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Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #348: Fix Education Bloat by Breaking Teacher Union Bloat (with Corey DeAngelis)
Almost everyone can look at the education landscape in America today and see that something has gone very, very wrong. Spending per student has increased, and there is no evidence…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 17, 2025

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on January 17, 2025

Green Watch
Low-Quality Energy for the LIDACs and $21.8 Billion in Waste from the EPA
Trimming the fat from federal spending, regulations (and maybe even babble-speak acronyms) is the work of President-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It’ll be a tough job…
by Ken Braun on January 16, 2025

Book Profile
Thoughts on Philanthropy from Books Featured in the Giving Review in Second Half of 2024
“The vindictiveness was gone, but the prosecution remained.” President William Howard Taft got to preside over something [Theodore] Roosevelt had wanted but did not attain in his presidency: the demise…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 15, 2025

Deception & Misdirection
Foreign Grants: The Darkest of “Dark Money”
New tax filings reveal tens of millions of dollars in “dark money” flowing from the massive nonprofit network managed by the consulting firm Arabella Advisors. But it’s not of…
by Robert Stilson on January 15, 2025

CRC in the News
Billionaires Pushing Left-Wing Causes
Scott Walter joined Rob Finnerty on Finnerty on Newsmax to talk about the impact of dark money on American elections and government. Much of this is detailed in Walter’s latest…
by Scott Walter on January 14, 2025

Labor Watch
The SEIU and the Teamsters Changed to Lose
In 2005, Andy Stern and James P. Hoffa, the leaders of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), led their massive unions and five…
by Michael Watson on January 14, 2025

Book Profile
Big Philanthropy’s Lost Children
Brooke Orr, the protagonist of Rumaan Alam’s captivating recent novel, Entitlement, lands what she thinks is a great new job as a program officer at a big New York philanthropic foundation. The…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 13, 2025

Green Watch
The Southern Environmental Law Center and Its Misanthropic Donor
One lesser-known environmentalist group bringing in nearly as much revenue as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club is the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), a left-of-center environmentalist 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in…
by Sebastian Tuininga on January 13, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #347: Texas Battles DEI
The incoming second Trump administration has vowed to take on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies in the federal government and in federally supported programs. In that, the incoming administration is…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 10, 2025