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InfluenceWatch Podcast #347: Texas Battles DEI
The incoming second Trump administration has vowed to take on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies in the federal government and in federally supported programs. In that, the incoming administration is…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 10, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #346: New Year, New Administration, New Nonprofits
Well, 2025 is here. And while it came in rather tragically in the South – and we do extend our condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack in New…
by Sarah Lee, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on January 3, 2025

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #344: New Management for the FBI
A new presidential administration does not typically mean new management at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but typically the incumbent FBI director did not oversee the FBI when it raided…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on December 13, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #342: Arabella’s Tax (Return) Day
For us at the Capital Research Center, Christmas comes in mid-November. Not because of election results or an inability to read the calendar, but because of the Internal Revenue Service’s…
by Parker Thayer, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on November 22, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast 341: Progressive Transgender Coercion
The Wall Street Journal called it the “sleeper issue” of the 2024 election—“progressive transgender coercion.” But our guest today argues that it wasn’t the “sleeper issue”—it was the central issue.
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on November 15, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #339: Election Innovations: Legal or Loopholes?
As political parties, candidates, and the increasingly relevant party-aligned but technically independent activist groups that have come to dominate the post-McCain-Feingold world work to draw Americans out to the polls,…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on November 1, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast 334: CHNV, or Biden’s Immigrant Visa Bypass
Immigration policy is an absolute mess—such a mess, that it can be hard for non-specialists to know even what is going on. And that’s where I for one sit regarding…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on September 20, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #333: Hoovering Up Henry Money, or How to Get a Ford Foundation Grant
We’ve covered “megaphone philanthropy”—the emphasis some left-wing activist groups and their multi-million or even billion-dollar funders place on street-protest imagery, often featuring people yelling through bullhorns—and the Ford Foundation, one…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on September 13, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Podcast
The InfluenceWatch Podcast goes beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from Capital Research Center’s website InfluenceWatch.org, an online…
by CRC Staff on September 11, 2024

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InfluenceWatch Episode #331: Indiana Battles BlackRock
BlackRock, Inc, a multinational investment company and one of the world’s largest asset managers with a $10 trillion portfolio, has been deeply involved in pushing the politically aligned environmental, social,…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on August 30, 2024