Shady Dealings in Voter Registration
Everybody Votes, a $100 million voter registration campaign, was originally proposed by the Wyss Foundation and pushed by John Podesta. In the 2020 election cycle, Everybody Votes essentially functioned as…
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Scott Walter Talks “Dark Money” and the DISCLOSE Act
There is no set definition of “dark money.” Even in Senate hearings on “dark money” where a legal definition would be expected, the loudest complainers refuse to offer a definition.
Arabella Revisted
In July, Arabella Advisors was back in the news, when the Free Beacon reported that Sarah Walker, a whistleblower, claimed New Venture Fund “ran roughshod over tax laws” in order…
Big Labor Meets Arabella: A Coalitional Case Study
Social justice unionism is a theory of organized labor politics under which organized labor marches together with the social-liberal Left on noneconomic issues. This is part of a broad left-wing…
Dragging the Arabella Advisors “Dark Money” Empire into the Light
This week the Free Beacon reported that a whistleblower who claimed New Venture Fund “ran roughshod over tax laws” in order to influence state legislators expand mail-in voting in 2020…
CRC Special Report Unveils Vast “Dark Money” Network on the Left
Editor’s Note: Capital Research Center was first to begin exposing the vast Arabella Advisors network. Given that Arabella Advisors and the shady activities of one of its nonprofit…
A Conversation with the University of Oregon’s Renée A. Irvin
The economist and scholar of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the definition(s) of “dark money,” and her recent article, “How Dark Is It? An…
“Dark Money” in the Climate Debate: DISCLOSE Act
Senator Kaine mentioned that he doesn’t believe that the problem of dark money is more significant on the Democratic side than the Republican side. Without citing any dollar figures to…
“Dark Money” in the Climate Debate: “Dark Money” Links
In ten climate hearings, Democrats have never asked a single one of their witnesses about their receipt of dark money, let alone attempted to impugn their integrity or accused them…
“Dark Money” in the Climate Debate: “Cherry-Picked” Data
After the hearing, a Democratic witness took part in an interview, which was published in The Guardian. She specifically said that she “suspected the evidence that Democrats take more dark…