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"Dark Money For Influencers" - SHOCKING Payments EXPOSE Democrats’ Secret Pay-To-Play Strategy
30 Aug 2025
Chapter 1: What is the dark money network funding pro-Democrat influencers?
Democrats are trying to find ways to find a Rogan, all that other stuff. Story comes out from Taylor Lorenz, Dark Money Group, paying pro-Democrats, influencers, up to $8,000 a month, New York Post. What's the story, Rob? This is... Do you have a video on it or no? It's just a story. Just a story. Okay, let me read it.
A secretive dark money group tied to the Democratic Party, the 1630 Fund, is paying online influencers up to $8,000 a month through their course, Creator Incubator Program, to disseminate left-leaning talking points with participants including Olivia Juliana, the Gen Z activist, who spoke at the 2024 DNC convention. Lauren...
Pierta, a former Playboy executive, turned to Occupy Democrats YouTuber. Barrett Adair, who runs a viral American Girl dot-themed meme account. Susan Lambert, who styled herself as a Regina Georgia liberal.
That is a Mean Girls reference.
There's our girl. Ariel Fedor. There she is. Ariel Fedor, who is a teacher with 1.4 million TikTok followers. Sander Jennings, TLC reality star and older brother of trans influencer Jazz Jennings. Weird.
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Chapter 2: Who are the influencers being funded and what is their role?
David Pakman, host of YouTube show. Oh, boy. Pakman's on this list? Oh, weird. But Pakman's got a couple million. Why does he need $8,000 a month?
Pacman, okay, so along with Leigh McGowan, better known as Politics Scroll, so Assistant 31 told the Post that it is a fiscal sponsor, of course, receiving donations on course behalf, providing operational administrative support, but it is not the original source of financing, and the fiscal sponsorship model is common across philanthropy and in compliance with all laws. Is that what this is?
Rob, do we know anything else about the story?
That's all that I know right now.
It said how many people were involved? 90 of them? 90 influence were expected to join. Go a little bit lower according to Wired. Go a little bit lower. So that's Pac-Man right there. Lower, lower, lower. Is there, let me see what it says. Sambach at the group, a chanting influencer debating the terms. One pro-abortion creator, Perry, would have quipped, I believe we are in stage five acceptance.
Aaron Parnas, Gen Z influencer, once hailed the Gen Z. Walter Cronkite is reported to have told the colleagues it was take it or leave it. The program secrecy clause was deliberate. It avoids a lot of public disclosure that you see on political ads. Wow.
A lawyer, of course, for course, said in a Zoom call with creators, according to Wired, your names aren't showing up on reports filed with the FTC. Well, he was wrong. Go a little low, Rob. So they were thinking their name wasn't going to be on the list. Now it is. It's not good. OK, so why is this not good? Tell me why this isn't good.
I mean, they're paying them, like, when it's dark secret money, who's paying it? Is it a specific candidate? Is it a campaign? When they say Democratic Party pass, like, who is it? I'm just curious to who and who's leaking the story.
So what's the difference between this and the Russia thing that they were paying people $100,000? You know, Dave Rubin's name was on there and a couple other people's name was on there. You remember that list when it came out?
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the 1630 Fund in this context?
Nothing newer? Okay, then go to the other one that says join course. Apply now. Go a little bit lower, see if there's anything else. Okay, let's see the FAQs. What are the benefits of joining Chorus? Please, let's do an ad for it. Guys, if you want to join us. Chorus Incubator Program is vibrant, pro-democracy, learning community for participants. Receive a monthly stipend.
So they're open about it. Okay, go to the next one.
Rob, send me this link. I'm going to sign up.
Will I be paid to create content? Nope. Nope. They've noped. Yeah, I don't like that. I don't like that. Chorus is a creator-led nonprofit for a really different model. We don't pay creators to produce content. Keep reading. We just give you space to learn more about how to communicate. Please note that we do ask incubators to submit one piece of content for growth analysis. Keep going.
What is applicant to be part of? Okay, online applications, information. Your application is reviewed. Five-member panel. The top scores for, okay, go a little bit lower. Who funds us? There's a 501c3 panel with grassroots support from hundreds of individuals. Okay. All right. Can we find out who funds Coruscant? Last one. Will I be publicly listed? Your privacy and safety is top security?
Well, you guys screwed up. Shit. Whoopsie. If you do apply, they're going to know.
And doesn't this show you how the Democratic Party is in shambles? They're going behind closed doors, dark secret money. Notice how the Republicans have, you know, it's just organic. The influencers are out there. They're out in the open. They're kicking ass because the Republican Party is. This shows you that they have to literally pay people, like, hey, please talk positive about us.
Make us look good. Because the policies and everything is right in front of their face. We need you to kind of slowly build it. And that's where they're at, Tom. They're in bad shape.
It's very, very simple. Chorus coordinates consistent messages among these influencers. anti-conservative, whatever you want to call it, they coordinate those messages. The chorus sings together. The chorus stays in tune.
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Chapter 4: How does the funding structure of dark money influence political messaging?
Their branding has got a reason behind it. The 1630 Fund is sending money to chorus. We like what you're doing. Here's some bucks. And then they get a monthly stipend to do what? What is a monthly stipend? To do what? Oh, no, no, we don't pay you to make content. Nope, we give you a stop. And then 1630 says, we invest in organizations that provide operational support to other groups. So chorus.
So 1630 says, Vinny, I'm going to give you money for operational support. Yeah, what does that entail? Operate. Keep those liberal voices operating.
Yeah, exactly.
And keep them singing the same tune.
Yes, sir. That's it.
There it is. I have nothing more to say. That's what's going on here. And by the way, it's the same thing that we were concerned about when we would show all the news media. Do they all get a notice in the morning from somewhere? Remember all those clip generators?
clip assimilators that were put together and you find out the news media was saying the same thing in the same way on the evening news all across USA. Gosh, where did they all get the playbook? This is just a playbook for influencers.
Rob, can you go back and ask Chad GBT the following question? Ask the question of... Who funds chorus dark money? Okay, there you go. So let's see this. Primary funder, 1630 Fund. Okay, so the 1630 Fund, prominent liberal dark money, nonprofit that operates fiscal chorus, collects and administers donations. 1630 Fund has dispersed up to $8,000 a month to about 90. Okay, we read that.
Larger network and known backers. Larger networks are known back as Arbella Advisors, Washington, D.C.-based philanthropic consulting, and Minnesota's 1630 Fund. Arbella manages a network of politically-oriented nonprofits, including New Venture Fund, Hopal Fund, Windward Fund, North Fund, and others. Known financial contributors are Hansorg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire who has donated $245 million.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of dark money for free speech and politics?
What's his relationship with George Soros? Let's see what it says. Zoom in a little bit. Relation with it. There is no personal relationship. However, they do operate in overlapping spheres. Both have major philanthropic donors. U.S. West Foundation. Okay. 1635. All right. Go back. George Soros through Open Society. Similar funds. Okay. Go back to the chat, GBT, to continue reading it.
Other disclosures. Nick Hunter, American Federation of Generations. Mike Kuhnbrun. Okay. $45 million. Major of its funding. $8.5 million. These are the anonymous ones. When was it founded? 2009. By the way, Pierre Omedaier? Yes.
He's the founder of eBay and the grandson of a general in the Imperial Iranian Army.
Really? Who served under Pahlavi. Wow. Okay, keep going a little bit more.
Now he's liberal. Grandson. Liberal.
So, yeah, I mean, so what they're trying to do is what? Just to give you talking points to say, can you talk about these points and be favorite, you know, you know, favoring what we're talking about? Is that kind of what they're doing?
It's all about right. Social media is about trend. Trend is momentum. Momentum is reach. All they're trying to do is put together. I shouldn't say all they're trying to do. is they're giving a bunch of money, dark money. The dark money comes from all these people that don't want to be listed. Whoops, there's a list. And then 1630 gives that money over to Chorus.
Chorus makes sure everybody is singing the same tune. And today, the word of the day today is authoritarian Trump gun control. Go, Adam.
Well, this is why people want to get big money out of politics. I mean, this all traces back to the big decision in 2010, I believe it was, which was Citizens United, and it happened under... I don't know if it was under George Bush or it was under Obama, right around that time frame when they were taking over.
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Chapter 6: How does the Chorus organization operate within this dark money framework?
We got to get the money out of this, the billionaires, the billionaires. Please welcome to the stage your next speaker, Billionaire Governor J.B. Pritzker. Hey, how you guys doing? So if you want to see cognitive dissonance, look no further than the Democratic Party. But here's Chris Cuomo basically calling out essentially what we're talking about.
How long is this clip, Rob?
One minute, 58 seconds.
Greg, look at the ring of sweets, okay? This is not unique to Democrats. There is a game of money. When people talk about uniparty, we are strangled by the money reality in our politics. Those sweets start at 500 grand. You think there's like a teacher group up in there? You think it's like the Cub Scouts of Columbia County, South Carolina, that's up in those boxes?
Some of them are lobbies and good things. The media boxes, you think they're free? Why do you think I'm on the floor? News Nation is not a broke company. Nextdoor is a massive organization. We are corporate media. We don't have one of those boxes because that's the game. You pay to play. Those boxes are filled with the same people that they say they're going to regulate.
They are literally looking down on the faithful and being told... This is a clip that's going to be around forever.
Rob, you can pause it right there. We play this clip multiple times. Great messaging. It'd be great to get rid of lobbying, but in order to do that, it's going to be... There's going to be a lot of fighting going on. Tom, what would happen? Actually visualize 100% of lobbying is gone. The biggest one being Big Pharma. I think it's $350 million, whatever the number is. Take all the lobbying out.
Pharma, real estate. insurance, APAC, take every one of these guys out, what happens?
Well, if you take the lobbying out of it, there's going to be a lot more variability in our elections because someone who's in the seat, who now has the people in their pocket, that's very hard to overthrow. It is very, very, very, very, very hard to defeat a U.S. senator. Go look at the number of incumbent senators. Absent some terrible scandal, they get overthrown. That sounds revolutionary.
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Chapter 7: What are the criticisms surrounding the use of dark money in politics?
And you would also have the following happen. Laws that get passed would have more scrutiny because the lobbyists, if you go look at it, what percent of laws that are sponsored by a congressman are actually written by lobbyists? That's him right there. That's a jacket right there. That's him. Yeah, it was him. He was the OG badass of lobbying until he got busted.
It reminds me of a picture that you showed about some scary guy in a movie.
So there's the two things, Pat. Elections would be easier for new people with ideas, and laws would no longer be written by lobbyists and then just say, okay, Patrick, we got you elected. Here's the thing. Put the bill through. And the lobbyists are writing the bills. Dirty secret.
Who could get rid of him and who doesn't want to get rid of him?
We need a Buford Pusser type character. Will Trump get rid of him? I would hope. He's never talked about it, though. He could be our Buford Pusser. Because let me tell you, all of corporate America wants a lobbyist because it makes their lives more stable because you don't have regulation coming and going. Corporate America wants it, especially energy and pharmaceutical. They want it.
Who else wants it? The unions want it. It makes their lives more stable.
In what way do they play a positive role? Is there anything positive that they play?
Well, when you see parent groups joining – when you have – okay, I'll give you a great example. There is – oh, I just blanked on her name. She's in Texas. She's a doctor that was anti-vax. She works at Houston Hospital. She has a very vibrant Twitter account. But she's been out there with grassroots people talking about – Mary Bowden? Yes, Mary Talley Bowden.
And she's been out there with Citizens Group. There's an example of good. They have been trying to lobby and get their voice heard about, you're wrong about the vaccine. We have other data. But they get drowned out by the big money. And so small lobbying efforts, you know, that have a cause, sometimes they get vindicated like she. They tried to cancel her how many times?
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Chapter 8: What are the potential reforms to address dark money in political funding?
How did you get through that fog? How did you move it? I had the support of all these people that agreed with us. We were doing it. And that's an example, Pat, of a good lobby and –
now we find out she was that she was absolutely correct i don't think lobbying is all bad there's certainly pros and cons in it like for instance you know when i go to these finseca insurance type conferences we go to the hill and try to educate our congressmen on the benefits of financial services and you know using our expertise that helps the general public and representing interests and all these groups are special interests i don't have a problem with that but
The problem when you can just, you know, you hear they're bought and paid for, bought and paid for, bought and paid for. When you have so much money, whether it's the farmer groups or whether it's big oil or whether it's a big war, you could buy these politicians and put them in your pocket. And then that's how you get crony capitalism. That's how you get corruption.
I don't know the happy medium of it, but it's certainly getting out of hand.
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