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.
The story begins in 2015 when the consulting firm Civitas Public Affairs Group produced a private report for the Wyss Foundation, the philanthropy vehicle of Swiss-born Hansjörg Wyss.[1] The report outlined…
Enter the Berger Action Fund, founded in 2007 as the Wyss Action Fund and perhaps the most unusual piece of the puzzle. Foundations are typically wary of associating themselves with 501(c)(4)…
After years of protests in American cities, and the most recent upheaval on university campuses, congressional members in both chambers are beginning to take seriously the idea that parts of…
Mehrsa Baradaran’s new The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America joins many other histories in citing “the Powell memo” as an important part of their narratives. In the case of The Quiet Coup,…
On May 29, 2024, Scott Walter testified about foreign money in elections and other challenges to election integrity before the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs.
An overwhelming majority of Americans want foreign money kept out of our elections, and existing federal and state laws partially bar this outrageous intrusion, but loopholes remain, and abuses continue.
Note: This episode contains discussions of subjects that may not be suitable for children. Parental discretion is advised. Everybody’s doing it—sex education. And as American sexual mores have grown more…
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.
The Escalate Network, an influential anti-Israel and pro-Hamas group associated with anarchism, told its 6,000 followers that “the NYT [New York Times] editorial board is going to hell and it…