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“Wearefivedaysawayfromfundamen-tally transforming the United States of America.”

―BarackObama(October30,2008)1

A watershed moment in George Soros’ long and stealthyefforttocapturecontroloftheDemocraticPartyandchangethecourseofAmericanpoliticscame inAugust 2008 at the Party’s presidentialnominating convention in Denver, Colorado. One ofaseriesofpaneldiscussionsstagedfortheme-diaVIPsandmoneymen,allof themeuphoricatthe growing prospect of Barack Obama’s victory intheupcomingelections,featuredamannamedRob Stein.2 An aide to Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown during the Clinton administration,Steinwas notwell known to the public butwaslocallyfamousamong“progressive”Democratsasakeyoperative in thenetworkof institutionsde-signed by Soros in an effort to create what they only half jokingly referred to as a “vast leftwing

1 http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/10/30/obama-speaks-crowd-40000/2 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2388

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conspiracy.”

The subject of the panel discussion Steinstaged for Party movers and shakers in 2008 was “The Colorado Miracle.”3 Everyone in the room knewthatthephrasereferredtoastunningpoliti-caldevelopmentgeneratedvirtuallyovernightbyachainofSoros-fundedstateorganizations. Thelineupofstateofficeholderstoldthetale.InOcto-ber2004,RepublicansheldtwoU.S.Senateseats,five of seven congressional seats, the governor-ship,thesecretaryofstate’sofficeandbothhousesofthelegislature.Whenthe2008electionscarcelytwomonthsawayended,theexactoppositewouldbe true, andColoradowould have been changedfromaredstatetoablueoneinonebriefelectioncycle.4

Some political commentators would see thistransformation as an expression of Western inde-pendence and contrarianism or of changing de-mographics, which had given the state a growing Hispanicpopulation.Theseandotherfactorshad

3 http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=ODJmYWRlMDkxMzYxMzM1NTY3YmMwZDc1MzZmMmYzMGU=4 http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=ODJmYWRlMDkxMzYxMzM1NTY3YmMwZDc1MzZmMmYzMGU=

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playedarole.ButasSteinpointedoutinhisdis-cussionoftheMiraclethenjustnearingitsapothe-osis, Colorado had been given a political makeover primarilyasaresultofarelentlesspoliticalgroundwar waged by the Colorado Democracy Alliance, anorganizationcreatedoutofhisvisionandSo-ros’ money.5 The Colorado Democracy Alliance had created, in record time, a progressive political infrastructurewithonepurpose:takingoverColo-radopoliticsfromtheprecincttothestatehouse.Ithadaccomplishedthisbyputtingtogetherarelent-less political blitzkrieg.6 And best of all, Stein as-suredhisaudience,whathadhappenedinColoradowasanexportablemodel thatcouldbereplicatedindozensofotherstatesacrossthecountry. Theelection of Barack Obama might be the immediate goal before them,Stein concluded, but the long-term objective was to take control of the American political system. “The reason we’re doing what we’re doing…” he said, “and the way we get pro-gressive change is to control government.”7

Rob Stein was speaking for his patron as well

5 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=71516 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf7 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=677

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as for himself. Over a twenty year period, George Soroshasbeenabletoexerciseunparalleledinflu-encethroughthenetworkofleftwingpoliticalor-ganizationshebuilt—anetworksosuccessfulthatit is a power unto itself and has earned itself atitle: the Shadow Party.8 It is a network that exists inapoliticalpenumbra,althoughitcallsfortrans-parency; that works at the edges of the electoral system,althoughaffectingelectoraloutcomesisitsraison d’etre.

Soros’ agenda is hidden and his goals are not madepublicbecausetheyarebasedonaradicalvi-sion of social change that most Americans not only rejectbutfear. But thisagendainvolvingaradi-calchangeofAmericaninstitutionshassubvertedand taken over the Democratic Party. The Soros agenda, in fact, has become the Obama agenda.

The Billionaire Philanthropist

Born in Hungary in 1930 into a deracinatedJewishfamily,GeorgeSorossurvivedWorldWarIIbyworkingasanassistanttoanofficialinthe

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fascist government whose job was to confiscatethepropertyofJewsheadedtothegaschambers.9 After the war, Soros relocated to England,10 where he attended the London School of Economics and wasinfluencedbyone-worldismandtheprospectofperfectinghumanitythroughsocialengineering.Butatthispointinhislifehisideasweresubordi-natetothedesiretomakemoney.Aftergraduatingin 1952, Soros joined a London brokerage firm,Singer and Friedlander.11 Four years later, he re-located toNewYork and eventually foundworkas a portfolio manager at an investment bank. He broughtcontinentalanti-bourgeoisandanti-Amer-icanattitudeswithhimandlateradmittedthatheonly wanted to stay in the U.S. long enough tomakehisfortune.12Butbusinesswastoogoodandhe became a citizen.

In1973Sorossetupaprivatepartnershipcal-

9 Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say(2005),p.157;http://tinyurl.com/4kcy5ek10 http://www.georgesoros.com/faqs/entry/georgesorosofficialbiography11 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2773265/Billionaire-who-broke-the-Bank-of-England.html12 MichaelT.Kaufman, Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Bil-lionaire (2002),p.83

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ledtheSorosFund,13renamedTheQuantumFundin 1979.14Itsvaluegrewto$381millionby1980,15 and more than $1 billion by 1985.16 As he later said, “Having made it, I could then indulge mysocial concerns.”17 The $3 million he invested in these concerns in 1987 grew to $300 million a year by 1992.18Duringthisperiod,Sorosestablishedaseriesof foundations inCentralAsiaandEasternEurope,19 where projects he funded hastened thefall of communist regimes and also, as he freelyadmitted, opened newmoney-making opportuni-tiesforhimwiththestateindustriesandpropertiesupforgrabs.

In 1993 Soros established the flagship of his

foundation network―the New York City-basedOpenSociety Institute (OSI)—whichwould sup-13http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/85/Soros-Fund-Manage-ment-Llc.html 14 http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Soros-Fund-Man-agement-LLC-Company-History.html 15 http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/85/Soros-Fund-Manage-ment-Llc.html 16 Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say(2005),p.157.17 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2002/mar/10/theobserver.observer-business1018 George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy(2004),p.13619 http://www.soros.org/about/timeline

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port a variety of radical American groups andcausesoverthenextdecade—rangingfromthele-galizationofdrugsandthepromotionofopenbor-ders to the creation of a leftwing judiciary—thatborehiseccentricstampbutalsoresonatedwithagrowing segment of the Democratic Party.20

Campaign Finance Reform and the Creation of the Shadow Party

By the early 1990s, Soros had become close to BillandHillaryClinton.(“Idonowhavegreatac-cess in [the Clinton] administration,” he boasted in 1995.“Thereisnoquestionaboutthis.Weactuallywork together as a team.”)21 One point of close collaboration between the Clintons and Soros was health care. Soros had his own reform, promoted bytheOpenSocietyInstitute,thathesawascom-patible with the initiatives that became known as HillaryCare.Hecalledit,withcharacteristicblunt-ness, The Project on Death in America.22 Its ratio-nale was compassionate: to embed hospices and 20http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=58921 InterviewwithGeorgeSoros,TheCharlieRoseShow,PBS(November30,1995)22http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf

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“palliative”careinU.S.healthpolicy.Butitsbasicobjective was more pragmatic: rationing care to ter-minalandseriouslyillpatientsforwhommedicalattentionofferedlittlepayoffandwhowerethusaburdenonthesystem.Itwasthedirectforerunnerofthe“deathpanels”ofObamaCarethatdrewfirefrom the political right in the next decade.

Over a ten-year period, the Open Society In-stitutewouldsink$45millionintoTheProjectonDeath in America.23ButSoroswaslessconcernedby the fact that his initiative didn’t immediately payoffthanhewasbythewaysuchsociallypro-gressivereformsweredefeatedinAmericabyun-rulyfreespeech.ThefateofHillaryCareprovidedhim with an epiphany of how the political system had to be changed if progressive ideas were to tri-umph.24

The Clintons’ proposal to nationalize the health caresystemhadbeenundoneinlargepartbyatele-visionadcampaignfeaturing“HarryandLouise,”actorsplayinga typicalAmericancouplevoicingtheirconcernsinaseriesoftelevisionspotsabout23http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/publications/report_20041122/a_complete.pdf24David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006),pp.131-136

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the implications of a government takeover of med-icine. The campaign had cost $14 million, a small sumgivenwhatitachieved—undoingthemostim-portant initiative of the new administration.25 The lesson Soros took away from the experience was thathehadbeenputtingthecartbeforethehorse.Before pumping money into reforms, he had toclear thefieldof theunregulatedpolitical speechthatwould always stand in theway of the kindsof progressive (i.e., socialist) solutions to socialproblemshe regardedascritical for the futureofAmerica and the world.

Therewasananswerathand:campaignfinancereform.IthadbeenwaftingthroughAmericanpol-iticswithdecreasingurgencysinceWatergate,butwasstill,manyyearslater,areformwithoutacon-stituency. Workingwith others interested in thisissue,Soroswould use the institutional network hewasbeginningtobuildtocreatetheillusionofamassmovementsothatmembersofCongresswouldfeelthateverywheretheylooked—academicinstitutions,thebusinesscommunity,religiousgroups—therewasaclamorforcampaignfinancereform.26 25 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/media/17adco.html26 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/03/25/pewgate-the-battle-of-the-blogosphere/

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Over the next few years, Soros would give$12.6milliontothecauseofcampaignfinancere-formthroughtheOpenSocietyInstituteandpushother interested philanthropies, the Pew Chari-tableTrustschiefamongthem,toacceleratetheircommitmenttothiscrusade.27Thejuggernauthehelpedformwouldgivelargegrantstomediaout-letssuchasNationalPublicRadiotopublicizethecause,28andtoinstitutionssuchasNewYorkUni-versity’s Brennan Center to do the legal research, bogusasitlaterprovedtobe,thatsoughttojustifytheregulationofpoliticalspeech.29

All this paid off in 2002 with the McCain-Fein-goldAct (Soros contributed toMcCain aswell),whichproposedtocleanuppoliticsbyregulatingthe kinds and amounts of donations candidatescouldaccept.Thelegislationbanned“soft”money(unregulatedindividualcontributions)andallowedonlylimited“hard”money(contributionstopoliti-

27 RyanSager,“Buying‘Reform’:MediaMissedMillionaires’Scam,”New York Post (March17,2005).28 RyanSager,“Buying‘Reform’:MediaMissedMillionaires’Scam,” New York Post(March17,2005).29DavidTell,“AnAppearanceofCorruption:TheBogusResearchUnder-girding Campaign Finance Reform,” The Weekly Standard (May26,2003).

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calactioncommittees).30 Soros saw immediately thatthemaineffectofthenewlawwouldbetwo-fold—tocurbtheuseofthekindofTVadvertisingthathadkilledHillaryCare;andultimatelytolimittheinfluenceofthetwopoliticalparties,whichde-pendedonsoftmoneyastheirbasicsourceoffuel.Thiswouldprovidetheopeningforhimtostepinwithhiswell-fundednetworkandtakecontrolofthe Democrats’ political campaigns. This wouldbe accomplished by funneling money into poli-ticsthroughso-called“527organizations,”namedfor the section of the IRS code allowing them to register with the Federal Election Commission. Soros could use these organizations to performthe roles―political advertising, get-out-the-voteoperations―previously under the control of theDemocratic Party, which now lacked the cash to fuelthem.31

TheMcCain-Feingoldlaweffectivelydefund-edtheDemocraticParty(andtheRepublicanPartyaswell),andallowedSorostostepintothebreachcreatingaShadowPartycomposedof527fundingentities,radicalget-out-the-voteorganizationslike

30 http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/bcra_overview.shtml31http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=813

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ACORNandthepublicsectorunionstopursueSo-ros’ own political agenda.32

The national reaction to the events of Septem-

ber 11, 2001 convinced Soros that he needed to put his plan into effect immediately. Heviewedthe terrorist attacks as confirmation thatwhat hecalled“AmericanSupremacy”wasthenumberoneproblem facing the world.33 Soros detested what he viewed as the arrogance the President displayed whenhepubliclybrandedU.S.enemiesas“evil”;whenthePresidentunapologeticallyexpressedhisfaith in American exceptionalism; and when he re-fusedtoconsiderthepossibilitythattheterroristshad real grievances and that American imperialism wasultimatelyresponsiblefortheattacks.

Soros maintained that the proper long-term re-sponse to9/11wouldbeforAmerica to launchaglobalwaronpovertybysendingmassiveamountsofaidtoimpoverishedregionsaroundtheworldwhereterrorismflourished.Terrorism,Sorosmain-

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tained, was the result of a “growing inequalitybetweenrichandpoor,bothwithincountriesandamongcountries.”34

Before 9/11 Soros saw his philanthropy as a way of incrementally changing health care, crimi-nal sentencing,drug lawsandother social issueshe regarded as important. The direction in which he wanted to steer the United States was clear in theradicalagendasofthegroupsthathehadbeenfundingfornearlyadecadethroughhisOpenSo-ciety Institute. Those agendas could essentiallybe distilled down to three overriding themes: the diminutionofAmericanpower,thesubjugationofAmerican sovereignty in favor of one world gov-ernment, and the implementation of a socialist re-distribution ofwealth―bothwithin theU.S. andacross national borders.

ButnowSorosdecidedthattheworldwasen-

dangered by American dominance and it was es-sentialtochangethecountryfundamentally,over-night as it were rather than over time. He believed thatthe2004electionsofferedthebestopportunityto“deflate thebubbleofAmericansupremacy.”35

34 Soros (2004),p.9435 Soros(2004),p.74

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But to accomplish this would require a politicalapparatuswhose likehadnever been seen in theUnitedStatesbefore;anetworkthatcouldnotonlyacquireprofoundandlastinginfluencebutwoulddo so in such a stealthy manner thatAmericanswouldnotknowwhatwashappening.

The First Election: 2004

TherewasnoofficialbirthannouncementwhentheShadowPartywaslaunchedonJuly17,2003atElMirador,GeorgeSoros’SouthamptonestateonLongIsland.Butitwasthemostsignificantde-velopment in American politics in decades. At this meeting of political strategists, wealthy donors, left-wing labor leaders and progressive activists, SoroslaidouthisplantodefeatGeorgeBushinthe2004 presidential election. Present were figuresfromtheClintonyearssuchasformerSecretaryofStateMadelineAlbrightandformerWhiteHousechiefof staff JohnPodesta; alongside themwere“progressive” activists such as Ellen Malcolm,founderandpresidentofEMILY’sList,CarlPope,executivedirectoroftheSierraClub,alongwithlargedonors suchasTacoBellheirRobMcKay,RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser and Progressive

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InsurancemogulPeterB.Lewis.36

The political operatives Soros had hired to stafftheeffortbelievedthatBushcouldbebeatenin2004if therewasamassive turnoutofDemo-crat voters in swing states.37 Soros pledged the $10 millionrequiredtofundanorganizationthatwouldbe called America Coming Together. A grassroots activistgroupdesignedtocoordinatetheShadowParty’s massive get-out-the-vote drive, AmericaComingTogetherwouldraisethemoneythatwouldallowittodispatchtensofthousandsofvolunteersto knock on doors and work phone banks, parlay-ingtheworkofleftwingunions,environmentalists,andabortionrightsactivistsintoanunprecedentedpolitical offensive. When Soros made his commit-ment,accordingtoreportsthatlaterfilteredoutofthe Southampton meeting, Peter Lewis matchedhis$10million,RobGlaseranteedup$2million,andRobMcKayputin$1million.38

Soonafterthissummitmeeting,Sorosalsoputup$3millionforJohnPodesta’snewthinktank,39 36 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/37 ibid 38 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/ 39 LauraBlumenfeld,“Soros’sDeepPocketsvs.Bush,” The Washington Post(November11,2003)

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the Center forAmerican Progress, which wouldfunctionasthebraintrustofthenetworkofinsti-tutions that would comprise the Shadow Party.40 AndfinallySorossummonedCaliforniasoftwaredeveloperWesBoydforameetingathisNewYorkoffice.InadditiontohavingmadeafortuneinSili-con Valley, Boyd was also creator of the radical website MoveOn.org,41which he founded duringthe Clinton impeachment trial to get the nation to “moveon” to “more important issues” and sincethen had made an Internet cash cow for leftwing Democrat candidates. Soros offered Boyd a deal. HeandPeterLewiswouldmatchupto$5millionfor any new money Boyd raised to expand Move-On’s reach for 2004.42

After all these negotiations were completed, Soros agreed to an interview with the Washing-ton Post.“AmericaunderBushisadangertotheworld,”hedeclared.“TopplingBushisthecentralfocusofmylife…AndI’mwillingtoputmymon-eywheremymouthis.”43 40http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709 41 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=620142 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/ 43 LauraBlumenfeld,“Soros’sDeepPocketsvs.Bush,”The Washington Post (November11,2003)

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While Soros’ investment was substantial, itwas primarily a catalyst inspiring other leftwing donorstotakethenewnetworkseriously.Asjour-nalistByronYork observed, “After Soros signedon, contributions started pouring in.”44 America ComingTogether and theMediaFund, the orga-nizationdesignedtofightthetelevision“airwar”in the coming election, alone took in some $200 million after Soros pledged his $20 million. This type of concentratedmoney and focused activitywasunprecedentedinAmericanpolitics.45

By early 2004, scarcely six months after the meeting at the Soros estate, the Shadow Party had taken shape. Its infrastructurewas comprisedofsevennon-profits.InadditiontoAmericaComingTogether, MoveOn.org, and Podesta’s Center for AmericanProgress,thenetworkincludedAmericaVotes,46theMediaFund,47JointVictoryCampaign2004,48 and theThunderRoadGroup.49 Ostensi-

44 ByronYork,The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy(2005),pp.86-87.45 ibid46 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=652747http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=671248 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofileasp?fndid=5342&category=7949 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6713

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bly “independent” from each other, these organi-zationswouldworksynchronouslytodefeatBushand implant a progressive agenda in the Democrat-ic Party.

The Shadow Party was the complete package. In the Center for American Progress it had a think tanktoexploreitsimportantcauses,especiallywhatSoros saw as the increasing power of conservatives. (The CAP immediately launched Media Mattersas an attack site to smear and discredit members of the conservative media, especially those in talk radio and cable news.50) AmericaVotes, referredto by one of its staffers as a “monster coalition,” was designed to coordinate the efforts of all the leftwinggroupsworkingatthegrassrootstodefeatBush—fromACORN to the Planned ParenthoodActionFundandtheSierraClubtotheAmericanFederation of Teachers and the Service Employees InternationalUnion.Itwouldmanagethe“groundwar”againstBush,finetuningthedetailsdowntothe precinct level.

TheJointVictoryCampaign2004,formedbyonetimeClintonoperativeHaroldIckesJr.,51 was 50http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=715051

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the fundraising entity for the Shadow Party. Itwould ultimately channelmore than $57millioninto the Shadow Party network, $19.4 million of ittoAmericaComingTogether,whichfocusedonhighpressuretacticstoregistervotersandgetthemto the polls, and another $38.4 million to the Media Fund,alsocreatedbyIckes,whichwouldoverseethetelevisionattackadsonBushinthebattle-groundstates.52Eventually theMediaFundwouldoutspendtheDemocraticNationalCommitteeandshape the political message of the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign.

TheThunderRoadGroupwasthenervecenteroftheShadowPartyanditsunofficialheadquarters,coordinatingstrategyfortheMediaFund,AmericaComingTogether,andAmericaVotesthroughstra-tegic planning, polling, and opposition research.

In addition to its seven core members, the

Shadow Party also sheltered in its penumbra atleast another 30 well-established leftwing activ-istgroupsandlaborunionsthatparticipatedintheAmerica Votes Coalition. Among the better-known of these were ACORN; the AFL-CIO; the Ameri-can Federation of Teachers; the Association of

52David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006),p.199-200.

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Trial Lawyers of America; the Defenders of Wild-lifeActionFund;EMILY’sList;theHumanRightsCampaign;theLeagueofConservationVoters;theNAACP; NARAL Pro-Choice America; the Na-tionalEducationAssociation;PeoplefortheAmer-ican Way; Planned Parenthood; the Service Em-ployeesInternationalUnion;andtheSierraClub.53

New Mexico’s then-governor, Democrat Bill Richardson,observedthatthesegroupswere“cru-cial”totheanti-Busheffort.Becauseofcampaign-financereformlawembodiedinMcCain-Feingold,Richardson observed, the organizations of the Shadow Party had become “the replacement for the national Democratic Party.”54 And no donor was more heavily invested in these organizations―orin defeating President Bush―than Soros, whocontributed$27,080,105ofhispersonalfundsdur-ing the 2004 election cycle.55 Campaign Finance Reformhad led to thebiggest infusionofmoneyinto politics in American history, and the money was directed by Soros.

53http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=652754 JeffreyH.Birnbaum,“TheNewSoftMoney,”Fortune (October27,2003)55ByronYork,The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005),p.8

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In November 2004, the Shadow Party came withinafewthousandvotesinOhioofpullingoffavictoryinthenationalelection.Butevenindefeatits alteration of the American political landscape was profound. By pushing campaign finance re-form,SoroshadcutofftheDemocrats’softmoneysupply.ByformingtheShadowParty,hehadpro-videdtheDemocratswithanalternativesourceoffunding—onewhichheandtheinstitutionshecre-atedcontrolled.HewasinapositiontodefinetheagendaofthePartyandalsotopurgeitofthesmallminorityofremainingmoderateswhohadsurvivedtheMcGoverncoupof1972andplanforthenextelectiontodeterminetheAmericanfuture.

Round Two: The Democracy Alliance

AsSoroswonderedwhathisnextstepshouldbe after Bush’s reelection, the answer came tohim―somewhat unexpectedly―from Democratpolitical operative Rob Stein, whowould play acentral role in the “Colorado Miracle,” one of the Shadow Party’s greatest triumphs and an exhibitpiece for its national plan.

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working inauniverse thatparalleled theoneSo-ros had created for the 2004 election. Lamenting thathefeltasthoughhewas“livinginaone-partycountry”afterRepublicanshadgainedeightHouseseats and two Senate seats in the 2002 midterm elections,Steinhadstudiedtheconservativemove-ment to determine why it was winning the political battle.56Afterayearofanalysis,heconcludedthatafewinfluential,wealthyfamilyfoundationsonthe right―notably Scaife, Bradley, Olin, andCoors―had,bycreatingthinktankssuchastheHeritageFoundationandAmericanEnterpriseIn-stituteandbysubsidizingtheworkofcertainin-tellectuals(suchasCharlesMurray,whosewrit-ingshadtouchedoffthemovementtoendwelfare),managed to shape the public debate to an extentthat was disproportionate to their relatively modest (anduncoordinated)investment.

Stein put his analysis into a comprehensivePowerPoint presentation titled “The Conservative Message Machine Money Matrix,” which mapped out,inpainstakingifinflateddetail,theconserva-tivemovement’snetworkingstrategiesandfundingsources.57Heshowedthispresentation―mostlyin56http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=873857 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=8738

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private meetings―to political leaders, activists,and prospective big-money donors of the left. He hopedtoinspirethemtojoinhiscrusadetobuilda new organization that would act as a financialclearinghousededicatedtooffsettingtheeffortsofconservativefundersandinjectingnewlifeintotheprogressive movement.

Stein hit pay dirt when he showed his presenta-tion to Soros early in 2005. After seeing the pre-sentation and talking to Stein, the billionaire staged anothersummitmeetingthatApril.ThevenuewasinPhoenix,Arizona,butotherwiseitresembledtheelite get-together a year and a half earlier at Soros’ Southamptonestate.Thistime,Sorosbroughtto-gether70carefullyvetted,likemindedwealthyac-tivists who agreed that conservative politics repre-sented“afundamentalthreattotheAmericanwayoflife”andwerereadytodosomethingaboutit.58 ThuswasborntheDemocracyAlliance(DA). This would be the most exclusive of all theShadowParty institutions. “Partners” in theAlli-ance,recruitedonaninvitation-onlybasis,wouldpay an initial $25,000 fee, and $30,000 in yearly 58http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/15/fundraiser-seeks-cash-for-his-own-war-chest/print/; http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

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duesthereafter.Theywerealsorequiredtodonateat least$200,000annually togroups theAllianceendorsed. Donors were to “pour” these requisitedonations into one or more of what Rob Stein re-ferred to as DA’s “four buckets”: ideas, media,leadership training, and civic engagement. The money was then to be apportioned to approved leftwinggroupsineachofthesecategories.59

Almostpathologicallysecretiveaboutitsmem-

bership,theDemocracyAllianceisthoughttocon-sist of at least 100 donor-partners. The Capital Re-search Center has managed to compile the names ofsomeofthemoresignificantcurrentandformerDA partners, most having ties to Soros that extendsbeyond their shared membership in the DemocracyAlliance.60 Among them are Peter Lewis, Rob Glaser and Rob McKay, early backers of Amer-ica Coming Together; Tim Gill, a major funderof gay-rights groups such as the Gay, Lesbian,and Straight Education Network, also support-ed by Soros; television producer Norman Lear,founder of People for theAmericanWay; Tides

59 http://www.democracyalliance.org/membership%20;http://www.capital-research.org/news/news.html?id=551%2060 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf;http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

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Foundation founder and CEO Drummond Pike.

No grants were pledged at the Democracy Al-liance’sApril2005gatheringinPhoenix,butatanAtlanta meeting three months later, DA partners pledged$39million―aboutathirdofwhichcamefrom George Soros and Peter Lewis.61BecausetheAlliance has largely refrained from providing in-formationaboutitsgettingorgiving,onlyasmallpercentageofitsgranteesareknowntothepublic.ThusitisimpossibletodeterminepreciselyhowmuchmoneyDAhasdisbursedsinceitsfounding.Mostestimates,though,placethefigureatmorethan $100 million. (“Partner” Simon Rosenberg,founder of theNewDemocratNetwork, claimedinAugust 2008 that DA had already “channeledhundreds of millions of dollars into progressiveorganizations.”)62Therecipientsincludeorganiza-tionssuchasACORNandAirAmerica,theill-fat-ed effort to create a leftwing version of talk radio, alongwithShadowPartyorganizationssuchastheCenter for American Progress, America Votes, and Media Matters.

Inthethreeyearsfollowingitsfounding,the

61 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%2062 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20;http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf

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DemocracyAlliancewouldestablishsubchaptersinmanystates,but itsmostsuccessfuleffortwasin Colorado, where the Colorado Democracy Alli-ancefundedsuchvariedenterprisesasliberalthinktanks, media “watchdog” groups, ethics groupsthatbringforthso-calledpublic-interestlitigation,voter-mobilization groups, media outlets that at-tack conservatives, and liberal leadership-training centers.63Theresultwasthe“ColoradoMiracle,”which achieved the political equivalent of a sexchangeoperationinturningaredstateblue.

Radicalizing America, One Party and One State at a Time

Just two months after the Democratic Partyhad won control of both houses of Congress in the November 2006 elections, George Soros and then-SEIU president Andrew Stern created Work-ing For Us (WFU), a pro-Democrat PAC. Thisgroup does not look favorably upon Democraticcentrists. Rather, it aims “to elect lawmakers who supportaprogressivepoliticalagenda”―codeforthe political left.64WFU publishes the names of

63 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf64 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7342

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what it calls the “Top Offenders” among congres-sionalDemocratswho fail to support such leftistpriorities as “livingwage” legislation (a socialistprogramtoraisetheminimumwagetopotentiallyunlimitedlevels),theproliferationofpublic-sectorlaborunions,andasinglepayerhealthcaresystemwhich would exert government control over thehealth of all Americans. Targeting congressional Democrats whose voting records “are more con-servative than their districts,” WFU warns that “nobadvotewillbeoverlookedorunpunished.”65

In an effort to promote large-scale income redistribution by means of tax hikes for higherearners,WFUadvocatespolicies thatwouldnar-rowtheeconomicgulfbetweentherichandpoor.The group’s executive director is Steven Rosen-thal, a longtime Democrat operative with close ties totheClintonadministrationandaco-founderofSoros’ America Coming Together. According to Rosenthal,WFU“willencourageDemocrats toact like Democrats―and if they don’t―theybettergetoutoftheway.”66

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providing themodel for similarcoups itplans tostageinother“battleground”statesthathaveexpe-riencedsimilardemographicchangesand“culturalrevolutions.”

AsearlyasAugust2005,whentheDemocracyAlliance was just getting off the ground, Soros’Open Society Institute designed a project calledthe Progressive Legislative Action Network, or PLAN,whosemandatewastofurnishstatelegisla-tureswithprewritten“model”legislationreflectingleftist agendas.67 A year later, three members of the Democracy Alliance took the next step in the Shad-ow Party’s effort to gain a handhold on the levers ofnationalpowerbylaunchingamajornewinitia-tive called theSecretaryofStateProject (SoSP),whichwassetupasanindependent“527commit-tee” devoted to helping Democrats win secretary of state elections in crucial “swing” stateswherethe margin of victory in the 2004 presidential elec-tion had been 120,000 votes or less.68

WhythefocusontheSecretaryofState,tra-ditionally considered one of the least impor-

67 LouisJacobson,“NewOrganizationtoPushLiberalMeasures,”Roll Call(June23,2005).68 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf;http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7487

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tant jobs instategovernment? Becausewhoeverfills this position serves as the chief election of-ficerwho certifies candidates aswell as electionresultsinhisorherstate.69 The holder of this of-fice, then, can potentially play a decisive rolein determining the winner of a close election.

The idea for the Secretary of State Project had germinated shortly after the 2004 election, when the Shadow Party blamed then-Ohio secretary of stateKennethBlackwell, a Republican, for JohnKerry’s defeat. Blackwell had ruled that Ohio,whichprovidedGeorgeW.Bush’selectoralvictory(byarelativelyslim118,599-votemargin),wouldnotcountprovisionalballots―eventhosesubmit-ted byproperlyregisteredvoters―iftheyhadbeensubmittedatthewrongprecinct.ThoughtheU.S.CourtofAppealsforthe6thCircuitultimatelyup-held Blackwell’s decision, the Secretary of State Project’s founding members received the rulingwith the same bitterness they had felt about theFloridarecountwhichVicePresidentAlGorelosttoGeorgeBushinthe2000election,andwhichwashandledbyRepublicanSecretaryofStateKather-ine Harris. Summing up their attitudes, politicalanalystMatthewVadumwrote that theSecretary

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of State Project’s leaders and foot soldiers alike “religiously believe that right-leaning secretariesof state helped the GOP steal the presidential elec-tions in Florida in 2000 ... and in Ohio in 2004.”70

To establish “election protection” against simi-lar outcomes in subsequent political races, theSecretaryofStateProjecttargeteditsfundingef-forts in 2006 on the secretary-of-state races in sev-enswingstates―Iowa,Minnesota,Nevada,NewMexico, Ohio, Colorado, and Michigan.71 USA Today saw the development, even if it didn’t catch sightoftheshadowymachinerythathadproducedit: “The political battle for control of the federal governmenthasopenedupanewfront:theobscurebutvitalstateofficesthatdeterminewhovotesandhowthosevotesarecounted.”72

BecauseoftherelativelymundanenatureofmostoftheSecretaryofState’sduties,candidatesforthatofficetendtodrawfewer(andsmalldona-tions than do most state-level campaigns. Con-

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sequently, even a modest injection of cash fromjust a handful of dedicated and savvy donorscan tip the scales.73 In 2006, SoSP raised a total of $500,000 for the secretary-of-state candidates whomitsupported―asmallamountbytradition-al political fundraising standards, but a weightyamountincomparisontothesumsthatsuchcan-didates had typically garnered in the past. Demo-crats emerged victorious in five of those seventargetedraces―failingonlyinMichiganandCol-orado(where theywontwoyears lateraspartofthe “Miracle”). Politico.com saw themeaning ofthe Secretary of State Project when it character-ized it as “an administrative firewall” designed,“inanticipationofaphoto-finishpresidentialelec-tion,” to protect Democrats’ “electoral interests in … the most important battleground states.”74

One beneficiary of Secretary of State Projectfundingin2006wasDemocratJenniferBrunnerofOhio, who defeated the Shadow Party’s bête noire, incumbent Republican Ken Blackwell. Brunnerwentontomakeherinfluencefeltinseveralwaysduringthe2008electioncycle.Sheruled,forin-stance, that Ohio residents should be permitted,

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duringthedesignatedearly-votingperiodextend-ing from late September to early October, to regis-ter and vote on the same day.75Brunneralsosoughtto effectively invalidate many of the approximately one million absentee-ballot applications that Rep-ublicanpresidentialcandidateJohnMcCain’scam-paignhad issued.Eachof those applicationshadbeen printed with a checkbox next to a statement affirmingthatthevoterwasaqualifiedelector.InaneffortdesignedtosuppressRepublicanabsenteevotes,Brunnermaintainedthatifaregistrantfailedto check the box—even if he or she signed theform—theapplicationcouldberejected.(TheOhioSupremeCourtsubsequentlyoverturnedBrunner’sdirectiveongrounds that it served “novital pur-poseorpublicinterest.”)76

Another key beneficiary of the Secretary of

State Project’s support in 2006 was DemocratMarkRitchie,whodefeatedatwo-termincumbentRepublicaninMinnesota.Ritchieacknowledgedhis debt to the SoSP when he said, “I want to thank theSecretaryofStateProjectanditsthousandsofgrass-roots donors for helping to push my cam-75 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/28/politics/main4483617.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._448361776http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/09/12/payday13.html

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paign over the top.”77Aformercommunityorga-nizer with close ties to ACORN and to the now-defunctradicalNewParty,78Ritchie,likeJenniferBrunner,playedaleadrolein2008.

When Republican incumbent U.S. SenatorNormColemanfinished725votesaheadofDemo-cratic challenger Al Franken, the thin margin of vic-torytriggeredanautomaticrecount.WithRitchiepresiding, Coleman’s lead gradually dwindled inthe ensuing weeks as a result of what journalistMatthewVadumdescribesasalongseriesof“ap-palling irregularities” that invariably benefitedFranken.Forexample,duringtherecountprocessanumberofballotsweresuddenly“discovered”inanelectionjudge’scar;oneMinnesotacountysim-ilarly “discovered” 100 new votes for Franken and claimed that a clerical error was responsible for the factthattheyhadn’tbeencountedbefore;anothercountytallied177morevotesthanithadrecordedonElectionDay;yetanothercountyreported133fewer votes than its voting machines had originally

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tabulated.“Almosteverytimenewballotsmateri-alized,ortallieswereupdatedorcorrected,Frank-enbenefitted,”writesVadum.79 In addition, at least 393convictedfelonsvotedillegallyintwoparticu-larMinnesotacounties.80Bythetimetherecount(andacourtchallengebyColeman)endedinApril2009, Franken held a 312-vote lead and in Junewasofficiallydeclaredthevictor.81

Soros and Obama

WithorganizationssuchastheDemocracyAl-liance and electoral innovations such as theSec-retary of State Project in place, the Shadow Party approached the 2008 Presidential election with an integratedorganizationandsinglenessofpurposeunprecedentedintheannalsofAmericanpolitics.ItwasabletousetheInternettoputpeopleinthestreet; it had think tanks, media organizations, and fundraisingarmsbuilttofunctionsmoothlyinthenewrealitycreatedbycampaignfinancereform;ithadthemostsophisticatedvoterregistration(and,79http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/14/fighting-frankenstein/print80 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2010/07/20/Al-Fran-ken-May-Have-Won-His-Senate-Seat-Through-Voter-Fraud81 http://tinyurl.com/6zelz9m

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for theother side,vote suppression)programyetseen.

IthadbeenwidelyassumedthatSoroswouldthrow the elaborate machinery he had created for seizing power behind the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. The two of them had a relationship going back some 15 years, after all, involving a shared vision about the importance of socializingmedi-cine as a way of expanding government power and regularizingsociallife.Hillarybegantheprimaryseason, moreover, as the prohibitive favorite in the fightfortheDemocratnomination.ButinDecem-ber2006,SorossummonedBarackObama,electedto the U.S. Senate only two years earlier, to a meet-inginhisNewYorkoffice.Justafewweekslat-er―onJanuary16,2007whenObamaannouncedthathewouldformapresidentialexploratorycom-mittee―Sorosimmediatelysentthesenatoracon-tributionof$2,100, themaximumamountallow-ableunderthenewcampaign-financelawshehadplayed so large a role in creating. Soon thereafter, Soros announced that hewould support Obamarather than Clinton for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.82

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Someintheestablishmentweresurprisedthatheshouldturnhisbackonanoldfriend.ButSoros’agenda had always been ideological, not person-al.Obamanotonly sharedvirtually all ofSoros’values, includinghisantagonismto theIraqWar,buthadalsorisentoprominenceintheuniverseofleftwing networking organizations the Shadow Party had created. Compared to Hillary Clinton, hewasasurething,apoliticianwhospokeSoros’languageandcouldbecountedontopromotetheradicalcausesclosetohisheart.TheObamacam-paignwas soon staffed, fundedandpromotedbypersonnel from the forces Soros had welded into theShadowParty juggernaut: the leftwingpublicemployeesunions,theprogressivebillionaires,andthe ACORN radicals.

Some of the people who sold Obama to Amer-ica moved in the parochial world of leftwing ac-tivismand“communityorganizing,”comingoutoforganizationssuchastheMidwestAcademy,83 a majortrainingcenterforradicalsfoundedbySix-ties diehardsHeather andPaulBooth,84 formerly hardcoremembers of Students for a Democratic

83 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=672584 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1641;http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2501

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Society,whohadcontinuedthefightabovegroundwhen their comrades Billy Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, went underground to launchthe Weatherman terror campaign.85 The Booths choseamoregradualformofrevolution—whoseguidelineswerelaiddownintheradicaltheoriesofSaulAlinsky.86 The Midwest Academy, recipient ofagrantfromSoros’OpenSocietyInstitute,wasone of the organizations in which Obama became involved when returning home to Chicago aftergraduatingfromHarvardLaw.87

The future president had also cycled through

some of the better known organizations shelter-ing under the ShadowParty’s political umbrella.Themostfamous―tobecomethemostnotoriousin the first year of the Obama presidency―wasACORN,88supportedforyearsbySoros’OpenSo-cietyInstituteandotherShadowPartygroups.89 Its agenda in the words of one critic was “anti-capital-istredistributionism,”andoneofObama’sfirstjobs85http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169; 86http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=231487 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=672588 http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/171642/obama-acorn-cover/stanley-kurtz89 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1225222922.pdf

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was doing voter registration for the ACORN affili-ate Project Vote.90

Then-SEIU President Andrew Stern, the Center forAmericanProgress’JohnPodesta,andotherkeyfiguresintheSorosnetworksatonACORN’sAdvisoryCouncil.91 For his part, Obama, adroitly riding the updrafts of Chicago’s leftwing politi-caluniverse,was theattorneyforACORN’s leadelection-law cases before joining the Illinois leg-islature.92 In 1995, acting as ACORN’s attorney, ObamasuedtoensuretheimplementationofanIl-linois motor-voter law.93WhenACORNofficiallyendorsed Obama’s presidential candidacy in Feb-ruary2008,thecandidate’scampaigngaveoneofACORN’sfrontgroups$800,000tofundavoter-registration drive on the senator’s behalf.94 By Oc-tober,ACORNwouldbeunderinvestigationforvoter-registrationfraudin13states.95 90 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/249390 91http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/09/21/acorn-independent-advisory-council-member-stern-lets-loose-acorns-critic92http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11acorn.html93 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/224610 94http://tinyurl.com/4knn5r695 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/225978/identification-required-deroy-murdock

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In the 2008 campaign, pursuing the ShadowParty’sstrategyforparlayingthepowerofinstitu-tions within its network, Obama’s presidential cam-paignfurnishedProjectVotewithalistofdonorswhohadalreadygiventhecampaignthemaximumsumofmoneypermittedby law. In turn,ProjectVote representatives contacted those donors and urged them togivecontributions toProjectVote,which it could thenuse to supportObama’scan-didacy while technically complying with election-law limits on campaign donations.96 That same year,theOpenSocietyInstitutegaveProjectVote$400,000.97

Another boost for Obama came from MoveOn. This powerful Soros-affiliated organization dis-patched approximately a million volunteers toworkonObama’scampaignnationwide―600,000inbattlegroundstatesand400,000innon-battle-groundstates.Inaddition,MoveOnregisteredmorethanhalfamillionyoungObamasupporterstovote in thebattlegroundstates,whileaddingamillionyoungpeopletoitsmembershiprollsdur-

96http://tinyurl.com/6ymmba497 http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org//990pf_pdf_archive/137/137029285/137029285_200812_990PF.pdf

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ingthesummerof2008.Alltold,MoveOnanditsmembers contributed more than $58 million di-rectly to the Obama campaign, while raising and spending at least an additional $30 million in inde-pendent election efforts on behalf of other Demo-crats across the United States.98

The Shadow Party in the White House

TheShadowPartysucceededinrealizingSo-ros’dreamofputtinghismanintheWhiteHouse.WithObama’sinauguration,membersoftheSoroscoalitionbegan showingup in high level jobs inthe new administration. One who soon attracted unwanted attention was a self-defined “commu-nist” namedVan Joneswho spent sixmonths asthe new president’s “green jobs czar” in 2009 be-forerevelationsabouthisbackgroundforcedhimtoresignandreturn tohispositionasafellowatPodesta’s Center for American Progress.99

Before joiningObama, Jones had headed theEllaBakerCenterforHumanRights,whichhadre-ceived more than $1 million from the Open Society

98http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2008/11/obama-benefits-from-moveons-88.php 99 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406

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InstitutetopursueitsclaimthattheAmericancrim-inal-justicesystemwasracistandthereforetopro-mote “alternatives to violence and incarceration.”100 Overtheyears,JoneshadbeenaboardmemberofnumerousnonprofitsfundedbytheShadowParty,includingtheradicalenvironmentalgroupApolloAlliance,whichwas launched by the Soros-con-nectedTidesFoundation,aswellasPodesta’sCen-ter for American Progress.101JonesdefinitelyhadgottentheShadowPartymessage,oftenurginghisfellow leftists “to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”102

AkeyfigureintheShadowPartyenteringthe

ObamaWhite House by the front door was theubiquitousAndrew Stern, a veteran New Leftistwho headed the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the second-largest labor organi-zation in America. Trained in the tactics of radi-cal activism at the Midwest Academy, Stern had workedwithSoros toformAmericaVotes torunthegroundwarforthe2004Kerry-Edwardsticket.

100 http://www.ellabakercenter.org/pagephp?pageid=19&contentid=151101http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406 102 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228741/alinsky-does-afghani-stan/andrew-c-mccarthy

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In2008,Stern’sSEIUcontributed$60.7milliontohelpelectBarackObamatotheWhiteHouse―de-ploying100,000volunteersduringthecampaign.103 As of October 30, 2009, scarcely eight months into theObamapresidency,theunionbosshadvisitedtheWhiteHouse22 times―more thananyotherindividual.104

Almost everywhere one looked in the new ad- ministration, members of the Soros inner circle proliferated. Key presidential strategist and advi-sorDavidAxelrod,who asmuch as anyonewasresponsibleforObama’selections,firsttotheSen-ate and then to the Presidency, had received over $200,000 for his political consulting firm duringthe 2004 elections from the Shadow Party’s MediaFund.105 Carol Browner, named by Obama as his “environment czar,” was a board member of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the Center for AmericanProgress,andtheLeagueofConserva-tionVoters―all fundedbySoros.106 The SEIU’s

103http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/28/nation/na-stern28104 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1259611404.pdf105http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/the_sorosaxelrod_axis_of_astro.html;http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0910/Axelrod_and_the_outside_groups.html106 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2364

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AnnaBurger,called“themostpowerfulwomeninthe labor movement” by Fortune magazine and vice chair of the Democracy Alliance, was appointed to the Obama Economic Recovery Advisory Board.107 KevinJennings,whohadestablishedtheGay,Les-bian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN),a Boston-area organization funded by the OpenSociety Institute,was named “education czar.”108

With members of the Shadow Party playing centralroles,theObamaWhiteHousebegantorolloutanideologicalagendaimmediatelyafterthein-auguration that involvedmany ofGeorge Soros’signatureconcerns.

Stimulus

JustafewdaysafterObamawaselected,Sorosstated:“Ithinkweneedalargestimuluspackagewhichwillprovidefundsforstateandlocalgov-ernment tomaintain theirbudgets―because theyarenotallowedbytheconstitutiontorunadeficit.For such a program to be successful, the federalgovernment would need to provide hundreds of107 http://www.seiu.org/a/ourunion/anna-burger.php;http://www.discover-thenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2445108 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-jennings;http://www.discover-thenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2426

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billionsofdollars.Inaddition,anotherinfrastruc-tureprogramisnecessary.Intotal,thecostwouldbe in the 300 to 600 billion-dollar range....”109

Soonafterwards,asoneofthefirstactsofhispresidency,Obama pressuredCongress to pass amonumental $787 billion economic-stimulus billwith a text of 1,071 pages which few, if any, leg-islators read before voting on. It was based on theradicalpreceptofusingsocialcrisis tocreateradical change, which the Alinskyite groups inObama’sbackgroundhadmadeintoatheoremandwhichchiefofstaffRahmEmanuelmadeintoanaphorism:“Youneverwantaseriouscrisistogotowaste.”110

ItwasfirstofallapayofftokeyShadowPar-tyelements, inparticularpublicsectorunions, toallow them to remain strong for future electionsthroughthefinancialcrisis.Itwasalsoloadedwithspending projectsDemocrats had been unable tofundforyears.Thestimuluswasanopeningbidtoradically transform American capitalism by chan-neling populist anger atWall Street toward sup-port for an expansionist vision of the welfare state 109 http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,592268,00.html110 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeA_kHHLow

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basedon“socialjustice”―leftistcodeforasocial-istredistributionofwealth.

Obamastressed that itwasurgent topass thestimulusbillattheearliestpossiblemoment,evenwithoutfulldeliberation,soastoforestallanyfur-ther harm to theU.S. economy. Because of thenearhystericalatmospheresurroundingtheflailingeconomy,itwentlargelyunnoticedthatthebillalsorepealednumerousessentialsofthe1996welfare-reform bill which George Soros had so strongly opposed.111 According to a Heritage Foundationreport,32percentofthenewstimulusbill—oranaverage of $6,700 in “new means-tested welfare spending”foreverypoorpersonintheU.S.—wasearmarked for social-welfare programs.112Suchun-precedentedlevelsofspendingdidnotatalltroubleSoros,whojustifieditwithdiscreditedKeynesiandoctrine:“Attimesofrecession,runningabudgetdeficitishighlydesirable.”113

Environment and Energy

Cap-and-trade, Obama’s tax-based policy pro-

111 http://articles.mcall.com/1996-10-01/news/3126013_1_legal-immi-grants-welfare-reform-law-rosalind-gold 112 http://tinyurl.com/4tno77e113 http://www.spiegel.de/internationalbusiness/0,1518,592268,00.html

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posaltoreduceAmericans’consumptionoffossilfuels,wasastrategythathadbeendiscussedandperfected in the nonprofits associated with theShadow Party. Under cap-and-trade regulations,companieswouldbesubjecttotaxesorfeesiftheyexceeded their government-imposed limit for CO2 emissions.114Someeconomistspredictedthatsuchlegislation,ifenacted,wouldimposecolossalcostsonbusinesses―costs thatwouldbepassedon toconsumers,whointurnwouldpayanywherefromseveralhundred to several thousandextradollarseach year in energy costs.115ButtoSoros,thetax-payers’moneywouldbewellspentonsuchapolicy.“Dealingwithglobalwarmingwillrequirealotofinvestment,”heemphasized,andthus“willbepain-ful”but“atleast”itwillenablehumankindto“sur-vive and not cook.”116 When asked in 2008 whether hewasproposingenergypoliciesthatwould“createa whole new paradigm for the economic model of thecountry,oftheworld,”Sorosreplied,“Yes.”117

Duringhis2008presidentialcampaign,Obama

114http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=826115 http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/12/Beware-of-Cap-and-Trade-Climate-Bills 116http://keywiki.org/index.php/George_Soros_-_Political/Financial_Stances 117 Ibid

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had a comparable moment of candor: “[U]nder myplan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless ofwhatIsayaboutwhethercoalisgoodorbad.Be-cause I’mcappinggreenhousegases, coal powerplants,youknow,naturalgas,younameit,what-ever the plantswere,whatever the industrywas,they would have to retrofit their operations.”118

The principal motive underlying the cap-and-tradepolicies thatObamaandSoros supportwas articulated by Obama’s “regulation czar,”CassSunstein,119 a leftist law professor and long-timeproponentof“distributive justice,”wherebyAmericawould transfermuch of its ownwealthto poorer nations as compensation for the alleged harm that U.S. environmental transgressions have allegedly caused in those countries. In languageechoing Soros’ own pronouncements, Sunsteinspeculates that “desirable redistribution” canbe “accomplished more effectively through cli-mate policy than through direct foreign aid.”120

118http://tv.breitbart.com/obama-vows-electricity-rates-would-necessarily-skyrocket-under-his-plan/119 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2422120 http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=112243

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Health Care

Socializedmedicalcarecontinued tooccupypride of place on the Soros agenda in the years fol-lowing the defeat of HillaryCare and the inability of his Project on Death to gain traction. Health care washighontheObamaagendatoo,highenoughthathefocusedonit,ratherthanthefailingecono-my,inawaythatpuzzledpoliticalobserverswhofailed to appreciate the ideological nature of thenew administration. During the political debateover “ObamaCare” in 2009 and 2010, one of the mostinfluentialpro-reformcoalitionsbackingthePresident was the Soros-created Health Care for AmericaNow(HCAN),avastnetworkoforgani-zationssupportingamodelinwhichthefederalgovernmentwouldbeinchargeoffinancingandadministering the entire U.S. healthcare system.121

HCAN’s strategy became the Obama adminis-tration’sstrategy:totrytoachievesuchasystem,whichwouldultimatelyculminate ingovernmentcontrol as a “single payer,” incrementally―inother words a full blown socialist system. Thehighway to this “solution”would be paved by a

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“publicoption”—agovernment insuranceagencyto“compete”withexistinginsurers,sothatAmeri-canswouldbe“no longerbeat themercyof theprivate insurance industry.”122 Because such anagencywouldnotneedtoshowaprofitinorderto remaininbusiness,andbecauseitcouldtaxandregulateitsprivatecompetitorsinwhateverfashionit pleased, this “public option” would inevitablyforceprivateinsurersoutoftheindustryandleavethe government as the only alternative. It was a perfect implementation of the gradualist strategyof Obama’s radical mentor, Saul Alinsky, whocounseledakindofcamel’snoseunderthetentap-proach concealing the radical endgame while tak-ing themaximumstepspolitically feasibleat thetime.(Thepublicoptionwastakenoutofthefinallegislationbecauseitimperiledthebill’spassageintheU.S.Senate;butitremainedwhatObama-Carestrategistscalleda“nextfuturestep”inthefederalizationofhealthcare.)

In August 2009, with ObamaCare creatingwidespread grassroots resistance, Soros gave an-other $5 million to HCAN to promote the admin-istration’s campaign and help pass the increasingly

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unpopularlegislation.123

Punishing Israel

If ObamaCare is the one piece of domestic leg-islation that most bears the stamp of George Soros, the administration’s increasing hard line toward Israel is the foreign policy development that most reflectstheSorosviewoftheworldbeyondWash-ington. Soros’ own ambivalent attitudes towardhavingbeen a Jewon the edgeof theHolocaustwhen he was a boy soon developed into a full-blownhostilitytotheJewishstate.Justasheper-ceived American policies to have provoked the an-ti-American jihad and the 9/11 attacks, so he saw Israelasaprincipalsourceofanti-Semitism.HehasreferredtoIsrael’sconflictwiththePalestiniansas a case of the “victims turning prosecutors.”124 IgnoringtheterroristHamas’scalltokilltheJewsand wipe Israel off the face of the earth, Soros has argued that a key to aMideast peace is bringingHamas “into the peace process.”125

123 http://tinyurl.com/66xml6f 124 Soros, , pp. 19125 Soros with Byron Wien and Krisztina Koenen, Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (JohnWileyandSons,1995),p.241.

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Soros’viewsontheMiddleEastarereflectedinaMiddleEastadvocacygroupheinspiredandfundedin2008calledJStreet.126 Like other Soros groups,JStreetismeanttocounterwhatheregardsas a malignant “conservative” organization, in this casetheAmericanIsraelPublicAffairsCommittee(AIPAC), roughly 80 percent ofwhosemembersareDemocratsbutnotthekindofDemocratsthatSoros prefers.

JStreethascalledfor“anewdirectionforAmer-icanpolicyintheMiddleEast”andhascautionedIsrael not to be too combative against Hamas, on groundsthatthelatter“hasbeenthegovernment,law and order, and service provider [in Gaza] since itwontheelectionsinJanuary2006andespeciallysinceJune2007whenittookcompletecontrol.”127 Ithasalsolaunchedover8,000unprovokedrocketattacks on Israeli towns and schoolyards in the same period of time.128According to J Street theMid-east conflict is perpetuated chieflyby Israel: “Is-rael’ssettlementsintheoccupiedterritorieshave,for over forty years, been an obstacle to peace.”129 126 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7458127http://tinyurl.com/4mehpus128 http://idfspokesperson.com/2009/01/03/rocket-statistics-3-jan-2009/ 129 http://www.jstreet.org/page/settlements

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These positions marking a break with 60 years

of American policy towards Israel are largely in-distinguishable from those of the ObamaWhiteHouse.ObamasignaledhiscomfortwithJStreet’sagendas when he sent his then-national securityadvisorJamesJonestodeliverthekeynoteaddressattheorganization’sannualconferenceinOctober2009.130

Knowing that his comments on Israel made him controversial in the Jewish community, Soros ini-tiallytriedtoconcealhissupportofJStreetfromthepublicforfearthatitmightalienateotherpotentialbackersoftheorganization.ButinSeptember2010 The Washington Times penetrated the veil, re-vealing that from 2008-2010, Soros and his two children—JonathanandAndrea—hadgivenatotalof$750,000toJStreetandthattheorganization’sAdvisoryCouncilincludesanumberofindividualswith close ties to him.131

WhenthestreetsofCairoeruptedinFebruary

130 http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/30/blaming-israel-first-by-p-david-hornik/131http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/24/soros-funder-lib-eral-jewish-american-lobby/;http://jstreet.org/supporters/advisory_council/

2011andObamawaffledasMubaraktriedtoholdpower,SorosquicklymovedtogivethePresidentasignaltoundercutAmerica’sunpleasantallyof40yearsandtoopenthedoortotheMuslimBrother-hood,ajihadistcultthathasspawned12terroristorganizationsincludingal-QaedaandHamas.132

In a Washington Postop-edwrittenduringtheearly stages of the protests, Soros wrote: “Presi-dent Obama personally and the United States as a country havemuch to gain bymoving out infront…[D]oingsowouldopenthewaytopeacefulprogressintheregion.TheMuslimBrotherhood’scooperation with Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureatewho is seeking to run forpresident, is ahopefulsignthat it intendstoplayaconstructiverole in a democratic political system… The main stumbling block is Israel…. Fortunately, Obamais not beholden to the religious right,which hascarried on a veritable vendetta against him. [And] theAmericanIsraelPublicAffairsCommitteeisnolonger thesolerepresentativeof theJewishcom-munity….”133

132 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386133http://www.georgesoros.com/articles-essays/entry/why_obama_has_to_get_egypt_right

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Conclusion

If George Soros were a lone billionaire, or if theShadowParty consisted of a fewdisgruntledbillionaires, these facts and achievements wouldnotbesoominous.ButtheShadowPartyisfarmorethanareflectionoftheprejudicesofonespecialin-terest or one passing generation. The Shadow Party has united the forces of the radical and “liberal”left while expelling moderates from the Democrat-icPartycoalition.TheShadowPartyisthecurrentincarnation of a socialist movement that has been at war with the free market economy and the po-liticalsystembasedonlibertyandindividualrightsformorethantwohundredyears.Itisamovementthathaslearnedtoconcealitsultimategoal,whichisatotalitarianstate,intheseductiverhetoricof“progressivism”and“socialjustice.”Butitsdeter-mination to equalize outcomes, its zeal for statepowerandforgovernmentcontrolasthesolutionto social problems, and its antagonism to America

as a defender of freedom are the tell-tale signs of a radical movement whose agenda is to change fundamentallyandunalterablythewayAmericanshave lived.

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TheauthorswishtothankAdamSchragerandRobWitwer,authorsofThe Blueprint: How the Democrats

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