Progressive Donors Fund Multi-Million Campaign to Flip Wyoming's Republican-Dominated House

The article uncovers that the removal of more than two dozen Freedom Caucus Republicans in Wyoming's August 18 Republican primary resulted from a coordinated left-wing financing operation rather than a spontaneous grassroots movement. The Wyoming Donor Alliance received $100,000 from the State Leadership Project, $75,000 from Western Futures Fund and $50,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, all linked to larger donors such as the Tides Foundation, which is funded by George Soros’s Open Society network and the Berger Action Fund associated with Hansjörg Wyss.

Through these channels, the Alliance spent $455,000 via the newly formed "PAC for a Better Wyoming" and an additional $30,000 to Better Wyoming Action and Research, explicitly aiming to break the Freedom Caucus majority. The campaign was led by Nate Martin, husband of Democratic state Rep. Karlee Provenza, and coordinated with a coalition of progressive groups including abortion-rights advocates, the Wyoming Education Association and trial-lawyer associations. Funding also intersected with the George B. Storer Foundation, which supports both the effort and the nonprofit news outlet one outlet, ultimately shifting the Wyoming House toward a more Democratic-friendly composition.