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Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode #70: Massive Dark Money Network Exposed
In this special episode: we go in-depth into CRC’s new shocking report, released this week. Today’s guest is Capital Research Center investigative researcher Hayden Ludwig who authored “Big Money in Dark…
by CRC Staff on April 19, 2019

Organization Trends
Tom Steyer’s Itching, Scratching Need to Impeach
This article originally appeared in American Greatness on April 18, 2019. As special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s two-year, $34 million investigation into the Trump campaign’s supposed “collusion” with Russia in…
by Hayden Ludwig on April 19, 2019

Featured Items
Report Warns Of ‘Dark Money’ Funding a Grab Bag Of Libreal Causes
This article originally appeared in the Daily Caller on April 17, 2019. Dark money is funding a variety of progressive causes and opposing policies of the Trump administration, according…
by David Krayden on April 18, 2019

Philanthropy
The Sins of Our Fathers
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Magazine on April 17, 2019. The philanthropic industry now mirrors colonial structures and reproduces hierarchy, thereby doing more harm than good—or so argues…
by Michael E. Hartmann on April 17, 2019

Organization Trends
Out of Darkness, Cash: A Consultancy Hides “Dark Money”
If there’s one game the professional Left is good at playing, it’s fake “grassroots” activism. Nonpartisan, supposedly neutral groups with provocative names seem to pop up almost every week “demanding”…
by Hayden Ludwig on April 17, 2019

Organization Trends
Out of Darkness, Cash: Pop! Goes the Protest
But funding is only half the picture, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s real value to the Left is in its fiscal sponsorship services. At a glance, these campaigns are spontaneous…
by Hayden Ludwig on April 17, 2019

Organization Trends
Out of Darkness, Cash: Sixteen Thirty in Action
Arabella Advisors doesn’t like to advertise just how influential its Sixteen Thirty Fund really is. In 2015, for instance, the firm detailed the work of the Media Democracy Fund, a…
by Hayden Ludwig on April 17, 2019

Commentary
‘Shadowy’ Dark Money Network Behind Left-Wing Causes Exposed in New Report
This article originally appeared on FoxNews.com on April 17, 2019. An expansive network of “shadowy” dark money donors has grown to rival the influence of the conservative Koch Network…
by Adam Shaw on April 17, 2019

Special Report
CRC Special Report Unveils Vast “Dark Money” Network on the Left
As presidential candidates promise to refuse so-called “dark money” and Members of Congress decry the role of money in politics, a Special Report from CRC dispels one of the biggest…
by CRC Staff on April 17, 2019

Labor Watch
A Few “Laws” of Influence and Politics
It’s rare that the current news cycle provides three perfect instances of “laws” of political practice, in practice. The wit and wisdom of John O’Sullivan, Meghan McArdle, and Michael Barone…
by Michael Watson on April 15, 2019