Musk-linked dark money funded West ballot group
The gist
Sludge reported the nonprofit behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was funded entirely through a Musk-bankrolled network.
The finding ties opaque political money to a candidate feared as a spoiler.
How it unfolded
- 2022The Wall Street Journal reported that tens of millions of dollars moving through Building America's Future came from Musk.
- 2024People Over Party raised $7.7 million, all of it from the nonprofit Interstate Priorities, and helped pay for petition drives to get West on state ballots.
- 2024Building America's Future, a dark money group that has received millions from Musk, disclosed giving Interstate Priorities $10.1 million, matching Interstate Priorities' entire reported annual revenue; it also took in $74.5 million from a single anonymous donor.