The Outrage Machine: Episode 4 of Showtime’s The Lincoln Project
Showtime’s The Lincoln Project (full series) Introduction | Episode 1 | Episode 2 Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode…
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Sixteen Thirty Fund’s “Dark Money” Boosting Democrats in Midterms
To no one’s surprise, the Arabella network’s advocacy arms are spending heavily to boost Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. Since the beginning of the midterm cycle in January 2021,…
DC Dark Money Pours into Effort to Block an Alaska Constitutional Convention
In November, Alaskans will go to the polls to decide whether they want to hold a state constitutional convention to decide important issues, such as reapportioning the Permanent Fund dividend, which has…
Best of CRC Media Hits for March–April 2022
The months of March and April were highlighted by not only op-eds and radio/TV interviews but also by syndicated media appearances from Virginia to Alaska. As usual, our topics of…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #215: States Newsroom’s Latest Frontier
Local news: It’s in decline, but people trust it more than national news by all accounts. And this creates an opening for big national organizations to get into the local…
Watch Out, Alaska, More Partisan News Is Coming Your Way
If you haven’t heard of States Newsroom, you soon will—the network of left-leaning outlets posing as just-the-facts news sites is expanding in force, with new offices in Juneau, Anchorage, and elsewhere in…
Ranked-Choice Voting: How RCV Works
At least 22 jurisdictions—including New York City, San Francisco, Maine, and Alaska—used ranked-choice voting (RCV) in their most recent elections. That number is expected to more than double in the…
Ranked-Choice Voting: Winning by Losing
New York City’s first experience with ranked-choice voting is far from the first controversy involving the system that has been pushed financially by the Left and in some cases is…
Ranked-Choice Voting: Catching On
During 2021 some 30 bills were introduced in state legislatures across the country to make their states RCV states. But the idea has particularly caught on at a local level,…
Ranked-Choice Voting: Biggest Advocates
While the most recent accounting found less than one-fifth of RCV races in the United States resulted in the first-place vote recipient losing the election, that number is bound to…