John, I'm excited to share the latest from CRC with you:What is "dark money"? ([link removed]
A decade ago, Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation coined the pejorative "dark money" to describe donations to 501(c)(4) nonprofits that can't be traced to their donors. Since then, partisans like Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and author Jane Mayer have used the term to attack conservative donors. CRC's Michael Hartmann takes a tour through the tangled history of 501(c)(4)s and how the Supreme Court's decision in Citizen's United altered the political landscape here ([link removed] the sky falling? ([link removed]
To listen to die-hard environmentalists, the planet is fast approaching an environmental apocalypse--which can be averted by swapping out gasoline-powered vehicles and coal plants for electric cars and renewable energy sources. Back in reality, more people are alive today than at any time before, and almost all of them are richer, better fed, and better clothed than their ancestors. CRC's Hayden Ludwig ponders whether we'll survive the elites' solutions to the "climate crisis" here ([link removed] staffing the Biden administration? ([link removed]
Unsurprisingly, the Biden administration has drawn personnel from the Biden and Obama Foundations and from Big Philanthropy, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Markle Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Other Biden officials came from the "dark money" philanthropic consulting firm Arabella Advisors and its minions and from the left-wing donor collective Democracy Alliance. CRC's Robert Stilson continues his occasional series on "Nonprofits in the Biden Administration" here ([link removed] and here ([link removed] does the Left create pop-up advocacy groups? ([link removed]
An existing tax-deductible nonprofit can use its status to "fiscally sponsor" more nonprofits. People for the American Way (PFAW), a project of the Tides Foundation known for inventing "borking" (smearing a judicial nominee) was the first recorded political group created this way. Fast forward to today, Arabella Advisors controls four in-house nonprofits, each of which sponsors dozens or hundreds of "pop-up" groups. Hayden Ludwig investigates the maze of fiscal sponsorship here ([link removed]
New Issue
Capital Research Magazine
July/August 2021
e Not Destiny
The July/August 2021 issue of Capital Research is now available online. Here’s a peek at what’s inside: Richard Berman looks at Big Tech censorship. Michael Watson updates CRC's 2019 survey of the media landscape. Hayden Ludwig and Kevin Mooney expose the major funders behind the environmental campaigns to turn Pennsylvania "green." Michael Watson examines the evolution of "social justice unionism." Ken Braun reviews The Victory Lab, which in 2012 previewed the machinery the Left used to elect Joe Biden president in 2020.
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InfluenceWatch Podcast 179
Social Justice Unionism
In this episode ([link removed] Sarah Lee interviews CRC's Research Director Mike Watson on the four-part series he penned for Capital Research magazine on "social justice unionism." Broadly defined, social justice unionism is the embrace of social justice activism on the part of both public- and private-sector unions, even when the activism involved has very little to with the original mandate of labor unions. Mike explains why this happens, what it says about unions' usefulness in the modern era, and if conservatives who believe embracing unions is wise should rethink that strategy (hint: they should).
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