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Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #293: Half a Billion for Liberal Journalism (w/Scott Walter)
As if the national press were not liberal enough or sufficiently committed to the national left-wing agenda, Big Philanthropy is throwing hundreds of millions of dollars to make local journalism…
by Parker Thayer, Michael Watson, Scott Walter on November 10, 2023

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on November 3, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: Nonprofit Donations
We have more people in prison per capita than almost every other nation, San Francisco is being overrun by thieves, and other big cities have recently set new records for…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: A Tale of Four Cities
Some big cities have recently become sharply worse, but the full picture is more complicated. In 2021, records were set for total murders in 10 of America’s 40 most populated…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: The Soros Prosecutors
Since 2016, according to research tabulated by the Capital Research Center, the network of political committees funded by George Soros have contributed $35 million to the election of left-wing district…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: Status Quo Supporters
While it’s easy to critique the outcome in some of the cities where Soros has planted new prosecutors, it’s also easy to misinterpret his motives. Not without reason, he believes…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: Big Winners
Of the big gusher of criminal justice reform money flowing against this status quo since 2020, a lot of it has washed over the advocacy group FWD.us, and the FWD.us…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: Soft Eyes for Solutions
In between, groups and donors from all partisan persuasions (and none in particular) are doing good work, often the same work, because they’re looking at the problem with soft eyes.
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Deception & Misdirection
Arabella’s “Dark Money” Wants to Silence Free Speech
Enemies of free speech apparently feel right at home in the country’s largest “dark money” lobbying empire. Case-in-point, the Dangerous Speech Project aims to “inoculate” Americans against right-wing “hate” and…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 31, 2023

Organization Trends
Dark-Money Groups Push Vote by Mail
The states have declared war on “Zuck bucks.” As of writing, at least 24 states and four counties have banned or restricted private funding for elections. Despite some left-wing intransigence,…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 22, 2022