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Special Report
Plans to Flip North Carolina:
The Redistricting Process
The redistricting process—when every state redraws its congressional and legislative maps—will start in early 2021, when the Census Bureau releases its data to the states. Just how North Carolina will…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 3, 2020

Special Report
Plans to Flip North Carolina: Holder’s War
The litigation war to reshape America’s congressional districts to suit the Democrats is being coordinated by Eric Holder, President Barack Obama’s former attorney general and an overt partisan. In 2017,…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 3, 2020

Special Report
Plans to Flip North Carolina:
A “Redistricting Coup”
The third group, the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF), has already had perhaps the most potent impact on the 2020 election. The 501(c)(3) group describes its mission as “initiating litigation that…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 3, 2020

Special Report
Plans to Flip North Carolina: Democracy Alliance and Arabella Advisors
The Democracy Alliance has its own big plans for North Carolina. A recently unearthed 2016 internal report by the secretive group details 15 funding streams moving money to battleground states ahead of…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 3, 2020

Green Watch, Media Hits
Hayden Ludwig Talks “Creation Care” on From the Stacks
From the well-known Evangelical Environmental Network and Young Evangelicals for Climate Action to the less-known New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good and the Au Sable Institute, left-leaning, professedly evangelical…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 2, 2020

Green Watch
Tom Steyer’s War on Affordable Energy—and America
California billionaire Tom Steyer is one of the foremost mega-donors financing the Left’s war on cheap and abundant electricity. Steyer’s ultra-liberal brand of environmentalism is eco-authoritarianism at its worst. The…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 2, 2020

Featured Items
Happy Birthday, InfluenceWatch!
Since launching launched three years ago on August 31/September 1, 2017, InfluenceWatch has grown to more than 7,500 pages and over 2,000 full profiles. For increasing numbers of the media,…
by Jon Rodeback on September 1, 2020

Deception & Misdirection
The Nastiest Hoaxsters of Russiagate
A contributor to both New York magazine and MSNBC, Jonathan Chait went all-in on the most outlandish of the salacious collusion rumors. Nobody given a modestly respectable public platform could…
by Ken Braun on September 1, 2020

Philanthropy
Six Ways Conservatives Should—and Shouldn’t—Give to Higher Ed
For decades, conservative philanthropy has supported many different institutions, organizations, and projects within America’s vaunted higher-education system. This giving has usually been meant to maintain or improve the quality of—and…
by Michael E. Hartmann on August 31, 2020

Organization Trends
The Future of Live Music
In July, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. John Coryn (R-TX) introduced the bipartisan Save Our Stages Act (S. 4258) to provide Small Business Administration grants to independent live music…
by CRC Staff on August 28, 2020