The left-wing dark money behind the push to kill the filibuster

Sixty left-wing groups led by Fix Our Senate recently issued a letter demanding the Senate abolish the filibuster so democracy legislation will pass and the party now narrowly controlling Congress can rewrite all 50 states election laws.

Two big secrets lie behind this push to kill the filibuster and, supposedly, protect voting rights. First, this lobbying campaign is driven not by grassroots groups of ordinary people but by left-wing megadonors and the AstroTurf groups they fund. The second secret: This scheme isn t about protecting Democracy because overwhelming majorities of our democracy s citizens support the state election laws that these deep-pocketed special interests want snuffed out.

This fight is about the 2022 and 2024 elections, which liberal activists fear will go badly for them unless all the dubious changes in election laws and practices they finagled in 2020 are repeated. Nse Ufot, who leads a get-out-the-vote group founded by Stacey Abrams, confessed to Politico, If there isn t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we re f***ed.

Ufot s we doesn t refer to all in this democracy but only to the partisans she s serving.

The same partisanship afflicts the Fix Our Senate nonprofit group that made a splash with its 60-group letter. The legacy media kept the secret, calling Fix Our Senate just a pro-reform group. Actually, though Fix Our Senate claims it represents millions of Americans, it s a pop-up group, one of hundreds of fiscally sponsored projects in the dark money empire operated by Arabella Advisors, the in-house nonprofit groups of which took in $1.7 billion last year.

Here s more of the secret: Another letter-signer, Evergreen Action, is yet another front group Arabella operates via its Sixteen Thirty Fund, which Politico called a liberal dark-money behemoth.

At least 17 additional nonprofit groups that signed the letter have received $10 million from Arabella s coffers, Capital Research Center reports. In other words, the dozens of groups demanding the Senate overturn 50 states elections laws don t represent millions of people in those states. They represent a handful of billionaires who liberally fund AstroTurf activism. As Arabella brags, it serves clients representing more than $100 billion in assets.

via www.washingtonexaminer.com

Oh dear. I don’t like the sound of this. Those darn mega-donors. Always trying to suborn the Republic.