Liberal dark money giant funneled more than $60 million to groups mobilizing voters in 2022

A network of liberal nonprofits invested tens of millions of dollars in groups involved in voter participation and registration activities in 2022, according to recently released tax documents.

He Background Sixteen Thirtyhe New venture fundhe windward bottomhe Hopewell Fund and the North bottom form a network of left-wing nonprofits managed by Arabella Advisors, a for-profit company run by Eric Kessler, a veteran of the Clinton administration. The network, which includes several “dark money” groups that are not required to disclose their donors, invested more than $62 million in groups focused on registering, engaging and mobilizing voters during 2022, a midterm election year. period.

“The Arabella Advisors Network is not in the charity business, and the tens of millions they have sent to ‘charitable’ groups to promote voting and voter registration is further proof that they are not either,” Parker Thayer. , a Capital Research Center researcher told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Voter registration nonprofits are nothing more than a cost-effective way to achieve partisan election results for Democrats, while keeping voters completely anonymous donors and give them a tax deduction for their trouble.”

America Votes was the largest recipient of these funds among voter participation groups, raising $42.5 million in 2022. (RELATED: A Democrat-Linked Dark Money Network Is Quietly Funding the ‘Disinformation’ Research Industry)

political described America Votes as “the liberal group that works on voter registration and participation and collaborates with other left-wing political groups.”

“America Votes coordinates more than 400 state and national partner organizations to create a more fair and representative democracy by increasing voter participation across the country,” the group’s website. state. “Our coalition conducts nonpartisan, education-focused programs to engage voters, especially newly eligible and infrequent voters, through mail, phone and text messages to ensure they feel safe and informed about the voting process in person or by mail.

While America Votes bills itself as a nonpartisan organization, it has collaborated extensively with the Democratic Party.

America’s votes paid by phone calls urging voters to support then-President Barack Obama and Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in 2012. The group also spill $800,000 to support the Democratic-backed candidate for the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election between February and March.

America also votes gave hundreds of millions to Family Friendly Action PAC, a group that focused on electing a Democrat to the Senate in Wisconsin during the 2022 midterm elections. As a tactic to increase voter turnout in Nevada during the midterm elections, America Votes sent billboards saying they would “review public records after the election to determine whether or not you joined your neighbors in voting.”

The Open Society Foundations, which Soros founded and funds, gave The United States votes 40.4 million dollars between 2017 and 2021.

America Votes takes credit for making things like no-reason absentee voting and automatic voter registration into law in New Mexico and Michigan. The group says “engaged 21 million voters, including voters of color and younger voters, with mail, text messages and calls with registration tips and reminders to complete mail-in ballots,” during the 2020 election.

New Venture Fund donated $8.5 million to the Voter Registration Project, a group “official” by John Podesta, making it the second most funded and supported voter mobilization group by Arabella’s network.

The Voter Registration Project is “a voter mobilization group targeting African American, Latino, Native American, low-income, and other groups likely to lean center-left” and also distributes grants to fund voter registration efforts. according to influence surveillance.

TO report The Capital Research Center estimates that the Voter Registration Project’s efforts in 2020 gave President Biden between 1 million and 2.7 million votes. The group, like America Votes, also received million in support of Soros’ philanthropic network.

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The New Venture Fund and the Hopewell Fund collectively donated $350,000 to State Voices. Voices of the State is a cluster that “fight”[s] for health democracy and political power for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and all people of color (BIPOC)” via things such as get-out-the-vote initiatives, voter registration, and “voter protection.”

Arabella’s network leaned heavily toward funding voter groups in battleground states.

Nonprofits managed by Arabella Advisors funneled more than $4 million to voter registration and participation groups based in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Nevada in 2022.

About half of those funds, $1.6 million from the Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund, went to the Voter Project, a Pennsylvania group that focuses on voter registration and increasing the number of votes cast. by mail.

An additional $850,000 from the Hopewell Fund went to the Voter Project Fund, a separate but associated nonprofit organization.

The Voter Project helped register more than 3.2 million people to vote by mail in Pennsylvania in the lead-up to the 2020 election. according to a consultant who worked with the group. A strategist’s bio on the consulting firm’s website called the voter registration efforts “the soft effort to win the swing state in 2020.”

Joe Biden won the state of Pennsylvania in the 2020 presidential election.

The group aware a video on his YouTube channel after the 2020 election in which Democratic Governor Tom Wolf says that “it may take longer than usual to count each vote.”

Republicans suffered defeats in the 2022 Pennsylvania senatorial and gubernatorial elections.

The New Venture Fund and the Windward Fund sent $975,000 to the Mi Familia Vota Educational Fund in Arizona during 2022. My Family Votes describe itself as a group that “unites Latino, immigrant and allied communities to promote social and economic justice through citizenship workshops, voter registration and voter participation.”

Black voters matter and the Black Male Voters ProjectGeorgia-based groups focused on mobilizing black voters received a combined total of $415,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund and the Windward Fund. Nevada Native Voters Alliancea group working to “mobilize indigenous voters,” got $210,000 from the New Venture Fund in 2022.

Republican candidates suffered defeats in Georgia, Arizona, Snowfall and Pennsylvaniaand elections are decided by less than 1% in Nevada and Arizona.

“Charities’ partisanship in getting out the vote has been an open secret for a long time,” Thayer told the DCNF.

“There isn’t one of these groups that isn’t made up almost exclusively of former Democratic campaign operatives and staff, and none of them make it a priority to register voters from typically Republican backgrounds and demographics. It’s a loophole that could easily be closed, but one that has been left open by an IRS with a history (and present) of unfairly targeting conservative nonprofits.

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb recently aforementioned New Venture Fund and Arabella following allegations that New Venture Fund violated federal law by dictating the partisan activities of Secure Democracy, a group that pushed to expand voting by mail.

Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Windward Fund, Hopewell Fund, North Fund and Aabella Advisors did not immediately respond to DCNF’s requests for comment.

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