Arabella Network's Leftist 'Dark Money' Influence Expanding, Author Reveals
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
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Summary
The left-wing Arabella Advisors network has raked in more money than either of the two major political parties and affects almost every element of public policy and elections, argues Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, a Washington-based investigative think tank.
Walter's new book “Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America” shows that in the 2020 election cycle, Arabella Advisors' nonprofits took in $2.4 billion. That's $1 billion more than the combined fundraising of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee.
That amount rose to $3 billion in the 2022 election cycle, Walter says. Moreover, he adds, nothing on the Right comes close to competing.
Listen to Walter outline Arabella's reach in a discussion of his book on today's podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast. For Monday, April 29th, I'm Fred Lucas. Today we're talking to Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research |
| 0:15.3 | Center about his new book Arabella, The Dark Money Network of Letts Us billionaire |
| 0:19.7 | secretly transforming America. Scott served in the George W Bush administration as special assistant to the president |
| 0:26.7 | for domestic policy and was vice president at the philanthropy roundtable, |
| 0:31.1 | editing Fine Three magazine, producing donor guide books on assistance to the poor |
| 0:36.3 | public policy research and other topics. |
| 0:38.7 | Walter has testified to five different congressional committees about Arabella and related subjects and about |
| 0:45.2 | dark money non-profits to the US Senate, the IRS, and state legislatures. |
| 0:50.3 | Stay tuned for my conversation with Scott Walter after this. |
| 0:55.0 | This is Mike Howell at the Heritage Foundation. |
| 1:00.0 | I know how the left and the deep state operate |
| 1:02.0 | because I've seen it from the inside. |
| 1:04.6 | When I was working for the Trump administration, I learned how the left made our lives miserable |
| 1:08.8 | and how they continue to think they can play by their own rules. |
| 1:12.1 | Well now we're taking all these tricks |
| 1:13.8 | and tactics that were deployed against the Trump administration and turning |
| 1:17.5 | them against the Biden regime. Through the work of the Oversight Project |
| 1:20.9 | we're exposing the left for what they are and embarrassing some actors responsible. |
| 1:25.0 | We're using strategic foias and fearless litigation |
| 1:30.0 | to force these bureaucrats to deliver documents they prefer to never see the light of day. |
| 1:35.0 | But for our work to be successful, we need Patriots like you to stand with us. |
| 1:40.0 | You can take action now. Visit heritage.org |
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