Influence Watch Podcast #113: Playing Pandemic Politics
In this episode, we discuss the ways in which progressive legislators have gone out of their way to not let the coronavirus crisis go to waste, first by going on…
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Influence Watch Podcast #112: Sen. Schumer Threatens Supreme Court Justices
Hello, I’m Sarah Lee and this is the InfluenceWatch Podcast. In this episode: The Supreme Court considers an abortion case that has the backing of some strange bedfellows, and that…
Influence Watch Episode #111: Fighting California’s Union “Gag Rule”
In this episode, the National Labor Relations Board hands a major setback to the SEIU’s $180 million corporate campaign to unionize restaurants, local officials and free-market groups push back against…
Influence Watch Episode #110: What the Green New Deal Would Mean
Last year, the hard-left—pressure groups like the Sunrise Movement, politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and labor unions like the Service Employees International Union—presented the “Green New Deal,”…
Influence Watch Podcast #109: State Debates Enforcing Workers’ Rights
In this episode, Democrats announce a $50 million campaign to take control of drawing legislative district boundaries, the Pennsylvania Legislature considers legislation to enforce the Supreme Court’s Janus decision and…
Influence Watch Podcast #108: The Iowa Democratic Caucus Disaster
In this episode, the Iowa Democratic Party’s reliance on a Democratic-establishment-connected political vendor results in vote-counting-chaos, the House of Representatives affirms its loyalty to the will of Organized Labor, and…
Influence Watch Podcast #107: Citizens United Ten Years Later
Ten years ago this month, the Supreme Court handed down a controversial decision with bearing on influence and politics: Citizens United v. FEC. As liberal activists push ever harder to…
Influence Watch Podcast #106: What if Planned Parenthood Lost Public Funding?
In this episode, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports continuing decline in Big Labor’s ranks, radical-left author Naomi Klein admits that the Green New Deal is about making your life…
Influence Watch Podcast #105: RIP, Sir Roger Scruton
In this episode, the Department of Labor takes deregulatory action to undo a key Obama administration favor to its supporters in Big Labor, center-right scholar of philanthropy Bill Schambra offers…
Influence Watch Podcast #104: Howard Zinn: Historian, Author, and Communist?
In this episode, a union with close ties to top left-wing Senators targets the technology industry for an organizing campaign; our colleagues at Dangerous Documentaries take aim at the late,…