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InfluenceWatch Podcast 341: Progressive Transgender Coercion
The Wall Street Journal called it the “sleeper issue” of the 2024 election—“progressive transgender coercion.” But our guest today argues that it wasn’t the “sleeper issue”—it was the central issue.
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on November 15, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #340: Tyrannosaurs, Bridges, Ballot Measures, and the Story of American Gerrymandering
As the nation awaits the final results in a few dozen House races, the subject of gerrymandering has once again reared its head. This little understood – and often misunderstood…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on November 8, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #339: Election Innovations: Legal or Loopholes?
As political parties, candidates, and the increasingly relevant party-aligned but technically independent activist groups that have come to dominate the post-McCain-Feingold world work to draw Americans out to the polls,…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on November 1, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #338: Election Integrity Wins
Will the 2024 election be administered more effectively and more fairly than the 2020 election? There’s reason to believe in many states that it might be, and advocates have made…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on October 18, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #337: Marching Toward Violence: The Domestic Anti-Israel Protest Movement
This week marked the first anniversary of the October 7th, 2023 attacks against Israel by Iranian-backed terrorist groups, most prominently Hamas. Unfortunately, in addition to solemn remembrance, the anniversary was…
by Ryan Mauro, Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on October 11, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #336: Do You Need to Stock Up on Toilet Paper? (Or, Everything You Need to Know About the Dockworker Strike)
As the country moves through a contentious election season, where the state of the economy and worries over inflation have been a major talking point, a new economic hazard has…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on October 4, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #335: Castro’s Useful Idiots
Anybody who has scoffed at the proliferation of t-shirts bearing the image of Che Guevara, the famous associate of Fidel Castro who among other things oversaw purges of political opponents…
by Ken Braun, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on September 27, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast 334: CHNV, or Biden’s Immigrant Visa Bypass
Immigration policy is an absolute mess—such a mess, that it can be hard for non-specialists to know even what is going on. And that’s where I for one sit regarding…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on September 20, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #333: Hoovering Up Henry Money, or How to Get a Ford Foundation Grant
We’ve covered “megaphone philanthropy”—the emphasis some left-wing activist groups and their multi-million or even billion-dollar funders place on street-protest imagery, often featuring people yelling through bullhorns—and the Ford Foundation, one…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on September 13, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast
The InfluenceWatch Podcast goes beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from Capital Research Center’s website InfluenceWatch.org, an online…
by CRC Staff on September 11, 2024