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.
"Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, a conservative watchdog group, compared ranked-choice elections to 'putting the votes in a blender.' He said the method does not honor the…
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.
“Soros is an interesting man: generous, idealistic, and egomaniacal,” according to Peretz. Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire and founder of the humongous Open Society Foundations (OSF), “sees himself at the center…
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.
In 2022, the Open Society Foundations gave $31,075,000 to the “Five Sisters”: the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund. The Five Sisters are…
Over the past almost two and a half centuries, faith in the common sense of Americans to make rational judgments—along with the protections of the First Amendment—preempted attempts to “protect”…
First Draft, launched in 2015 in partnership with the Google News Initiative and Bellingcat, with financial backing from Open Society Foundations. First Draft sought to combat allegations of election irregularities…
The Global Disinformation Index isn’t the only private group with tax dollars that targets “disinformation.” The Rand Corporation, one of the oldest and largest think tanks in the United States,…
In August 2022, multiple organizations on the left gathered in the webinar “Combating Disinformation and Misinformation in 21st Century Social Movement.” Those gathered for the webinar discussed the impact of…