InfluenceWatch Friday
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Teachers Unions, Super PACs, and the 2024 Election
A super PAC, as they are commonly called, is short for super political action committee. It is technically not a political action committee but rather an independent expenditure-only committee that…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #339: Election Innovations: Legal or Loopholes?
As political parties, candidates, and the increasingly relevant party-aligned but technically independent activist groups that have come to dominate the post-McCain-Feingold world work to draw Americans out to the polls,…
A Conversation with John Ehrett (Part 1 of 2)
During a panel discussion about the strained and deteriorating relationship between conservatism and corporations at the National Conservatism conference last July in Washington, D.C., Capitol Hill staff attorney and writer John…
Campaign Finance and Election Integrity
Scott Walter and Josh Findlay discuss campaign finance and election integrity, the three rivers of election financing, and how nonprofits have become more powerful than the Democratic Party.
Left-Wing Billionaire Donald Sussman
It is unclear whether Donald Sussman is technically a billionaire since so much of his wealth is hidden, but his billionaire-sized contributions and connections to Democratic political candidates undoubtedly earn…
Americans for Public Trust Sues to Expose Hansjörg Wyss, the New George Soros
When most conservatives think of shadowy liberal mega-donors, they think of George Soros. They should add one more to the list: Hansjörg Wyss. Unlike the Hungarian-born Soros, Wyss isn’t a…
The Murdoch Mission to Save Democracy: The Rest of the Story
On March 14 the New York Times ran a profile of wealthy lefty activist Kathryn Murdoch, daughter-in-law of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, under the cloying headline “How a Murdoch Hopes…
Elections in Jeopardy
On The Jacki Daily Show, Sarah Lee details foreign influence and money that targets U.S. elections, and Hayden Ludwig gives an overview of the decades-long war on the Electoral College.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Partisan Use of Charities
The problem is Mr. Zuckerberg’s apparently partisan use of charities, rather than political groups, for his donations. The IRS states that such groups “are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly…