Discover the Networks
Discover the Network is a research project that studies the U.S. political left wing. It was launched in 2004 by David Horowitz and has a staff of over a dozen contributers. Its current Editor-in-Chief is Horowitz. John Perazzo is the project's managing editor. Richard Poe is its investigative editor.
According to the project's missions statement, Discover the Network's goal is to provide a comprehensive "guide to the political left" covering "the individuals and organizations that make up the left and also the institutions that fund and sustain it." The project also seeks to "define the left's...programmatic agendas," which it contends are often concealed. The project's contributers contend that the political left in the United States commonly applies a "deceptive public presentation" of itself that conceals a network of affiliations and shared political views with "radical agendas" with a variety of communist, socialist, environmentalist and other "anti-capitalist" and "anti-American" causes.
The project currently maintains a database of prominent leftist personalities in academia, politics, and the media as well as leftist interest groups. It assembles and publishes data on the financial backers of liberal personalities and organizations. Much of their research focuses upon individuals with financial connections to groups that espouse communism and socialism and with Arab terrorist organizations.