Left’s Top Dark Money Monster Is Dying — and Taking the Democratic Party With It

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In August, news came that the Gates Foundation — one of the world’s largest mega-funders of “progressive” political schemes — was quietly defunding Arabella Advisors, the dark money ATM that’s benefitted from over half a billion dollars from Gates since 2009. Armed with billions, the Arabella network exploits our nonprofit charity laws to agitate for D.C. statehood, pack the Supreme Court, and fund Democrat voter drives — all under the guise of philanthropy, and entirely tax-free.

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Anyone who knows its more famous cousin, the Tides Foundation, will quickly recognize the playbook. Instead of cutting checks directly to activist groups, leftist mega-donors and foundations route billions through tax-exempt nonprofits directly controlled by Arabella Advisors. That masks their identities and lets them play at being respectable philanthropies, while still bankrolling grubby political crusades.

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The Arabella model adds a sinister twist: It manufacturers “pop-up” front groups that do all the dirty work in-house through a process insiders call fiscal sponsorship. These are little more than jazzed-up websites with generic names like “Fix Our Senate” and “Floridians for a Fair Shake” passing themselves off as independent, grassroots groups. Yet they’re unplugged the moment a campaign wraps up with little to no paper trail. No public filings or disclosures revealing their activities or donors. Nothing real at all — save the damage done to our country.

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That retreat from Arabella is the first sign the far Left’s money spigot is drying up. You see it in the Democrats’ recent money woes — everyone from the DNC and state parties to the groups themselves are short on cash, with donors demanding change. Leadership’s civil war resembles a Stalinist politburo in the middle of a succession fight, but it’s the radicals who are approaching a full-on rout.

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Sixteen years ago, when the Gates Foundation first began funding the Arabella network, the Left commanded the sympathy of the American people, an army of paid protesters, and the donor class. They’ve already lost the people. Now they’re losing the billionaires, too. That leaves the world’s oldest political party looking more and more like its most lavishly funded Marxist book club.

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