A dark money group on the left is paying progressive influencers up to $8,000 a month to push Democrat policy ideas. Must be nice.
This is so typical. For all of the Democrats’ talk of getting ‘big money’ out of politics, they are the worst culprits of using big money to advance their agenda when it suits them.
The New York Post reports:
‘Dark money’ group paying pro-Dem influencers up to $8K a month: report
A secretive dark money group tied to the Democratic Party is paying online influencers up to $8,000 a month to disseminate left-leaning talking points, according to a report.
The “Chorus Creator Incubator Program” is said to be funded by the “Sixteen Thirty Fund,” a nonprofit sometimes portrayed as the left’s answer to the Koch network and which has funneled money to dozens of Democratic-friendly influencers, according to WIRED magazine.
The names attached to the program span some of the most recognizable liberal voices online.
They include Olivia Julianna, the Gen Z activist who spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention; Loren Piretra, a former Playboy executive turned Occupy Democrats YouTuber; and Barrett Adair, the content creator who runs a viral American Girl Doll–themed meme account.
The program also includes Suzanne Lambert, who styles herself a “Regina George liberal”; Arielle Fodor, a teacher with 1.4 million TikTok followers; Sander Jennings, the TLC reality star and older brother of trans influencer Jazz Jennings; and David Pakman, host of a YouTube show.
More from the story in Wired:
“There are some real great advantages to … housing this program in a nonprofit,” Graham Wilson, a lawyer working with Chorus, said to creators on a Zoom call reviewed by WIRED. “It gives us the ability to raise money from donors. It also, with this structure, it avoids a lot of the public disclosure or public disclaimers—you know, ‘Paid for by blah blah blah blah’—that you see on political ads. We don’t need to deal with any of that. Your names aren’t showing up on, like, reports filed with the FEC.” (Wilson did not reply to a request for comment.)
Really makes you wonder if they believe what they say or they say what they say only for pay. https://t.co/EpY8AhAxpJ
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) August 28, 2025
If they are willing to pay $8k a month of their own money on no name influencers, imagine how they treat your tax dollars https://t.co/Vbyga3Aosb
— Harrison Krank (@HarrisonKrank) August 28, 2025
This is how popular Democrat ideas are. So popular that they have to pay people a ton of cash to advance them.
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