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InfluenceWatch Podcast #195: How Teachers Unions Affect Elections
Liberal special interests have effective control of many municipal governments and government arms. The most notable case: school boards. Thanks to “three exploits” of block voting, nonpartisan races, and off-cycle…
by Michael Watson on November 12, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #194: The National School Board Association’s Arrogant Overreach
Last month, the National School Boards Association threw a grenade into debates surrounding local school policy by sending a letter to the Biden administration asking for a federal investigation of…
by Michael Watson on November 5, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #193: Planned (and Well-Funded) Climate Chaos
“Climate Chaos Week”—a series of environmentalist demonstrations in Washington, D.C. punctuated by the vandalism of the Lafayette Park statue of Andrew Jackson with the ominous “Expect Us,” an attempt to…
by Parker Thayer, Michael Watson on October 29, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #192: Election Integrity Begins with Local Politics
In this episode: Sarah Lee interviews CRC Research Director Michael Watson on how local politics and the involvement of union organizers and activists at that level have played a role…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on October 22, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast 191: The Blueprint for Buying Elections
We’ve covered Mark Zuckerberg’s financing of the administration of the 2020 elections through the Center for Tech and Civic Life before, but our guest today adds a provocative…
by Michael Watson on October 15, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #190: Big Left Philanthropy
The Ford Foundation: While created by a famed family of arch-capitalists, for decades the institution—long, though likely no longer, the largest private foundation in the country—has been the financial…
by Michael Watson, Michael E. Hartmann on October 11, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #189: Eco-Right Rising
Who are the “eco-Right,” and what do they stand for? They will tell you that they want to bring a market-based and conservative-minded approach to conservation challenges, but my colleague…
by Hayden Ludwig, Michael Watson on October 1, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #188: Race as a Marxist Hammer
“Black Lives Matter”: Never has such an uncontroversial statement covered for a more radical political movement. That’s the thesis of BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution, a new…
by Michael Watson on September 24, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #187: The Business of Woke
“Woke capital”—social liberalism, especially focused on critical race theory and its intellectual children “antiracism” and “equity” carried out by businessmen rather than politicians or traditional nonprofit activists. Much has been…
by Michael Watson on September 17, 2021

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #186:
Is Mail-In Balloting Here to Stay?
If you live in Virginia, buckle up—a new wave of absentee-ballot mailers is about to overwhelm mailboxes across the commonwealth, courtesy of the same professional activists who flooded the Old…
by Sarah Lee, Hayden Ludwig on September 13, 2021