Venture capitalist and Abundance bro Seth London’s ambitious dark money scheme employing powerful consultants Lis Smith is best of class, but far from alone in backing centrist candidates. Note: I’ll be updating this post over the next hour so please hit refresh when you get to the bottom and there will be more to read. Luke Goldstein and Katya Schwenk have done yeoman’s work in a piece cross-posted at Jacobin and The Lever . Majority Democrats, the Bench and Numerous Campaigns Blend Like Poison in a Milk Shake We’ll do the ol’ picture = 1000 words thing to start: pic.twitter.com/G6ZPvE3rt9 — Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) May 4, 2026 Here’s how Goldstein and Schwenk outline the scheme and the venture capitalist abundance bro behind it: …a new dark-money-backed enterprise of unparalleled scale and complexity. The influence network brands itself as boosting Democrats’ electoral prospects ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. But the project’s true ambitions go much further.…