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

Have teachers unions overplayed their hand?
As harm to students grows, state legislatures in both red and blue states are acting against union obstinacy in order to get children back into classrooms. Some states are enacting even bolder reforms that will increase parental power over education and limit the monopoly that teachers unions have enjoyed for decades. CRC's Michael Watson surveys the battlefields here.

On Monday, I testified before the Arizona Senate.
Continuing CRC's tour of legislatures, I testified (virtually) before the Arizona Senate's Committee on Government. Using CRC research on the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), I revealed how CTCL, powered by hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, intervened in Arizona's election. Read my testimony here or watch it here (including my tussles with a hostile Senator). Watch my earlier testimony before an Arizona House committee here. The Arizona House has passed a ban on nonprofit electioneering like CTCL committed in November, and the Senate is expected to follow suit.

Why is the Left waging a war on coal?
With President Biden in the White House and radical environmentalists in the driver's seat, the Left continues its long war against coal. Eco-activists, with their rich and powerful allies in the oil and natural gas industries, will use ideological pressure campaigns and crony capitalism to advance their "green" agenda, jacking up electricity rates and sticking ratepayers with the bill. CRC's Hayden Ludwig explores the Left's coal-free, "green" new world here.

What is American Compass thinking?
A vocal faction of "labor conservatives" who form a "redistributionist right" are bent on importing social-democratic European labor relations models into the American economy. Why they want to strengthen organized labor, a pillar of the Left, is mystifying. As a partial answer, Michael Watson examines the finances of American Compass, a leader in the "conservative labor movement," and finds two major left-wing institutional funders here.

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CPAC Panel: Shining a Light on the Left's 2020 Shadow Campaign

Kristen Eastlick, senior vice president at Capital Research Center, spoke as part of a panel at CPAC 2021. She discussed the Left's increasing dominance of the nonprofit world, CRC’s work on Antifa, and the role of CRC's InfluenceWatch as a "Wikipedia of the influencers," among other topics.

Watch the 45-minute video here.

InfluenceWatch Podcast 160

The Worst Bill in Congress

In this episode: This week, the U.S. House of Representatives again advanced the odious catalog of Big Labor favors known as the PRO Act on a nearly party-line vote. While the legislation will likely stall in the Senate as long as the filibuster remains in effect, the proposal remains a priority of the Biden administration, which means Big Labor's Sword of Damocles will hang over American workers and American businesses for at least the remainder of this Congress. Joining me to discuss the threat posed by the legislation is Ed Egee, vice president for workforce development at the National Retail Federation.

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