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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

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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