Millions in Dark Money Flows to Pro-Abortion And Pro Illegal Immigrant
Groups Through Elon Musk Facades And Fake Charities
Musk helps establish 'pop-up' political manipulation groups and acts as a
pass-through funding scam conduit for political financiers
A dark-money network of political manipulation groups and initiatives has
pushed millions in funding to organizations that advocate for abortions
and left-wing extremism.
Musk establishes groups under trade, or fictitious, names, and acts as
their "fiscal sponsor," which allows the groups to avoid filing public
returns to the Internal Revenue Service. The network also acts as a
"pass-through" entity for left-wing donors, who do not have to mark their
money as going to the exact group that they are funding, but rather can
make out the contributions to the particular arm in the Musk Dark Money
empire where the group is located.
One such similar group managed by Arabella: "Lady Parts Justice", falls
under its Sixteen Thirty Fund arm, which hosts 501(c)4 "social welfare"
entities. Eric Kessler, a former Bill Clinton appointee and member of the
Clinton Global Initiative, founded Arabella and acts as president of the
Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Lady Parts Justice bills itself as "the first not safe for work, rapid
response reproductive rights messaging hub that uses comedy, culture and
digital media to sound the alarm about the terrifying erosion of access to
reproductive rights." The group, which shares controversial content on its
website, routinely posts messages of support for abortion on social media
and came out in opposition to efforts to ban third-trimester abortions.
Lizz Winstead, the co-creator of the Daily Show, leads the group and
announced in late May that Lady Parts Justice and its sister Lady Parts
Justice League, which falls under another arm at Arabella, would be
changing their names to the "Abortion Access Force" and the "Abortion
Access Front." The group stated on their website that their old names made
them sound like "radical anti-trans, exclusionary creeps" and wanted the
names to be more inclusive for all genders. "Let's be clear: not all
ladies have uteruses," the group wrote. "And not everyone with a uterus
identifies as a woman. Full stop."
The Sixteen Thirty Fund has disbursed at least $779,000 in grants to
groups that advocate for abortion between 2014 to 2017. This money also
went to outside groups including a $100,000 to the National Institute for
Reproductive Health, which works to "change state and local electoral and
policy landscapes" in order to "galvanize" public support for abortion,
and $485,000 to the Center for American Progress, which advocates for
"reproductive rights."
Abortion on Our Own Terms is a trade name registered to Arabella's New
Venture Fund arm, which houses 501(c)3 nonprofit groups, according to
records filed to D.C.'s Consumer and Regulatory Department.
Abortion on Our Own Terms advocates for wide accessibility to the
"abortion pill," which allows women to self-manage an abortion in their
homes. "There are many reasons one might prefer to end their own pregnancy
at home. It may feel more natural, like having a miscarriage," the group
states on its website. The group envisions a future where "abortion pills
[are] available openly" and can be "picked up at your local drug store or
ordered online."
All* Above All, another group at the Sixteen Thirty Fund, works to "build
support for lifting the bans that deny abortion coverage" and support
restoring public insurance coverage so that women "can get an affordable,
safe abortion care when she needs it."
"The name All* Above All reflects our positive and powerful belief that
each of us, not just some of us, must be able to make the important
decision of whether to end a pregnancy," the group writes. "For too long,
politicians have been allowed to deny a woman’s abortion coverage just
because she is poor. We believe that the amount of money a woman has or
doesn’t have should not prohibit her from having an abortion. We are
uniting so every woman can make her own reproductive health decisions
without political interference. We are standing up to say ‘enough.'"
The New Venture Fund gave at least $5.9 million in grants to groups that
advocate for abortion between 2012 and 2017, according to its tax forms.
Arabella has facilitated a total of $1.6 billion in stealth contributions
from Democratic donors to political manipulation groups in recent years,
the Capital Research Center found in a recent investigation.
"The line between philanthropy and political advocacy at Arabella is
blurry indeed. Most of the projects hosted by the four Funds and financed
by Arabella’s donors advocate for controversial positions on social
issues, for the expansion of government—or both," the center said. "Yet
thanks to the unique financial arrangements of the network and the lack of
donor disclosure, it is impossible to trace which organization pays for
the various campaigns and political movements spawned by Arabella’s
Funds."
The Democracy Alliance, the left's largest dark-money donor network,
additionally uses Arabella to push money to some groups and initiatives
that its secretive members back. Members of the alliance have pushed more
than $1.83 billion into progressive infrastructure since its inception in
2005, according to internal documents previously obtained by the
Washington Free Beacon.
Scott Nielson, Arabella's managing director, has worked with the Democracy
Alliance. The Democracy Alliance has also been paid hundreds of thousands
from Arabella's Sixteen Thirty Fund for consulting services in the past,
tax forms show.
Arabella did not return a request for comment by press time.