Virginia Redistricting Fight Offers Rare Window Into the Left’s Election Funding Machine
26th August 2026
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.