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

  • Is China's propaganda campaign in retreat?
    In years past, Soviet communists knew "just a handful of saboteurs" could greatly influence if not hijack an organization. Today, Chinese communists continue this strategy. Much wealthier than Soviet Russia ever was, China has spent billions funding propaganda on college campuses and in American think tanks to influence how Americans think about China and their own country. CRC's Sarah Lee reports here.
  • What's to be done about Big Tech?
    The recent avalanche of censorship from Big Tech companies has been shocking. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media platforms tried to silence a sitting president. Apple, Amazon, and Google decided within a single weekend to eliminate Parler, a competitor. But this problem has been building for years, as Richard Berman reports here.
  • How big is the Left's "dark money" swamp?
    We investigated the finances of the Left's four biggest, most influential pass-through funders: Arabella Advisors, the Tides Nexus, NEO Philanthropy, and the Proteus Fund. In 2019, these "dark money" empires brought in $1.7 billion, passing along the money to a variety of left-wing causes while effectively camouflaging the sources of those funds. CRC's Hayden Ludwig exposes the ocean of cash here.
  • What are the limits of Soros's influence?
    Billions of dollars have flowed through George Soros's tangled web of Open Society organizations and affiliates. They've used the funds to support a variety of left-wing causes, including massive funding of district attorney candidates in local U.S. elections, meddling in European parliamentary elections, and assisting migrant caravans attempting to cross the U.S. southern border. CRC's Shane Devine and Jon Rodeback pull on a few threads of the mystery of Soros and his money here. Read the full report here.

Featured Video

How a Swiss Billionaire
Funds Fake Advocacy
on the American Left

Swiss billionaire financier Hansjörg Wyss prefers to stay under the radar. His "dark money" donations obscure his relationship to several controversial public policy campaigns. Many Americans don't realize that the messages from the "grassroots" warriors that he funds are really just written by partisan political operatives.

Watch the 3-minute video here.

InfluenceWatch Podcast 172

Using the Courts to
Push Unpopular Policy


In this episode: Radical environmentalists have a problem: Their policies are unpopular, and even a unified Democratic government aligned with them can only advance so many restrictions on personal choice, industrial activity, and job opportunities before it provokes public revolt. But they have one powerful trick to get around public opposition: The courts.

CRC investigator Robert Stilson joins us to report on the tactics that environmentalists use to have judges force their policies on the rest of us.

 

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