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…
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Fix the Court May Have Financial Disclosure Problems
Fix the Court is one of many organizations on the Left that works tirelessly to attack the Supreme Court and undermine its legitimacy. Yet Fix the Court's tax disclosures appear…
Just Court-Pack a Majority
Expanding the Supreme Court solely to dilute the power of its current 6–3 conservative majority—political court-packing—is one of the most radical proposals currently circulating on the activist left. For the…
Arabella’s “Dark Money” Wants to Silence Free Speech
Enemies of free speech apparently feel right at home in the country’s largest “dark money” lobbying empire. Case-in-point, the Dangerous Speech Project aims to “inoculate” Americans against right-wing “hate” and…
Ludwig Talks Arabella Advisors
Hayden Ludwig talked about Arabella Advisors and “dark money” on Uncover California with Lori Mills radio show. He explained how Arabella runs a network of five nonprofits that funnel “dark…
A Cool $21 Billion for Politics—Courtesy of George Soros
New filings reveal that George Soros’s nonprofit empire has poured out nearly $21 billion since 2000, making him perhaps the biggest ATM for leftist political causes in the world. At…
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s “Dark Money” Boosting Democrats in Midterms
To no one’s surprise, the Arabella network’s advocacy arms are spending heavily to boost Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. Since the beginning of the midterm cycle in January 2021,…
The For-Profit DC Firm Staging America’s ‘Grassroots’ Movements
Behind the closed doors of an unassuming philanthropic consultancy in Washington, D.C., is one of the most powerful lobbying forces in the United States. The Atlantic has called it “the massive progressive dark-money…
“Dark Money” Networks on the Left Pulled In $3.7 Billion in 2020
In 2020 alone, six networks raked in a stunning $3.7 billion in “dark money,” funds used largely for political activism whose donors are difficult—if not impossible—to trace. Some of these…
My Mistake on “Dark Money”—and How It Reveals Media Bias in Covering This Subject
A year ago, in March 2021, I testified to a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing. And I made a mistake. I apologize for my mistake. Mr. Kotch was right, and I…