

InfluenceWatch Podcast
Capital Research Center
The podcast where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org, the Capital Research Center's online encyclopedia of the donors, non-profits, and influencers driving politics. You can watch the video version of the podcast at: http://bit.ly/2rnQygYListen to all episodes of InfluenceWatch Podcast at Ricochet.com.
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Jan 10, 2019 • 7min
Episode 56: Planned Parenthood Reveals The Truth
In this episode: Planned Parenthood steps on its own talking points about the centrality of abortion to its mission, Senators attack a Roman Catholic fraternal organization, and libertarians sue the federal government for censoring a man who believes he was a victim of abuse of power by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

Jan 3, 2019 • 7min
Episode 55: Obamacare's Defenders
In this episode: We take a deep dive into the front groups propping up the Left’s defenses of Obamacare, Planned Parenthood’s labor practices come under scrutiny, and Washington continues its biennial tradition of defeated and retired Congressmen hanging around town, this time as lobbyists. Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

Dec 20, 2018 • 8min
Episode 54: DC Antifa Leader UNMASKED!
In this episode: An anonymous intellectual leader of the leftist extremist movement Antifa is identified, labor unions and corporations join together to raise consumer prices for Americans, and the nominally “non-partisan” watchdog organization CREW deepens its ties to the institutional left. Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

Dec 13, 2018 • 9min
Episode 53: Anti-Semitism at the Women's March
In this episode: The Women’s March faces new accusations of anti-Semitism among its leadership, New Jersey Democrats prepare to institutionally gerrymander the state so obviously that national Democrats are embarrassed by them, and major election fraud allegations hit the Chicago city alderman’s district where the legislator some call Illinois’ “State Dictator” lives. Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capitalresearchcenter • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube • Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all • Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/capitalresearch

Dec 6, 2018 • 8min
Episode 52: Another Billionaire President?!
In this episode: left-wing billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer consider running for president, Al Sharpton participates in shady financial dealings, and we remember George H.W. Bush's "thousand points of light.” Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capital.research.center/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capital-research-center-dc

Nov 29, 2018 • 8min
Episode 51: The Draft Beto Scam
In this episode: A repeat creator of dubious “Scam PACs” makes one to “draft” failed U.S. Senate candidate Robert Francis O’Rourke, strange political bedfellows define a Supreme Court case on property rights, and Big Labor’s bank makes bank banking for Democrats. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capital.research.center/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capital-research-center-dc

Nov 15, 2018 • 8min
Episode 50: FDA Vaping Bans & Amazon HQ2
In this episode: The Food and Drug Administration announced wide-ranging regulations on the sale of electronic cigarettes, New York and Virginia have rolled out the red carpet for Amazon at substantial expense to state and local taxpayers, and United Teachers Los Angeles continues to prepare for a strike. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capital.research.center/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capital-research-center-dc

Nov 8, 2018 • 7min
Episode 49: 2018 Election Fails, UAW Scandal, & Alyssa Milano Win!
In this episode: Big left-wing influencers spend tens of millions pushing ballot measures that went down in defeat based on provisional returns, the United Auto Workers union hires non-union contractors to build their former president a lakefront cabin, and a liberal actress breaks with the Women’s March over its ties to bigoted, anti-semitic, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capital.research.center/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capital-research-center-dc

Nov 1, 2018 • 8min
Episode 48: Leftist Lobbyists Shake Down Chevron
In this episode: A left-wing lobbyist loses his law license after trying to shake down Chevron over alleged environmental violations in Ecuador; the U.S. Supreme Court hears Frank v. Gaos, a case regarding the legitimacy of class action lawsuit settlements which direct the money not to the injured class of persons, but rather trial lawyers; and the Freedom Foundation, a free-market organization in the Pacific Northwest, claims credit for persuading 25,000 government employees principally in Oregon and Washington to stop paying dues or agency fees to government worker unions. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capital.research.center/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capital-research-center-dc

Oct 26, 2018 • 13min
Episode 47: The Leftists Behind the Migrant Caravan
A 4000 person caravan of economic migrants is on its way to the US border. They have already broken through Mexico's border. Will they cross illegally into the United States? Hayden Ludwig & Jared Cummings discuss the challenges this movement poses and expose the shady pro-illegal immigration activists behind it. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org Pueblo Sin Fronteras – https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/pueblo-sin-fronteras/ Centro Sin Fronteras – https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/centro-sin-fronteras/ La Familia Latina Unida – https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/la-familia-latina-unida/ Open Society Foundations – https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/open-society-foundations/ Special Guests: Hayden Ludwig and Jared Cummings.