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InfluenceWatch Podcast #270: Durham’s Report on Russiagate
This week, Justice Department Special Counsel John Durham issued the final report on his investigation into Crossfire Hurricane, better known as the “Russia collusion investigation” targeting the 2016 presidential campaign…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on May 19, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #269: The Border Crisis
Title 42, an emergency policy allowing U.S. authorities to send border-crossers back whence they came (usually Mexico) on public-health grounds, is ending with the COVID-19 public health emergency. And with…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on May 12, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #264: I Will Not Eat the Bugs
National Public Radio is adamant: Nobody is going to make you eat the bugs. In fact, NPR says that believing governments and environmentalist activists want to make you eat the…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on April 7, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #263: Protecting Our Children
This week, a spree shooter killed six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee; our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims and the others affected.
by Kali Fontanilla, Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on March 31, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #262: The Authoritarian Legal Left
What connects the disruptive protests against a conservative judge’s speech to Stanford Law and the arrests of over two dozen demonstrators outside Atlanta? Both involved people aligned with the National…
by Sarah Lee, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on March 24, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #261: Stolen Youth
To readers of the Capital Research Center or InfluenceWatch, none of the findings reported by New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz and stay-at-home mother, children’s book editor, and political commentator Bethany…
by Michael Watson on March 17, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #259: Gore’s Climate Errors
Thirty years ago, Al Gore took office as Vice President of the United States. Over the intervening period, he has lost a campaign for President and reinvented himself as the…
by Parker Thayer, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on March 3, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #258: How to Save the West with Spencer Klavan
Are America and broader Western Civilization in crisis? Today’s guest, author Spencer Klavan, says yes, and he has written How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises to…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on March 2, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #257: Labor Questions
We’re doing something a little different this week: We are joined by Rusty Brown of the Freedom Foundation for a bit of government-worker union wonkery. Brown and his colleagues have…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on February 17, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #253: George Soros and the Media
It is well known that George Soros and his Open Society Foundations are major funders of left-wing advocacy, but a new report from Media Research Center shines the light…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 20, 2023