Citizens United

Deception & Misdirection
Highlights from Scott Walter’s Answers to Questions for the Record from Sen. Whitehouse
“It is immoral for government to force citizens’ support of public causes to be made known to persons—in government and outside it—who would use the information to harass those citizens,”…
by Scott Walter on April 15, 2021

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Scott Walter Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee
My preferred definition of “dark money” came from a witty man who said: Dark money is support for speech the Left wants to silence. That definition reveals how “dark money”…
by Scott Walter on March 11, 2021

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Scott Walter’s Written Statement Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee
At Capital Research Center, where I work, we’re in our fourth decade of studying the sort of money flows discussed in the Captured Courts report issued by the Democratic Policy…
by Scott Walter on March 11, 2021

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Capital Research, January 2021
Ken Braun examines how Participant Media, the creation of billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, is advancing an anti-capitalist environmental agenda. Michael Watson examines the down-ballot outcomes of the 2020 election and the…
by CRC Staff on March 8, 2021

Commentary
Busting the Myth of Conservative ‘Dark Money’
Here’s a popular myth: Rich people are all conservative, so conservatives have more money to affect politics than liberals, because the left, which cares about the poor, doesn’t have the…
by Scott Walter on January 19, 2021

Commentary, Deception & Misdirection
Left-Wing Billionaires Turn to For-Profit Corporations for Giving
Liberal billionaire donors are exploiting a new way of funneling millions of dollars to left-wing political groups. In 2015, Facebook founder and Democratic donor Mark Zuckerberg set up a limited…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 15, 2021

Philanthropy
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…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 11, 2021

Featured Items, Organization Trends
Political and Policy-Oriented Giving After Citizens United: An Update to CRC’s 2017 Analysis
The left-wing advantage in election funding through public policy and “dark money” groups increased in the 2018 elections. In the 2018 election cycle, liberal grantmakers increased their public policy 501(c)(3)…
by Shane Devine, Michael Watson on December 17, 2020

Philanthropy
The “Progressive Philanthropy Complex” and State Attorneys General
Adam Piper, executive director of the Republican Attorneys General Association, appeared on The American Conservative’s TAC Right Now podcast late last week, during which he was asked about some of the recent…
by Michael E. Hartmann on November 30, 2020

Organization Trends
The Funders Committee for Civic Participation
No single organization better illustrates the elite Left’s coordination ahead of the 2020 Census and 2021 redistricting effort than the Funders Committee for Civic Participation, an affinity group for…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 21, 2020