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Book Profile
Philanthropy in George Packer’s “Four Americas”
For his new Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, George Packer—“the quintessential establishment liberal intellectual,” as aptly described by David Klion—has put together a survey of four different…
by Michael E. Hartmann on July 12, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
A Saintly Conspiracy to Save Democracy?
Molly Ball’s extraordinary admission in Time magazine that the Left hatched a scheme to jigger the 2020 election in their favor is instructive on not only how the leftist machine…
by Scott Walter on May 11, 2021

Featured Items
Featured Video: The Shadow Campaign to Manipulate the 2020 Election
A cabal of left-wing activists lobbied for instituting less secure voting procedures which favored Democrats. They spent massive amounts to promote those systems, and they pushed social media companies to…
by CRC Staff on April 21, 2021

Organization Trends
The Political Influence of Billionaires
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…
by John Byrne on March 24, 2021

Organization Trends
Former Arabella “Pop-Up” Caught Blacklisting Trump Administration Officials
In February, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, the House’s main investigative body, began an inquiry into a smear campaign run by two leftist groups with overlapping boards and…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 23, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
The Groups and Persons Mentioned in Time’s “Shadow Campaign” Article
UPDATED March 2, 2021: expanded entries for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Molly Ball, and Vanita Gupta.  On February 4, 2021, Time published “The Secret History of the Shadow…
by CRC Staff on February 26, 2021

Organization Trends
Corporations Ditch the GOP After Capitol Hill Riot
In the wake of the Capitol Hill siege, a slew of corporations announced that they would be cutting ties to Republican lawmakers who voted against certifying the election of Joe…
by Shane Devine on February 23, 2021

Philanthropy
Liberal Philanthropy’s Role in the 2020 Election
Molly Ball’s lengthy article in the most-recent edition of Time, which purports to tell “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” is sure to reverberate for a…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 9, 2021

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #155: Radical Republicans, Corporate Democrats?
Continuing what has become something of a series on how American big business, big labor, and other “bigs” have gotten aggressively more aligned with progressive liberalism, today we turn to…
by Shane Devine, Michael Watson on February 8, 2021

Organization Trends
Party Realignment: Radical Republicans, Corporate Democrats?
Historically, white-collar business professionals were usually Republican, and the blue-collar working classes were Democrats. But this has been gradually changing… Working folks who used to be the staunchest Democrats voted…
by Shane Devine on February 1, 2021