More than a dozen House Democrats signed a manifesto positioning themselves against democratic socialism. An investigation traced the money behind the movement — and found a donor list that reads like a Forbes index.
Dark money from ICE's largest private detention contractor flows to a political group tied to Jim Jordan — the congressman who chairs the committee that writes immigration enforcement law. The connection is legal, deliberate, and structurally coherent.
Dark money is political spending by groups that hide their donors. Over $2.8 billion flowed through the system in 2024, shaping elections and policy in ways the public cannot see.
After DOGE eliminated a quarter of the IRS workforce, a convenient 'technical glitch' has made $51 million in political donations to state races disappear from disclosure databases.