The 2024 election was miserable for the Democratic Party. Enthusiasm was flat, voters checked out, and traditional Democratic fundraising was down 30% after inflation, compared to the 2020 cycle. But one piece of the operation did not just survive the year. It thrived. And it looks poised to be brighter still in 2026.

The bright spot is the sprawling, little-known network of tax-exempt “charities” that Democrats have desperately depended on for voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives for more than two decades. Call it what it is: the tax-exempt vote machine. It is one of the largest and most scandal-prone political operations in America. And 2024 was its best fundraising year ever.

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According to Capital Research Center’s latest special report, more than 80 left-wing groups doing primarily get-out-the-vote work raised nearly $640 million in 2024. That represents a 10% gain over 2020 after adjusting for inflation. Traditional Democratic fundraising over the same span saw revenues fall by roughly 30%. 

Charitable voter engagement is legal only when it is nonpartisan. The problem is the widening gap between what IRS rules stipulate and what a subset of these groups really do.

Democrats and their donors know the “nonpartisan” label on many of these outfits is camouflage. That is precisely why they use them. The IRS........

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