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InfluenceWatch Podcast #272: The Folly of Reimagining Big Labor
A new union-curious faction of conservatism is growing in the run-up to the 2024 election. Leading the charge is a group of otherwise solidly conservative legislators (you’ll recognize the names)…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on June 2, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #271: Fix the Court’s Foul-Up
If I could provide just one piece of free advice in public advocacy, it’s this: Don’t openly say you messed up on an on-record call with a reporter—you might as…
by Parker Thayer, Michael Watson on May 26, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #270: Durham’s Report on Russiagate
This week, Justice Department Special Counsel John Durham issued the final report on his investigation into Crossfire Hurricane, better known as the “Russia collusion investigation” targeting the 2016 presidential campaign…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on May 19, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #269: The Border Crisis
Title 42, an emergency policy allowing U.S. authorities to send border-crossers back whence they came (usually Mexico) on public-health grounds, is ending with the COVID-19 public health emergency. And with…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on May 12, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #268: Women’s Right to Self-Defense
With news last month that Visa and Mastercard had paused a plan to track gun purchases, and last year’s SCOTUS decision that struck down a New York law that put…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on May 5, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #267: Weingarten Will Not Be Apologizing
This week, three years after the COVID pandemic lockdowns began, American Federation of Teachers union president Randi Weingarten, who many feel was the public face of extended school lockdowns, testified…
by Sarah Lee, Parker Thayer, Michael Watson on April 28, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast 266: ESG in 2023
If the “ESG”—environmental, social, and governance—movement had a guiding text, it would the Proxy Preview. Put out by the corporate social responsibility investing nonprofit As You Sow, the Proxy Preview…
by Ken Braun, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on April 21, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #265: Athenai Institute Battles CCP Disinformation
The Athenai Institute is a college student-led organization that seeks to limit the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on U.S. college campuses. Since their inception in 2020, they have…
by Sarah Lee on April 14, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #264: I Will Not Eat the Bugs
National Public Radio is adamant: Nobody is going to make you eat the bugs. In fact, NPR says that believing governments and environmentalist activists want to make you eat the…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on April 7, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #263: Protecting Our Children
This week, a spree shooter killed six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee; our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims and the others affected.
by Kali Fontanilla, Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on March 31, 2023