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

Is this the best propaganda Hollywood can produce?
Dark Waters is Hollywood's latest effort to scare moviegoers into voting against their own interests. Big stars headlined the movie, and a multi-million-dollar pipeline of "dark money" financed the product. It flopped. CRC's Robert Stilson and Hayden Ludwig examine the film and its financing. They expose abundant hysteria, very little science, baseless claims, and millions of dollars flowing from the Left. Read their critique here.

Is Antifa active in the riots?
The Left is trying to claim Antifa's role in the riots is a figment of the President's imagination, and Politico wanted to help the Left push that claim, but they were kind enough to let me push back. I emphasized that Americans have already seen Antifa's tactics on campus, where they burn buildings and silence others' speech through mob rule. I also objected to the way the Left tries to claims its violence should be protected "speech." That lets the Left claim it's fine if they "burn up police headquarters and police cars and loot stores." Read the whole article here.
Who benefits from election chaos?
Leftists know that changing the rules of the game can bring victory, and they've long tried to change election rules to do just that. Then COVID-19 came. Facing a contentious race, Democrats turned to their vast network of moneymen and set about exploiting the new crisis. They're pushing to expand vote by mail and ballot-harvesting, which means collecting mail-in ballots using third-party operators. CRC's Sarah Lee identifies the risks here.

Which European nonprofit is financing migrant caravans in Europe and the Americas?
For several years we've seen a series of migrant crises, including the 2015 European refugee crisis and the caravan debacles at the U.S.-Mexico and Mexico-Guatemala borders. CRC's Shane Devine takes a closer look at Front Line Defenders, headquartered in Ireland, which focuses on supporting "human rights defenders" who assist migrants in a variety of ways. He reports here.

Why is an international nonprofit pushing abortion in the Third World?
Population Action International (PAI) has roots in the "population control" hysteria of the 1960s. Time has since refuted the doomsday predictions of global overpopulation that underpin PAI's operations. The earth's population has doubled even as the global poverty rate dropped from 60 percent to less than 10 percent. CRC's Hayden Ludwig exposes how PAI is mired in the past here.

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As we live through a global pandemic, are free markets endangering the world? Absolutely not. Despite what many claim, freeing businesses to join the fight against the virus is a success story.

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InfluenceWatch Podcast 121
Margaret Sanger & the Origins of Birth Control

In this episode, we interview CRC’s Hayden Ludwig on his five-part series on Margaret Sanger and her outsized influence on the Left. Ludwig introduces Sanger as a proponent of population control and birth control. He examines in detail Sanger’s desire to control who could give birth, favoring policies that weeded out what Sanger and compatriots considered undesirable people—including the poor, indigent, and disabled. Finally, Ludwig explains how these and other radical ideas—even as they fell out of favor for their association with the Nazis in World War II—have never really disappeared and still show up in many liberal policy ideas today.

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