Haaland, Debra, 103, 104

  Habitat for Humanity, 49

  Halliburton Energy Services, 101

  Hardin, Garrett, 81

  Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford University), 74

  Hattaway, Douglas, 20, 21

  Hattaway Communications, 20, 21, 37

  Hawthorne, Brian, 1, 6, 9, 13

  Health Care for America Now (HCAN), 27, 53–63; advocacy strategy for left-wing health care laws, 63; Arabella network, 57–59; Arabella’s secretive 2018 election projects, 60–63; donor camouflage, 59; following the Arabella money, 59–60; Health Care Voter, 54; Lower Drug Prices Now, 59; “Medicare for All” program, 56; “multimillion-payer plan,” 56; Obamacare and alternatives, 54, 55–57; pop-ups (misleading portrayal of ), 58; Protect Our Care, 54, 62; refundable tax credits, 56; Safety Net Defense Fund, 57; Save My Care, 62; shadowy origins of, 54; Singapore (system biased heavily to patient control over spending in), 56; Sixteen Thirty Fund (IRS filing of ), 60; Sixteen Thirty Fund (lack of transparency in), 59; Small Business for America’s Future (portrayal of ), 60; state-specific political projects deployed by Arabella, 61

  Health Care Voter, 53, 58

  Health Care Voters of Nevada, 61

  Heinrich, Martin, 102

  Heritage Foundation, 132, 135

  Herrig, Kyle, 5, 45, 98, 99, 121

  Hewlett Foundation, xvii, xxiii, 7, 10

  HHS Watch, 89

  Hochul, Kathy, 112

  Hopewell Fund, 2, 16, 77–93, 101; Abortion Access Front, 90–91; abortion’s underground railroad, 80–82; Arabella Advisors’ “dark money” activism, 87–89; at-home abortions (funding of ), 84–85; billions of dollars raised, 78–80; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and, 84; dark humor (funding of ), 90; Democracy Fund grant to, 31; Equity Forward and, 89; Gates-Buffett population cabal, 83–84; “Giving Pledge,” 78; groups hosted by, 21; Guttmacher Institute and, 78; Gynuity Health Projects, 85–87; image of Buffett, 77–78; IRS standard procedures (circumvention of ), 91; launch of, 21; lobbying by, 49; Marie Stopes International and, 78; money channeled to secretive project from, 184; not-quite-real groups launched by, xiv; Obamacare, HHS appointees’ efforts to overturn provisions in, 89; overturning of Roe v. Wade, 93; Planned Parenthood and, 78; pop-up groups, 88; quiet Malthusian (Buffett as), 82–83; Resources for Abortion Delivery, 88; single biggest donor to, 87; Sixteen Thirty Fund (Abortion Access Force transferred to), 91; Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, 77, 78, 80, 92; Windward payment to, 106

  Hub Project, 24, 29, 113–24, 130; ACORN agitation group successor, 120; Americans for Public Trust (lawsuit filed by), 122; Arabella network (leadership ties to), 120–22; attempts to flip Congress by, 118; Berger Action Fund, 119–20, 124; birth of, 116–18; Democracy Alliance, 113; environmental activism, 115; green groups (Wyss’s contributions to), 114; indirect strategy, 119; investigative journalism, 114–15; IRS 501(c)(3) rules, 117; Koch brothers (announcement by), 115; lobbying arm, 119–20; make-believe grassroots advocacy organizations, 119; “new George Soros” (Wyss as), 113; New Venture Fund (number of projects launched by), 118; political action committees, 114; pop-up groups, 118; Project Vote, 114; purpose of, 30; States Newsroom, 114; uncovering of connections between Wyss and, 160; Wyss (allegations of sexual assault leveled against), 116; Wyss (background on), 115; Wyss (secrecy of ), 115–16; Wyss (true legacy of ), 115; Wyss (worth of ), 116; Wyss’s brand of “philanthropy,” 114; Wyss’s meddling, 122–24

  Human Rights Campaign, 180

  Human Rights First, 144

  Hyde Amendment, 44

  Ickes, Harold, 38, 143

  IIJA. See Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

  Independent Petroleum Association of America, 101

  Inflation Reduction Act, 111

  InfluenceWatch: profile on Demand Justice, 155–56; website, 62, 139, 155, 159

  Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), 110, 111

  Inside Philanthropy, 36, 83, 157–58, 174

  Inslee, Jay, 47–48, 123

  Institute for Responsive Government, 74

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 11

  Internal Revenue Code, xii, 99, 165

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS): complaint filed by Americans for Public Trust, 168; 501(c)(3) rules, 117; Form 990, 157; funding restrictions, 37; interpretation of nonprofit rules by, 181; standard procedures (circumvention of ), 91

  Ioneer, 174

  Isabella, Mike, 4

  Jackson, Ketanji Brown, 160, 169

  James Beard Foundation, 4, 20

  Jealous, Ben, 180

  Jobs, Laurene Powell, 174

  Johnson, KC, 151

  Jones, Bonnie Scott, 88

  Jones, Janelle, 124

  Joyce Foundation, 67

  Kaine, Tim, 95

  Kaminsky, Gabe, xvii

  Karpinski, Gene, 46

  Kavanaugh, Brett, x, 42, 155

  Keep Birth Control Copay Free, 54

  Keeping Foreign Money out of Ballot Measures Act, 183

  Keep Iowa Healthy, 54, 61, 119

  Kellogg Foundation, 21

  Kennedy, Anthony, ix Kennedy, Ted, 55

  Kessler, Eric, xv, 1, 3–6, 16; association with federal cabinet departments under Biden, 5; background on, 3; Biden administration’s treatment of, 176; come-to-Gaia experience of, 179; as controller of Arabella, 1; early career arc of, 112, 121; as James Beard board member, 20; millions paid to Arabella consultancy of, 168; on National Democratic Institute’s board of directors, 5; radical environmentalism that first inspired, 175; resignation from board of Sixteen Thirty Fund by, 19; restaurants owned by, 4; spell cast over, 178

  Kessler & Co., 2

  Koch brothers (Charles, David), 176; announcement by, 115; comparison of Arabella with, 159–63

  Koch network, 136; contrast with Arabella, 177; difference between Arabella and, xx, xxi; hostility of (to Donald Trump), xx; left-wing groups making common cause in, 180

  Kohler, Julie, 139

  KR Foundation, 105

  Kristol, Bill, 39

  Lady Parts Justice League, 90

  Landry, Jeff, 65, 71

  Latino Engagement Fund, 142

  League of Conservation Voters, 4, 10, 108; founder of, 178; funding of America Votes from, 143; Kessler as “national field director” for, 4; president of, 46; ranking of politicians by, 103; Wyss’s backing of, 114

  Lear, Norman, 8

  Lee, Barbara, 50

  Lee, Mike, xviii

  Left 2.0, 136, 137

  Lerner, Lois, 181, 184

  Leshy, John, 121

  Lewis, Peter, 135

  LGBT group, nation’s largest, 180

  LGBTQ community, funds targeting, 142

  LGBTQ interests, 83

  LGBTQ students, Title IX and, 151–52

  Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC), 165

  Lower Drug Prices Now, 59

  LSSC. See Local Solutions Support Center

  LUCHA, 127

  Ludwig, Hayden, ix, x, xi, 15, 125, 164

  Luther, Martin, 175

  MacArthur Foundation, 4

  Madnick, Michael, 21

  Mainers Against Health Care Cuts, 61

  Make North Carolina First, 144

  Malcolm, Ellen, 38, 143

  Malthus, Thomas, 78

  Marie Stopes International, 78

  Marshall, John, 104

  Matusiak, Ari, 111

  May, Whitney, 69

  Mayer, Jane, 175

  McCain, John, 56

  McCain-Feingold Act of 2002, 181, 182

  McKay, Rob, 46

  McKibben, Bill, 95

  McKnight Foundation, 105

  McSally, Martha, 102

  McUsic, Molly, 4, 30, 114, 124, 130

  Media Matters for America, 145, 146

  Medicaid, 41, 44, 50, 55, 57; benefits (work requirements for), 149; expansion campaign, 128

  Medicare, 44, 50, 55

  Medicare for All, xix, 55, 56

  Mencken, H. L., xxiii

  Menks, Astrid, 82

  Michigan Families for Economic Prosperity, 54, 61

  Milano, Alyssa, 55

  Miller, Katherine, 20

  ModernElections.org, 65

  Mosher, Steven, 92

  Mothership Strategies, 169

  Move-On.org, 136

  Mueller, Robert, 50

  Munger, Charles, 80

  Murkowski, Lisa, 100

  NAACP, 166

  NAACP v. Alabama, 180

  Nader, Ralph, 10, 27, 83

  NARAL, 90

  NARAL Pro-Choice America, 37, 117, 104

  NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, 129

  National Abortion Federation, 89

  National Democratic Institute (NDI), 5

  National Education Association (NEA), 24, 142, 153

  National Employment Law Project, 146

  National Institute for Reproductive Health, 90

  National Network of Abortion Funds, 80

  National Network of Fiscal Sponsors, 8

  National Parks Conservation Association, 102

  National Park Service, 95

  National Press Club, 159

  National Public Radio (NPR), 68, 80, 115

  National Religious Partnership for the Environment, 114

  National Rifle Association, 19, 145

  National Student Legal Defense Network, 152

  National Vote at Home Institute, 68, 74

  National Wildlife Federation, 97

  Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 102, 107, 114

  Nature Conservancy, 23

  NC Citizens for Protecting Our Schools, 144

  NDI. See National Democratic Institute

  Nelson, Dorothy W., 5, 121

  NEO Philanthropy, 66, 91

  Nevada Responsible Trails Alliance, 10

  New American Majority Fund, 142

  New Jersey for a Better Future, 54, 119

  New Organizing Institute, 69

  Newsweek, 56

  New Venture Fund (NVF), 2, 3, 16, 164; accusation of misleading tax-exempt status, 168; Arabella’s “deep partnerships” with, 49; Center for Secure and Modern Elections as project of, 66; creation of, 22; as flagship of Arabella’s network, 64; founding of as Arabella Legacy Fund, 19; funding of CSME with grants from, 67; grants funding CSME, 67; Herrig as board member of, 45, 98; identification of (by New York Times), 64–65; lobbying by, 49; millions of dollars funneled from Zuckerberg by, 71; money channeled to secretive project from, 184; nonprofits targeting Trump connected to, 42; notable board members, 20; not-quite-real groups launched by, xiv; number of projects launched by, 118; origins of Arabella and, 12–13; pop-up, 97, 99; president of, 19; project controlling anti-Trump groups, 5; relationship between CTCL and, 72; running of Western Values Project by, 96; as “sister” of Sixteen Thirty Fund, xvi; spawning of, 18–19; spending by, 20; in the Trump years, 41–43; Windward payment to, 106; Wyss as project director for, 119. See also Health Care for America Now (HCAN)

  New York Times, x, xvi, xx, xxii, 26, 58, 62, 64, 114, 133, 136, 160, 172

  North Carolina Latino Power, 144

  North Carolinians for a Fair Economy, 61, 119

  North Fund, 2, 16, 125–33; Abortion Access for All, 127; address listing of, 23–24, 131; apolitical activities of, 128–29; ballot initiatives, 125; big shuffle, 131; board members of, 24, 130; Capital Research Center’s exposure of, 125, 133; connection to Democrats, 129–30; Democratic Governors Association, 127; Future Forward USA Action, 126; lobbying by, 49; LUCHA, 127; obscure funding source, 125; paid family medical leave (passage of ), 127; as pass-through for Arabella’s nonprofits, 126; politically charged advocacy campaigns of, 125; pop-ups, 25, 131–32; pulling states leftward, 127–28; research and fundraising, 132; Russiagate hoax, 130; Sixteen Thirty Fund, purpose of, 125; think tanks, 132; top grants of (2021), 129; trouble in Montana, 128– 29; Voting Rights Lab, 128; website, 133; what we don’t know, 132–33; Windward payment to, 106

  NPR. See National Public Radio

  NRDC. See Natural Resources Defense Council

  Nussbaum, Karen, 46

  NVF. See New Venture Fund

  Obama, Barack, 95; administration of (expansion of central government under), 185; as board member of Joyce Foundation, 67; campaigns of, 21, 54; hosting of Buffett by, 78; science advisory council of, 105; transition team of, 108

  Obamacare, xiv, 21, 55, 58; campaign to pass, 27; campaign to save, 54; citizens trying to save, 53; costly insurance regulations of, 149; HHS appointees’ efforts to overturn provisions in, 89; official name of, 54; Republican attempts to repeal, 62

  Obama Foundation, 38

  Ohioans for Economic Opportunity, 54, 61

  Oliker-Friedland, Sam, 69, 74

  Omidyar, Pierre, xxii, 24, 30, 67, 74, 130

  Omidyar Network, 24, 130

  Omidyar Nexus, 30–32

  O’Neill, Jayson, 97

  OpenSecrets, xii, xiii, 62

  Open Society Foundations, xv, 16, 67

  Opportunity Wisconsin, 119

  organizational fallout. See exposure and organizational fallout

  Osborn, Frederick H., 178

  Outside Online, 102

  Packard, Laura, 55

  Paris Climate Agreement (Trump’s withdrawal from), 111

  Partnership for America’s Families, 143

  Patriot Majority USA, 143

  Pebble Mine, 106–9

  People for the American Way, 8, 180

  Perkins Coie, 130

  Perkins Coie and Steele, 101

  Pew Charitable Trusts, 11, 181

  Phelps, Doug, 46

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 112

  Philanthropy Roundtable, 185

  Phoenix Group, 135

  Physicians for Reproductive Health, 90

  PICO National Network, 146

  Pivot of Civilization, The, 177

  Planned Parenthood, 24, 83, 85, 89, 104, 127, 130, 138, 177

  Podesta, John, 113

  Podhorzer, Michael, 46

  political action committees (PACs), 114

  political nonprofit. See North Fund

  Politico, 51, 61

  politics, pooling of billionaires’ money for. See Democracy Alliance

  Pope, Carl, 38, 143

  Population Bomb, The, 23

  Population Research Institute, 92

  pop-up groups: American Oversight, 102; Arabella, 3, 25, 47, 58, 131, 132; Arabella Advisors, 19; Hopewell Fund, 88; Local Solutions Support Center, 165; New Venture Fund, 97, 99; North Fund-related, 25, 131–32; Sixteen Thirty Fund, 61; U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, 74; Western Values Project and Western Values Project Action, 96

  Potential Energy Coalition, 104–5

  Preface to Eugenics, 178

  Prentice-Dunn, Jesse, 101

  Priester, Wilbur, 19

  Progressive Futures, 9

  Progressive Insurance, 135

  Progress North Carolina Action, 144

  ProgressNow, 146

  Project Veritas, 26–27, 98

  Project Vote, 5, 114

  Protect Our Care, 53, 54, 62

  Psychology Today, 175

  Public Citizen, 83

  Public Interest Legal Foundation, 75

  Public Interest Network, 46

  Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, xxi

  RAD. See Resources for Abortion Delivery

  Rao, Naomi, 42

  RealClearInvestigations, 85

  Real Facts NC, 142

  Recreational Trails Program (RTP), 6–7

  Redwood Materials, 174

  Renewing America, 112

  Re:Power, 146

  Republican National Committee, xix

  Resources for Abortion Delivery (RAD), 88, 89

  Resources Legacy Fund, 100

  Responsible Trails America, 1, 3, 6–7, 9–10, 98. See also Arabella, origins of

  Restore Public Trust, 5, 42, 97

  Rewiring America, 109, 111

  Richards, Cecile, 46

  Richardson, Bill, 97

  Richardson, Genevra, 11

  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 29

  Rockefeller Brothers Fund, xviii, 109

  Rockefeller Family Fund, xv, 16

  Rockefeller Foundation, 21, 24, 28, 130

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, 143

  Rocky Mountain Voter Outreach, 97

  Roebuck, Justin, 75

  Roe v. Wade, 4–5, 80, 81, 85, 93, 121

  Rolling Stone, 112

  Roosevelt, Franklin, 104

  Rosenthal, Steve, 38, 143

  Roth, Gabe, xvi, xviii

  RTP. See Recreational Trails Program

  Run for Something Action Fund, 129

  Saeger, Chris, 97

  Safety Net Defense Fund, 57–58

  Salazar, Kent, 97

  Samson Resources, 101

  Sandler, Herb, 135

  Sandler, Marion, 135

  Sandstedt, Carrie, 10

  San Francisco Chronicle, 96

  Sanger, Margaret, 177

  Sarah Scaife Foundation, 135

  Save Bristol Bay campaign, 107–8

  Save My Care, 53, 54, 62

  Savitt, Charles “Chuck,” 23

  Scasey Communications, 169

  Schambra, William, 177, 186

  Schmitt, Harrison (executive director, Responsible Trails America), 10

  Schmitt, Harrison (U.S. senator), 10

  Schrag, Daniel, 104

  Schrager, Adam, 182

  Schulz, Andrew, 19

  Schumer, Chuck, x, 83

  Schweikert, David, 173

  Schweitzer, Brian, 97

  Science Moms, 104, 106

  Secure Democracy, 164, 167

  Secure Democracy Foundation, 25

  Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 10, 24, 38, 97, 130, 137, 142

  Shaw, Rodney, 83

  Shepherd, Todd, 69

  Sierra Club, 24, 26, 27, 38, 107, 114, 130, 143, 178, 180

  Silicon Valley Community Foundation, 59

  Sinha, Ashish, 68

  Sixteen Thirty Fund, xiv, 16, 98, 125; Abortion Access Force transferred to, 91; accusation of misleading tax-exempt status, 168; board members of, 21; campaign to pass paid family medical leave, 127; CRC’s letter to the editor detailing donors to, 157; CSME 501(c)(4) “dark money” wing run by, 67; as fiscal sponsor for Demand Justice, xii, xiii; front for, xi; funding of CSME with grants from, 67; grants by Democracy Fund Voice to, 31; grants funding CSME, 67; IRS filing of, 60; Kessler’s resignation from board of, 19; lack of transparency in, 59; lobbying by, 49; politicking engaged by, 19; Politico’s story on, 156; pop-ups identified in Politico report, 61; promotion as voice of small businesses, 60; Protect Our Care as project of, 54; purpose of, 125; running of Western Values Project Action by, 96; salaries and employee benefits paid by, 20; “sister” of, xv–xvi; strangest bill lobbied for by, 51; Windward payment to, 106; Wyss compensated by, 119. See also Health Care for America Now (HCAN)