Articles

Organization Trends
Comments on ESG Factors in ERISA Retirement Plans
The Capital Research Center (CRC) submitted comments to the Employee Benefits Security Administration, noting concerns with how the agency’s proposed rule “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising…
by Robert Stilson on January 10, 2022

Article
Exposing Maryland’s Partisan, Zuckerberg-Funded 2020 Turnout Operation
“Dark money” from a shadowy nonprofit organization fueled Maryland’s taxpayer-funded get-out-the-vote operation to boost Democrats in the 2020 election, further proof that the Left wants to blur the line between…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 10, 2022

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #200: Teachers Strike Chicago
Right after a period in which teachers union officials, most prominently American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, conducted a preposterous public relations campaign to make themselves the supposed driving…
by Michael Watson on January 10, 2022

Media Hits
Zuckerberg’s $400 Million to Turn Out Votes for Biden
In part two of a two-part interview, Scott Walter explains how Mark Zuckerberg spent over $400 million to turn out the Democratic vote for Biden in 2020. The massive donations…
by Scott Walter on January 7, 2022

Organization Trends
The War on the Electoral College: Interstate Compact
National Popular Vote is spearheading the campaign to destroy the Electoral College and abandon centuries of constitutional history in the name of saving democracy (read: electing Democrats). If NPV’s plans…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 6, 2022

Organization Trends
The War on the Electoral College: Bypassing the Constitution
Amending the Constitution to remove the Electoral College is virtually impossible in today’s political climate, so instead NPV has opted for a compact of states that have passed national popular…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 6, 2022

Organization Trends
The War on the Electoral College: In Oklahoma
In Oklahoma in February 2014, two senate Republicans and one Democrat introduced SB 906 to join the NPV compact, and sixteen Republicans joined all of the chamber’s twelve Democrats to…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 6, 2022

Organization Trends
The War on the Electoral College: NPV Conflicts of Interest
What’s clear is that the campaign to replace the Electoral College has hit the stumbling block of public perception. Conservatives in 2021 now understand what many folks misunderstood a decade…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 6, 2022

Deception & Misdirection
Foreign Funding of Elections Update
In early October, we reported on a disturbing trend related to foreign funding and U.S. lobbyists—namely, American lobbyists were taking in millions to help influence elections, circumventing the law that…
by Sarah Lee on January 5, 2022

Green Watch
Billion-Dollar Network Is Playing Politics in America’s Energy Sector, Driving up Costs: Ken Braun
Environmental groups and advocates are spending billions of dollars every year playing politics with America’s energy sector while simultaneously driving up energy costs for Americans, according to Ken Braun, the senior investigative researcher at the Capital…
by CRC Staff on January 5, 2022