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Defending Democrats Together: Bill Kristol’s $10 Million “Dark Money” Assault on Republicans
Bill Kristol’s Defending Democracy Together—a star Never Trump group with the amusing acronym “DDT”—is really just another front for the “dark money” Left. The the group’s 501(c)(4) arm received $10…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 15, 2021

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How Much Did Arabella’s Center for Secure and Modern Elections Undermine the 2020 Election?
Arabella Advisors, the Left’s top “dark money” network, was highly active in manipulating the 2020 election. But unseating Trump was only one of Arabella’s goals last year. Others—like passing automatic…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 1, 2021

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How Much Damage Did Arabella’s Trusted Elections Fund Cause in 2020?
The mysterious Trusted Elections Fund, one of the professional Left’s top vote-by-mail groups created to warp the 2020 election, seems to have popped out of existence as quickly as it…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 22, 2021

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Grassroots Organizing Gone Corporate
America’s uber-rich have found a crafty alternative to creating grassroots activism from scratch: using their money to buy influence over local groups that already exist. During the 2020 election cycle,…
by Parker Thayer on November 4, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Committee Hearing Debacle
The Ford Foundation gives well over $100 million per year to programs that advance policy and political wins for the Left and Democratic politicians, yet Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

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The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Senator Cancel Culture
The Ford Foundation is an accidental byproduct of bad tax policy and unforeseen consequences. Confiscatory estate tax rates during the first half of the 20th century left one of the…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Hard Left Turns
Sen. Whitehouse’s assertion that the Ford Foundation “doesn’t seem to have much in the way of a political motive or purpose” is contradicted by tens of millions of dollars in…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Dark Roads Through Arabella
At least 114 separate Ford Foundation grants, totaling almost $65 million, were given over the previous five years to the New Venture Fund. In Sen. Whitehouse’s classification system, each one…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

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“Dark Money” Giant Wellspring Philanthropy Funds Arabella’s Activism
Nearly $10 million flowed from Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, one of the Left’s most secretive “dark money” funders, to one of its top activist empires in 2019, fueling campaigns ranging from…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 26, 2021

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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