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In this episode of The Bill Walton Show, Bill wades into the murky waters of the Left’s “dark money” manipulation of American politics with Scott Walter and Kristen Eastlick with the Capital Research Center. We often use the phrase follow the money. Scott and Kristen are among the best at doing just that. Centerpiece of the discussion is Scott’s new book Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America. In it, he reveals the vast influence that the Arabella Network - by deploying billions of dollars - plays in American politics under the guise of progressive philanthropy. To name just a few issues, Arabella has played a major role in battles over Supreme Court nominations, abortion, men in women’s sports, school discipline, Medicare for All, environmental policies, fake local news outlets, and the “Zuck Bucks” used to manipulate elections. Many believe that most of the attacks on American institutions by the Left are financed and organized in part by Arabella. This episode’s conversation gets into revealing detail about how this network operates as a "dark money” brain trust with a for-profit manager (of course) at its epicenter, commanding several billion dollar nonprofit action groups. These funds in turn create hundreds of “pop-up” entities that appear suddenly, giving the appearance of huge popular groundswells, when in fact they’re the creations of Arabella and other similarly deeply disguised operations on the Left. Rather than being innocent grassroots outfits, they are the creation of their secretive dark money operations. The sheer quantity of money that has flowed through Arabella’s channels is staggering.  In the 2020 election cycle, Arabella’s nonprofits took in $2.4 billion, more than the fundraising of the Democratic and Republican National Committees combined.  In the 2022 election cycle, Arabella’s fundraising rose to $3 billion. Arabella is a big part of the reason for the Left’s stunning advantage in money and sophisticated political machinery that shapes our lives and elections. Scott and Kristen describe the “three rivers of money” flowing into politics. “With the first river of hard dollars, traditional political giving, the Left has an advantage, but it's slight,” explains Scott. “In the second river, the independent expenditures, dark money and super PACs, the left has a little advantage, but it’s also slight. But in the third river,” and here Scott grows animated, “where the Left’s charitable public policy groups operate, it's not even close. It’s shocking to learn how Arabella has covertly developed the darkest of “dark money” networks. It’s also shocking to learn who has been by far the largest single individual contributor to the abortion industry to the tune of $6+ billion.  (Revealed at the 18:36 minute mark). In fact, the further you go in this episode, the more disturbing the political swamp and the people behind it reveal themselves to be. If you really want to follow the money, start here.

The country is in desperate need of the strong leadership that President Donald Trump brought to the nation. Mayor of Riverton, Utah Trent Staggs witnessed his constituent, Josh Holt, suffer imprisonment under false charges in Venezuela in 2016. The Obama-Biden administration let the situation continue and did nothing to help Holt. Enter in President Trump, and suddenly, action was taken, Venezuelan officials were engaged with, and Holt was freed and returned home to the United States. The country needs that bold and effective leadership again. The Biden administration has run the country into the ground with the weaponization of the federal government against its own citizens, burdensome economic policy, and reckless border policy. “We need a leader back in the White House who will put America first. Like Josh and his family, everyday Americans are now suffering from a government, not a foreign government but tragically from our own,” said Staggs. “We need leaders who will use the full might and power of our country to defend our citizens.” Watch Staggs’ full remarks on Rumble @CPAC.

CPAC Now is welcoming a new show, Battle Belongs with Coleton Furlow, to our weekly lineup of in-depth and social and political commentary. With a title inspired by a Christian artist Phil Wickham song, the show takes on politics and current events in light of God’s guidance in our fight. The show is a rallying point for young conservatives to feel empowered and strengthened in their beliefs with a sense of community. Battle Belongs airs every Friday and will feature guests from both the political and faith communities. On this inaugural episode of Battle Belongs, Furlow shares the origin story of how he got involved in politics. Growing up in a conservative area in Maryland, Furlow never felt compelled to be outspoken about politics until he encountered hostility from radical Leftists in college. One professor in particular demeaned conservative students and threatened them with failing grades, prompting Furlow to stand up for his principles. This launched him into the world of politics, and he began looking for conservative groups in the area to get involved in. Furlow’s experience in college is, sadly, similar to the experiences of many young conservatives all over the country. Battle Belongs, in part, seeks to inspire young conservatives who are facing hostility because of their beliefs. “It only takes one person to stand up against the current and stick up for what you believe in and protect other students from being indoctrinated,” said Furlow. Find this episode and stay tuned for more Battle Belongs episodes on social media @CPAC and @coletonfurlow and online at CPAC.org.

For months now, American college campuses have been ravaged by antisemitic, pro-Hamas protests. Radical students and professional agitators have set up encampments, formed blockades, started riots, defaced property, and attacked Jewish students on college campuses. University administrators have done little to nothing about it. The administration at Northwestern University even reportedly gave into pro-Palestine protestors’ demands and has promised to offer full scholarships to Palestinian students and fund Palestinian faculty for two years. Faculty members at some colleges have joined the protests and defended the students protesting. Faculty at Columbia University formed a human barricade to protect antisemitic protestors from police. Administrators at Columbia allowed such protests to drag on, eventually escalating to pro-Hamas protestors attacking and occupying an academic hall. Billions of dollars of your hard-earned tax dollars are funding universities like Columbia. In the last five years, Columbia University, as just one example, received $5.8 billion of taxpayer funds. Now is the time to take control of your tax dollars. Join CPAC and demand the defunding of these woke, antisemitic universities. Sign our petition at CPAC.org.

Host of Human Events Daily Jack Posobiec reveals his “plan to end democracy” at CPAC in DC 2024. His plan includes eliminating paper ballots, election day, proof of citizenship to vote, political opponents, free speech, and more all of which, really constitute the Left’s plan to end democracy. “This is their ‘democracy’. This is the regime we will overturn. They say democracy but they mean authoritarianism and we know it,” declared Posobiec. The mainstream media paints conservatives as threats to democracy while the Left systematically dismantles society. Posobiec calls on conservatives to join ranks to drain the swamp and rally behind President Donald Trump. President Trump is our country’s best hope for the preservation of democracy and freedom. “There is one man who will be standing on this podium tomorrow, one man who will address the world from this very platform, one man who will never be destroyed and never let America be destroyed because he loves her too much, a man who has exposed the elite, a man who knows how to build, one man who knows how to restore our wealth. Ladies and gentlemen, his name is Donald John Trump, and he has one goal, one goal: to restore American greatness,” concluded Posobiec. Watch Posobiec’s full message on Rumble @CPAC.

The nationwide fentanyl epidemic is disproportionately affecting Pennsylvanians, claiming life after life and devastating family after family. Thousands of innocent individuals are being horrifically slaughtered, held hostage, and relentlessly attacked in Israel by Hamas, and here in America, Jewish students are living in fear on college campuses as universities permit anti-Semitic activities, protests, and attacks on Jewish students. Former Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Affairs Dave McCormick is running for Senate in Pennsylvania to address these issues. He sat down with former Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Milstein on the CPAC stage where he outlined his position on these issues and his vision for the future of the country. McCormick’s vision includes a secure border, the eradication of Hamas, the cutting of funding for universities that condone anti-Semitic activities, and strong leadership from Congress and the White House. The country needs a shake-up in leadership from the self-interested, unprincipled, and unproductive norm, and McCormick poses himself to be that refreshing change that will represent the interests of the people, not the interests of himself. “We had leaders, and Bob Casey is a perfect example of this, who won’t stand up, who won’t say the difference between right or wrong, who won’t lead and push back against these Progressive ideologies that are taking our country over a cliff. So, yeah, we need to shake things up in a dramatic way, and that’s what I would do in Washington,” McCormick promised. Hear McCormick’s full plans on Rumble @CPAC.

Antisemitic protests in support of Hamas are sweeping college campuses across the nation, bringing terrorism and bigotry to American universities. Mercedes Schlapp weighs in with demands to defund universities that participated in antisemitic activity on this episode of America Uncanceled. Pro-Hamas protestors are far from peaceful. They are threatening and exercising violence toward Jewish students and faculty and spewing hate toward America’s closest ally, Israel. Worse yet, these protests are receiving the passive endorsement of university administrations and even the White House. The lack of action from those in authority is allowing the violence and bigotry to continue. “It needs to end,” said Schlapp. “Not only do these university administrations need to take control of what’s happening on their campuses and send a very strong message to these protestors, but we also need to ensure that the Congressmen, that the Biden administration, that they speak up and condemn this violence. That’s why we want you to sign on to the petition to defund antisemitic colleges and ensure that you contact your representatives to make your voice heard.” Our leaders are failing to take a stand against antisemitism. So, join CPAC in taking the stand and demanding that your hard-earned tax money stop funding these antisemitic universities. Stand up at CPAC.org.

CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp joined Congressmen Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Bob Good (R-VA), Senator Ron Johnson, and more at a press conference standing up to the Biden administration’s collusion with the World Health Organization ahead of the May 27 World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva. The Biden administration is colluding with the CCP to surrender our sovereignty through new World Health Organization documents. The proposed Pandemic Treaty and new International Health Regulations threaten to place the United States under the authority of the WHO in the event of another worldwide pandemic. This would utterly destroy the United States’ autonomy and ability for Americans to decide for ourselves how best to handle a pandemic. In short, it kills our democratic republic, the very foundation of our nation. Among other things, these documents disregard intellectual property rights and free speech and give ultimate power to an organization that cooperates with China’s cover-up of the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. “What we saw with COVID is an attempt to rein back people’s rights in the name of health, and they will use health to push through all the most radical elements of their agenda to destroy constitutional order here in America. You can see what’s going on on the streets of Brazil. You can see what’s happening in the entire free world as conferences are being shut down in Europe because the hard Left wants to shut down dissent, and they want to shut down political speech, and they will use health to do it,” stated Schlapp at the press conference outside the nation's capital. Join CPAC in standing up against the tyranny of the Biden administration and the WHO and stand for free speech and national sovereignty. Demand that President Biden submit the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty to a vote in Congress and demand that state legislatures pass language stating the following into law: “No rule, regulation, fee, tax, policy, or mandate of any kind of the World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall be enforced or implemented by the state of STATE NAME or any agency, department, board, commission, political subdivision, governmental entity of the state, parish, municipality, or any other political entity.” Visit https://cpac.quorum.us/campaign/WHOTreaty/ and let the Biden administration know you will not tolerate unelected foreign bureaucrats controlling your rights and freedoms.

Former Acting Director of ICE under President Trump, Tom Homan joins Elaine Beck to discuss solutions to the border crisis. “An open border is not humane,” Homan said. The open border is taking the lives of migrants in the dangerous journey, encouraging human trafficking, empowering and enriching the cartels, and taking the lives of Americans with the fentanyl epidemic. Solutions begin by demanding the attention of representatives in Congress. Our elected officials need to start enforcing our laws, increasing the number of border patrol agents and empowering them to do their job to protect the border rather than process illegal immigrants. Further, the United States needs to incentivize Mexico to work with the us to stop migrants in Mexico before they ever reach America. “What we got to do is threaten these countries like President Trump did one time and just said, ‘Look, I’m not going to give you money to create opportunity zones. I’m going to start taking international aid away unless you prove to me it’s going to the right people.’ That’s how you fix it,” advised Homan. “Turn the tables on them. Make them take care of their people or [they] don’t get international aid.” For more visit CPAC.org, or find Elaine Beck on social media @ElaineEBeck.

Pro-Hamas protests are violently erupting on college campuses across the country creating unsafe environments for Jewish students and bringing terrorism to American college campuses.  Larry O'Connor weighs in on this episode of America Uncanceled. “It’s the lunatics running the asylum,” summed up O’Connor. Protests on the Columbia University campus are especially receiving attention for the protestors’ violent attack on and occupation of an academic hall. University administrators need to be held accountable and federal funding pulled for those colleges that have facilitated these protests and other antisemitic activities. “This is programmed and planned and coordinated, and it usually helps the Left out. The difference, though, is the American people now are weary of this, number one. We’re done with it, and they picked the wrong issue. I think they really overplayed their hand here, thinking that Americans in some way sympathize with the residents of Gaza. We sympathize with Israel. We know who the good guys are here,” O’Connor commented. Recent polls indicate Americans are more sympathetic to the Israeli and American hostages that Hamas is continuing to hold than to the Palestinians, and the threats from major university donors to pull funding reinforces this. Many universities have seriously damaged their reputation and endowment and in order to recover, need to start from scratch and reinstate freedom on their campuses. For more, follow @CPAC on social media. You can also follow Matt Schlapp @MSchlapp or Mercedes Schlapp @MercedesSchlapp to keep up with current events.

President Donald Trump joined many current and former world leaders at CPAC Hungary 2024 in taking a stand against the radical Left. He addressed the audience via recorded  message,  and his remarks emphasized the need for unity among conservatives. CPAC Hungary highlighted the common struggle of conservatives in every corner of the world against the rise of communism from the Left but more importantly highlighted the united front conservatives worldwide have in this struggle. President Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s friendship during Trump’s term in office exemplified the kind of prosperity the world can achieve when conservatives unite. “As president, I was proud to work with Prime Minister Orbán...to advance the values and interests of our two nations. We cracked down on illegal immigration, protected our borders, created jobs, and defended our traditions and Judeo-Christian values,” said Trump. President Biden has erased all of that progress and damaged our relationships with some of our closest allies. Americans are coming to their senses, however, and another Trump victory in November will revive the prosperity and friendships of prior years. “I look forward to working closely with Prime Minister Orbán once again when I take the oath of office as the forty-seventh president of the United States,” Trump said. He was optimistic in his message about the future of the free world and the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, but emphasized again that unity among conservatives is central to securing a bright future for America and the world. “As long as we remain united in our visions, true to our principles, and fearless about defending our values, conservatives will win the battle to save our civilization from the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists and restore the reign of conservatism and common sense to the world,” he concluded.

‘Wokebusters’ from around the world gathered in Budapest last week for the third annual CPAC Hungary. Speakers such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and President Donald Trump drained the swamp with their messages to the international crowd of grassroots conservatives at CPAC Hungary 2024. The event united the Western world in solidarity against the encroachment of wokeism and the radical Left. As President Trump stated in his recorded message to CPAC Hungary 2024, “Together we are engaged in an epic struggle to liberate our nations from all of the sinister forces who want to destroy them. Everyday we’re battling to preserve our culture, protect our sovereignty, defend our way life, and uphold the timeless values of freedom, family, and faith in Almighty God.” This battle often feels isolating from country to country. "The communists want you to feel alone, but you are NOT alone!", Mercedes Schlapp commented in her remarks at CPAC Hungary. Events like CPAC Hungary 2024 serve as reminders that conservatives around the globe are fighting the same battle and are in it together to save our countries and advance freedom. Matt Schlapp declared that America is ready to join that fight reinvigorated and reenergized. "We’ve been woken up from our slumber. We’ve been woken up from our coma, from our stupor,” he said. “The virtue of hope is now overtaking fear. You can take my word for it that America in 2024 will reelect Trump...America will once again realize that she needs to be great”. See more inside coverage from CPAC Hungary 2024 on social media @CPAC, @mschlapp, and @mercedeschlapp.