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InfluenceWatch Podcast #205: When Rules Begin to Apply
In 2020, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raked in tens of millions of dollars from personal and corporate supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement amid demonstrations after…
by Michael Watson on February 11, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #204: An Education on Image
The American Federation of Teachers has a public image problem, as increasing numbers of parents become aware of the union’s involvement in prolonging destructive restrictions on schoolchildren in the name…
by Michael Watson on February 4, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #203: Virginia Responds to “Zuck Bucks”
Since Mark Zuckerberg provided hundreds of millions of dollars to assist governmental agencies in administering the 2020 elections through the private Center for Tech and Civic Life, state legislatures have…
by Parker Thayer, Hayden Ludwig, Michael Watson, Scott Walter on January 28, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #202: Virginia’s Education Deep State
Elections have consequences, as the country learned last year when the Biden administration took office and as Virginians are learning now that Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin has taken office…
by Michael Watson on January 21, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #201: Education Distrust
If you listen to the metropolitan press, the radical-Left ideology of critical race theory is not taught in public schools. But across the country, parents are objecting to curriculum material and…
by Michael Watson on January 14, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #200: Teachers Strike Chicago
Right after a period in which teachers union officials, most prominently American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, conducted a preposterous public relations campaign to make themselves the supposed driving…
by Michael Watson on January 10, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #199: Auditing Equity
While conservatives chafe under the threat of censorship and “de-platforming” by Big Tech companies, liberals are pressuring Congress to make the left-wing industry even more left wing through “equity audits,”…
by Michael Watson on December 17, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #198: Escape from New York
Since the identification of the “Omicron variant” of COVID-19, the Left and paternalist factions of the Right at home and abroad have returned to their favorite policy packages: Harsh lockdowns…
by Michael Watson on December 10, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #197: Progressive Ruins
Our guest today is a Time magazine Hero of the Environment who at age 16 raised money for the Rainforest Action Network and at 17 “lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on December 6, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #196: Rigged: The Story of the 2020 Election
By now, the story is familiar. Mark Zuckerberg financed the administration of the 2020 elections through the Center for Tech and Civic Life. Eric Holder and an army of…
by Michael Watson on November 22, 2021