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

What tactic are billionaires using to hide their left-wing donations?
The Left has become expert at funneling billions of dollars to left-wing causes through nonprofits. Yet some major left-wing donors have begun using a different legal structure to side-step IRS disclosure requirements and the ban on foundations intervening in elections. CRC's Hayden Ludwig examines this stealthy approach in his Washington Free Beacon column here.

Where did the 2020 election's nonprofit juggernaut come from?
The leaders of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which spent hundreds of millions influencing the 2020 election, previously worked at another nonprofit, the New Organizing Institute (NOI), which the Washington Post praised as "the Democratic Party's Hogwarts for digital wizardry." After NOI imploded in 2015, three senior staffers went to CTCL. They retained the muscle memory of NOI's aggressive get-out-the-vote model, which they deployed to devastating effect in 2020. Hayden Ludwig continues CRC's occasional series on CTCL here.

What might a "war" with Big Tech look like?
Big Tech is in big trouble with a lot of people and for a lot of reasons. It's variously angered liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats. Back in October 2017, CRC's Michael Hartmann observed, "We're not that far away from an all-out war on Big Tech [that] is shaping up to be some combination of cross-ideological and bipartisan." Read his prophetic, still relevant article here.

Who's who in the Biden transition?
Beyond President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet selections are 40 agency review teams that will play critical roles in hiring new bureaucratic leaders. Accordingly, CRC's Robert Stilson looks at the professional backgrounds and affiliations of these hundreds of members of the Biden transition team and the influences that they bring with them. Read his report on the agency review teams for the Departments of Justice, Labor, and Education, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency here.

Featured Interview

Shelby Steele and Eli Steele on
What Killed Michael Brown?

CRC's Joseph (Jake) Klein interviews Shelby Steele and Eli Steele on their recent movie What Killed Michael Brown? In their documentary, they investigate how the 2014 shooting of a black teen, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white policeman shook the nation to its core--and more broadly how liberalism has devastated the black community.

Watch the 40-minute video here.
Read the transcript here.

InfluenceWatch Podcast 152:

Aggressively Political Philanthropy

In this episode: In recent years, American big business, big labor, and other "bigs" have become aggressively more aligned with progressive liberalism--even those bigs, like Big Philanthropy, that are technically required by law not to intervene in elections. While Big Philanthropy has always been left-leaning, it has become so openly Democratic that Bill Schambra, a conservative philanthropic scholar, has observed, "it's no longer suspect, or even noteworthy, to treat nonprofits and foundations as anything other than useful tools to 'build a Democratic Party that can translate [progressive values] into public policy as a true governing majority.'"

Joining me to discuss how we got here and the consequences of philanthropy losing its political neutrality is Mike Hartmann, head of Capital Research Center’s Center for Strategic Giving and editor of the Giving Review blog at Philanthropy Daily.

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