A far-Left dark money fundraising campaign hauled in an alarming $1.6 billion in cash from anonymous donors to bankroll Progressive, Fascist, and Democrat groups and causes in 2020.
Forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service show that the shadowy money network, managed by Washington, DC-based and Democrat-aligned consulting firm Arabella Advisors, pushed an astounding $896 million in contributions and grants to Progressive and Fascist groups last year.
The Arabella network illustrated how disingenuous Democrats – like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders – quietly benefit from massive amounts of anonymous donations as they simultaneously – and hypocritically – rail against the influence of “dark money” in the political sphere.
The network’s web of activist groups sits under four Arabella-managed nonprofits: the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund.
“Dark money” refers to political spending by nonprofit organizations – for example, 501(c)(4) (social welfare, political action) 501(c)(5) (unions) and 501(c)(6) (trade association) groups – that are not required to disclose their donors.
Each of these funds acts as a financial benefactor to other Progressive and Fascist nonprofits, providing their tax and legal status to the nonprofits housed beneath the funds. This scheme allows those groups to avoid filing tax forms which would shed light on their financials.
The four Arabella-managed funds are not required to disclose donors on their tax forms because of legislated exemptions for political and activist contributions.
An examination of the IRS filings by the Capital Research Center found the four funds facilitated more than 300 “pop-up” projects to boost Democrat, Progressive, and Fascist causes that exclusively attacked Republican initiatives.
Why This Is Important
This is what happens when groups and corporations are bestowed the rights reserved for citizens where electoral politics is concerned. And while the debate over Citizens United v. the FEC will continue for the ages, there are consequences for that ruling that have delivered our political system to the elitist, globalist, and corporate class, drowning out the citizen from the process but for the vote.
Summarizing the Citizen United v. The FEC decision, it dramatically increased the power of dark money groups (nonprofit groups that are not required to disclose their donors) to directly influence federal elections. And while the Right was tickled with this decision in the beginning, since the up-ending of the power structure in the United States – the metamorphosis of power in the boardrooms from free-market proponents to Woke, Marxism-motivated transformative activists – they are too busy getting “bitch-slapped” in the fundraising sphere to realize they are losing it all.
According to OpenSecret.org – a spectacular website with which you should acquaint yourself:
“The Citizens United ruling… [allowed] nonprofits to spend corporate treasury funds on ads that expressly advocate for or against a candidate’s election. These anonymously funded groups swiftly put their new powers to use. Dark money groups launched $139 million in FEC-reported outside spending during the 2010 midterms, then shelled out a record $313 million during the 2012 election cycle…
“Regulated by the Internal Revenue Service, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit may spend unlimited sums on political activities without ever disclosing donors, so long as its primary purpose is ‘social welfare.’ The IRS has not clearly defined what a primary purpose is or issued rules on how to calculate it, but the generally accepted test is that less than half of a 501(c)(4) nonprofit’s activities may be political. To stay under the 50 percent threshold, some dark money groups funnel anonymous cash to each other in complex networks.”
This is why Americans get bombarded with disingenuous political advertising every General Election cycle. In fact, the “lowest common denominator” mentality of political advertising goes hand in hand with why Americans have come to despise politicians, spin doctors, political pundits, and the mainstream media. Truth has been ceded to narrative control and the Alinsky-based, win-at-all-cost/the-ends-justifies-the-means, slash and burn political model.
While citizens certainly make up corporations and special interest groups, those groups themselves – as entities – routinely abuse the Citizens United ruling to propagandize and, because of that, abuse the notion of “social welfare.”
Social welfare is an imprecise term at best, and the IRS’s failure to rigidly define the term as it pertains to political campaign finance makes it an almost wholly useless catch-all that provides “plausible deniability” for any and all political advocacy.
Strictly speaking, the term refers to the overall well-being of the entire society. It is laughable to contend that the inaccurate, politically charged, hyper-partisan half-truths – and in many cases outright lies – foisted upon the American people by dark money groups in any way serves the overall well-being of our society. In fact, it can be argued, it achieves the exact opposite: the poisoning of our society.
With disingenuous players in the mix like Arabella – and the deep-pocket corporations and Woke activist billionaires that routinely cut checks with absolutely no exposure to accountability, it is time to revisit the idea of campaign finance.
No one and no entity should be able to skirt accountability for their actions while attempting to influence the electorate to their way of thinking. If a person or group of people believes in something enough to cut a check in support of an issue, they should have courage enough to stand up for their conviction.
Dark money contributions allow the cowards of the elitist class to hide behind the disingenuous and corruptive skirts of zealot organizations like Arabella.
#Resist #PushBack #ThrowOffTheChains #Nullification
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The Dishonorable, Socialist Democrat Party game plan is to lie, cheat and steal elections in order to take total control of the American people, increase Taxes on everything and bring American commerce and economy to its knees.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
no matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
Puppet president F. Joe Brandon obeyed his masters and started bringing our economy to its knees on his very first week in office.
This traitorous, dishonorable, dishonest, immoral, socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
” We have the best politicians and thus the best Government that Money can buy. ” Author unknown and does anybody have to wonder why our Government passes leglislation that hurts the midd!e class and why our Government is such a mess and makes such buffons as President Joe Bidden and his Vice President to represent America.
the socialism believers or any other “ism”followers are trying to take down this country. everyone has to stand up not just talk and defend our country and it’s constitution. or we will all be sorry goodbye to any sense of freedom as we know
NO POLITICIAL DONATION, should ever be “Dark” or anonymous…
EVER!
I do believe there is a law against it… it must be reported to the IRS of who did the donation and how they obtained the money. The problem is there has already been a set precedence… does the name LOIS LERNER ring a bell. She was dragged in front of congress to be questioned on denying tax free status to conservative base organizations while granting it to “Libtard” ones. The mother dog made a opening statement then proceeded to to tell them all to “fornicate off” claiming the 5th… then walked out. So getting ANY info from the libtard IRS backed up by the libtard department of injustice, while having a libtard sitting congress that wouldn’t start the proceedings anyway is futile. One option left.
That is why ALL OF THEM need to get strung up, over a massive fish tank, holding hundreds of pirannah!
then we could sell tickets and have a lottery where the winner gets to cut the rope. God bless capitalism.
I’d certainly buy some of those tickets!
They may, with satan as their leader collect billions in donations but they cannot out pray law biding, decent, honest Americans.
Pray for America like our lives depend on it!!!!!
BECAUSE it does!