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InfluenceWatch Podcast #201: Education Distrust
If you listen to the metropolitan press, the radical-Left ideology of critical race theory is not taught in public schools. But across the country, parents are objecting to curriculum material and education…
by Michael Watson on January 14, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #200: Teachers Strike Chicago
Right after a period in which teachers union officials, most prominently American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, conducted a preposterous public relations campaign to make themselves the supposed driving…
by Michael Watson on January 10, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #199: Auditing Equity
While conservatives chafe under the threat of censorship and “de-platforming” by Big Tech companies, liberals are pressuring Congress to make the left-wing industry even more left wing through “equity audits,”…
by Michael Watson on December 17, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #198: Escape from New York
Since the identification of the “Omicron variant” of COVID-19, the Left and paternalist factions of the Right at home and abroad have returned to their favorite policy packages: Harsh lockdowns…
by Michael Watson on December 10, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #197: Progressive Ruins
Our guest today is a Time magazine Hero of the Environment who at age 16 raised money for the Rainforest Action Network and at 17 “lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on December 6, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #196: Rigged: The Story of the 2020 Election
By now, the story is familiar. Mark Zuckerberg financed the administration of the 2020 elections through the Center for Tech and Civic Life. Eric Holder and an army of…
by Michael Watson on November 22, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #195: How Teachers Unions Affect Elections
Liberal special interests have effective control of many municipal governments and government arms. The most notable case: school boards. Thanks to “three exploits” of block voting, nonpartisan races, and off-cycle…
by Michael Watson on November 12, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #194: The National School Board Association’s Arrogant Overreach
Last month, the National School Boards Association threw a grenade into debates surrounding local school policy by sending a letter to the Biden administration asking for a federal investigation of…
by Michael Watson on November 5, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #193: Planned (and Well-Funded) Climate Chaos
“Climate Chaos Week”—a series of environmentalist demonstrations in Washington, D.C. punctuated by the vandalism of the Lafayette Park statue of Andrew Jackson with the ominous “Expect Us,” an attempt to…
by Parker Thayer, Michael Watson on October 29, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #192: Election Integrity Begins with Local Politics
In this episode: Sarah Lee interviews CRC Research Director Michael Watson on how local politics and the involvement of union organizers and activists at that level have played a role…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on October 22, 2021