'Charities' used to fund Democrats

 Parker Thayer:

It’s no secret that government agencies give the Left more of a leash than the Right. Headline-grabbing stories over the past few years have exposed the overt political biases of agencies such as the FBI and the Justice Department.

But underreported is a much larger story of the same ideological malfeasance in the nonprofit sector, a topic less sexy than corruption in the intelligence agencies, but arguably more important due to the growth of political activism via charities.

In fact, what the IRS isn’t doing in the nonprofit (or “public charity”) sector will affect the midterm elections far more than any FBI raid ever could.

A big part of the IRS’s job is the oversight of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that are awarded tax-exempt status because of the beneficial work they do. There are many different rules that 501(c)(3) nonprofit groups must follow to maintain their favored status, but the most important is that 501(c)(3)s are forbidden to engage in partisan electioneering, or efforts to aid political candidates and affect the results of elections, in any way.

Advocacy and political bias are allowed, but elections are strictly off-limits.

Enter fake charities such as the Voter Participation Center, State Voices, and the Voter Registration Project that siphon tens of millions of dollars every year from billionaires and their charitable foundations to use in ways that the IRS strictly forbids. By abusing their knowledge of racial demographic voting trends and enormous microtargeted voter databases, these groups can ensure they only register people likely to vote for Democrats and function as tax-exempt Democratic PACs.
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Later, in the 2012 book The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, liberal journalist Sasha Isenberg wrote of the Voter Participation Center (which raised $88 million in 2020): “Even though the group was officially nonpartisan, for tax purposes, there was no secret that the goal of all its efforts was to generate new votes for Democrats.”

Reams of evidence from the years since former President Barack Obama’s campaign show that nothing has really changed.

Wikileaks emails to John Podesta from 2015 show Democratic strategists asking Podesta, who was then Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, to sign off on “nonpartisan” voter registration drives. “Is this the registration program you were hoping for? Can I push it,” one email reads.

This particular “registration program” was dubbed the Everybody Votes Campaign, and the confidential executive summary bragged that, for the low-low price of $100 million, a network of charities-for-hire could register 6.3 million people and gin up 2 million likely Democrat votes in swing states by 2020.
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It is likely a mistake to think the IRS will do its job in policing these outfits.  

What the GOP should do is bring suits against them alleging that they are in violation of their charter.