A super PAC affiliated with Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has raked in tens of millions of dollars from a liberal advocacy group funded by secret donors while the Senate majority leader railed against "dark money" and special interests, records show.

Schumer has long taken aim at campaign finance laws allowing anonymous-backed organizations to spend large sums on elections, blasting the "dark money interests fueling today's GOP." At the same time, the Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC accepted over $81 million between 2021 and 2023 from Majority Forward, a dark money nonprofit group boosting Democratic candidates that bankrolled shadowy pop-up super PACs in the last election cycle, according to campaign finance disclosures.

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The major cash transfers appear to undercut Schumer's vows to stand up to dark money, which he has dubbed a "cancer" making it difficult for U.S. citizens to know "who's spending billions to sway our democracy." The top Senate Democrat has joined Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in supporting the DISCLOSE Act, which would make super PACs and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups, such as Majority Forward, make public their donors of more than $10,000 in a given election cycle.

“There’s nothing wrong with so-called dark money — the American political system owes its existence to anonymous political speech," Tom Jones, president of the conservative American Accountability Foundation watchdog group, told the Washington Examiner. "What is wrong — and frankly embarrassing — is Senators Schumer and Whitehouse blathering on about the boogeyman of dark money one day and using it to prop up their majority the next.”

Majority Forward has counted its president as Senate Majority PAC head J.B. Poersch, and the two entities share personnel and office space. Moreover, Senate Majority PAC has been paid by Majority Forward for insurance, IT security, and salaries, campaign finance disclosures show.

So far in 2023, Majority Forward has steered $8.75 million to Senate Majority PAC, including a $6 million transfer in June. And going all the way back to 2015, the nonprofit group's payments to the PAC total $136 million, according to a Washington Examiner review of federal filings.

“This is nothing but a hypocritical and pathetic hit job coming directly from Mitch McConnell and National GOP leaders who have taken every chance to enable dark money groups to support their unpopular agenda and fringe candidates," Sarah Guggenheimer, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority PAC, told the Washington Examiner.

Between July 2019 and June 2022, the nonprofit organization pulled in over $271 million and has steered grants to various left-wing activist groups, including the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Emily's List, Priorities USA, and the Lincoln Project, an anti-Donald Trump super PAC with ties to the Democratic Party, according to tax forms.

In 2022, Majority Forward also received $1 million from America Votes, a liberal voting rights advocacy group that is one of its grantees, and has shared an office and personnel with a group called the Right to Vote Foundation, according to corporate Washington, D.C., records.

In 2022, Majority Forward fully bankrolled with $3 million a pop-up super PAC called 53 Peaks that sponsored ads against Joe O’Dea, who unsuccessfully ran against Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), according to disclosures. The only other money that the super PAC disclosed receiving was a $9,000 refund from an entity called Left Hook, which is listed in public records as being an advertising and marketing company in Santa Monica, California.

Similarly, Majority Forward spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2022 on ads targeting Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) through a Facebook page called Wisconsin Forward, which it launched in February of that year, according to Meta ad records and data compiled by the Wesleyan Media Project.

"The Democratic leadership must choose: Stop taking more 'dark money' than your opponents or tattoo 'hypocrite' on your foreheads," Scott Walter, president of Capital Research Center, a conservative investigative think tank, told the Washington Examiner.

Senate Majority PAC also pocketed over $16 million between February and June from wealthy liberal donors, including the Hungarian American philanthropist George Soros, as it gears up for the 2024 Senate elections, disclosures show.

Along with the pro-GOP Senate Leadership Fund super PAC, which is aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Democratic-aligned committee spent hundreds of millions of dollars combined on the 2022 elections. Senate Leadership Fund has close affiliations to One Nation, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group that was its main funder in 2022.

Schumer has chided the Judicial Crisis Network, a right-leaning 501(c)(4) courts group, in the past for "concealing their donors" after it "contributed tens of millions to fund advertising" boosting then-nominees and now-Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. Still, the senator has not sought financially to pressure left-leaning dark money hubs, such as the court-packing group Demand Justice, which shelled out funds in 2022 to support the nomination of now-Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Demand Justice was co-founded by Schumer's ex-communications director, Brian Fallon, who is stepping down from the group this fall.

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"Democrats claim to hate dark money, but cycle after cycle, they line their pockets with it to fund their radical and out-of-touch candidates," National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Tate Mitchell said.

Schumer's campaign did not reply to a request for comment.