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InfluenceWatch Podcast #248: Waking Up from Woke: Twitter Becomes Transparent
Editor’s Note: Between recording and publication, Bari Weiss published the second installment of “The Twitter Files.” Over the past week, new Twitter CEO Elon Musk has directed the release of…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on December 9, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #247: A Crisis In Our Classrooms With Armstrong Williams, Part 2
This month, three African American writers and activists with widely different political views published a book together entitled Crisis in the Classroom (Skyhorse Publishing). Despite their many differences, the authors…
by Michael Watson, Scott Walter on December 2, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #246: A Crisis in Our Classrooms with Armstrong Williams, Part 1
This month, three African American writers/activists with widely different political views published a book together entitled Crisis in the Classroom (Skyhorse Publishing). Despite their many differences, the authors teamed up…
by Michael Watson, Scott Walter on November 29, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #245: Legalities of Student Loan Forgiveness
A few months ago, President Joe Biden announced that the government would “forgive” up to $10,000 per borrower in federal student loan debt with at best dubious legal justification, with…
by Michael Watson on November 18, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #244: Building a Better Midterm
Hello, I’m Michael Watson and this is the InfluenceWatch Podcast. Like the 2020 elections, which saw then-President Trump’s coalition prove unexpectedly resilient amid a horrible national environment dominated by COVID…
by Michael Watson, Scott Walter on November 11, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #243: Building a Trusted Election Infrastructure
Following the 2020 election, and one very strange Time Magazine article detailing a “shadow” campaign of left-leaning operatives that “saved” the 2020 election by “fortifying” it, conservative groups began to…
by Sarah Lee on November 4, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast 242: Meet ERIC
Today, we meet ERIC—the Electronic Registration Information Center. Created with the aid of the left-of-center Pew Charitable Trusts to help states maintain their voter rolls, recent years have seen it…
by Hayden Ludwig, Michael Watson on October 28, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #241: Decoding the Iranian Protests
For the past several weeks, Iranians—especially Iranian women—have taken bold stands against the nation’s theocratic government, discarding compulsory headscarves and cutting their hair. This isn’t the first time that mass…
by Michael Watson on October 21, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #240: California’s Union Payoff
Since the Supreme Court decided the Janus v. AFSCME case and held that forcing government workers to pay union fees was an unconstitutional infringement of their free speech rights, union-aligned…
by Michael Watson on October 14, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #239: Socializing Broadband
Expanding access to high-speed internet: It’s a trendy cause that the COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures made urgent. And when government acts with urgency, bad ideas proliferate; in broadband, the…
by Parker Thayer, Michael Watson on October 7, 2022