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InfluenceWatch Podcast #168: The CDC and Lockdown Collusion
In this episode: The hard lockdownists and their allies in the Biden administration repeat the mantra as often as a chanting monk: “Follow the science,” invariably before proposing some policy…
by Michael Watson on May 7, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #167: Understanding China’s University Influence
This week, CRC’s Communications and External Relations Director Sarah Lee interviews National Association of Scholars Senior Research Fellow Rachelle Peterson about her work related to the Confucius Institutes, ostensible Chinese…
by Sarah Lee on May 3, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #166: Foreign Billionaire Influences American Policy
Federal law prohibits foreign nationals, except holders of permanent resident (or “green card”) status, from making political contributions in federal elections. But foreign billionaires are free to spend whatever they…
by Hayden Ludwig, Michael Watson on April 23, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #165: Is the PTA a Teachers’ Union Stooge?
We have covered extensively the prolonged and unprecedented closures of schools ostensibly caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which continue to see teachers unions insist, even when their members receive vaccination…
by Michael Watson on April 16, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #164: Baseball, Philanthropy, and Politics
Last week, Major League Baseball announced it would move the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in protest of Georgia election-administration legislation that would make the state’s voter access more…
by Michael Watson on April 9, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #163: Responding to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
We’ve discussed H.R. 1 on this show before—I encourage everyone to listen to Episode 161 with Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall for more on the substance of Congressional Democrats’ proposed…
by Michael Watson, Scott Walter on April 5, 2021

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Influence Watch Episode #162: Dragging Hollywood Even Further Left
It’s a tale so old it’s a cliché: The left-wing liberal Hollywood glitterati. But even the “normal” levels of bat-guano leftism from the hills above Los Angeles isn’t enough for…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on March 26, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #161: What Would H.R. 1 Mean?
H.R. 1: It might be the most consequential piece of legislation before the Congress this year—and that’s saying something in year when Congressional Democrats have already spent $1.9 trillion and…
by Michael Watson on March 19, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #160: The Worst Bill in Congress
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives again advanced the odious catalog of Big Labor favors known as the “PRO Act” on a nearly party-line vote. While the legislation will…
by Michael Watson on March 12, 2021

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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