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InfluenceWatch Podcast #354: Republicans for Union Bosses
Today a Senate Committee voted to advance former Oregon Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Trump’s controversial pick for Labor Secretary, to a full floor vote, so Americans would do well to begin…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on February 28, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #353: Taxpayer-Funded Illegal Immigration
How much did the U.S. government spend on illegal migrants and dubious asylum claimants over the past four years? That is the question that many people are asking after Elon…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on February 21, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #352: Opening the DOGE Files
The new Trump administration has set its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the institutional bureaucracy with a mandate to streamline government operations and target wasteful spending or spending contrary…
by Sarah Lee, Parker Thayer, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on February 14, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #351: Michigan’s Redistricting Commission Chaos
Big Philanthropy and the so-called “good government” groups that it funds have a “solution” (I’m making air-quotes) to partisan gerrymandering: The “independent redistricting commission.” With funding from left-of-center groups like…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on February 7, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #350: A Parallel, Conservative Economy
The Trump administration is dismantling DEI within the federal workforce and ESG is slowly morphing into one of the most irritating terms in corporate governance. But conservatives, sensing there may…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 31, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #349: Biden’s Defund the Police Door Dash
On its way out the door, the Biden administration provided a number of exit gifts for its allies amongst left-wing groups: feminists and abortion-rights activists received a legally toothless declaration…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 24, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #348: Fix Education Bloat by Breaking Teacher Union Bloat (with Corey DeAngelis)
Almost everyone can look at the education landscape in America today and see that something has gone very, very wrong. Spending per student has increased, and there is no evidence…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 17, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #347: Texas Battles DEI
The incoming second Trump administration has vowed to take on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies in the federal government and in federally supported programs. In that, the incoming administration is…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 10, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #346: New Year, New Administration, New Nonprofits
Well, 2025 is here. And while it came in rather tragically in the South – and we do extend our condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack in New…
by Sarah Lee, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on January 3, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #345: Department of Ed’s Billion-Dollar Failure
As the incoming second Trump administration prepares to target government waste with the “Department of Government Efficiency” commission and activists hope that Trump’s administration will root divisive left-wing racial ideologies…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on December 20, 2024