redistricting

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast 375: Breaking Down the Census Citizenship Question and The Funding Behind the Fight
At the beginning of August, President Donald Trump took to social media and informed the world he had instructed the Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on “a new…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson, Scott Walter on August 19, 2025

Deception & Misdirection
Some thoughts on the gerrymandering wars
Legally and geographically, Texas Republicans have a lot more room to maneuver than California Democrats. And look to Iowa to truly limit gerrymandering.
by Michael Watson on August 14, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #351: Michigan’s Redistricting Commission Chaos
Big Philanthropy and the so-called “good government” groups that it funds have a “solution” (I’m making air-quotes) to partisan gerrymandering: The “independent redistricting commission.” With funding from left-of-center groups like…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on February 7, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #340: Tyrannosaurs, Bridges, Ballot Measures, and the Story of American Gerrymandering
As the nation awaits the final results in a few dozen House races, the subject of gerrymandering has once again reared its head. This little understood – and often misunderstood…
by Sarah Lee, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on November 8, 2024

Featured Items
Capital Research, February/March 2024
In the February/March 2024 issue of Capital Research magazine, Italian energy giant Enel cashes in on federal climate pork, the Progressive International gathers together the radical fringes of global leftism,…
by CRC Staff on May 15, 2024

Organization Trends
Michigan’s Racist Redistricting “Reform”
In November 2018, Michigan’s credulous voters adopted the Voters Not Politicians proposal to have an independent commission of citizens redraw state legislative districts, purportedly to end gerrymandering. The "nonpartisan" commission…
by Ken Braun on January 8, 2024

Testimony
Text of Scott Walter’s Testimony Before the House Ways and Means Committee
Foreign money in our politics is opposed by nearly everyone—left, right, and center. Our happy task of bringing Left and Right together on this threat should be even easier, because…
by Scott Walter on December 14, 2023

Testimony
Scott Walter Testifies About Foreign Money in American Politics Before House Ways and Means Committee
Testifying before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, discussed foreign money in American politics. For example, Over the past two decades,…
by Scott Walter on December 14, 2023

Organization Trends
How the Arabella Network Meddled in the Redistricting Process
Fair Representation in Redistricting (FRR), a front for the New Venture Fund was spawned to influence the states’ map-drawing process to favor “communities of color and other historically underrepresented communities”—in…
by Hayden Ludwig on February 14, 2023

Special Report
Lessons from the 2022 Midterms: Playing to Win the Game
Despite recapturing the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans were disappointed by the outcome of the midterm elections. Instead of a “red wave” sweeping GOP candidates into offices…
by Michael Watson on December 7, 2022