How Democrat Dark Money Infiltrated America’s Reddest Red State– thefederalist.com

The effort to end the conservative majority in the Wyoming House is not simply a spontaneous, homegrown campaign. It is backed by a well-funded left-wing network stretching from national progressive organizations directly into Wyoming’s Republican primary.

In a red state like Wyoming, the vast majority of political races are decided in the Republican primary, as few Democrats run in the November general. Instead, liberals often run as Republicans and get supporters to infiltrate the Republican primary at the polls to vote for them. In the Aug. 18 Republican primary, Democrats and left-wing groups celebrated the ouster of more than two dozen conservative Republicans from the state legislature.

The little-known, well-funded Wyoming Donor Alliance (WDA) publicly set out to “break the Freedom Caucus’ majority” in March, and national money helped finance the organization. North Carolina-based State Leadership Project gave WDA $100,000; Western Futures Fund gave it $75,000; and D.C.-based Sixteen Thirty Fund gave $50,000 directly to WDA under its former name, Wyoming Investor Network, according to 2024 tax records.

State Leadership Project has distributed money to a network of similarly named state-level left-wing groups, including Utah Donor Collaborative, Oklahoma Donor Alliance, Alliance for a Better Iowa, and others. It also directly funded Alliance for a Better Utah, an organization whose name and model bear an obvious resemblance to Better Wyoming.