'''Dark money''' consists of the hundreds of millions of dollars that flows secretly, from undisclosed sources, into organizations in order to influence policy and elections. Some of the biggest advocates and donors The vast majority of dark money are is from [[Arabella Advisors]], the [[Koch brothersliberal]] and [[George SorosDeep State]]-type sources. Most dark money is [[liberalGeorge Soros]], but has long been one of the [[Koch network]] is a web single largest individual sources of dark money that bullies [[conservative]] candidates into backing bad ideas , and into opposing he funded the election of [[American]] [[sovereigntyLeftist]]prosecutors who have weaponized the criminal justice sytem.
The case of ''NAACP v. Alabama'' in the [[Bull Connor]]-era granted anonymous protection of donors from retaliation by the state. The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] decision in ''[[Citizens United]]'' increased the influence of dark money. [[Phyllis Schlafly]] opposed the influence of dark money in politics.
OpenSecrets.org is a superb resource for trying to trace dark money influence.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/dark-money/top-donors</ref> But billionaires work overtime to hide their political spending such that much of it remains hidden.
The network of mega-donors originally formed by the [[Koch brothers]] have been an anti-[[Trump]], [[America Last]] source of dark money on the [[Republican]] side.
[[Arabella Advisors]] is also thought by some to be a source of dark money.
==See also==
*[[Clinton Foundation]]