It sounds like an organization from a James Bond film, like SPECTRE or SMERSH. Unlike Ian Fleming's creations, Arabella Advisors actually exists, and it also seeks to remake America in a Marxist image, according to a new book by Scott Walter. “ARABELLA: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America” reveals how America's wealthiest progressives use dark-money networking to fundamentally transform American politics.

If you haven't heard of Arabella Advisors, don't be surprised. Most media outlets have ignored it and its implications for political manipulation by the One Percenters over which progressives love to hyperventilate. Just in the 2020 election cycle alone, Arabella controlled $2.4 billion in dark money — more than the RNC and DNC raised combined.

How did it use all those funds? I spoke to author Scott Walter a few days ago about how all that money has manipulated the media and electoral politics. You don't hear about Arabella itself, Walter tells me, because that would draw attention to the billionaire elites funding it: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Pierre Omidyar, and more. It operates through "storefronts" on each of the many issues it seeks to influence, with names that sound far more benign than their purpose. 

Walter, a veteran of Washington, DC, policy and philanthropy circles, explained how the book lays out Arabella's reach as well as its ambitions. In the lightly edited partial transcript below, Walter explains who Arabella is, and gives us a taste of how it operates through these "storefront" operations. We also talk about Walter's website Influence Watch, and how it can be a valuable tool to see who's behind some of the left's campaigns. 

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Q: How much did Arabella spend in the 2020 presidential cycle?

A: Well, the nonprofits took in during the 2020 cycle, so that's two years, $2.4 billion. And in case you're wondering for reference, that is more than the DNC plus the RNC and then add a billion, okay? Now in 2022, you would think that's an off year, right? So they have to maybe come down a little bit. Wrong. $3 billion for the 22 cycle. That's more than the DNC, the RNC, the Republican Senate and House Committee, the Democrat Senate and House Committee. Roll all those together, you still gotta add half a billion to get to Arabella's revenues.

Q: Who are the people who are funding, who are the part of the mechanism here of Arabella at the top?

A: Bill Gates is actually one of the biggest funders. Zuckerberg, giving him tens of millions of dollars. Pierre Omidyar, the eBay billionaire who also is the number one Never Trump funder, he's given millions. The Ford Foundation and a whole bunch of other really bad left-wing foundations. In fact, many of the left's worst billionaires all have the same last name: Foundation. 

So one more that deserves extra special attention. Hans-Jörg Wyss. ... He is a Swiss billionaire. He is not a U.S. Citizen, doesn't even have a green card. Therefore, of course, by law is absolutely forbidden to be meddling in our politics. But he has been one of their biggest donors, and as best we can tell, was their original sugar daddy as they were getting off the ground in the aughts[.] 

Q: Some of the other foundations can do this stuff. So why don't they just do it on their own? Why do they need Arabella?

A: ... They like complexity because it makes it harder for somebody like me to explain what's going on, right? Like the Soros, for instance, Soros has all these different, he has more entities than he needs that are his core groups. He has multiple foundations. You don't need more than one foundation, right? I mean, he has multiple this, that, and the other things. And on top of that, every five or 10 years, they change their name a bit.

Q: So let's talk a little bit about what Arabella is advocating for, right? Is this just policy? ... Or is this something else? Is there a larger purpose behind what Arabella is doing?

Walter and I have much more discussion in the podcast below, and of course the book “ARABELLA: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America” goes into far more detail. But you may ask yourselves why we haven't heard more about Arabella before now. And the answer is that the Protection Racket Media doesn't want Americans to know just how organized and well-funded the billionaire progressives in Big Tech are, and the true scope of their ambitions to — in the words of Barack Obama — fundamentally transform America.

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About Scott Walter: Scott Walter is president of Capital Research Center and author of the new book, “Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America.” He served in the George W. Bush Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and was vice president at the Philanthropy Roundtable, editing Philanthropy magazine and producing donor guidebooks on assistance to the poor, public policy research, and other topics. Walter has testified to five different congressional committees about Arabella and related subjects, and about “dark money” nonprofits to the US Senate, IRS, and state legislatures.