One of the most influential left-wing dark money organizations stands accused of trying to buy social media influencers, aiming to unify the Left as Democrats struggle to find the path forward after President Donald Trump’s historic victory in November.

Trump’s interviews with conservative YouTubers, podcast hosts, and alternative media influencers accumulated more than 100 million views ahead of the 2024 presidential election, and it seems the group Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has ties to Arabella Advisors, is intent on galvanizing this new strategy on the other side of the aisle.

Will its efforts unite the woke infrastructure of the Left with the large audiences who flock to left-wing influencers? Or will the exposure of this effort further divide the Democrat activist class?

Sixteen Thirty Fund forms a key arm of the Left’s dark money network, bankrolling many of the activist groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration and supporting ballot initiatives across the states. The for-profit company Arabella Advisors manages Sixteen Thirty Fund as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, alongside other nonprofits like New Venture Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund. These nonprofits then prop up fiscally-sponsored projects, allowing donors to support the projects without disclosing which projects they fund.

Taylor Lorenz, a left-wing journalist not usually known for turning on her own side, wrote a lengthy Wired exposé about Chorus, which Lorenz identified as a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund.

A Sixteen Thirty Fund spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Signal that Chorus is a fiscally-sponsored project of Sixteen Thirty Fund.

“Sixteen Thirty Fund (STF) became a fiscal sponsor of Chorus in April 2025,” the spokesperson said. “Fiscal sponsorship is a very common model........

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