The way billionaires and big tech are attempting to affect democratic processes via political spending is on nearly everyone’s radar after the 2020 election. Jeff Bezos and Amazon have demonstrated…
On Monday, March 15, 2021, Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, testified (virtually) before the Committee on Government of the Arizona on private funding of the 2020 Arizona…
Perhaps the biggest underreported story of 2020 was how one billionaire, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, joined with a sleepy Chicago-based 501(c)(3) public charity to effectively privatize the 2020 election in…
February is typically a slow month for media hits in Washington, DC, with everyone focused on beginning the work of the new year rather than promoting what they’ve been doing.
CRC had a busy 2020. In mid-2020, CRC exposed how the Center for Tech and Civic life, a nonprofit founded by veteran organizers of the Democratic Party and armed with…
On Thursday, February 18, CRC president Scott Walter testified (virtually) before the House Government & Elections Committee in Arizona about election irregularities involving the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL),…
In 2020, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife contributed $350 million dollars to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). That money was then given to local boards…
CRC President Scott Walter talks with Melody Scalley on Politics on the Edge about Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan's massive $350 million grant to the Center for Tech and…
CTCL has publicly posted a “preliminary” list of grants it paid in 2020, including a whopping 474 local jurisdictions in Michigan and 217 in Wisconsin. This list does not provide…
January’s media hits are setting the tone for some of the topics we’ll be focused on in the coming year, including Big Tech, conservative versus liberal dark money giving, how…