InfluenceWatch Podcast #400: 2026: A Look Ahead at Who Funds That
Hello, I’m Michael Watson and this is the 400th episode of the InfluenceWatch Podcast. For us, it is a time for looking back and a time for looking forward—we will…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #399: Will Wealth Tax Wreck the Economy?
You may have seen news reports that California is facing something called “outmigration,” in which residents – including some of that state’s most wealthy – are picking up and moving…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #397: Teachers Unions Target Target
That teachers’ unions are more interested in radical leftist political power than student achievement is increasingly recognized, and today’s guest brings two new pieces of evidence to pile on the…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #392: “Turtle Island” and Rejecting America
Just before Christmas, the federal Justice Department secured indictments against four alleged radical-left domestic terrorists alleged to be affiliated with the “Turtle Island Liberation Front.” Our colleague Robert Stilson is…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #388: Ripe for Fraud: Minnesota and the Feeding Our Future Story with Armin Rosen
Minnesota was liberal to begin with: It has the distinction of “voting blue, no matter who” since Jimmy Carter led the Democratic ticket, joining only the District of Columbia in…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #385: Effective Altruism, AI, and Shrimp Welfare
A defining feature of the creeping leftism the country has experienced over the last several years is just that: It’s creeping, coming in on padded feet behind the scenes until…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #384: When Nonprofits Break the Law
Regular listeners might remember that earlier this year, a North Dakota jury awarded $667 million to Energy Transfer, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline, for damages caused by Greenpeace.
InfluenceWatch Podcast #380: Tracking Soros Terror Funding
That left-wing violence is on the rise is undeniable; even The Atlantic, the bien-pensant left-wing magazine propped up by liberal heiress Laurene Powell Jobs’s billions has published a piece admitting…
InfluenceWatch Podcast 377: Ford, Failure, and Fallout: Lessons from Big Philanthropy’s Overreach
After widely publicized revelations of highly ideological nonprofits receiving federal funds and spending them on highly ideological projects, the Trump administration (and now, through the “rescissions” package and “One Big…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #376: Correcting the Record: Why the Smithsonian Needs Oversight
The Smithsonian Institution, the federal government-created and funded entity that manages the national museums in D.C., is under a very political review courtesy of the Trump administration. Progressives decry the…