Dark Money Group Accused of Paying Liberal Influencers to Push Democrat Talking Points
“Sixteen Thirty Fund forms a key arm of the Left’s dark money network, bankrolling many of the activist groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration”
Progressive ideas are so popular that you have to pay people to push them.
The Daily Signal reports:
Left-Wing Dark Money Outfit Accused of Trying to Buy Social Media Influencers
One of the most influential left-wing dark money organizations stands accused of trying to buy social media influencers, aiming to unify the Left as Democrats struggle to find the path forward after President Donald Trump’s historic victory in November.
Trump’s interviews with conservative YouTubers, podcast hosts, and alternative media influencers accumulated more than 100 million views ahead of the 2024 presidential election, and it seems the group Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has ties to Arabella Advisors, is intent on galvanizing this new strategy on the other side of the aisle.
Will its efforts unite the woke infrastructure of the Left with the large audiences who flock to left-wing influencers? Or will the exposure of this effort further divide the Democrat activist class?
Sixteen Thirty Fund forms a key arm of the Left’s dark money network, bankrolling many of the activist groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration and supporting ballot initiatives across the states. The for-profit company Arabella Advisors manages Sixteen Thirty Fund as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, alongside other nonprofits like New Venture Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund. These nonprofits then prop up fiscally-sponsored projects, allowing donors to support the projects without disclosing which projects they fund.
Taylor Lorenz, a left-wing journalist not usually known for turning on her own side, wrote a lengthy Wired exposé about Chorus, which Lorenz identified as a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund.
A Sixteen Thirty Fund spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Signal that Chorus is a fiscally-sponsored project of Sixteen Thirty Fund.
“Sixteen Thirty Fund (STF) became a fiscal sponsor of Chorus in April 2025,” the spokesperson said. “Fiscal sponsorship is a very common model for nonprofit work. In our case, it allows us to provide a shared operational home to new, progressive nonprofit projects like Chorus. This model enables these projects to focus on their programmatic goals while STF provides administrative services such as compliance and human resources.”
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they already have them as influence against civility now they are giving them their own money…if that part is true
if its tax money being funneled to them
then their has to be criminality involved..prosecute
This is all dirty money with attempts to hide it, The laws associated with tax exempt 501s need to be redefined so this money laundering can’t occur. It should be completely available who donates to a 501 and no amount of cutouts should be allowed to obscure this information.
The 501 rules also need revision so no partisan cesspool like moveon should be able to obtain and keep 501 status.
What’s a 501? If you mean 501(c), that’s just any non-profit organization. They don’t pay income tax because they don’t earn an income; everything that comes in goes out on whatever purpose they exist for. . They do pay taxes on their unrelated business income. I’m not sure why all this scrutiny would be necessary, or what it would achieve.
If you mean 501(c)(3) organizations, which can accept tax-deductible donations, then yes, they’re fairly strictly regulated. And in general they’re not allowed to engage in partisan politics. That’s why there’s the NRA, which is a 501(c)(4), donations to which are not tax-deductible, and the NRA Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3), and donations to it are deductible.