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APRIL 21, 2024
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"Arabella: The
Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly
Transforming America" |
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by Scott Walter |
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FULL TWO HOURS
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HOUR 2
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About
our guest: Scott Walter
Scott Walter is
president of Capital Research Center and
author of the new book, Arabella: The Dark
Money Network of Leftist Billionaires
Secretly Transforming America. He served in
the George W. Bush Administration as Special
Assistant to the President for Domestic
Policy and was vice president at the
Philanthropy Roundtable, editing
Philanthropy magazine and producing donor
guidebooks on assistance to the poor, public
policy research, and other topics. Walter
has testified to five different
congressional committees about Arabella and
related subjects, and about “dark money”
nonprofits to the US Senate, IRS, and state
legislatures.
Walter is a frequent media guest who has
appeared on major radio and television
programs nationwide. He has written for and
been quoted in such outlets as the New York
Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,
and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. A
Georgetown graduate, he lives with his wife
and four children in Virginia. |
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Arabella |
The Dark Money Network
of Leftist Billionaires
Secretly Transforming Americ |
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By Scott Walter |
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Washington, DC—While
figures like George Soros, Bill Gates, and
Mark Zuckerberg are known for their hefty
political donations, few Americans have
heard of Arabella Advisors. Even more
powerful than these standalone billionaires,
Arabella is a secretive “dark money”
operation that channels megadonor funds into
leftist political causes via pop-up groups
designed to look like innocent grassroots
outfits.
In ARABELLA: The Dark Money Network of
Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming
America (Encounter Books, April 9, 2024),
Scott Walter—president of Capital Research
Center and renowned expert in money and
politics—exposes the Left’s stunning
advantage in money and sophisticated
political machinery that shapes our lives
and elections.
The sheer quantity of money that has flowed
through Arabella’s channels is staggering.
In the 2020 election cycle, Arabella’s
nonprofits took in $2.4 billion, more than
the fundraising of the Democratic and
Republican National Committees combined. In
the 2022 election cycle, Arabella’s
fundraising rose to $3 billion.
In ARABELLA, Scott Walter reveals the major
role that Arabella has played in battles
over Supreme Court nominations, abortion,
men in women’s sports, school discipline,
Medicare for All, environmental policies,
fake local news outlets, “Zuck Bucks” that
manipulate election offices, and much more.
As Scott Walter notes, “this book strives to
illuminate the darkest reaches of America’s
political battles, where billionaires and
their minions fight to achieve a fundamental
transformation of the nation championed by
some, vigorously resisted by others. It
describes how one trust fund kid’s dream of
manipulating philanthropy grew into a
multibillion-dollar political empire that
shapes political races and public policy on
abortion, environmentalism, federal
regulation, healthcare, election laws, and
much more.”
This mountain of money and influence aimed
at transforming America explains why even
left-leaning major media are alarmed.
Arabella is “the indisputable heavyweight of
Democratic dark money,” warns the Atlantic.
A “dark-money behemoth,” says Politico. An
“opaque network,” says the New York Times,
that funnels “hundreds of millions of
dollars through a daisy chain of groups
supporting Democrats and progressive
causes.”
Citizens from across the political spectrum
will be shocked to learn how Arabella has
covertly developed the darkest of “dark
money” networks. |
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