CRC Welcomes New Education Research Fellow Kali Fontanilla
Capital Research Center (CRC) welcomes Kali Fontanilla as a new research fellow, teacher, and critic of all things woke. Fontanilla, a former public high school teacher of 15 years, and…
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Civil Asset Forfeiture Makes for Strange Bedfellows
In 2020, the Capital Research Center (CRC) examined civil asset forfeiture and noted how criticism of the practice had brought together a rather improbable ideological coalition. As efforts to reform…
‘Dark Money’ Backing the Latest ‘Zuck Bucks’ Push
There’s no shortage of “dark money” to aid the Left in its endless campaign to fundamentally transform America’s elections. Last month, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL)—infamous for dispersing $350…
Wisconsin, Drop Boxes, and the Taint of “Zuck Bucks”
Time has only revealed more evidence of serious irregularities in the 2020 election. Millions of Americans are asking important questions about the trustworthiness of our elections—and the corrupting influence of…
“Dark Money” and the Battle Against Christian Homeschooling
Europe’s conservative faithful have long been under fire from “progressives” infuriated by the historic Christian views of abortion, education, and marriage. In recent years, openDemocracy has launched a salvo of…
Best of CRC Media Hits for July–September 2022
The summer of 2022 was marked by several syndicated stories. The two most prominent were activist Shaun King’s misuse of charitable donations to purchase an expensive guard dog for his…
Amalgamated Bank: “Hate Is Not Charitable”
In mid-2019, the Amalgamated Charitable launched an aggressive campaign to curb donations to conservative, libertarian, and right-leaning nonprofits by labeling them “hate groups.” The Hate Is Not Charitable campaign was…
The Costs of Lost Credibility
One of the widely remarked-upon dynamics of advocacy institutions in recent years is the subsuming of single-issue groups into their broader political coalitions. For watchdog groups, this can have real…
Wokeism in Private Schools: Go Woke or Get Out
These woke themes are now central to NAIS’s accreditation standards, which means many of the country’s top schools are barred entry unless they agree to enforce “woke” ideology on campus.
ActBlue: The Democrats’ $400 Million “Dark Money” Machine
Give ActBlue an A+ for juicing the professional Left—and an F for transparency. The Left’s fundraising platform of choice is gargantuan, pulling in $407 million in 2020 between its 501(c)(3)…