InfluenceWatch Podcast #218: Civil Asset Forfeiture
In much of the country, the cops can take your stuff even if they aren’t able to convict you of a crime through a process known as civil asset forfeiture.
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #217: The SCOTUS Leak
It’s the biggest story of the week in Washington. Following a nearly unprecedented breach of the Supreme Court’s institutional security, Politico published a draft of a possible majority opinion written…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #216: Governing for Impact
“Governing for Impact.” Behind that innocuous name is a powerful yet secretive interest group backed by liberal billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations network that…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #215: States Newsroom’s Latest Frontier
Local news: It’s in decline, but people trust it more than national news by all accounts. And this creates an opening for big national organizations to get into the local…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #214: Post the Sign or Get a Fine
This week, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the consumer price index measure of inflation had surged to 8.5 percent year-on-year. Accelerating inflation and surging gas prices have…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #213: Tech, Musk, and Philanthropy
Editor’s Note: Between recording and publication, Twitter announced that Musk would not be joining the Twitter board of directors. Hello, I’m Michael Watson and this is the InfluenceWatch Podcast.
InfluenceWatch Podcast #212:
A New ERA: The Employee Rights Act
We’ve discussed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act on the show before—it’s a laundry list of bad ideas pushed by Big Labor and its allies in Congress that would…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #211: Dark Money and Demand Justice
Last week, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced questioning and speechifying from members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee as it considered her nomination for the seat on the U.S. Supreme…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #210: Race to the Bottom
Two years ago this week, the federal government announced “two weeks to slow the spread” — a campaign of lockdowns and closures that would metastasize into ongoing restrictions on civil…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #209: Protecting Big Labor’s Paycheck
In 2020, as the coronavirus hit and governments ordered mass lockdowns of length and scope unprecedented in American history, Congress passed the “Paycheck Protection Program” or PPP to help small…