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InfluenceWatch Podcast #295: Are Environmentalists Foreign Agents?
Are prominent environmentalist groups working on behalf of foreign powers—and wouldn’t that mean they have to declare it under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? That is the question that Senator…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on December 1, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Episode #294: Scandal at Stacey’s Shop
Since 2018, Big Philanthropy has offered great praise for one particular politician without an office to hold: Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who claimed her 2018 loss in an election…
by Sarah Lee, Parker Thayer, Michael Watson on November 17, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #292: Surprised by Campus Radicals? You Shouldn’t Be.
Since the horrific Hamas terrorist massacres in southern Israel in early October, American observers have been horrified by something that really should not be happening: Mass marches of left-wing students…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on November 3, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #291: The Left of the Left
They are the “Left of the Left”: The Democratic Socialists of America, a socialist political faction influential in the Democratic Party. Who are they, what do they stand for, and…
by Sarah Lee, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on October 27, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #290: The Black Hole of Terror Funding
I’m Sarah Lee, and this is the Influence Watch podcast. With me today is my colleague Ryan Mauro, an expert on terror funding and the movements of terror cells across…
by Ryan Mauro, Sarah Lee on October 20, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #289: The Arabella Machine Rolls On
The Arabella Advisors-managed network of liberal dark money groups that includes the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund continues to attract attention. Not…
by Sarah Lee, Parker Thayer, Michael Watson on October 6, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #284: The Anti-Nuclear Movement
The weather is unreliable, and often unpredictable—anyone who has grumbled at the weatherman’s forecast knows this. But increasingly, environmentalists demand that only the weather can generate the electricity that modern…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on September 1, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #283: Partisan Charities
Electioneering by charities—“501(c)(3)s” in the trade—was forbidden, to begin with. But that has not stopped liberal Big Philanthropy from using charitable organizations for activities that dance along that legal line…
by Parker Thayer, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on August 25, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #277: Socialists in the Classroom
As bad and left-wing as teachers unions can be, for some union activists and leftist agitators the normal level of leftism just isn’t enough. For that reason, the Democratic Socialists…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on July 18, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #274: George Soros’s Successor
George Soros, the famous liberal billionaire investor-philanthropist, is over 90 years old, which would motivate anyone in his position to think about his succession. This week, the Wall Street…
by Sarah Lee, Parker Thayer, Michael Watson on June 16, 2023