Exposing the Dark Money Network Secretly Funding Establishment Democratic Influencers

Taylor Lorenz is an investigative journalist and author of Extremely Online. Last Friday, Lorenz joined Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson and Digital Editor John Ross (who was formerly a producer for The David Pakman Show) to discuss her bombshell Wired investigation into Chorus, Good Influence, and the 1630 Fund, the dark money network secretly funding establishment Democratic influencers, including David Pakman, Brian Taylor Cohen, and Leigh “Politics Girl” McGowan.





0:00-10:04 – Taylor Lorenz’s Reporting
10:04-13:50 – Why is Matters
13:50-18:04 – How Good Influence Works
18:04-24:57 – Suppression of Gaza
24:57-29:12 – The Decline of Journalism
29:12-32:31 – How Good Influence Provides Value
32:31-35:11 – The Democratic Party’s “Messaging Problem”
35:11-40:56 – The Response to Taylor Lorenz’s Article
40:56- 44:37 – What We Can Learn From This


Related Off-site Links:
Brian Tyler Cohen Rages in Response to Demfluencer Dark Money Scandal – Krystal Ball (Breaking Points, September 5, 2025).
Taylor Lorenz Spills All the Tea and Responds to Critics – Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball (Secular Talk, September 5, 2025).
David Pakman Threatens to Sue Taylor Lorenz – Sabby Sabs (September 6, 2025).
Brian Tyler Cohen Accidently Reveals Desperation with Journalist Smears – The Katie Halper Show (September 3, 2025).
David Pakman’s Dark Money Denial Ridiculed by Taylor Lorenz – The Katie Halper Show (September 5, 2025).
Liberal Tiktoker Allie O’Brien Accidentally Exposes Her Corruption with “Receipts” – The Katie Halper Show (September 6, 2025).
“He Called Me a Heifer”- Abusive Dem Influencers Exposed by Journalist Taylor Lorenz – The Katie Halper Show (September 8, 2025).
Dark Money Funding Dem Influencers Exposed – The Majority Report (August 29, 2025).
Pakman’s Dark Money “Chorus” Response Gets Way Worse – The Majority Report (September 4, 2025).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Mike Figueredo on the “Political Malpractice” of the Democratic Party
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
• The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota
• The Rational National’s Take on Zohran Mamdani
• Dorothy Lennon: Quote of the Day – June 26, 2025
• What It Means to Be a Leftist in 2025
• Ted Rall: Democrats Are Not “the Left”