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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
InfluenceWatch Episode #136: Ford Foundation and the Radical Left (with guest Sloan Rachmuth!)
In recent weeks we have covered the actions of Big Philanthropy, and for most of the modern history of philanthropy there has been no bigger force than the Ford Foundation,…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #135: Today’s Woke-Progressive Infiltration
Since the initial demonstrations following the police-custody death of George Floyd, foundations have pledged over one billion dollars to support efforts to combat alleged “systemic racism.” In practice, that means…
InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode #134: Big Philanthropy and the Professional Left
They say that in warfare, amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics. With that in mind, I’m joined by Mike Hartmann, Capital Research Center Senior Fellow and Director of CRC’s…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #133: The MSNBC “Cheesecake” Republicans
This week I’m joined by my colleague Sarah Lee to discuss how recent developments in the investigation of the Trump-Russia investigators illustrates the problems with the administrative state, ask how…