Update: Major donors to the Virgina Redistricting ballot measure
It was the most expensive ballot measure in state history, and supporters of gerrymandering were by far the biggest spenders.
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The Money trying to gerrymander Virginia
Supporters of the redistricting scheme have deployed tens of millions of dollars from left-wing out-of-state political funders in their effort to push the amendment over the finish line.
InfluenceWatch Friday
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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…
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…