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Organization Trends
Watch Out, Virginia—Another Flood of Mail-In Ballot Mailers Headed Your Way
A new wave of absentee-ballot mailers is about to overwhelm mailboxes across the commonwealth, courtesy of the same professional activists who flooded the Old Dominion in 2020. The Blank Rome…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Campaign for Socialized Housing
For the increasing unaffordability of housing in much of America, observers offer a variety of explanations and remedies. Numerous factors are at play. The housing market is, after all, a…
by Robert Stilson on August 26, 2021

Philanthropy
Big Philanthropy is Not America’s Friend
When considering big liberal donors, most people tend to think of George Soros or the Ford Foundation. Forgotten are scores of megadonors that few non-philanthropoids have heard of. Yet these…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 13, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Going Postal: How the Left Will Use Vote by Mail to Federalize Elections
Vote by mail is the future of American democracy, with all the accompanying opportunities for ballot harvesting, mail fraud, and deceit—at least if the left has its way. This was…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 9, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Arabella’s “Dark Money” Activists Trying to Tilt 2021 Redistricting
With the 2020 Census behind us the country looks to the looming battle over the future of its congressional and state legislative districts for the next decade. But “dark money”…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 16, 2021

Organization Trends
Did Hansjörg Wyss Violate Federal Election Law?
Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss has been called the “new George Soros” for funding a host of environmentalist groups, though Wyss has a fraction of the notoriety of that Hungarian-born billionaire.
by Hayden Ludwig on June 9, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Sheldon Whitehouse Searches for More Traitors
Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) announced he would begin a “new series of Senate floor speeches . . . exposing the scheme by right-wing donor interests to…
by Ken Braun on May 25, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Arabella Advisors: Democrats’ Darkest “Dark Money”
While most Americans were hooked on the 2020 electoral battle between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Washington’s biggest “dark money” network was quietly funneling tens of millions of dollars into…
by Hayden Ludwig on May 17, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Inside the Foreign-Funded “Hub Project” to Transform America
It’s a story that goes to the very heart of the left’s mountains of shadowy funding and professional activism: a foreign billionaire infamous for illegally funding Democrats, backing ghoulish medical…
by Hayden Ludwig on May 3, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Meet the Swiss Billionaire Behind Arabella Advisors’ “Dark Money” Empire
New York Times reporter Ken Vogel recently revealed the efforts by Swiss billionaire and leftist mega-donor Hansjörg Wyss to purchase the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and other failing…
by Hayden Ludwig on April 22, 2021