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CRC has been quoted in the following media outlets during June and July, 2026:

Suzanne Downing: Who is behind the odd anti-Dunleavy ad campaign? And why? 

InfluenceWatch cited in The Alaska Story 

June 20, 2026 

[The 907 Initiative] was founded in 2022 and is organized as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. InfluenceWatch describes it as a left-of-center advocacy organization whose campaigns have targeted Republican or conservative public officials. Its earlier targets included former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson and organizations supporting Dunleavy’s 2022 reelection. InfluenceWatch reports that it began with $341,000 in undisclosed funding and later received major contributions from progressive grant-making organizations associated with the Arabella Advisor universe.

Leftist Lawfare Group Looks To ‘Silence’ Political Speech 

InfluenceWatch cited in The Federalist 

July 8, 2026 

In March 2024, the election commission issued its opinion at the request of Texas Majority PAC (TMP), a Democrat political action committee launched by former staffers of failed Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke. The PAC’s goal, according to its website, is “to permanently flip Texas blue, thus releasing our state from Republican control and delivering two Democratic Senate seats and 40 Democratic Electoral College votes.” Democrat Party sugar daddy George Soros and his Democracy PAC have pumped millions of dollars into Texas Majority’s political op coffers, according to tracker InfluenceWatch.

The Left Will ‘Fortify’ the 2030 Census—Or Face Permanent Defeat 

Scott Walker cited in Restoration America 

July 10, 2026 

Restoration News spoke with Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, the leading group mapping the Left’s funding and “dark money,” about the influence on the 2010 and 2020 Censuses.

“It’s a big problem that few Americans or government officials appreciate how much money and time the Left has spent for decades in order to, ahem, shape the Census,” Walter explained.

Leftist Billionaire’s Bankrolling of E. Jean Carroll’s Case Against Trump Draws Ethics Complaint 

Capital Research Center referenced in The Daily Signal 

July 12, 2026 

The National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group, filed a bar complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee of the New York State Supreme Court against Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan, alleging she was not transparent about left-leaning billionaire Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, helping bankroll Carroll’s lawsuit.

Tax filings from 2023 for Hoffman’s nonprofit, American Future Republic, show it paid $7 million to Carroll’s lawyers to help cover legal expenses, according to the Capital Research Center, which monitors nonprofits.

Sen. Dunbar joins outside, dark-money push to sway Alaska voters leftward 

InfluenceWatch cited in Alaska Watchman 

July 13, 2026 

Titled “Sick of It! Fix Health Care Now,” the campaign is a multi-month project by a group called Protect Our Care, which is bankrolled by the nonprofit 1630 Fund. The strategy includes using live events, townhalls, carefully trained storytellers, blanket advertising and a bus tour to gin up opposition to Republicans.

The 1630 Fund is described by Influence Watch as “one of the left’s largest hubs of dark money” and “a clearinghouse of undisclosed cash for the left.”

Leftist Billionaire’s Bankrolling of E. Jean Carroll’s Case Against Trump Draws Ethics Complaint 

InfluenceWatch cited in The Federalist 

July 14, 2026 

But the leftist activist groups strongly opposed to Blanche’s confirmation might just be an even more powerful endorsement of his candidacy. The list includes the far-left New York City Bar Association, Democrats Abroad, and the absurdly named Justice Connection, launched in 2024 to respond to “supposed heightened concerns among DOJ personnel regarding political retaliation, reassignments, and threats to the apolitical nature of civil service,” according to nonprofit tracker InfluenceWatch.

Energy Abundance Is Not the Enemy. Energy Scarcity Is. 

Ken Braun’s op-ed runs in the Daily Signal 

July 15, 2026 

Capital Research Center recently published a report worth everyone’s attention: “Enemies of Energy: The Myths, the Movement, and the Money.” Its findings deserve a wider audience because they run counter to nearly everything Americans are told about energy today.

Tracking Liberal Money: A Conversation with CRC’s Scott Walter 

Scott Walker profiled in Inside Philanthropy 

July 15, 2026 

Capital Research Center recently published a report worth everyone’s attention: “Enemies of Energy: The Myths, the Movement, and the Money.” Its findings deserve a wider audience because they run counter to nearly everything Americans are told about energy today.

…Walter described his work as rooted in a conservative intellectual tradition concerned with civil society, mediating institutions, and the dangers of centralized power.

Dems’ Star Witness For AG Hearing Pushed Clemency For ‘Rapists, Child Molesters, And Murderers’ 

InfluenceWatch cited in The Federalist 

July 15, 2026 

[Liz Oyer]’s being represented by Democracy Forward, “a left-of-center litigation and advocacy nonprofit created in early 2017 by high-level Democratic Party operatives,” according to nonprofit tracker InfluenceWatch.

“The organization has been aggressive in targeting the Trump administration,” InfluenceWatch wrote about the lawfare group.

Leftwing Alaska pastor selectively condemns ‘dark money’ in his race against Rep. Begich 

InfluenceWatch cited in the Alaska Watchman 

July 16, 2026 

Announced earlier this month, the “Sick of It! Fix Health Care Now” campaign is a multi-month project by a group called Protect Our Care, which is bankrolled by the nonprofit 1630 Fund. The strategy includes using live events, townhalls, carefully trained storytellers, blanket advertising and a bus tour to gin up opposition to Republicans. The 1630 Fund is described by Influence Watch as “one of the left’s largest hubs of dark money” and “a clearinghouse of undisclosed cash for the left.”

‘Fraud industrial complex:’ Inside Maryland’s homecare Medicaid money trail 

Parker Thayer featured in Spotlight on Maryland 

July 17, 2026 

Parker Thayer, an investigator at the Capital Research Center, said that homecare Medicaid is particularly difficult for the government to oversee because it’s conducted in personal residences instead of medical facilities.

“The whole program has exploded,” Thayer said. “There are more companies and more patients and more providers than ever before. And they’re billing more money than ever before, largely because the word has gotten out that this program is just another easy way to get money and that there’s basically no oversight.”

Just Who Are The Democratic Socialists Of America? 

Robert Stilson’s op-ed runs in the Daily Wire 

July 17, 2026 

Recent high-profile electoral successes have thrust the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) back into the national spotlight, but public understanding of the group’s far-left worldview lags considerably behind the understanding of its political influence. It is crucial for Americans to appreciate that the DSA has become a deeply radical organization, with a membership whose politics increasingly roll right off the leftmost edge of the ideological spectrum.

Communist Elite Neville Roy Singham Investigated for Foreign Agent and Tax Violations 

InfluenceWatch cited in MRC Business 

July 17, 2026 

This isn’t the first time Singham’s anti-American antics drew the scrutiny of law enforcement. In 1974, the FBI probed Singham “due to him being ‘potentially dangerous because of background, emotional instabilities or activity in groups engaged in activities inimical to the U.S,’” according to Influence Watch.

Trump Orders Probe Into ‘Biased’ Manual Used To Advise Judges On ‘Climate Science’ 

Capital Research Center Cited in The Federalist 

Jul 20, 2026 

He further ordered Federal Suspension and Debarment officials — who work to prevent contractors who violate existing law/government policy or engage in malfeasance from receiving government grants, contracts, and other transactions — “to review this conduct.” The NAS has received hundreds of millions of dollars in government grants and contracts, according to the Capital Research Center.

Major Teachers Union That Funds Democrats Endorses ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Amid Backlash to Transgender ‘Medicine’ 

Scott Walter quoted in the Daily Signal 

While some Democrats and progressives have suggested the party should move away from its commitments to “woke” litmus tests such as transgender ideology, the AFT’s move arguably makes that more difficult.

“Because the AFT is effectively just a branch—a wealthy branch—of the Democratic Party, the union’s latest endorsement of so-called gender-affirming care means the party will almost certainly maintain its rigid support for transgender ideology, even if that threatens both children’s health and the party’s electoral chances,” Scott Walter, president of the right-leaning Capital Research Center, told the Daily Signal in a statement Monday.

Democratic socialist movement not ‘grassroots,’ ex-fundraiser says 

Robert Stilson cited in News Nation 

July 22, 2026 

All told, American Priorities pledged to spend $10 million this election cycle.

“It’s hard for me to think of, right now in mid-2026, an organization that dollar for dollar is exercising more influence in, I guess particularly Democratic Party politics, right?” Robert Stilson, senior research analyst at the Capital Research Center, told NewsNation.

“Because this is an organization that their total revenues in 2024 were just over $6 million, maybe $6.3 million, and as nationally politically active 501(c)(4) nonprofits go, that’s very small.”

DSA’s growing power tested as platform, funding and rhetoric draw fire 

Robert Stilson interviewed by News Nation 

July 22, 2026 

Federal Election Commission data shows a majority of DSA-aligned candidate Darlisa Chevallier’s campaign fundraising came from out-of-state donors, much of it funneled through super PACs. She was endorsed by New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Robert Stilson, senior research analyst at the Capital Research Center, has tracked DSA’s growth alongside what he calls its shift toward the far left, despite the groups relatively small annual revenue.

Democratic socialist movement not ‘grassroots,’ ex-fundraiser says 

Yahoo News runs News Nation story quoting Robert Stilson 

July 22, 2026 

Stilson has been tracking the DSA for years and tells NewsNation he has seen two important, simultaneous trends occurring within the past decade: exponential membership growth and an ideological shift to the “far left.”

“It’s not particularly socialist, and it’s not particularly American,” he said.

Communist Elite Neville Roy Singham Investigated for Foreign Agent and Tax Violations 

InfluenceWatch cited in MRC Business  

July 17, 2026 

This isn’t the first time Singham’s anti-American antics drew the scrutiny of law enforcement. In 1974, the FBI probed Singham “due to him being ‘potentially dangerous because of background, emotional instabilities or activity in groups engaged in activities inimical to the U.S,’” according to Influence Watch.