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InfluenceWatch Podcast #146: Unions Want Coercive Power
As all eyes are turned toward Georgia’s two Senate runoff races, we discuss proposed legislation that both the Democratic challengers in Georgia support, and that has serious implications for right-to-work…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on November 23, 2020

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #145: Roadblocking an Aggressive Left-Wing Agenda
While the provisional results of the 2020 presidential election are disappointing to many conservatives, American voters threw roadblocks and cautions to an aggressive progressive agenda in even some of the…
by Michael Watson on November 13, 2020

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #144: Decoding Antifa
“Keep Portland Weird”—that is a common slogan for Oregon’s largest city. But the rest of the country would rather at least one particular weirdness stay in Portland: Antifa, the radical-left…
by Michael Watson on November 6, 2020

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #143: Alternatives to Unions’ Coercive Power
Since the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, American collective bargaining law in the private sector has relied on exclusive monopoly representation at the enterprise level—in layman’s…
by Michael Watson on November 2, 2020

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #142: California Proposing a Major Tax Hike
For over 40 years, residential and commercial property taxes in the State of California have been limited by a law known as “Proposition 13,” passed by voters in response to…
by Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on October 23, 2020

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #141: Big Money Politics
As appellate Judge Amy Coney Barrett testified in her Supreme Court nomination hearing, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, and Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, traded barbs about “dark…
by Hayden Ludwig, Michael Watson on October 16, 2020

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #140: The Russia Collusion Archive
For two years, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, acting as a Justice Department Special Prosecutor, conducted an investigation to determine “whether individual(s) associated with the Trump campaign are witting of…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on October 9, 2020

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #139: Illegal Ballot Harvesting
Minnesota: Land of ten thousand lakes, home to the perennially unfortunate Minnesota Twins, and the only state not to vote for Ronald Reagan in 1984. This week, we’re joined by…
by Michael Watson on October 6, 2020

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #138: The 2020 “Dark Money” Influencer They Won’t Tell You About
In this week’s episode, we rotate hosting duties as Capital Research Center Director of Communications and External Relations Sarah Lee hosts and CRC Research Director (and regular host) Michael Watson…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on September 28, 2020

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #137: Shadow over America (with guest Kevin Mooney)
Hayden Ludwig, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, fills in for Mike Watson. With us today is Kevin Mooney, a reporter for the Daily Signal and the Commonwealth…
by Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney, CRC Staff on September 23, 2020