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Who's on Biden's transition team?
Joe Biden's Cabinet nominees are receiving press attention, but you should know about the hundreds of people quietly selected for the teams that will hire thousands of top staffers in Biden's administration. These teams overseeing individual federal departments and agencies will have a profound affect on public policy. Many team members currently work in left-wing foundations, colleges, and nonprofits. That's disturbing, note CRC's Sarah Lee and Robert Stilson, given recent scandals that reveal foreign nations' infiltration of the nonprofit sector. Learn more here. (For a complete list of Biden's transition team members and Cabinet nominees, visit our InfluenceWatch profile here.)

Did the Democrats win a Pyrrhic victory?
The Electoral College has met to formally elect Joe Biden president of the United States, but he did not win the landslide experts predicted. Beyond the narrowness of Biden's official margin of victory, the Republicans may control the Senate and the Democrats have a razor-thin majority in the House. On the state level, the Republicans not only did not lose control of any state legislative chambers, they added the New Hampshire legislature. Michael Watson surveys the Democrats' down-ballot carnage and its implications for redistricting here.

How big is the left-wing advantage in nonprofit funding?
A couple of years ago, CRC issued a report on left-wing funding of "charitable" nonprofits -- the 501(c)(3) groups that try to influence public policy as think tanks and advocacy groups (for instance, John Podesta's Center for American Politics and Media Matters). We found a 3.4 to 1 imbalance in funding, compared to their conservative counterparts like the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. Now we've updated the report and found that the Left's advantage grew to 3.7 to 1 in the 2018 election cycle. CRC's Shane Devine and Michael Watson crunch the numbers here.

Who spent more than the DNC on the election?
In the 2020 election, Democrats had no shortage of left-wing "dark money" groups at their backs. Arabella Advisors' "dark money" network, for instance, raked in $731 million in 2019 and spent $648 million -- or roughly $200 million more, in one year, than the Democratic National Committee spent in the two-year 2020 election cycle. CRC's Hayden Ludwig begins painting the picture of left-wing "dark money" in the 2020 election here.

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How the Left Shared My Hacked Emails
While Hiding the Bidens’

After the New York Post published emails from Hunter Biden that demonstrated Joe Biden lied about his involvement with Hunter's business dealings, Twitter censored the blockbuster story for including allegedly "hacked materials." But the Left doesn't seem to have any problem sharing hacked materials when it's convenient for their narrative, as CRC's Michael Hartmann, who had his emails hacked, can tell you.

Watch Hartmann's 3-minute video here.

InfluenceWatch Podcast 148: From Zuckerberg to Election Officials, Financing the 2020 Elections

In this episode, we look at states as they finalize their results or find the ballots they misplaced or lost the sticky notes for -- looking at you, New York 22. Now the debate over election procedures shifts from the 2020 elections to protecting election integrity for the future. And while much heat and light has focused on voting machines, less light has shone on the influencers that exploited the COVID pandemic in order to fundamentally alter how elections were conducted. Joining me today is Capital Research Center president Scott Walter to discuss one of those influencers: the Center for Technology and Civic Life, which spent millions of Mark Zuckerberg's dollars.

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