LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT’S $600 MILLION SECRET FUNDING NETWORK: How many times have we heard from liberals about the evils of “dark money” — anonymous contributions — poured into conservative campaigns and advocacy by the likes of the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson and Phil Anschutz? But guess what, the liberals are even better at it, according to the Washington Free Beacon’s indispensable Joe Schoffstall, who exposes yet another massive secret funding network on the Left:

“The massive cash flow came from Arabella Advisors, a D.C.-based organization that says it provides ‘strategic guidance for effective philanthropy.’ In reality, the group does far more, funneling hundreds of millions of dollars in anonymous donations to some of the most influential advocacy groups on the left,” Schoffstall reports today. If you are familiar with the Tides Foundation and the Democracy Alliance, you know Arabella isn’t entirely original.

But one unique way Arabella — established by former Obama appointee and Clinton Global Initiative operative Eric Kessler — is stepping beyond conventional dark money maneuvering , however, is how it provides rich liberals a way to conceal their identities as they fund left-wing activism: Arabella is behind a couple of groups that lend their tax-exempt status to newly organized lefty outfits that have not yet been recognized by the IRS, a neat trick that somehow sounds like a too-clever-by-half way to evade tax compliance that somebody among the Right’s many activist lawyers ought to challenge.