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Electioneering by charities—“501(c)(3)s” in the trade—was forbidden, to begin with. But that has not stopped liberal Big Philanthropy from using charitable organizations for activities that dance along that legal line to help Democratic and left-wing politicians get elected. My colleague Parker Thayer recently released an extensive report on the Voter Registration Project, one such “charitable” election-winning scheme, he joins my colleague Robert Stilson and me to discuss his findings.

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REPORT: How Charities Secretly Help Win Elections

https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/15/exclusive-nonpartisan-voter-registration-org-is-actually-a-dem-get-out-the-vote-machine-report-says/

The Restriction of Political Campaign Intervention by Section 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Organizations

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Do Americans appreciate foreign nationals using their money to help Americans decide who should lead them? Honest Elections Project Action recently asked people, and—no prizes for guessing this—they don’t. Joining us to discuss this and other findings from their national poll on election-administration issues is Jason Snead of the Honest Elections Project.

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Election Integrity Measures Remain Popular

The Left-Wing Dark Money Behind the Push to Kill the Filibuster

InfluenceWatch Podcast #181: Easy to Vote, Hard to Cheat

Hansjorg Wyss

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This week, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) announced a special session of the legislature to consider various proposals related to public safety. But unusually for a reliably conservative and Republican state—Lee won 65 percent of the vote in his 2022 election campaign and both chambers of the state legislature are supermajority Republican—the session will consider gun control measures, especially so-called “red flag” laws. Joining me to discuss what’s going on in Tennessee and the gun control movement generally are my colleague Robert Stilson and John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association.

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The Landscape of Gun Control Advocacy

The Funders of Gun Control Advocacy

The Policies of Gun Control Advocacy

Tennessee Firearms Association

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Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, thinks schooling and school reform itself are due for a rethink. In his brief (less than 150 pages, excluding endnotes and acknowledgements) The Great School Rethink, Hess lays out his view on a new way to address the problems of American education, all informed by decades in the education policy field. Hess joins us today to discuss his Great School Rethink.

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The Great School Rethink

A Much Needed but Partial Great School Rethink

Teach for America

1619 Project

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We’re trying something new for this week: A round-up of stories and discussions not long enough by themselves to carry a podcast, all put together. Joining me to discuss solar panels and China, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s spousal hypocrisy, the burgeoning scandal around COVID origins, and ESG investing’s effects on the energy sector is my colleague Ken Braun.

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Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims

The Sheldon Whitehouse Ethics Mirror

Journalists should be skeptical of all sources —including scientists

Just Court-Pack a Majority

Fire Sale

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“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.” That was the eyebrow-raising statement Vice President Kamala Harris made to a Baltimore audience last week; while the Biden White House amended the transcript to indicate she intended to say “reduce pollution,” the environmentalist movement has more than its fair share of associations with those who would “reduce population.” Joining me to discuss Harris’s comments and the connections between environmentalism and population control are my colleagues Sarah Lee and Ken Braun.

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Kamala Harris’s Revealing Malthusian Malapropism

Population Council

John Holdren

Paul Ehrlich’s Population Dud

A Darker Shade of Green: Environmentalism’s Origins in Eugenics

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As bad and left-wing as teachers unions can be, for some union activists and leftist agitators the normal level of leftism just isn’t enough. For that reason, the Democratic Socialists of America, the nation’s most prominent far-left political group, has pitched a pamphlet encouraging its members to become teachers and partnered with teachers unions and teachers-union-aligned politicians. What does this mean for your children’s schools? Joining us to discuss that and related questions is Rhyen Staley, a researcher at Parents Defending Education.

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The Emerging Alliance Between America's Leading Socialist Organization and Teachers' Unions

'A Whole New Level of Awful': Seattle Public Schools Offer Free 'Gender-Affirming Care' to Kids

Exclusive: Cecily Myart-Cruz’s Hostile Takeover of L.A.’s Public Schools

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Normally, when the government is sued the public expects the government to defend itself. But what if the government doesn’t defend itself, because it wants the same policy ends as the activists suing it? Then you get “sue-and-settle,” a practice that U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (Republican of Iowa) says “is used by federal agencies and like-minded special interest groups to impose new and burdensome regulations on businesses and communities without sufficient public notice or participation.” Joining us to discuss sue and settle tactics and how Congress can push back against them is Karen Harned, a longtime lawyer and advocate for small-business interests.

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Grassley Leads Effort To Curb Red Tape Created Without Public Input

Supreme Court takes up case concerning Americans with Disabilities Act ‘tester’ of hotels

WildEarth Guardians

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Over the past few years, conservatives have begun to push back against the powerful “environmental, social, and corporate governance” or ESG investing movement. Helping lead that charge has been today’s guest, Will Hild of Consumers’ Research joining me with my colleague Robert Stilson.

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About BlackRock

Bank of UnAmerica

Yes, America, There Is a War on Cars

The Proxy Preview: ESG in 2023


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George Soros, the famous liberal billionaire investor-philanthropist, is over 90 years old, which would motivate anyone in his position to think about his succession. This week, the Wall Street Journal profiled the heir apparent: Soros’s son Alexander, who claims to be even “more political” than his father. Joining me to discuss Alex Soros and the future of the Soros family advocacy-philanthropic empire are my colleagues Sarah Lee and Parker Thayer.

Links:

Influence Watch - Alexander Soros

Influence Watch - Open Society Foundations (Open Society Institute)

George Soros Hands Control to His 37-Year-Old Son: ‘I’m More Political’

Meet Alex Soros, the 37-year-old successor son to the $25 billion George Soros empire


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