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Virginia Redistricting Fight Offers Rare Window Into the Left’s Election Funding Machine

Democrats’ attempt to redraw Virginia’s congressional maps for the midterm elections ultimately failed, but the effort revealed an activist funding apparatus on the left.

The effort exposed an unusual coalition of House Democrat campaign groups, labor-backed nonprofits, entities linked to the leftist billionaire donor George Soros, and the Sunflower Services dark money network.

“The big fight over redistricting in Virginia shows how unions and left-wing ‘dark money’ networks like the one run by Sunflower Services/Arabella work together as one Borg to benefit their preferred political party,” Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, told the Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.

The Capital Research Center released a report Monday highlighting the Left’s funding networks and the Virginia redistricting ballot initiative, in particular. Walter told the Daily Signal that his report shows how the Left can “quickly mobilize megadonors like George Soros and raise tens of millions of dollars, even for a project so dubious that the courts quickly quashed it.”

Virginians had overwhelmingly voted to turn over redistricting—the process of drawing maps to determine which voters will select which members of the House of Representatives—to a bipartisan commission in 2020.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger endorsed the call for a redistricting ballot initiative billed as a temporary measure to offset Republican redistricting efforts in other states for the 2026 midterm elections. While Virginians narrowly approved the ballot initiative last year (51.7% to 48.3%), the Virginia Supreme........

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