Documents obtained by The Prospect detail an elites-centric operation to push Abundance politics within the Democratic party with the power of a $260,000,000 annual budget. Also through the power of friendship, given the networks between lobbyists, consultants, and campaigns detailed in the link above and later.
Despite aligning with the blue team, one of the key players in this venture is not feeling particularly small-d democratic, opining to would-be donors on how "the old gatekeepers were political professionals who could count cards; small dollar donors today are amateurs yanking the handles of ActBlue slot machines." Further down it is shown that
, similar to previous forays by the Abundance front in Ezra Klein, this operation has some factual challenges. An example, from the article:
Rosen also claims that Mississippi "went from worst-in the nation education performance to best-in the nation," which is not remotely true.
In other reporting, a network of organizations that advocate for Abundance politics has been hard at work in the primary season of 2026.
Reporting from Revolving Door connects the various players in this space with some old boogey men (Thiel as one example) appearing in the money flow in addition to other, less well known barons of industry. The Lever (soft paywall, just asks for an email address for a link that takes you back in)
reports on an individual who is wearing a few too many hats given the rules of campaign finance as well as categorizing some of the flow of money from the abundantly wealthy through these groups to preferred, or receptive, candidates.
It would seem that folks who wish to avoid seeing (
or perpetually hearing) data centers in their neck of the woods may need to pass the plate around their community a few more times to compete with the abounding wealth arrayed against them. To say nothing of efforts to confront abundant hazards from other industries providing for an abundance of shareholder value, though I suppose in this way US politics is the same as it ever was.