

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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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.

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


