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

• How bad are public schools?
  In school districts across the country, we are seeing a shift in priorities from student to administrator—not even to the educator. This shift in priorities is destroying neighborhoods and creating a generation of leaders that will be less educated and more corruptible. Without an educated and engaged public, the United States will not long endure. Guest coauthor Armstrong Williams argues for making education our number one priority here.

• Has Al Gore ever been right on the climate?
  It has been 30 years since Al Gore was transformed from forgettable U.S. senator and presidential also-ran into an influential and enduring climate alarmist cultural icon. He has won an Oscar and even the Nobel Peace Prize for being reliably wrong on energy policy, hurricanes, and most anything else of consequence. CRC’s Ken Braun peers into the dark alternate present that could have been here.

• Could Kansas go blue?
  The left’s multi-million-dollar activist machine is turning its sights on Kansas in hopes of flipping it blue—and there is no shortage of get-out-the-vote money for the job. At the scheme’s center is the Kansas Health Foundation, a “social justice” advocacy group masquerading as a local-issues charity. CRC’s Hayden Ludwig surfs the waves of voter registration money flowing into the Sunflower State here.

• Who’s bankrolling the soft-on-crime “reforms” in the District?
  One of the biggest supporters of the District of Columbia’s Revised Criminal Code Act has been a nonprofit organization known as the DC Justice Lab. Despite maintaining the outward appearance of a grassroots group, the organization receives most of its funding from some of the deepest and darkest pockets in the political activism world. CRC’s Parker Thayer investigates here.

• How will the West survive its never-ending crises?
  In the title How to Save the West author Spencer Klavan sets for himself an impossible task, as he openly admits. Yet his analysis of the “five crises” facing the West is strangely refreshing: Civilization has been here before, struggling and contending with similar notions, for generations. CRC’s Michael Watson reviews Klavan’s book and its prescriptions here.

See also:

• RIP Martin Morse Wooster
• Presidents’ Day or not
• Should the GAO investigate charities’ political activism?
• How Arabella meddled with redistricting

Featured Interview

Hayden Ludwig Talks "Dark Money"

CRC's Hayden Ludwig recently appeared on Rebuild California to discuss "dark money" and how the Left has used the nonprofit sector for political gain.

The Left has many times more "dark money" and is far more effective than the Right in weaponizing nonprofits to advance its policy objectives. The term "dark money" itself is an example of the Left's more effective weaponizing. It is not a legal or financial term with a clear definition. It is a political term coined by professional left-wing political activists in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC to argue against anonymous donations. Yet beyond the term's negative connotations is an inconvenient truth the Left is trying to hide: If donors' names are public, then they become vulnerable to doxing and other pressure tactics--clearly a restriction on free speech.

Watch the entire 40-minute segment here.

InfluenceWatch Podcast 256

The Right to Self-Defense

In this episode: In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed states’ ability to infringe on Americans' right to carry publicly for their own defense. The Court's decision has brought the 2nd Amendment fight back to the headlines as defenders celebrate and gun control activists plan to counter the ruling.

Larry Correia, firearms expert and successful novelist, chose this time to write a nonfiction book called In Defense of the Second Amendment to explain why winning this particular culture war is necessary and to dismantle arguments from the Left about gun control. He addresses everything from the importance of self-defense as a core tenet of free societies to the statistics about gun crime and gun ownership to the benefit of getting trained and involved in the fight against mass shooters and tyranny.

Mr. Correia joins the InfluenceWatch podcast this week to discuss his book.

See also:
•   Podcast 257: "Labor Questions"

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