Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires…Secretly Transforming America

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Gene Valentino: Hi friends, Gene Valentino and welcome to another episode of Gene Valentino’s GrassRoots TruthCast. We have interesting guests every week on our show. We’re this week’s guest is Mr. Scott Walter. He’s president of the Capital Research Center in Washington, D.

1. Scott is a gentleman I met at the C. N. P. Conference in Nashville in the summer of twenty twenty four. We had a great conversation together then where I had the privilege [00:02:00] of getting his signed book entitled Arabella. by Scott Walter. This is a book that involves a deep dive on the dark money network of the leftist billionaires secretly transforming this nation over the past decade in particular.

Welcome aboard, Scott. Great to be with

Scott Walter: you, Gene.

Gene Valentino: And we’re going to get into a deep dive on this issue right after this.

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My guest [00:04:00] today is Scott Walter, president of capital research center. Welcome aboard Scott. Great to be here. I’m very interested in Capital Research Center. As I mentioned in the intro, we had a, we had met at the CNP conference in Nashville, Tennessee in the summer of 2024. We are, we, we stayed in touch.

You gave me your book, you signed it, and you also had the chance to do a interview with me. One on one with me, in addition to the presentations you made to the public that was also attending. This is a book that involves, to me probably something. It’s almost like I’m saying, Scott, why didn’t we know about this earlier?

Why didn’t we know about this sooner? The most important thing I read in your book was the closing statement. Let me read it to you. And then you take it from there. The choice America [00:05:00] faces. is between these two visions. Arabella’s style of big philanthropy ganging with big government to force the rest of us to live as our betters think we should or the original American vision where government is decentralized and limited so that the citizens can govern themselves and help each other through their families, their neighborhoods and local groups.

That’s the end you concluded on. What’s the book about?

Scott Walter: Well, the book focuses on the Arabella entity. We’re really best to call it a network. And it is completely the play thing of the wealthiest chunk of America. Nothing remotely small D democratic about it. Though it likes to pretend so. [00:06:00] It is a network of billionaires.

Including billionaire foundations, and very sophisticated political operatives who want to manipulate the public in order to have control over our laws and public policy, which is to say, over the public. So, the size is staggering. Just two numbers to make that clear. The Arabella Network includes about a half dozen non profits and those non profits in the 2020 election cycle, so 2019 and 20 Arabella’s non profits took in 2.

4 billion. That is Whoa, whoa,

Gene Valentino: whoa. 2. 4 billion.

Scott Walter: Billion. Which is, to put that in context, that’s a billion dollars more than the Democrat National Committee and Republican National Committee combined. Right. Right. And then in the 22 cycle Which you’d think, well that’s an off year, surely it went down a [00:07:00] little.

Wrong. It wasn’t 2. 4, it was 3 billion dollars. More than the DNC, the RNC, and both parties, Senate and House committees. So, it is a behemoth of political power that still doesn’t remotely get the kind of coverage it deserves. Although, I will take credit, Capital Research Center first uncovered it. It had never been reported on by anybody else.

Even though it started all the way back in 2005. And thanks to our good work, you now occasionally will read about it. In places like the New York Times.

Gene Valentino: I am stunned with, and I understand your articles were not only in the New York Times, but Wall Street Journal and other leading publications as well.

And you had also exposed some of the high points of this. I see on the cover of your book three big characters we all know of, in one way, shape, or form. Bill Gates, George [00:08:00] Soros, Zuckerberg. Are these the main sources of funding in Arabella?

Scott Walter: They’re there precisely because they’re the most recognizable sources, right?

Everybody knows Zuckerberg, Soros, and Gates. And they are all, all three of those gentlemen are very significant donors into the Arabella network, but by no means are they, they the only. Donors I wanted I literally fought with the publisher over how many billionaires to have on the public on the cover I wanted several more and you could have gotten a lot more but One of the most intriguing ones which i’ll mention because people you know Very few people will have heard of him, but he actually is one of the biggest donors to the arabella network He’s a Swiss citizen by the name of Hans Jörg Wiss, W Y S S.

Wait a minute, you have

Gene Valentino: a, you have a, a Swiss citizen, a billionaire, funding a 501c3 or [00:09:00] c4 here in the states. We can come back, we can come back to that in a second. But they’re funding a, a IRS designated category to, and I’m gonna, Put words in your mouth, correct me if I’m wrong, to manipulate the election outcomes, the economy, political candidates issues before the Supreme Court, manipulate the Supreme Court itself and I could probably go on with district attorneys, state attorneys, and and the like.

A manipulation to control this, to transform this government in some way, to me, is the biggest. Perpetration of a fraud. It’s what China is probably doing very effectively and that’s eating America from within what say you

Scott Walter: well, there is a You’re not by any means simply wrong, [00:10:00] but there’s a great paradox in this right?

It is illegal for a Swiss national like Hans Wyss to write money, to send money directly to a political candidate, okay? Now, he actually has done that, and that’s completely on the record. In fact, you can go to the FEC database and put his name in and see over 100, 000 worth of these very illegal donations.

But that was in the past. He got smarter and stopped doing that. Unfortunately, nobody caught him before the statute of limitations expired. Let me throw out three names of people of, who were some of his grantees. Aha, you know, some of his preferred candidates. One was Dick Durbin. Another was one of the Udall family when he was in Congress.

And the, and another was Inslee. He gave, Vese gave to him in Congress. Now he is governor of Is it Oregon or Washington State? I’m embarrassed. It’s Oregon, isn’t it? Or, anyway, Governor Inslee when he was in Congress, got [00:11:00] money from him. Now, as I said, that was the dumb way to do this, because that’s simply illegal.

The complicated thing as to whether what you said is entirely accurate is, it is not illegal for a foreign citizen, like Vis, to give money to a non profit. That’s it. But that’s because, of course, non profits pay for it. theoretically aren’t in the business of getting people elected. Now, of course, in the case of Arabella, that’s kind of laughable.

And pretty much nobody pretends anymore that Arabella is anything other than an appendage of the Democratic Party. So they fought

Gene Valentino: you initially and, and claimed there was sort of an arm’s length distant thing, sort of a puritanical approach to wanting to do good for health, wellness, society, contributing to the community, the environment.

They had these high, Hi, lofty platitudes of [00:12:00] correlation when in fact they were really in a funding the bowels of deep, dark political activity in local elections nationwide. Yes.

Scott Walter: Well, and, and national elections. So the, here’s the thing, right? This is where, this is where things get extra tricky. So, one type of political non profit is the 501c4, and don’t worry if you don’t know your tax code, it’s real simple.

That’s National Rifle Association, League of Conservation Voters, it’s those kind of political non profits. Now, those political non profits are allowed to give money to super PACs. A foreign citizen cannot give money to a super PAC. But, A foreign citizen can give money to a political non profit that just so happens to give money to super

Gene Valentino: PACs.

And does, and does that contributor to the 501c4? Is [00:13:00] he, is he disclosed? Is he the American public aware of who’s contributing to that 501c4?

Scott Walter: The C4s that get the money are not required to tell anybody, not even confidentially the IRS. Wow. Who gave them money? Now, at Capital Research Center, we’re very savvy about all the ways you can track some of the money, and we track every penny that you can.

So, in the case of Mr. Vis, he has his own 501c4, actually attached to his charitable foundation, which is a, not, he’s not the only person on the planet to do that, but that is an extremely rare thing. And so, He has his own C4, which then gives money to an Arabella C4, and coincidentally, the Arabella C4 will give money to Super Pax.

Now I must say, Arabella and [00:14:00] Mr. Vis swear up and down, they carefully segregate These monies and that Mr. Visa’s monies do not go to, you know, voter registration or political ads or super PAC contributions. However, they’ve never offered a shred of evidence. Of to of that claim and by the way Even though places like there was a bloomberg reporter who did a sycophantic article about this Really?

It was it was a total defense of this article. And that reporter if if this if what they claim is true They should have gone to the reporter and said look we can’t let you make our books public But he but we’ll let you look at them to have a confidential look at them You You just can’t, you know, take pictures and report the details.

But look here at our books. Look how carefully we segregate this money. They could have done that to this sycophantic friendly reporter, and they didn’t do it. [00:15:00] So I think that’s pretty significant circumstantial evidence that they do not, in fact, do anything like that.

Gene Valentino: Folks, we’re talking with Scott Walter from the Capital Research Center, America’s investigation unit.

It’s very patriotic investigative think tank that’s helping us. understand through their efforts, specifically in the last decade the revelations coming forward now of Bart about deep state dark money that has infiltrated. And it’s very strange, Scott, these billions of dollars, correct me if I’m wrong, 100 percent of the money has gone to the Democrat party causes and candidates.

Yes.

Scott Walter: It would be hard to claim that much didn’t go to in that direction. And in fact, you have very non [00:16:00] conservative sources like CBS and the New York times that use almost that exact language to describe what Arabella does.

Gene Valentino: Okay. If that is the case. Then my concern is that the rhetoric I’ll, I’ll, I’ll use that word cautiously the rhetoric that the networks used in trying to quash rumors of election interference.

election fraud in 2020. The vaccine and the COVID issues since 2019. The staged efforts by Bill Gates in parallel to for population reduction and all of these strategies within the nation seem to have been perpetrated with and through the Democrat party with and through the elected officials coming out of the Democrat party, which begs [00:17:00] the question, where did they get their money to initiate a lot of these initiatives activities and why didn’t the Republican step up more staunchly to do something about it sooner?

Scott Walter: Well, as for where they get money, they get money, again, from a whole slew of left wing billionaires. One of our things we always say at Capital Research Center is, George Soros is as bad as you think, but you’ve got to understand that the left has a lot of Soroses. It has Gates and Zuckerberg and Pierre Omidyar and Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs and on and on and on.

And almost every one of those lefty megadonors goes through, puts a good bit of money into the Arabella network. And there’s a whole nother class of billionaires that are very important to understanding American politics and Arabella. I like to say there are a bunch of billionaires that all have the same last name.

Involved in this, [00:18:00] and I’m gonna tease you, Gene. What do you think that last name is?

Gene Valentino: Eh,

Scott Walter: I would say Gates or Soros. Those are understandable guesses, but you’re wrong. What I mean is, all those billionaires that have the same last name. Foundation because the Ford Foundation is every bit as wicked and powerful as George Soros is.

The MacArthur Foundation, Carnegie, on and on. There are lots of billionaire foundations, pretty much all of them have been captured by the left, even if they were started by some staunch, you know, capitalist pig business guy. The left is very greedy. And and very sneaky. And so, another would be the Pew Charitable Trusts, which control way over a billion dollars.

And they were started by rock ribbed oil men, who were also Republicans, [00:19:00] but Not that many years ago, got captured by a very crafty woman named Rebecca Reimel. So, those billionaires put tons of money into Arabella, and otherwise, Profoundly affect and harm our politics

Gene Valentino: folks. We’re talking with Scott Walter from the capital research center in Washington, D C Scott capital research center, a not for profit itself.

We ourselves

Scott Walter: are a five Oh one C

Gene Valentino: three. Public charity, legally speaking. And you’re getting your, let me throw a plug in for you at this point. How do we help the Capital Research Center? How are you funded?

Scott Walter: We are funded by the generous donations of individuals and foundations. Virtually nothing comes from corporations and absolutely nothing comes from government.

We have a, a, a blood oath. We never have and never will take a penny of government money of any [00:20:00] kind.

Gene Valentino: Bravo. And so how do you compare a Carnegie Foundation or any of the others that have been funding these very left initiatives? I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but your book is telling me otherwise.

There’s a there’s there’s too much of a pattern here for it to be. I want to. I want to say, Well, maybe some donor authorizing the funds within the Hypothetically, the Carnegie administration, Carnegie Foundation has given 100, 000 to one of the tentacles in the Arabella group. Unknowingly. Yes. No.

Is that, is that a false assumption?

Scott Walter: There’s a, there’s a, there’s actually a very good book by a liberal reporter. I highly recommend it. It’s called the Victory Lab. The secret science of winning campaigns. So a superb job of reporting about the whole left wing infrastructure that wins [00:21:00] elections for them.

And a crucial part of that is this 501c3 tax exempt nonprofit world, which has both private foundations like Carnegie and Ford and Soros Open Society, and then public charities with names like Voter Participation Center, right? They pretend that this is nonpartisan civic participation, whatever that means, right?

But here’s, here’s the bottom line. Here is what the liberal reporter in his book says, that the Carnegie Foundation was using nonprofits to gin up Democratic votes outside the campaign finance laws that restrict Parties and political action committees. So, and Carnegie was one of those the same the same entities are funded by Ford open society.

Many

Gene Valentino: more. There’s [00:22:00] something too pervasive here though. Scott, I don’t understand how our system of of the election process in general. Confused, in fact, by the way we’ve transcended some of the authority to the state levels through our secretaries of state and supervisors of election is, is muddied.

It’s as clear as mud as to why we’ve allowed the election process to be interfered with. And, more importantly, now that it’s been revealed, what are we doing to fix it? Any comment?

Scott Walter: Well, as for the cause of this, one big cause is that for decades, this has been central to the way the left wins elections.

And, but what did that liberal reporter’s book, what was the subtitle? The Secret Science, right? Because this is not something that gets talked about in the editorial pages of the New York Times. They’re not out there explaining this stuff to you. There was one weird [00:23:00] exception to that, I bet you remember this.

Time Magazine, a few months after the 2020 election, Ran an article. Do you remember that one? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Now, it was ever so slightly askew from the truth. Or the full truth, but it actually had a lot of the truth in there because they literally used it was very left wing reporter, Molly Ball, awful reporter, grossly biased, but she used the words conspiracy and cabal in the election.

So and she told you about this a lot, let’s put it this way. The prehistory of what she said about 2020 selection, the prehistory of all those groups, and, and the people, in fact, the person she called the architect of the conspiracy was Michael Podhorzer, the political director of the AFL CIO, who was central to organizing all this vast network of lefty efforts, right?

Now who [00:24:00] features very prominently in that book, The Victory Lab, The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. Michael Podorzer. So the Victory Lab book, which came out almost a decade earlier, actually tells you the full truth about what these people are up to. And Time Magazine admitted they were all conspiring and working together to, for the election.

The hilarious lie though is that Gene, all they were doing is, they were fighting for democracy. They were obsessed with the election. They were meeting constantly, hundreds of times to, to engage in the election. But you know what? All of these left wing partisans They apparently never talked about who was going to win the election.

They just wanted to save democracy in the election without any thought to who might win. Now, if you believe that, boy, do I have a bridge to sell you.

Gene Valentino: I see that the money coming from these not for profits supporting a Democrat agenda A deep leftist Marxist socialist [00:25:00] agenda seem to be talking about people vitriol.

They’re angry with the with what they, what they have now, but they offer no solution. The idea, I don’t, I hear about all these ideologies. But I don’t hear about solutions. I hear about attack mode and this guy’s no good, but I have no solution. For example people are anxious to take out Donald Trump.

On in different ways and have tried, but they don’t have a solution. I’m looking today at an economic plan from Kamala Harris for her proposed election going forward, not to mention the last three and a half years that she served. And I see no Success, I see no results. I see nothing. All they do is attack [00:26:00] and diminish and demean, deflect, distract, and divert.

There’s a few Ds for you in addition to Democrat but I don’t see any solution. What I’m asking from you is if America now sees the good results of capital research and what you’ve been doing here. What is your plan to bring a solution forward? Is it through the president because you fear the legislative branch of our government is still inept?

Is it through the judiciary because they finally have Re come to reason about what’s been defective, even in within their own branch of government, or do you go straight to the president and have him unilaterally exercise authority? As he did, whether it was a wall or a wrongdoing in Israel and the east, or [00:27:00] or in this case, our election process, what do you, what do you think is the approach for capital research?

Scott Walter: Well, there are a few things. One thing I would start with is we have to understand the left built this massive infrastructure up over the course of decades. Yeah, and it is so this is, you know, fighting. It’s not disappearing anytime soon. So we have to be sober about the about the the challenge plus of course you know america is designed to be a place where people with lots of different viewpoints are around right?

And i’m not saying you’re you’re not suggesting this but but again just we have to remember this right? Are there going to be rich left wing people who think things that A lot of us think are ridiculous. Yes, and are they going to be able to spend their money to magnify their voice? Pushing ridiculous ideas.

Yes. But on the other hand, there are some things that can [00:28:00] be done about this nonprofit world. This is the first and foremost, what we’re doing right here. It is really important that people understand this. Again, the conservatives tend not to use the nonprofit world in, you know, for voter registration and things like that in the way that the left does.

So we don’t, we don’t even realize how major. what a major factor this is in the elections, because we don’t, we don’t do it, we don’t know how much, we don’t appreciate how much they do it. So you’ve got to get educated, which is exactly what you’re doing right here. That is, that’s critical. The other thing is, by the way, that hurts a place like Arabella, right?

Arabella is a Wizard of Oz operation. If you remember the great movie, right, Dorothy sees the wizard and she’s terrified, because big, scary, right? But then when the curtain gets pulled back. It’s just some old guy at a microphone. Well, is the wizard is powerful over hers. It is influential and critical.

No. So when you pull the curtain back on Arabella and all, and it literally has hundreds [00:29:00] of fake groups, right? Like keep Iowans healthy and. Center for Secure and Modern Elections, on and on, Floridians for a Fair Shake, oh, literally hundreds of these things. Those things are a lot less powerful if people immediately realize, oh, that’s just some fake group that Arabella folks did.

So, education is a big, is a big part of this and a starting point for this. Now, as for specific remedies, one of the top ones that we always talk about is, at Capital Research Center is, The law is fuzzy about what charities and private foundations can do on voter registration, which, according to the smartest people on the left, whom I listen to, is the far and away the number one way for a rich leftist to invest in winning elections.

They literally will tell you four to ten times more votes per dollar by giving it to charities that will register the right people and turn them out. So [00:30:00] here’s the thing. The law currently is fuzzy. The law says that a charity or a private foundation may get engaged in voter registration as long as it’s done in a non partisan manner.

Well, that’s never spelled out. It’s very fuzzy and unclear. And of course, Lois Lerner and the people who still work it there, who are just like Lois Lerner, don’t in do not rigorously enforce that against any left wing groups. So, and, and I can tell you right now, that is not a solution, right? The IRS, you, you can, you can give up on the IRS doing a good job of enforcement.

It’s never gonna do a good job of enforcement. This, the better thing, rather than enforcing that fuzzy line, would be for Congress simply to say, You, a private foundation cannot fund voter registration of any kind and a public charity cannot conduct it. You need a big black line on that.

Gene Valentino: I agree with [00:31:00] you, but how does, how do elections get funded then?

Scott Walter: Well, we have tons of ways to find elections, right? I mean, there are two political parties and there are also other nonprofits like the NRA or the league of conservation voters, or. You know, Planned Parenthood Education Fund, yada, yada, yada. There’s a, there’s a bajillion th places which may legally do partisan voter registration work and get out the vote work above all the parties.

So, There’s no shortage of ways for that to happen. And in fact, by the way, this is part of the left wing scheme. The campaign finance reform, quote unquote, restricted money from the political channels. That’s where there is disclosure. And it strangled the parties. Well, of course, money like water is going to find a way, right?

So if it can’t go through the parties, which is where it mainly should be going, it’ll find some other thing. And that’s. How you began to get such a massive amount of non profit left wing [00:32:00] turnout operations.

Gene Valentino: But I, it, what do you think, I can accept their money obviously means more votes in one sense, but how about election integrity, ballot ballot fraud?

Yeah,

Scott Walter: well, there’s lots to be done. You’re totally right. That’s, that’s another, that’s another question, which is the whole process of the way elections are carried out. Now, let me reassure you on something, by the way. This is something the left has totally failed in, the persuasion side. You know, the left wants you to think that if you’re in favor of voter ID, you’re a Ku Klux Klan racist.

That, I mean, and by the way, that would be completely accepted at the New York Times or NBC, right? That’s just taken for granted. But let me tell you, Gene, huge majorities of Americans, every demographic I’m aware of, every race, ethnicity, even registered [00:33:00] Democrats, there’s a majority in all these groups that support voter ID laws.

Because of course, Americans aren’t stupid. Of course, you should have voter ID laws. That’s, you know, that’s a no brainer, right? It’s one important part of election integrity. Everybody knows that, and it’s totally accepted, and it is increasingly becoming the law of the land. It’s not as much as it should be, but increasingly.

And then another thing that’s obvious is that massive vote by mail, right? I mean, anyone who actually studies the history of debates over how to conduct elections, They know that everyone’s always understood that vote by mail is one of the top ways to diminish election integrity. After the very controversial 2000 election, when it was George W.

Bush and Al Gore, and there was, you know, weeks of fighting about the election. After that, President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, And James Baker, a [00:34:00] very, a long time Republican top operative and campaign director for Republicans. They had a bipartisan commission to study how elections should be run. And one of the top findings was obviously vote by mail is a big way to put to weaken election integrity, which means to hurt democracy.

By diminishing people’s trust in elections.

Gene Valentino: We got left right now. You have a situation where Yeah, right now you have a situation where you’ve got a pennsylvania early voting Schedule coming out and it’s going to happen literally days before the first debate The only debate maybe if there’s a debate at all between donald trump and kamala harris So here you have early voting Being offered to the citizens of pennsylvania before they are able to vet assess the merits of one candidate over the other, which is inconsistent, by the way, with 49 other states and the districts and the other [00:35:00] territories.

Folks, we’re talking with Scott Walter. He’s president of Capital Research Center in Washington, D. C., a not for profit organization That’s working legitimately, not with government dollars, but with yours. So before we close in the limited time we have left, Scott will give out a contact information. You can get on their website and I’m certain contribute to donate to them.

They have, they have unrevealed. Some interesting information, which I discovered first at the CNP conference in Nashville in summer of 2024. Scott gave me his book, Arabella, Arabella the dark money network of leftist billionaires, secretly transforming America. It frustrates me. As I said earlier that we didn’t jump on this sooner, but in the book, I’ll just show you page 18 real quick.

You can see the network. that they created, which I’d ask Scott to highlight just briefly. You’ve got a [00:36:00] 501c3 in the middle called Arabella Advisors. Around that inner core is an entity, a 501c4 called New Venture Fund. Another one is called the North Fund, the 1630 Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Windward Fund.

Scott, you want to explain these 501c4s that are around the corpus of Arabella Advisors? Sure.

Scott Walter: The, and I, for that illustration, I like to think of it as a solar system, right? And in the center, the sun that gives life to and creates. the, the planet circling around it. The, the sun is Arabella advisors.

That actually is a for profit company, right? This is part of the weirdness that a for profit company is actually creating and operating nonprofits essentially for its benefit. That’s not simply illegal, but it’s very unusual. Rare [00:37:00] now the, the, so that’s the center is the for profit company. The planets around it.

There’s the largest of the 501c4 political non profits they run is the 1630 fund. But they also have the C4 North fund. Then there are three 501 C3 charities. That’s all 501 C3 means it’s their charities, technically. And the largest of those is New Venture Fund. And then they also have Hopewell and Winward Fund.

Now, the way Arabella wants you to think about it and the legal fiction involved is that the 1630 Fund, their largest political nonprofit hires. Arabella Advisors to manage itself, right? But in fact, of course, it was really Arabella that created the 1630 Fund. And similarly with the other planets, that legally they hire the for profit entity to manage [00:38:00] themselves.

Now, the way this works, let’s say you’re a billionaire, lefty billionaire, who walks through the front door of Arabella Advisors, you say, okay, I want to take over politics in North Carolina. I want to, you know, have a big, powerful push in North Carolina. Arabella is gonna tell you, Okay, that’s fine, we’ll create North Carolinians for Good Government, right, at the New Venture Fund.

It’ll just, it’s really just an accounting code at this New Venture C3, and then we’ll also create North Carolinians for Good Government Action Fund, and that’s gonna be a C4 effort. But really it’s just a project of the 1630 fund. So you, Mr. Billionaire are going to write one check from your foundation, maybe to the C3 new venture fund and another check probably not on your foundation’s account to the C4 and those together will operate.

In North Carolina to work your will.

Gene Valentino: Yeah, I [00:39:00] want to I want to thank you for clarifying my misstatement about the 501 c threes and c fours. It was is it’s what most citizens and consumers and voters get glazed over with and the gloss of confusion. This diversion, deflection, distraction is nothing more.

A conspiracy on the left’s part to deflect your attention away from what’s really going on. They’re pushing, as you said in your book, a centralized form of government where the select few at the top are basically trying to control things. At the expense of the many. So the whole spirit of a democracy or a constitutional republic where we are GrassRoots ergo, my name, GrassRoots TruthCast where the GrassRoots, the folks get a chance to participate doesn’t happen in a left wing conspiracy of dark money where the select few are [00:40:00] controlling the many ergo, Mark Zuckerberg.

censorship with his social media platforms Bill Gates with depopulating the globe Soros with his tentacles puppeteering many, in the different arms and legs of government. You want to comment at the global level of what the Capital Research Center is going to be doing in the next 12 months to try to transform this, make people more aware and correct the wrongs of the past that we’re now exposing?

Sure.

Scott Walter: We testify quite regularly, both in state legislatures. In fact, my last testimony was a couple of months ago to the Texas Senate. Precisely about foreign money in elections and this, the nonprofit abuses in elections. And by the way, at the end of that hearing, they voted to begin subpoenaing a lot of these bad left wing actors demanding information out of [00:41:00] them which I believe will be even more damning.

You know, we only get the external things that we, we, we in capital research, watch them closely, but there are limits to how much right publicly available information there is. Subpoenas can make. Internal communications public. Also, just this week, I’m happy to say that Claudia Tenney who’s a congresswoman from New York, She serves on the Ways and Means Committee in the House, which oversees the entire tax exempt sector.

She put out a letter this week that demanding that the IRS look into the Voter Participation Center, which is one of the biggest abusers on the left. And the, I’ve testified to the House Ways and Means Committee this past year about all of this. And I continue to be in touch with them from time to time as we learn more information.

So congress definitely has a role in investigating this both the bad actors in the Among the charities and also the bad actors among the donors to the charities. So, [00:42:00] Also, you know, there are constantly new information coming out about these various entities or that we just dig up one of the things that we’ve dug up for instance is in facebook ads You can you can see if I if I take out a political facebook ad And I target it to avoid certain groups, right?

Avoid certain people with certain interests and include people with other interests, right? Well, you can look at that. And I can only tell you, Gene, it’s, I mean, it’s scary, but it’s also hilarious. So the Voter Participation Center, for instance, the list of all the interests that they’ll exclude from their Facebook ads are, see if any of this, if this fits anybody, you know.

People who like NASCAR or Indy 500. People who like golf. Right? All kinds of things that are obviously Republican aligned things. And then, on the includes, it will be all sorts of things targeting the demographics [00:43:00] that have the best votes for Republicans. And again, that’s the Voter Participation Center, a charity that is by law supposed to be completely nonpartisan.

So, we’re digging out more and more examples like that of their of their bias and partisanship.

Gene Valentino: Scott Walter in our last three minutes, you know, you and I go back to the, I go back to the Eisenhower administration. I won’t speak to you, but certainly the Kennedy administration. We probably were young tots when we witnessed the assassination of the John F.

Kennedy. We saw the evolution of our constitutional republic. Over the decades, we come to a point now and just before airtime on this show, you and I chatted. And one of the things I brought up was the fact that Things seem to be accelerating quickly, quicker than in the decades previous. I might suggest that it has [00:44:00] something to do with social media communication, our electronic mediums of communication.

And as a result, we’re learning things quickly, faster than ever before, geometrically faster than before. My concern is how would you compare the wrongdoing of a Biden administration to a Obama administration to a Clinton administration? What have you seen going on that you’re trying to remedy now and how fast can you move to put the, put the plug in the dam for what seems to be serious leaks in our system of justice?

Scott Walter: Well, let me say just speaking for myself personally, because again, I run a C3, so I it’s not my job to get people elected or unelected. But speaking personally, I, I, I find myself regularly saying that now that he’s no longer a candidate the Biden family and administration, they make [00:45:00] Obama look moderate and the Clintons look honest.

It is, it is, and it is certainly true that in my lifetime, which is almost that long, I was born in the Kennedy administration the that the left and supremely the thing that hurts ordinary Americans, namely the centralization of power in Washington, DC. That has accelerated and it makes me very fearful because that is the complete opposite of the actual American founding and the principles that were supposed to be governed by where yes, ordinary people, even people who don’t live in the Washington DC suburbs are allowed or not billionaires.

are allowed to have a big say in the way their life works. I want the grass. I want America to be governed from the GrassRoots up. I want strong local communities. I do not want the government in D. C. So [00:46:00] easily manipulable by billionaires to be telling folks in California or Iowa or Mississippi or Wisconsin how they can live.

Gene Valentino: And how can people contact Capital Research Center and be part of this initiative to to remedy to be an investigator and to be part of your think tank and to maybe remedy some of these ills that have accelerated specifically in the last

Scott Walter: decade? Capitalresearch. org.

Capitalresearch. org, that’s capital with an A L, is our main website, and you can sign up to get a weekly email that gives our greatest hits of the week in research. You also can use the website to donate. Either online, or there, you can find the address for donations. I also would urge people to look at our, another website we run, InfluenceWatch.

org. InfluenceWatch. org. That is a Wikipedia of the left. You will lose five hours of your [00:47:00] life the first time you go there, because you’ll go down so many rabbit holes. But it is, it’s as documented, and objective as, more objective, than Wikipedia.

Gene Valentino: And you’ll gain a few hours to your life after you spend a few hours to your life buying Scott’s Arabella is the name of the book, the dark money network of leftist billionaires secretly transforming America by Scott Walter, my guest today on GrassRoots TruthCast, Scott, I want to thank you.

One of the things that stands out that I can’t walk off the show without bringing it up again. The last election was 2022. It was an off year because it wasn’t a presidential election. And you had mentioned in this book that over 3 billion was generated. That’s more money than the Republican and Democrat fundraising combined.

We were part of a fundraising initiative for a very prominent United States Senator [00:48:00] recently. We hope to get to raise them a few hundred thousand dollars. But when you’re competing against 3 billion from a deep state network, I don’t care how, how much money you raise in the neighborhoods to help out a little politician, what, what’s going on here?

How do we stop it and make it, make it what it should be, what our founding fathers intended it to be.

Scott Walter: Well, I, again, the having. The charitable sector go back to being charitable and not political including by things like just taking voter registration out of the sector completely. That sort of thing has to happen before we go back to a world like you describe and like most americans want

Gene Valentino: folks, we’re running out of time.

So you’ve got to reach out to Capital Research Center. Scott walter you can find their website and contribute. and donate to their cause as a not for profit entity. And you can [00:49:00] also get their subscribe to their weekly newsletter. You can do that on GrassRoots TruthCast too, www.

GrassRootsTruthCast. com. Please subscribe. And you’ll find this episode as one of the continuing episodes on the GrassRoots TruthCast. Scott, I’d like to thank you for joining us today.

Scott Walter: Really appreciate it.

Gene Valentino: It’s really been enlightening. You know, folks, this is one of the many episodes we do to try to protect our democracy, our constitutional republic, and to hopefully keep you more informed about those things that are good about what we are and those things that need improvement, which is what we need to do.

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