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InfluenceWatch #159: Standing Up to Woke Capital
In this episode: We welcome Stephen Soukup, author of The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business to discuss…well, woke capital and how political correctness captured big…
by Michael Watson on March 5, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #158: Power and Influence of Teachers Unions
Across the country, bold political leadership from both parties has eased or overridden special interest groups’ resistance to reopening public schools, but linguini-spined leaders of both parties have permitted teachers…
by Michael Watson on February 26, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #157: The Politically Incorrect Guide
In this week’s episode: We switch gears slightly and invite Capital Research Center’s Jake Klein, head of our in-house Dangerous Documentaries video production brand, to discuss its latest project: The…
by Michael Watson, Joseph (Jake) Klein on February 19, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #156: Defending the Freedom of Association
We discuss an issue that is well known to those involved in politics and to donors, but perhaps not as well known to the average voter. So we’re hoping to…
by Sarah Lee on February 15, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #155: Radical Republicans, Corporate Democrats?
Continuing what has become something of a series on how American big business, big labor, and other “bigs” have gotten aggressively more aligned with progressive liberalism, today we turn to…
by Shane Devine, Michael Watson on February 8, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #154: The Left’s “Dark Money” Machine
In this episode, CRC Director of Communications and External Relations steps in to welcome special guest Dan Judy, vice president at North Star Opinion Research in D.C. He’s a Georgia…
by Sarah Lee on February 4, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #153: The New Presidential Administration
It’s a new week, and there’s a new Presidential administration in town. And if his modern-era unprecedented early firing of the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board and…
by Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on January 28, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #152: Aggressively Political Philanthropy
In recent years, American big business, big labor, and other “bigs” have gotten aggressively more aligned with progressive liberalism—even those bigs, like Big Philanthropy, that are technically required by law…
by Michael Watson, Michael E. Hartmann on January 15, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #151: This Business Will Get out of Control
We’re doing something different this week, because we’re recording this on Thursday January 7, 2021. Yesterday, a riotous mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and attempted to prevent the certification of…
by Michael Watson on January 8, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #150: The “Rising American Electorate”
A strange thing happened on the road to the Emerging Democratic Majority. Even as Joe Biden won a roughly four-and-a-half percentage point national lead in total ballots cast, the “Rising…
by Michael Watson on January 4, 2021