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Those “pop up groups” are housed in four Arabella-controlled “sister” nonprofits, according to the report: the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund and Windward Fund. “The size and scope of the Arabella network of funds demonstrates far more ‘dark money’ exists on the left side of the political spectrum than has been previously admitted,” the report says. He also founded the New Venture Fund and is on the board of the Sixteen Thirty Fund. The report gave the example of activists, led by Demand Justice, waving glossy “Stop Kavanaugh” signs in protest of the conservative nominee's confirmation. Politico identified 12 groups set up through the Sixteen Thirty Fund on health care alone. By serving as those groups’ “fiscal sponsor,” Sixteen Thirty Fund manages the money and aggregates their financial activities in its tax filings -- making it hard to work out how much money was spent by the different groups and where. The Capital Research Center report says that Arabella’s nonprofit network allows it to mask the “pop up” groups’ nature, making them seem like the work of “grassroots” activists rather than what it calls “front groups for multi-million-dollar non-profits.” Conservatives, however, are still spending more "dark money" than liberals in some areas. Vice, citing a study by the Brennan Center for Justice, reported last year that groups supporting Kavanaugh's confirmation spent at least $7.3 million on TV ads, while those opposing him spent at least $2.9 million. A January report from Issue One, a bipartisan advocacy group, shows that liberal groups spent over half of the $150 million of dark money in the latest election. The Capital Research Center report warns: “Before left-of-center activists and politicians demand laws to increase transparency in the funding of campaigns and public policy advocacy, they may first wish to consider voluntarily disclosing their own funding sources.” Fox News' Lukas Mikelionis contributed to this report.

BOSTON (CBS) – Cecile Richards, the longtime president of Planned Parenthood, joined WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller to discuss her best-selling book along with her belief that now is the time for women to lead a political movement. Richards was president of Planned Parenthood from 2006-2018. She also wrote the best-selling book “Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead.” Keller @ Large: Part 2 Keller asked Richards about her previous statement that we need a political movement “of, by and for women” as the country inches toward the 2020 presidential election. “I think the most important thing is that women’s issues that women care about are part of the political conversation, whether it’s a woman or man running for president,” Richards said. “I just think it’s important that women’s equality and our ability to participate in the work force and raise our families should be front and center in this campaign and that’s my goal.” Richards also discussed a meeting she had with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner shortly after President Trump was elected. “They asked to meet and their offer to me was if Planned Parenthood would quit providing abortion services to women in America that they would try to get more funding for the organization,” she said. “Needless to say it didn’t go anywhere. I said we are absolutely there to provide the full range of reproductive healthcare services for women. It was a disappointing meeting for sure.”

Under these new rules, Planned Parenthood must either get out of the abortion business or set up separate facilities for offering abortion in order to achieve a clear separation between family planning activities and abortion. Instead, Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen has repeatedly attempted to brand abortion as healthcare. Abortion is not healthcare, certainly not for the baby who loses her life, but neither does it constitute healthcare for the mother. Sponsored View Cartoon Planned Parenthood’s image as a women’s healthcare provider was tarnished when past-President Cecile Richards falsely claimed her organization provided mammograms. Perhaps in an attempt to repair the organization’s image, Wen is trying to change that. Americans are already wise to the Planned Parenthood abortion business model. One way Americans have learned the truth about Planned Parenthood is through the testimony of people who have experienced Planned Parenthood from the inside. The movie “Unplanned,” which opens in theaters this weekend, follows the real-life story of former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson and the change of heart she experienced after witnessing an abortion procedure. Abby’s story shows that the abortion procedure is clearly the violent taking of a human life. Not only is abortion not healthcare, it constitutes the violent ending of an innocent life.

Under these new rules, Planned Parenthood must either get out of the abortion business or set up separate facilities for offering abortion in order to achieve a clear separation between family planning activities and abortion. Instead, Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen has repeatedly attempted to brand abortion as healthcare. Abortion is not healthcare, certainly not for the baby who loses her life, but neither does it constitute healthcare for the mother. Sponsored View Cartoon Planned Parenthood’s image as a women’s healthcare provider was tarnished when past-President Cecile Richards falsely claimed her organization provided mammograms. Perhaps in an attempt to repair the organization’s image, Wen is trying to change that. Americans are already wise to the Planned Parenthood abortion business model. One way Americans have learned the truth about Planned Parenthood is through the testimony of people who have experienced Planned Parenthood from the inside. The movie “Unplanned,” which opens in theaters this weekend, follows the real-life story of former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson and the change of heart she experienced after witnessing an abortion procedure. Abby’s story shows that the abortion procedure is clearly the violent taking of a human life. Not only is abortion not healthcare, it constitutes the violent ending of an innocent life.

The political winners of 2018 include a first-time candidate for Congress who is the first Democrat to win her district, a leading Republican who was not caught napping, a party chair who got out of her chair and traveled the state... and a sports team. McMorris Rodgers relinquished her House GOP leadership position after the election, when faced with a challenge from Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. -- Ex-tech executive, ex-Seattle City Council member Tina Podlodowski took over as chair of Washington State Democrats, after a 2016 election where the Dems won in King County but lost in a lot of other places across the state. The party's wafer-thin 50-48 House majority is up to 57-41. The party gained a seat in Congress. The have made women's professional sports matter, witness the parade through downtown Seattle and the sight of Mayor Durkan and Police Chief Best cheering at courtside. All three measures were put on the ballot after the Legislature did not act. One more win: Despite getting backing from billionaires, the Alliance for Gun Safety entrusted the campaign to young people, a 22-year-old campaign manager and a steering committee on which sat a high school student. -- The oil and beverage industries deployed big money, and bought election victories. Ericksen was co-chair of the 2016 Trump campaign in Washington.

As odd as it sounds, political parties in democracies have an important anti-democratic function. Long before voters decided anything in the primary or general elections, party bosses worked to groom good candidates, weed out bad ones, organize interests, and frame issues. We’ve only taken the parties out of politics.” Outside groups — the National Rifle Association, Planned Parenthood, unions, etc. “Until the 1960s, the national convention was a communications medium,” Barone writes. Today, political conventions are little more than infomercials for presidential candidates. Opinion websites and TV and radio hosts now do more to shape issues and select candidates than the parties do. McConnell’s point about money in politics is analogous to the larger trend. When you take political power out of the parties, other actors seize it. It’s why the cable-news networks spend so much of their time rallying voters in one direction or another. There are other, larger forces at work.

The voters who are most amped for the 2018 elections look elite in nearly every way. “They have something to win back.” It’s the segment that’s surprising: Religiously unaffiliated voters, who may or may not be associated with other civic institutions, seem most excited about supporting or donating to causes, going to rallies, and expressing opinions online, among other activities. Political engagement may be providing these Americans with a new form of identity. By 2014, those numbers had shifted significantly: Pew found that 28 percent of Democrats identified as religiously unaffiliated. During that time, they were significantly more likely to have contacted an elected official or to have donated to a candidate or cause. The data on religiously unaffiliated Democrats combines with other statistics to form a rough picture of the voters who have been getting the most civically involved over the past year. It may be challenging to understand these people through a national poll: While it’s easy for Democrats to talk about their angry Facebook posts, it’s more difficult to capture the kind of political transformation that Putnam is seeing among local groups in Pennsylvania. She met one group of women who knew each other largely through Girl Scouts and chartered a bus to the Women’s March in 2017. Many liberals are feeling anger, and finding ways to express that. It’s not going to occur over one election cycle,” Cox said.