News broke recently that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would sever ties with the shadowy consulting firm Arabella Advisors and its “nonprofit network closely associated with the Democratic Party.”

The Arabella network has received over $450 million in grants from Gates over the years, so this announcement comes as a devastating blow to Arabella’s billion-plus dollar network. But it may also be a sign that our hyper-politicized charitable sector has reached an inflection point. An institutional realignment may be coming that will leave the left in the lurch and change American philanthropy for the better.

My organization was the first outlet to reveal to the public the existence of Arabella Advisors and its network of in-house nonprofits. We literally wrote the book on Arabella — a book that features Bill Gates on its cover.

Our research, and that of many allies, dragged Arabella into the daylight, and Arabella has struggled with the unwelcome publicity. In a few short years Arabella has let go two CEOs (one shortly after she

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