Black income groups have been shaping scheme for years, doing the bidding of rich, private left- wing ideologues. Then Scott Walter, leader of Capital Research Center, brings them to light with his new book, Arabella.
Arabella: The Secretly Transforming Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires was released by Encounter Books on April 9. Walter discusses the part of the dark Arabella system in helping wealthy businessmen like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Hansjörg Wyss ultimately alter American culture.
This function is an important primer for anyone, mainly policymakers and reporters, on remaining- wing darkish- money networks. It provides a fascinating, succinct, but densely written record of Arabella Advisors and its collaboration with unidentified social causes.
According to The New York Times, Arabella “funneled hundreds of millions of dollars through a lily ring of organizations supporting Progressives and liberal triggers.”
Arabella has five departments: the New Venture Fund, the Hopewell Fund, the Windward Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, and the North Fund. Walter explains that these trees “pop-up” organizations that transfer money to serve the needs of their donors, who remain private. Capital Research, nevertheless, has spent decades tracing the cash.
The largest donor to Arabella groups is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which gave the group more than$ 456 million— including$ 127 million in 2020 — since 2008, according to the book, which draws on years of research from Capital Research. In 2020, the Rockefeller Foundation gave Arabella nonprofits a total of$ 15 million, and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation gave them a total of close to$ 28 million. Additionally, between 2010 and 2020, the Wyss Foundation provided nearby to$ 52 million to Arabella organizations.  ,
The left often accuses the right of using black money systems, but Walter shows that Arabella’s network of influence far outpaces that of the appropriate in places such as elections, pregnancy, and climate change. There are many more crucial factors in the book than this post would address.
Elections
Arabella has been using wealth to influence elected officials who are likely to prefer anonymity. But thanks to the work of Walter and Capital Research, they — and their programs— are then known publicly.
The Democracy Alliance is a system of powerful left-wing candidates. Walter explains its “ambitious targets” ahead of the 2020 election, when its channel partners committed$ 146 million to “progressive system image” groups.
Wyss, a part of the Democracy Alliance, is like a fresh George Soros number. He commands the$ 2.7 billion Wyss Foundation, which worked with John Podesta, past adviser to President Barack Obama, in 2015 to increase the Democratic voting base with election policy.  ,
The Daily Caller revealed in 2016 that Wyss, a Swiss member, had given$ 41, 000 to Democratic factors in contravention of the federal government’s restrictions on foreign citizens giving to social activities. Americans for Public Trust filed a complaint in 2021 alleging illegal election interference from Wyss, the Wyss Foundation, and Arabella’s Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund.
The Wyss Foundation helped start Arabella’s The Hub Project, which aims to shape media coverage to boost support for Democrats.
America Votes, which recently convened a summit of officials and influencers to decide election policy for a Democratic victory, received more than$ 21 million from the New Venture Fund in 2022.  ,
The Center for Tech and Civic Life received$ 24.8 % of the New Venture Fund’s funding in 2020, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg received$ 350 million to boost Democratic turnout in the 2020 election. The same year, it gave$ 675, 000 to the Center for Election Innovation and Research ( CEIR ).
Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, is also the founder of Democracy Fund. Walter exposes the organization’s connections to left-wing electoral influence groups like CEIR and CTCL.
Democracy Fund, which partners with CTCL, shuttled$ 280, 000 through Arabella to CEIR in 2017, according to Influence Watch. In 2020, the organization obtained Virginia voter data in the same year that the group received$ 70 million in Zuckbucks.
According to a former head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, CEIR Executive Director David Becker is a “hardcore leftist” who” could n’t stand conservatives”.
The Center for Secure and Modern Elections ( CSME) is also a major player. The organization supports voter registration automatically and funnels money between dark money organizations. Following the 2020 election, the Louisiana attorney general sued along with CTCL, alleging illegal interference, as a result of Arabella’s New Venture Fund’s project.  ,
Although the world of election funding is complex, Walter makes it simple for the reader by combining the funds and details into a compelling narrative.
Abortion
Walter follows the big-name, big-money characters as they grow to support the abortion industry.  ,
One of the most influential figures in abortion funding is Warren Buffett. Walter uses a more human perspective to begin his analysis of the billionaire, demonstrating his deep concern for overpopulation.  ,
According to Capital Research, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation has given$ 4 billion to organizations that support abortion and population control in the last 20 years. Its grants include:$ 675 million to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America,$ 416 million to Population Services International,$ 91 million to Engender Health, formerly the Sterilization League of New Jersey, and$ 36 million to Gynuity Health.
In the 2010s, a gyne test on women in poor nations like Armenia, Burkinabe, and Ukraine was conducted. The group received$ 287, 500 from Arabella’s abortion branch, the Hopewell Fund, in 2017. Influence Watch claims that the Hopewell Fund supports expanding abortion and donates to causes that support pro-abortion.
By 2020, the Buffett Foundation will have distributed$ 66 million to the Hopewell Fund and$ 77 million to Arabella’s New Venture Fund.  ,
Buffett and Arabella are not the only ones. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which raises millions of dollars to support abortion everywhere, is a trustee for Buffett. Walter acknowledges the foundation’s prior reservations about the matter, but he is fair in holding the Gates accountable for their contributions to the abortion industry.
Climate
Arabella has been involved in climate issues from the beginning. Walter begins his book in 2008 in Whitefish, Montana, with a group called” Responsible Trails America” trying to close motorbike trails on public land. That group was a front for Arabella.
Walter uses this instance to show how starkly different the place was from where Arabella is today. The network has since grown exponentially, taking in$ 1.26 billion in revenue in 2020, according to InfluenceWatch. Although Arabella’s activities have nearly been incorporated into nearly every aspect of American life, many of its activities still have to do with climate.  ,
The Western Values Project ( WVP ) began as a project of Arabella’s New Venture Fund. It maintained a website criticizing then-President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior, including Montana’s Ryan Zinke, who resigned due to public pressure. The WVP jumped up and attacked him when Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt took over as secretary.
More recently, federal attempts to ban gas stoves point back to Rewiring America, a project of Arabella’s Windward Fund. Through incentives and societal “mobilization,” Rewiring America encourages the federal government to completely replace electricity in American homes. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave the group$ 300, 000 in 2020, and former Rep. Stacey Abrams, D- Georgia, is a” senior counsel” for the group.  ,
Walter offers an interesting narrative, with evidence connecting the most important anonymous influencers in areas including elections, abortion, and climate activism. He includes the little details that show dark money organizations supporting one another and illustrating their common cause.
At Hillsdale College, Logan Washburn majors in journalism and politics. He serves as associate editor for the school paper, The Collegian, served as editorial assistant for Christopher Rufo, and has bylines in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller.  ,
