# Majority Forward **Type:** 501(c)(4) "social welfare" organization **Founded:** 2015 **Headquarters:** Washington, D.C. **President:** J.B. Poersch (also President of Senate Majority PAC) **Twin organization:** Senate Majority PAC (the Democratic-aligned Senate Super PAC) Majority Forward is the **Democratic-aligned Senate dark-money 501(c)(4)** — the twin organization to the Senate Majority PAC Super PAC. The pair operates under the same leadership (J.B. Poersch as President of both) and supports Democratic Senate candidates with the standard twin-structure division of labor: Senate Majority PAC handles disclosed-donor Super PAC spending; Majority Forward handles undisclosed-donor 501(c)(4) spending. The Majority Forward / Senate Majority PAC pair is one of the principal post-Citizens-United Senate-cycle political-spending operations. The pair is the **Democratic structural counterpart** to the [[Senate Leadership Fund]] / [[One Nation]] pair on the Republican side. Both operate under the operational template that [[Crossroads GPS]] and [[American Crossroads]] established in 2010. ## The Twin-Structure Pattern The Majority Forward / Senate Majority PAC pair follows the now-standard configuration: | Entity | Tax Status | Donor Disclosure | |---|---|---| | Senate Majority PAC (Super PAC) | 527 / IE-only PAC | Disclosed to FEC | | Majority Forward (501(c)(4)) | 501(c)(4) social welfare | Not disclosed | Operational division of labor: - **Senate Majority PAC** runs disclosed Super PAC operations supporting Democratic Senate candidates - **Majority Forward** runs undisclosed 501(c)(4) operations on the same races and the same broader Democratic-Senate-coalition political program The same J.B. Poersch-led operation runs both entities. Donor money flows to whichever entity provides the appropriate disclosure profile for the contributor. ## Significance for the KB Majority Forward is included in the corpus as one of the **four principal Senate-cycle dark-money operations** (the others being [[Crossroads GPS]] on the Republican side, [[One Nation]] on the Republican Senate-leadership side, and Majority Forward itself on the Democratic Senate-majority side). Together these vehicles channel the substantial majority of post-2010 Senate-cycle dark-money spending. The organization is also one of the principal cases demonstrating that **the twin-structure dark-money architecture is bipartisan**. The Crossroads template established in 2010 has been adopted on both partisan sides in substantially identical form — different operators, different candidates, comparable operational mechanics and donor-anonymity features. ## See Also - **Senate Majority PAC** — the paired Super PAC twin - [[One Nation]] — the Republican-side Senate-cycle counterpart - [[Crossroads GPS]] — the Republican-side template that established the architecture - [[Sixteen Thirty Fund]] — the broader Democratic-side 501(c)(4) network - [[501(c)(4)]] — the entity type - [[Citizens United v. FEC]] — the case enabling the post-2010 architecture - [[Dark Money]] — the broader funding infrastructure - [[Campaign Finance Timeline]] — full chronological view - [[Campaign Finance]] — Foundations hub