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Future Now Fund: A Democratic dark Money” Front to Capture the States
Foundation: Atlantic Philanthropies
A super PAC funded by Democratic mega-donors has spent more than $12 million trying to flip state legislatures in battleground states in the 2020 election, the Washington Post reports.
According to the Capital Research Center, this super PAC, called Future Now, is led by John Raskin, who also leads an anti-oil and anti-gas advocacy group in New York City.
Future Now Action is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit strategy arm that bills itself as the "liberal counterweight" to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group that bills itself as the country's largest association of state legislators.Strategy documents from July 2020 obtained by the Capital Research Center reveal a concerted, partisan effort to capture North Carolina and "flip the House."
Democratic mega-donors gave $1.2 million to the North Carolina Democratic Party, $515,000 to Michigan Democratic State Central Committee, $108,000 to the New Hampshire Senate Democratic Caucus, $160,000 to the Maine Democratic Campaign Committee, and over $132,000 to Defend Alaska, which attacked Republican legislators.
In Texas, Future Now Fund spent heavily on Democrats running for the state legislature, every one of whom lost: Brandy Chambers ($100,000), Celina Montoya ($100,000), Lorenzo Sanchez ($100,000), Elizabeth Beck ($75,000), Joanna Cattanach ($50,000),
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