

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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Oct 18, 2018 • 10min
Episode 46: Brock Staffer Assaults Republican
A "tracker" for David Brock's left-wing American Bridge Super PAC was arrested after allegedly assaulting a Republican Party staffer, a new anti-dark money film gets its own funding from shady left-wing donors, and a former Bush administration staffer turned professional leftist tries to go after McDonald's. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org

Oct 11, 2018 • 9min
Episode 45: What George Soros Is Up To Today
George Soros's Open Society Foundations has appointed new leadership which includes a former Democratic congressman and a member of La Raza, the Soros funded "Win Justice PAC" is registering likely Democrats to vote in swing states, and the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters is using union dues to try to get its Trump supporting members to vote blue. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org

Oct 4, 2018 • 9min
Episode 44: Kavanaugh, 'Grievance Studies' Hoax, and the United Farm Workers
A professional leftist harasses Jeff Flake in an elevator over Kavanaugh, three academics sneak absurd fake papers into a number of academic journals for 'grievance studies' (such as women's studies), and after a 5 year battle employees of Gerawan Farming have decertified the United Farm Workers as their union. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org

Sep 27, 2018 • 15min
Episode 43: Big Labor, Antifa Attacks Cruz, and "Reproaction"
Big Labor massively funds the Democrats in the midterms, an Antifa & Democratic Socialists of America aligned group harasses Senator Ted Cruz, and NEO Philanthropy's "Reproaction" asks users to sign a petition to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey demanding that the platform censor pro-life content. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org

Sep 20, 2018 • 10min
Episode 42: Gosnell, Fight for $15, and "Shout Your Abortion"
NPR disallows the pro-life film Gosnell from advertising on their station, The SEIU's Fight for $15 minimum wage campaign strikes against McDonald's as the SEIU tries to unionize the fast food chain, and NEO Philanthropy's crazy "shout your abortion" campaign (it's exactly what it sounds like) melts down. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org

Sep 14, 2018 • 15min
Episode 41: ThinkProgress Goes Nuts
In this episode: Unions and left-wing “dark money” groups spend millions (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/missouri/articles/2018-09-07/unions-heavily-outspent-supporters-to-defeat-right-to-work) to rewrite Missouri’s labor laws, the national Planned Parenthood abortion advocacy organization names its new president (http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-leana-wen-new-job-20180912-story.html), and the well-connected left-wing blog, ThinkProgress, goes nuts (https://freebeacon.com/blog/thinkprogress-angry-facebook-called-fake-clickbait-fake-clickbait/) after conservatives call it out for misleading headlines about Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org (https://www.influencewatch.org).

Sep 6, 2018 • 43min
Episode 40: The Death Penalty Debate
In this episode: Should the death penalty stick around, or is it time for it to go? And who are the groups fighting on each side of this issue? Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org

Aug 30, 2018 • 49min
Episode 39: Big Tech Censors Conservatives
In this episode: Google, Facebook, and twitter have been regularly criticized for censoring conservative speech, and now the President has entered the ring condemning the companies. What's going on here? Watch the video version of the show here: https://youtu.be/6fWNOYoyJ8Q Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org

Aug 23, 2018 • 44min
Episode 38: Free Speech on Campus
In this episode: As students return to campus for the Fall semester, what fights can we expect in this campus culture war this year? And how did free speech on campus get so marginalized to begin with? Watch the video version of the show here: https://youtu.be/RmFg6w3FhLU Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org

Aug 16, 2018 • 45min
Episode 37: Eric Holder's Gerrymander
In this episode: Eric Holder and his National Democratic Redistricting Committee are planing to use the next census to gerrymander in the Democrats' favor, potentially changing the future of American politics. Hayden Ludwig fills in for Scott Walter. Watch the video version of the show here: https://youtu.be/TqZG7fb0icY Learn more about the organizations and influencers discussed in the show at InfluenceWatch.org