EXCLUSIVE: $229 per additional vote.
The donor pitch for a Democrat-linked voter operation gearing up for 2026.
One of its groups took $5.8 MILLION from a foundation whose co-founder also founded a Chinese charity with a CCP branch.
Follow the money. 🧵
The donor pitch for a Democrat-linked voter operation gearing up for 2026.
One of its groups took $5.8 MILLION from a foundation whose co-founder also founded a Chinese charity with a CCP branch.
Follow the money. 🧵
Enlight Foundation gave the Voter Participation Center $5.8 MILLION in 2020.
Its co-founder Xin Liu also founded China’s Xinhe Foundation.
Xinhe’s CCP branch, established in 2023, says, in translation, that it “upholds the comprehensive leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Its co-founder Xin Liu also founded China’s Xinhe Foundation.
Xinhe’s CCP branch, established in 2023, says, in translation, that it “upholds the comprehensive leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Naturally, Laurene Powell Jobs’ foundation gave VPC $5 MILLION in 2020.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s foundation added $1 MILLION in 2024.
Billionaire money. A nationwide voter operation. And now, the midterms.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s foundation added $1 MILLION in 2024.
Billionaire money. A nationwide voter operation. And now, the midterms.
Who runs this “nonpartisan” operation?
Both VPC and the Center for Voter Information are led by Tom Lopach.
His previous job?
Executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Both VPC and the Center for Voter Information are led by Tom Lopach.
His previous job?
Executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Here’s how Blue Tent pitches the operation to donors:
An estimated $229 in outreach spending per additional vote in 2024.
It credits VPC/CVI with generating 271,442 additional votes.
The longer-term ambition? “remake American politics.”
An estimated $229 in outreach spending per additional vote in 2024.
It credits VPC/CVI with generating 271,442 additional votes.
The longer-term ambition? “remake American politics.”
The 2026 push is already underway.
11.1 MILLION voter-registration mailings for August–September.
2.2 MILLION mail-ballot applications for September across 18 states.
Including Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
11.1 MILLION voter-registration mailings for August–September.
2.2 MILLION mail-ballot applications for September across 18 states.
Including Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Their past tactics?
One CVI mailer compared your voting history with neighbors’ records, then warned:
“We will be reviewing these records after the election to determine whether or not you joined your neighbors in voting.”
One CVI mailer compared your voting history with neighbors’ records, then warned:
“We will be reviewing these records after the election to determine whether or not you joined your neighbors in voting.”
Maryland’s attorney general issued a cease-and-desist demand over the mailings in 2024.
The groups denied wrongdoing and defended the tactic as “social pressure.”
The groups denied wrongdoing and defended the tactic as “social pressure.”
I followed the money behind the $229-per-vote pitch.
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