The Left’s dark money outfit Arabella Advisors is reportedly no more, but its efforts will continue. The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil joins “I’m Right With Jesse Kelly” on The First to break down what happened and what we know so far. One thing is for sure, birds of the same feather flock together - and these birds keep a very tight flock…
by Tyler O’Neil | December 06, 2025 | The Daily Signal (excerpt)
New Venture Fund, a hub of the Left’s dark money network [archive], bankrolls both sides of climate lawfare:
the lawyers who file lawsuits against energy companies and
a nonprofit training judges to view such cases favorably.
The fund, however, claims these projects are “unrelated.” (heavy on the quotes)
In its 2024 tax filing [archive], New Venture Fund reported sending $2.3 million to Sher Edling, L.L.P., a law firm that represents Democratic prosecutors in climate litigation.
The fund also gave $1.25 million to the Environmental Law Institute, a nonprofit that trains judges on how to approach their work to “make environmental, economic, and social progress.”
“New Venture Fund works with numerous projects and institutional funders to advance their missions on a variety of issues, including education, health care, and the environment,” a spokesperson for the nonprofit told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday.
“Our grants to Sher Edling and the Environmental Law Institute were made on behalf of two separate fiscally sponsored projects. These grants are unrelated and have no connection to each other.”
New Venture Fund directs donor money to fiscally sponsored projects, a model that critics say allows donors to cloak which projects their funding supports.
Even so, Sher Edling has represented cases before judges who have worked with the Environmental Law Institute.
As The Washington Free Beacon previously reported, Sher Edling has taken up lawsuits against the oil industry on behalf of at least 9 Democrat-run states and more than a dozen Democrat-run cities.
The lawsuits accuse oil companies of causing climate change and deceiving the public about the alleged harms of burning fossil fuels.
FACTS: On average, oil is found at a depth of 36,000 feet, while fossils are found at a depth of 6,000, so where does the term fossil fuel come from? THAT is disputed, as there are no original source documents claiming the term, but there are publications that can be used to trace the earliest use of the term fossil. There are also different schools of thought as to how oil is produced, none of which has solid evidence that one or the other is correct. What is known is that there is way more oil to be had than previously thought - the Middle East was once thought to be the richest in oil, so was Venezuela; however, latest findings are pointing to the U.S.A. as having more oil than any other region globally.
