InfluenceWatch Podcast

Episode 69: The Left-Wing Game Plan Before 2020

April 11th, 2019  |  9 mins 36 secs

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A liberal donor collective outlines its plans to funnel hundreds of millions into building left-wing infrastructure in advance of the 2020 general election; Rebecca Rimel, CEO of the major progressive foundation the Pew Charitable Trusts, steps down; and a union mired in a national corruption scandal takes aim at Tennessee, again.

Episode 68: Unions and Progressives Outspend and Still Lose

April 4th, 2019  |  7 mins 37 secs

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Unions and progressives outspend conservatives in a Wisconsin judicial race only to choke it away, one Swampland operative has two advocacy groups with differing views on a major managed trade package, and we look at some of the more amusing and more controversial uses that unions found for their members’ dues money in 2018.

Episode 67: Who Wants to Ditch the Electoral College?

March 28th, 2019  |  8 mins 46 secs

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More wheels fall off at the SPLC, we tell the story of the money behind the effort to ditch the Electoral College, and the ramifications of the Janus decision securing government workers’ rights not to support unions they oppose continue to be determined.

Episode 66: Southern Poverty Law Center Splits With Founder

March 21st, 2019  |  9 mins 27 secs

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The far-left’s self-appointed arbiter of “hate groups” ousts its longtime leader, the SEIU’s bank launches a campaign to de-fund the social-conservative right, and Democrats and their allies take aim at the delicate balance of power between America’s federal states and the national electorate.

Episode 65: Bipartisan Reform Vs Teachers Unions

March 14th, 2019  |  7 mins 21 secs

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A major federal investigation finds evidence of corruption in the admissions to the institutions which define America’s ruling caste, a counterintuitive finding shows education reform isn’t the right-left battle teacher unions and their stooges portray it as, and I agree with the American Federation of Labor on something.

Episode 64: Google Discriminates… Against Men?

March 7th, 2019  |  6 mins 2 secs

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House Democrats advance their unconstitutional incumbent protection act, SEIU-supported members of Congress advance SEIU’s far-left legislative priorities, and a social justice crusade at Google turns up a surprising result.

Episode 63: Atheists Try to Destroy a WWI Memorial Cross

February 28th, 2019  |  7 mins 47 secs

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Conservatives debate the effects of the Janus decision on public sector unions and what needs to be done to help workers exercise their rights, researchers put a price tag on the Green New Deal, and the fate of a war memorial cross goes to the Supreme Court.

Episode 62: Teachers Strike to Control Children

February 21st, 2019  |  7 mins 46 secs

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A well-connected liberal propaganda blog makes a hash of a hit job against a conservative philanthropic officer, teachers unions strike to preserve their education monopoly, and libertarians sue the government of Indiana and win a battle for property rights.

Episode 61: Anti-Semitism and Southwest Lawsuit

February 14th, 2019  |  10 mins 26 secs

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In this episode: the Green New Deal stages the most spectacular implosion since the Fyre Festival, a former flight attendant sues her former employer and union for firing her for opposing the union’s support for the Women’s March, and a far-left Young Pioneer in the House of Representatives finds herself in hot water for making conspiratorial anti-Israel comments.

Episode 60: A Rotten Green New Deal

February 7th, 2019  |  8 mins 27 secs

Speaker Nancy Pelosi invites a special interest supporter into her box for the State of the Union, the environmentalist movement issues its air travel-banning “Green New Deal” wish list, and two of our stories from last week explode into even greater controversy.

Episode 59: Ralph Northam’s Crazy Abortion Radicalism

February 1st, 2019  |  7 mins 21 secs

Pro-abortion groups back the legislators behind an extremist Virginia bill that would expand third-trimester abortions “all the way up to 40 weeks” in the words of its sponsor, Pennsylvania’s most powerful union boss faces a 116-count federal indictment, and a group associated with NFL players funds left-wing advocacy.

Episode 58: Covington Catholic Kids vs. Media Mob

January 24th, 2019  |  9 mins 11 secs

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In this episode: The Trump administration denounces the socialist President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro by backing his challenger Juan Guaido, Big Labor takes a hit as the rate of workforce unionization declines, and the liberal press attacks Catholic school students for defending themselves against a media mob.

Episode 57: Fast Food Under Attack?!

January 17th, 2019  |  7 mins 17 secs

alex caputo-pearl, american federation of teachers, arun gupta, arun gupta nlrb, bds, ben sasse, boycott divestment and sanctions, code pink, codepink, constitution, dccc, democrats, diana furchtgott-roth, fake news, far-left activists, fight for $15, fight for 15, house majority pac, influence watch, knights of columbus, lausd, mcdonald’s, moveon.org, national education association, national fast food workers union, national labor relations board, no religious tests clause, proposition 13, seiu, service employees international union, united teachers los angeles, women’s march

Two multi-year labor union campaigns reach their climaxes as Democrats introduce a $15 minimum wage bill at the behest of the Service Employees International Union and the radical teachers union in Los Angeles goes on strike, far-left activists celebrate the controversial Women’s March by distributing literal fake news, and the Senate re-affirms the No Religious Tests clause of the Constitution.

Episode 56: Planned Parenthood Reveals The Truth

January 10th, 2019  |  6 mins 49 secs

Planned Parenthood steps on its own talking points about the centrality of abortion to its mission, Senators attack a Roman Catholic fraternal organization, and libertarians sue the federal government for censoring a man who believes he was a victim of abuse of power by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Episode 55: Obamacare's Defenders

January 3rd, 2019  |  7 mins 9 secs

We take a deep dive into the front groups propping up the Left’s defenses of Obamacare, Planned Parenthood’s labor practices come under scrutiny, and Washington continues its biennial tradition of defeated and retired Congressmen hanging around town, this time as lobbyists.

Episode 54: DC Antifa Leader UNMASKED!

December 20th, 2018  |  7 mins 30 secs

In this episode: An anonymous intellectual leader of the leftist extremist movement Antifa is identified, labor unions and corporations join together to raise consumer prices for Americans, and the nominally “non-partisan” watchdog organization CREW deepens its ties to the institutional left.