John, I'm excited to share the latest from CRC with you:

How are schools radicalizing the next generation?
Learning for Justice, funded and run by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is providing easy-to-use, readymade lessons to teachers. School districts love the lessons because they're free, except the lessons are infused with toxic, left-leaning narratives that instill a crippling victim mentality in the next generation. CRC's Kali Fontanilla exposes the SPLC's scam here.

Who hasn't been censored on Twitter?
On November 4, 2020, Jamie Roe astutely observed on Twitter that the election returns from Antrim County, Michigan, were obviously wrong. The initial returns gave Joe Biden a solid win in that Republican stronghold. An hour later election officials admitted the mistake and corrected it. For his correct observation, Roe's tweet was flagged as “disinformation” and submitted to Twitter. CRC's Ken Braun explores the troubling implications here.

Who's mad about the end of COVID lockdowns?
Scientific evidence has confirmed that school closures, mask mandates, and other "non-pharmaceutical interventions" failed to control COVID-19. And at least 30 states, mostly with Republican legislatures, have curtailed the powers of public health bureaucrats since 2020. The Washington Post opined, "Conservative and libertarian forces have defanged much of the nation's public health system." CRC's Michael Watson cheers them on here.

How much did Tides Nexus rake in?
The Left is fond of criticizing "dark money" for its corrupting influence on American politics. The Left should know. The Arabella Advisors network raked in $1.6 billion in 2021, followed closely by the Tides Nexus funds' $1.5 billion. That $3.1 billion was nearly double the combined fundraising by the central Democratic and Republican Parties during the 2022 election cycle. CRC’s Parker Thayer traces the flood of money given to left-wing activism here.

See also:

Kali Fontanilla, CRC’s newest research fellow
Review of Waging a Good War
Review of Stolen Youth
Video: Enviro Silence on East Palestine

Featured Video

BLM Aftermath: Houston

In perhaps one of the greatest messaging coups of all time, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation--an international effort funded by some of the most powerful and wealthy leftists admittedly steeped in the Marxist playbook--took the true statement that black lives matter and used it to create chaos and destroy the livelihoods of the very people it was professing to help.

BLM Aftermath: Houston examines what happens when a city refuses to bend to the will of the activists who descend on their city and choose to deny them the chaos they seek. Houston, birthplace of George Floyd, held two funerals--one led by Rev. Al Sharpton--but managed to keep the rioting at bay. BLM Aftermath: Houston examines why that city was successful in maintaining peace during the tumultuous summer of 2020--and why it can serve as a lesson to the rest of the country.

Watch the entire 11-minute video here.

InfluenceWatch Podcast 261

Stolen Youth

In this episode: To readers of the Capital Research Center or InfluenceWatch, none of the findings reported by New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz and stay-at-home mother, children's book editor, and political commentator Bethany Mandel in their book Stolen Youth: How Radicals are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation will be that surprising. Capture of institutions ranging from school boards to the American Academy of Pediatrics by left-of-center interests will be familiar.

But the details and personal accounts Mandel and Markowicz summon to warn parents about the direct challenges by left-wing interests to their children's well-being are alarming. Joining Michael Watson to discuss the book is co-author Bethany Mandel.