Influence Watch Podcast #131: Confronting Big Labor
If it walks like a labor union, talks like a labor union, acts like a labor union, and is funded by labor unions, is it a labor union? That is…
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Influence Watch Podcast #130: Exploiting COVID-19
In this episode we change up the format as Capital Research Center Director of Communications Sarah Lee comes back to interview our regular host, CRC Research Director Michael Watson, on…
Influence Watch Podcast #129: The Hurdles of Re-Opening Schools
The demands are clear: Government-run Medicare for All, state wealth taxes and income tax hikes, and defunding the police. Those are just three of the demands that one teachers union,…
Influence Watch Podcast #128: The Far-Left Uses Pandemic for Socialized Housing
In this episode, we look at Marxist-inspired organizations looking to exploit the coronavirus pandemic to fundamentally transform America’s largely private housing market, we expose the institutional foundation behind the curtain…
Influence Watch Podcast #127: Slay the Dragon Myths
The message of the film Slay the Dragon is simple, straightforward, and honest: A grassroots movement of Michigander “Voters Not Politicians” outspent by an incalculable margin won a huge victory…
Influence Watch Podcast #126: Vote-By-Mail Shenanigans
In this episode, we round up some developments related to the organizations behind the Black Lives Matter organization, teachers unions set themselves as a principal roadblock to re-opening American economic…
Influence Watch Podcast #125: Charter School Myths
Nationwide demonstrations continue against perceived inequities between American racial and ethnic groups, and while left-wing activists and the metropolitan press focus on left-wing wishlists and mob-initiated iconoclasms, my guest today…
Influence Watch Podcast #124: Unpacking Black Lives Matter
In this episode, NBC’s factually challenged “News Verification Unit” tries to get a conservative website de-funded, Big Labor makes it harder to get fired for committing police brutality than for…
Influence Watch Podcast #123: Police Unions Blocking Reform
Since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black Minneapolis man, in police custody, the country has been rocked by debates and demonstrations over police misconduct. And while radicals on…
Influence Watch Podcast #122: Protesting, Rioting, and Looting
In this episode, we’ll continue to cover the ongoing protesting, rioting, and looting and talk about how—although it may feel like we’re in unchartered territory—the country has actually seen this…