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

Why are "dark money" interests opposing the proposed Alaskan constitution convention?
The main group opposing the convention is the "bipartisan" Defend Our Constitution, which claims to oppose "special interest groups and dark money." Left unmentioned is the half million dollars it received from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of the faces of the "dark money" giant Arabella Advisors. CRC's Hayden Ludwig exposes the hypocrisy here.

Where is the "emerging Democratic majority"?
In 2002, liberal scholars John Judis and Ruy Teixeira published a provocative thesis that a new Democratic majority would "emerge" by the end of the decade, enabled by growing ethnic minority populations. President Barack Obama's reelection seemed to confirm the thesis, but then cracks began to appear. CRC's Michael Watson demonstrates that demography is not destiny here.

Where did political think tanks begin?
Founded in 1963, the left-of-center Institute for Policy Studies pioneered the idea of an educational research institution acting as a political institution. During the Cold War, IPS scholar-activists attracted considerable attention for their anti-capitalism and positive portrayals of socialist and communist governments. CRC's Robert Stilson explores "the Stone Age of think tanks" here.

How bad is California's new "sectoral bargaining"?
California recently enacted a bill that imposes "sectoral bargaining" on counter-service restaurants. In sectoral bargaining, unions negotiate with the government and industrywide associations of employers on contracts that apply to everyone, not just union members. CRC's Michael Watson explains why this is perhaps the worst idea that labor unions have proffered in recent years here.

See also:

"Are we allowed to talk about George Soros?"
Revisiting conservative philanthropy 10 years later
Review of Wild Problems
Environmentalist opposition to carbon-free nuclear power
Green donors funding U.S. Senate races

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BLM Aftermath: Atlanta—Bullying Black Businesses

In BLM Aftermath: Atlanta, No Filters Media interviews Atlanta residents about the riots after the Michael Brown Jr was killed by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, and the effects of the growing Black Lives Matter movement. Residents recount how the riots destroyed businesses including many black-owned businesses. The crime rate skyrocketed in Atlanta. Movement leaders then falsely criticized the Georgia voting law as "Jim Crow 2.0"--a slander repeated by President Joe Biden--which led Major League Baseball to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta, costing the majority-black business community an estimated $100 million in lost business.

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InfluenceWatch Podcast 234

Education Exodus

In this episode: Our guest is not the only person who left California for Florida in the past few years. Kali Fontanilla left her teaching job in Monterey County after her school district pushed critical race theory and aligned ideologies and now runs the Exodus Institute, a homeschooling group based in Florida. She joins us to tell her story and discuss how education got to the present moment.