InfluenceWatch Podcast #356: L’Affaire Murphy and Leftist Local News
We try not to wade into the more salacious soap opera stories that quite frankly infest the D.C. political world. But when a story intersects with work we do, well,…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #355: Government-Enabled Drug Abuse
Addiction breaks lives, breaks families, and on a mass scale can break societies, but breaking an addiction is quite difficult. There are two main schools of thought for how to…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #354: Republicans for Union Bosses
Today a Senate Committee voted to advance former Oregon Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Trump’s controversial pick for Labor Secretary, to a full floor vote, so Americans would do well to begin…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #353: Taxpayer-Funded Illegal Immigration
How much did the U.S. government spend on illegal migrants and dubious asylum claimants over the past four years? That is the question that many people are asking after Elon…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #352: Opening the DOGE Files
The new Trump administration has set its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the institutional bureaucracy with a mandate to streamline government operations and target wasteful spending or spending contrary…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #351: Michigan’s Redistricting Commission Chaos
Big Philanthropy and the so-called “good government” groups that it funds have a “solution” (I’m making air-quotes) to partisan gerrymandering: The “independent redistricting commission.” With funding from left-of-center groups like…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #350: A Parallel, Conservative Economy
The Trump administration is dismantling DEI within the federal workforce and ESG is slowly morphing into one of the most irritating terms in corporate governance. But conservatives, sensing there may…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #349: Biden’s Defund the Police Door Dash
On its way out the door, the Biden administration provided a number of exit gifts for its allies amongst left-wing groups: feminists and abortion-rights activists received a legally toothless declaration…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #348: Fix Education Bloat by Breaking Teacher Union Bloat (with Corey DeAngelis)
Almost everyone can look at the education landscape in America today and see that something has gone very, very wrong. Spending per student has increased, and there is no evidence…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #347: Texas Battles DEI
The incoming second Trump administration has vowed to take on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies in the federal government and in federally supported programs. In that, the incoming administration is…