In The News

  • DC Journal, 6/17/26, “Watchdog Asks IRS to Investigate Nonprofit Over Alaska Activity”
  • The Alaska Story, 4/13/26, “Mobilizing to shield Alaska from foreign-linked advocacy networks”
  • The Alaska Landmine, 2/15/2026, “How D.C. progressive billionaires are building Alaska’s permanent opposition”
  • Washington Reporter, 2/12/2026, “SCOOP: Lawmakers target foreign influence hiding in left-wing nonprofit networks”
  • The Alaska Story, 1/19/2026, “Protecting salmon or driving politics? SalmonState unmasked”
  • Must Read Alaska, 12/23/25, “Deep Pockets Shape Policy: The Dark Money Infecting the Last Frontier”
  • The Alaska Story, 12/12/25, “Dark money beat: The minimum wage campaign in 2024 was fueled by maximum DC dollars. Here’s how it went down”
  • Alaska Watchman, 11/17/25, “Outside money, hidden agendas: Who’s really pulling the strings in Alaska?”
  • AK Headlamp, 11/14/25, “Shadow Funds Threaten Alaska’s Energy Path”
  • Politico Influence, 11/14/25, “Scoop: How the left’s dark money behemoth spent its millions”
  • The Alaska Story, 11/12/25, “Breaking: New watchdog initiative exposes dark-money network targeting Alaska”
  • Wall Street Journal, 10/15/25, “Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups”
  • The Hill, 9/26/25, “Bill Gates may have just set off the death of far-left-tainted philanthropy”
  • New York Times, 9/20/25, “The Obscure Liberal Group Seeking to Curb Republican Down-Ballot Dominance”
  • North State Journal, 9/12/25, “MILLOY: Pulling the plug on liberal org’s dark money empire”
  • Must Read Alaska, 9/4/25, “Suzanne Downing: Arabella still pulls the strings as left-wing money machine controlling Alaska”
  • The Washington Free Beacon, 8/26/25, “Inside Dem Dark Money Behemoth Arabella Advisors’ Failed Attempt To Create an Astroturf Influencer Army” 
  • New York Post, 8/12/25, “Left-wing dark-money megadonors, including George Soros, contribute $20M to groups funding protests against Trump’s DC crime crackdown”
  • Portland Press Herald, 7/22/25, “Who’s funding Maine’s red flag and voter ID referendum campaigns?”
  • Alaska Watchman, 4/25/25, “OPINION: ‘Devious letter’ reveals dark money in Alaska politics”
  • Alaska Beacon, 4/18/25, “Bill seeks to cover fewer workers with paid sick leave recently approved by Alaska voters”
  • Nebraska Examiner, 4/1/25, “Conflict boils over as Legislature advances changes to voter-approved minimum wage increases”
  • AZ Central, 2/7/25, “As Democrats try to remove Arizona’s abortion restrictions, advocates turn to the courts”
  • Washington Examiner, 12/12/24, “Arabella Advisors dark money group behind black Communist ‘solidarity’ magazine boosting Hamas”
  • Alaska Public Media, 11/20/24, “Alaska’s ranked choice repeal measure fails by 664 votes”
  • Governing, 11/19/24, “Nebraska’s New Sick Leave Bill Worries Businesses”
  • Nebraska Examiner, 11/4/24, “Ballot measure fundraising nears $40 million ahead of Nebraska 2024 election”
  • The Colorado Sun, 11/1/24, “A final look at the many millions being spent on state legislative and ballot measure battles”
  • KCUR, 10/31/24, “Midwest ballot measures on abortion and sports betting draw donors from far outside the region”
  • National Review, 10/24/24, “Foreign Billionaire Bankrolls Dark-Money Group behind Progressive Ballot Initiatives, Watchdog Finds”
  • Montana Free Press, 10/16/24, “PAC spending on Montana’s U.S. Senate race approaches $140 million” 
  • Missouri Independent, 10/10/24, “Missourians to vote on paid sick leave and minimum wage hike next month”
  • Alaska Watchman, 10/7/24, “LOREN LEMAN: Pro-ranked-choice voting ads are shameful, deceptive and illegal”
  • Must Read Alaska, 9/27/24, “Al Smay: Global elitists interfere in Alaska elections more than ever as they push ranked-choice voting” 
  • Must Read Alaska, 9/26/24, “Ads opposing Ballot Measure 2 are deceptive and lie about our military voters”
  • Missouri Independent, 9/13/24, “Missouri abortion-rights campaign doubles its fundraising total since qualifying for ballot”
  • The Nevada Independent, 9/7/24, “Indy Explains: What Question 6 would mean for abortion rights in Nevada”
  • Montana Free Press, 8/23/24, “Three constitutional initiatives’ long legal road to the ballot”
  • Washington Examiner, 7/18/24, “Left-wing billionaires behind astroturfed ‘grassroots’ operation attacking House GOP”
  • Montana Free Press, 6/21/24, “Abortion rights group says it has signatures to qualify initiative for ballot”
  • North of 60, 5/8/24, “Alaska’s Battle Against Dark Money Social Engineering: Exposing the Shadowy Grip of Arabella Advisors in Alaska”
  • Must Read Alaska, 4/15/24, “Dark-money group linked to George Soros just reserved $4 million in TV ad buys to support Peltola”
  • The Independent Record, 4/2/24, “Open primaries backers net $1.1 million almost entirely from PAC and dark money group”
  • Must Read Alaska, 3/19/24, Dark money: 907 Initiative’s campaign arm is going into debt for Democrats on Anchorage ballot“”
  • Michigan Advance, 1/13/24, “With abortion on the 2024 ballot, campaigns could see millions in funding from familiar players”
  • Kansas Reflector, 1/7/24, “With abortion on the 2024 ballot, campaigns could see millions in funding from familiar players”
  • Washington Post, 11/21/23, “A boom of ballot initiatives is reshaping this state’s democracy”
  • CBS News, 11/7/23, “Colorado Proposition HH defeated 60% to 40% with 1.2 million votes counted”
  • City Journal, 7/1/23, “This Is Your City on Fentanyl”
  • Anchorage Daily News, 11/12/22, “OPINION: Money speaks loudly in deciding Alaska’s elections”
  • Detroit Free Press, 10/28/22, “More than $42 million spent on abortion amendment fight — and more is coming”
  • Bridge Michigan, 10/28/22, “Proposal 3 abortion measure generates $57M in Michigan campaign donations”
  • Crain’s Detroit Business, 10/28/22, “Dixon boosts fundraising, lags in spending; ballot proposals have money advantage”
  • Crain’s Detroit Business,10/20/22, “Proposal 2: How it would change elections” 
  • WBUR Boston, 10/14/22, “VIDEO: What to know about Question 1, which asks voters if Mass.’ top earners should pay higher taxes”
  • Colorado Newsline, 10/4/22, “Ballot measure seeks to give Colorado voters ‘full picture’ of future tax changes with income table”
  • Tablet Magazine, 9/13/22, “The For-Profit D.C. Firm Staging America’s ‘Grassroots’ Movements”
  • Must Read Alaska, 9/22/22, “Sixteen Thirty Fund is the dark money scaring Alaskans into voting against their constitutional convention”
  • New York Times, 8/21/22, “Democrats Decried Dark Money. Then They Won With It in 2020.”
  • Washington Post, 8/3/22, “How abortion rights organizers won in Kansas: Horse parades and canvassing” 
  • Kansas Reflector, 7/19/22, “Group leading fight against abortion amendment tops $6.5 million in 2022 donations”
  • The Nevada Independent, 6/10/22, “Dem super PAC boosting two Republicans in Washoe Commission races”
  • The Daily Signal, 3/27/22, “6 Things You Need to Know About Left’s Arabella Network”
  • Bridge Michigan, 2/14/22, “Millions poured into Michigan petition drives. Their funding is a mystery.”
  • Capital Research Center, 2/11/22, “Arabella’s “Dark Money” Blowout Targeted 29 States in 2020 . . . and Fell Flat”
  • Colorado Politics, 12/23/21, “‘Dark money’ group Sixteen Thirty Fund latest target in campaign finance complaints”
  • Politico, 11/17/21, “Liberal ‘dark-money’ behemoth funneled more than $400M in 2020”
  • The Atlantic, 11/2/21, “The Massive Progressive Dark-Money Group You’ve Never Heard Of”
  • The Center Square, 11/1/21, “Campaigns supporting and opposing Austin Proposition A report an additional $2 million in contributions”
  • Maine Public, 12/4/20, “Pulse Newsletter: Tax Filings Shine Light On Democratic Dark Money In Maine”
  • Colorado Newsline, 10/27/20, “2020 brings another long list of Colorado ballot questions — but no blockbuster spending”
  • Wall Street Journal, 10/22/20, “Inside the Left’s Web of ‘Dark Money’”
  • Oregon Capital Insider, 10/26/20, “One-sided spending in campaign for drug decriminalization”
  • Washington Post, 11/8/18, “Conservative Arkansas could soon have the highest effective minimum wage in the country”
  • Florida Politics, 6/14/18, “Committee backing felon rights restoration raised $400K in May”