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The podcast where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org, the Capital Research Center's online encyclopedia of the donors, non-profits, and influencers driving politics. You can watch the video version of the podcast at: http://bit.ly/2rnQygY

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The podcast where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org, the Capital Research Center's online encyclopedia of the donors, non-profits, and influencers driving politics. You can watch the video version of the podcast at: http://bit.ly/2rnQygY

    Episode 309: State Armor: Using Federalism to Protect National Security

    Episode 309: State Armor: Using Federalism to Protect National Security

    Congressional debate over the social media app TikTok has brought the subject of China’s influence operations into sharp focus for many Americans who might have known China was a geopolitical adversary but may not have known just how close they are to home, that they may have been quite literally in their child’s pocket as they sent them out the door.But TikTok is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what China has been up to stateside, much of it in conjunction with lobbying and currying influence with American legislators, many of them at the state and local level. Fortunately, a new organization called State Armor was formed in January to counter these influence operations and give states quote “the tools they need to thwart Chinese Communist Party influence operations and comprehensively protect residents and state assets.” State Armor founder Michael Lucci joins us today to discuss his organization and their goal of using federalism to protect national security.

    Links: 

    State Armor

    TikTok Is The CCP

    To Combat China's Infiltration Of The US We Must Start With The States

    Select Committee Unveils CCP Influence Memo, "United Front 101"

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    • 35 min
    Episode 308: Wind Welfare

    Episode 308: Wind Welfare

    Wind power sounds lovely; supposedly free, indeed infinite “renewable” clean energy from the predictable patterns of moving air. Except it isn’t quite so simple. Turbines catch fire with disquieting frequency. The amount of land needed to produce electricity is quite high. And there’s a political protection racket keeping even clean-generating rivals out of the market and wind generators on the government dole. Here to explain is our colleague Ken Braun, who follows the energy and environmental issues for Capital Research Center. 

    Links: 

    Italian Energy Giant Invades America: The Cheapest Way to Make Expensive Electricity

    Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Big Trouble at Biglow Canyon

    Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Support for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits

    Opposition to Nuclear Energy

    Climate Alarmists Hoover Up Corporate Welfare: The Rocky Mountain Institute

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    • 32 min
    Episode 307: Patagonia’s Political Plays

    Episode 307: Patagonia’s Political Plays

    In 2022, Patagonia outdoors-wear brand owner and self-described socialist Yvon Chouinard and his family transferred ownership of the company to Holdfast Collective, an LLC that controls 98 percent of the shares, and the Patagonia Purpose Trust, an entity that holds two percent of the shares and allows Chouinard’s family to retain effective control of Patagonia. Holdfast Collective was announced as an environmentalist project, with Chouinard claiming, “Earth is now [Patagonia’s] only shareholder.” But Americans for Public Trust found something curious in some FEC filings: Holdfast Collective is using some nonprofit groups it created and manages Arabella Advisors-style to make contributions to Democratic Super PACs, and the paperwork is questionable. Here to explain is Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director of Americans for Public Trust, which filed a complaint asking the Federal Elections Commission to investigate.

    Links:

    Major outdoor clothing company quietly operating liberal dark money group hit with FEC complaint

    FEC Complaint

    Patagonia

    Holdfast Collective

    Yvon Chouinard

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    • 22 min
    Episode 306: The Left of the Global Left

    Episode 306: The Left of the Global Left

    You’ve probably heard of the Democratic Socialists of America, the left-wing radical faction we most recently discussed in episode 302 for its financial problems. But the DSA is just a relatively small part of a worldwide movement for Marxist-inflected Everything Leftism led by a former Greek government minister and having current and former heads of state among its current and former leadership: The Progressive International. Joining us to discuss the left of the international left, its ties to America, and its broader influence is Robert Stilson, who wrote a four-part series on the Progressive International for CapitalResearch.org.


    Links:

    The Progressive International: The “Left of the Left” Goes Global

    The Progressive International: Israel the Enemy

    The Progressive International: Members

    The Progressive International: Leadership

    Progressive International

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    Episode 305: Black Wives Matter With Delano Squires

    Episode 305: Black Wives Matter With Delano Squires

    In 1965, future U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), then an Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Johnson administration, issued a report expressing alarm at rising rates of unwed childbearing, especially among Black Americans. In the intervening nearly six decades, the situation among Black Americans and white Americans alike has only gotten worse, and the left-progressive movement that has risen in influence has challenged the very idea that marriage and family formation, at least on historical American lines, is even a good thing. Joining us to discuss this trend and its effects on American society is Delano Squires, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family.

    Links:

    America Needs a “Black Wives Matter” Movement To Rebuild the Black Family

    The Moynihan Report 50 Years Later: Why Marriage More Than Ever Promotes Opportunity for All

    Society Suffers When Progressives Spurn Fatherhood, Marriage, and Family

    Kids Get Schooled on Radical Politics

    D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice

    D.C. Area Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action

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    • 28 min
    Episode 304: Architects of the Woke Military

    Episode 304: Architects of the Woke Military

    Whether or not it is the cause of recruiting shortfalls or not, rising left-wing ideology in the military is cause for concern. But who is pushing the military to adopt widespread social-liberal activist policies? Fred Lucas, a reporter from the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal, joins us to discuss the organizations pushing the military to sign up to Everything Leftism.

    Links:

    The Architects of the Woke U.S. Military: Military Woke Complex

    The Architects of the Woke U.S. Military: Common Defense

    The Architects of the Woke U.S. Military: Vets for the People

    The Architects of the Woke U.S. Military: Service Women’s Action Network

    Why Military Recruitment Is Miserable


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