The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
Private financing of government election offices under the guise of COVID-19 relief skewed voter turnout in the 2020 election and may have tipped the presidential election to Joe Biden. As…
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
As people from across the political spectrum know, confidence in our elections needs strengthening. Private funding of election offices was a scandal in 2020 and continues in the 2024 cycle.
Steve Miller’s December 12 RealClearInvestigations article, “How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections,” is both jarring and informative and helps frame many important…
Supposedly charitable philanthropy in America is tax-incentivized and has always occupied a nebulous position in the American polity—neither fully public nor pristinely private. Policy-oriented philanthropy, in particular, is large and getting larger,…
Scott Walter’s Testimony Before the House Ways and Means Committee Oral Testimony: Video and HTML Senators’ Questions (below) Written Statement: HTML or PDF Full Committee …
Foreign money in our politics is opposed by nearly everyone—left, right, and center. Our happy task of bringing Left and Right together on this threat should be even easier, because…
Testifying before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, discussed foreign money in American politics. For example, Over the past two decades,…
Since 2018, Big Philanthropy has offered great praise for one particular politician without an office to hold: Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who claimed her 2018 loss in an election…