March,…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 26, 2022

Commentary
Congresswomen’s Staged Arrests—a Case of Liberal “Causeplay”
This week, numerous left-wing U.S. Representatives—most notably Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN)—blocked traffic near the U.S. Capitol as part of a pro-abortion protest. Capitol Police told the…
by Michael Watson on July 22, 2022

Organization Trends
Patient Power Is Dead: Obamacare and Alternatives
On July 19, 2017, at least 155 demonstrators were arrested by U.S. Capitol police for creating a coordinated disturbance at U.S. Senate office buildings. The scofflaw infiltration was in response…
by Ken Braun on June 16, 2022

Organization Trends
Patient Power Is Dead: Medicare for All
Two years after the incursion at the congressional offices, the Center for Popular Democracy endorsed Medicare for All, one of many left-leaning nonprofits that have done so. Over the years…
by Ken Braun on June 16, 2022

Organization Trends
Patient Power Is Dead: Big Labor and Medicare for All
National Nurses United, another of the groups listed in the Washington Post accounts about the 2017 incursion into congressional offices, is a stridently left-wing labor union, which was one of…
by Ken Braun on June 16, 2022

Organization Trends
Patient Power Is Dead: Labor Unions and the ACA
While large in number, these supporters of single-payer schemes such as Medicare for All remain (though not always) the most left-leaning of the nonprofits, unions, political committees, and Democrats. In…
by Ken Braun on June 16, 2022

Organization Trends
Patient Power Is Dead: Promoters of the Status Quo
The Affordable Care Act wasn’t much of a reform for our broken third-party payment health care system, so much as a status quo effort to stuff millions more people into…
by Ken Braun on June 16, 2022

Organization Trends
Patient Power Is Dead: The Arabella Network
It is difficult to track the funding for many ACA advocates. There have been at least two dozen different Arabella subsidiaries with a major mission objective of promoting increases in…
by Ken Braun on June 16, 2022

Organization Trends
Patient Power Is Dead: Arabella’s Secretive 2018 Election Projects
During the 2018 federal elections, Arabella deployed more than a dozen state-specific political projects to agitate against Republicans who didn’t support left-leaning health care policies. An October 2018 report in…
by Ken Braun on June 16, 2022