gerrymandering

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #340: Tyrannosaurs, Bridges, Ballot Measures, and the Story of American Gerrymandering
As the nation awaits the final results in a few dozen House races, the subject of gerrymandering has once again reared its head. This little understood – and often misunderstood…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on November 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Michigan’s Racist Redistricting “Reform”
In November 2018, Michigan’s credulous voters adopted the Voters Not Politicians proposal to have an independent commission of citizens redraw state legislative districts, purportedly to end gerrymandering. The "nonpartisan" commission…
by Ken Braun on January 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Represent.US’s Flawed Gerrymandering Forecast
As the midterm elections approach and the 2020 Census recedes into the past, states are finalizing their congressional district maps, subject to the litigation that always accompanies acts as politically…
by Michael Watson on April 4, 2022

Organization Trends
What Is Arabella Advisors Holdings? And What Is It Hiding?
Arabella Advisors likes to present itself as a smallish consultancy that likes to help apolitical do-gooders do pretty much anything but politics, despite its $1.7 billion nonprofit empire that is…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 11, 2022

Commentary
Thanks, Marc and Mark!
Over the past two weeks, two recounts in Hampton Roads confirmed that the Republican Party had done the previously unthinkable: retake control of the Virginia House of Delegates. For their…
by Michael Watson on December 14, 2021

Organization Trends
Independent Redistricting Commissions Are Problematic, Says . . . the New York Times?
Recently, readers of the New York Times learned what readers of Capital Research already knew. Independent redistricting commissions fail to generate fairer maps than traditional legislative redistricting. In fact, commissions…
by Michael Watson on November 30, 2021

CRC in the News
Best of CRC Media Hits for October 2021
A highlight of October 2021 was the appearance of two separate op-eds in the respected Washington Examiner on the same day. Not only did our Research Director Mike Watson share…
by Sarah Lee on November 15, 2021

CRC in the News
Best of CRC Media Hits for September 2021
In outlets as diverse as the Washington Free Beacon, LifeSite, the Daily Signal, and RealClearEnergy, our original reporting on topics such as the left-wing funding of eco-conservatism and the union…
by Sarah Lee on October 21, 2021

Organization Trends
Eric Holder’s Gerrymandering Machine Lost Big in 2020
Eric Holder must have a tough time convincing his donors they got much “bang” for their bucks in 2020. The ultra-partisan attorney general-turned-redistricting litigator leads a set of three groups,…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 29, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Arabella’s “Dark Money” Activists Trying to Tilt 2021 Redistricting
With the 2020 Census behind us the country looks to the looming battle over the future of its congressional and state legislative districts for the next decade. But “dark money”…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 16, 2021