For years, conservatives have been screaming about the shadowy network of left-wing nonprofits funneling untraceable cash into elections while hiding behind tax-exempt status. The IRS yawned. The DOJ looked the other way. Well, somebody finally woke up — and the subpoenas are flying.
Isn't it just delicious?
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the House Oversight Committee, and a federal grand jury are all converging on the same target: the liberal dark money infrastructure that spent the last decade pretending to be charitable while bankrolling everything from paid political influencers to organizations aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. The same nonprofits that lectured us about "threats to democracy" were secretly operating the biggest unregistered political machine in American history.
Let's start with the Southern Poverty Law Center, everybody's favorite race-hustling cash machine. Last month, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC after investigators found the organization allegedly funneled more than $3 million to associates of violent extremist groups — including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and the National Socialist Party of America — through shell companies with hilariously fake names like "Center Investigative Agency" and "Fox Photography." This is an organization sitting on $790 million in net assets as of late 2024. They were manufacturing racism to justify their own existence, and apparently profiting off Klansmen while they were at it.
Blanche didn't mince words. "The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence," he said. "Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law."
Music to my ears.
But the SPLC is just the appetizer. On Thursday, the House Oversight Committee slapped the Sixteen Thirty Fund — a 501(c)(4) nonprofit tied to the dark money juggernaut Arabella Advisors — with a subpoena demanding internal communications and financial records. The target? A program called Chorus, which paid social media influencers up to $8,000 per month to push political messaging without the pesky little disclosures that federal campaign finance law requires.
We're talking about a program that recruited people like Olivia Julianna, a Gen Z activist who spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, former Playboy executive Loren Piretra, and content creator Barrett Adair. WIRED magazine first reported on Chorus last year. The Oversight Committee launched its investigation last November and clearly didn't like what it found. The Sixteen Thirty Fund's response? "We comply with the law and have cooperated with the Committee's inquiry while protecting the rights and safety of the people who work with us." Sure you have, sugar-pants.
Then there's Neville Roy Singham, the ex-tech mogul who now lives in Shanghai — yes, Shanghai — and has allegedly funneled more than $20 million through shell companies to groups like the People's Forum, Code Pink, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Jim Banks sent letters to FBI Director Kash Patel back in March demanding answers about potential Foreign Agents Registration Act violations in the Singham-CCP network. The Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Singham himself back in January.
A Marxist billionaire living in Communist China, routing money through American nonprofits into left-wing political operations. But sure, tell me more about how Russia is the real threat.
Here's what makes this moment different from every other time we've complained about dark money: it's not just talk. We've got a grand jury indictment against the SPLC. We've got congressional subpoenas with teeth. We've got an Attorney General who's actually using the word "accountable" and meaning it. The DOJ, the IRS, the FBI, and multiple congressional committees are all pulling on the same thread at the same time.
The left built this machine over a decade — from 2014 to 2023 by the SPLC's own timeline — and they did it because nobody was watching. Well, we're watching now. And the cockroaches don't like the light one bit, as reported by Just the News.
Every one of these organizations told you they were saving democracy. Turns out they were just laundering influence.
