Over the last few weeks InfluenceWatch and Capital Research Center have been featured in news reports regarding George Soros, Greta Thunberg, Antifa, and much more. Links and excerpts are provided below.
Fox News—Dem House hopeful getting yanked from governor’s office during attempted sit-in goes viral ahead of election
During her work with Enough Is Enough, which the conservative Capital Research Center says was established to target Tennessee lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct, Behn participated in a sit-in in Lee’s office, which resulted in a video recording of her skating past officers to get inside before they ran after her and yanked her out of the office.
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New York Post—Six homes, Caribbean vacations and a new SUV: How Oklahoma pastor spent $3.15M of ‘embezzled’ BLM OKC money
Dickerson, who started BLM OKC in 2016, did not register it with the IRS as a tax-exempt organization. All donations were routed through various fiscal sponsors, including the Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice. That group serves as a pass-through organization for monetary gifts to progressive and extremist groups, including the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which allegedly fundraised for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a US-designated terrorist organization, according to the US Treasury Department.
The AFGJ also has close ties to the Maduro regime in Venezuela, according to the watchdog group Influence Watch.
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The Guardian—President of George Soros’ non-profit says it would take legal action to fight Trump’s attacks
Environmental advocates in the US do not often face those mortal risks. But some are uneasy amid intimidation from the federal government. The justice department’s September instructions to US attorneys to investigate OSF reportedly cited as evidence a report by the rightwing group Capital Research Center, which zeroed in on some climate-focused OSF grantees such as the progressive youth-led Sunrise Movement and the climate justice activist network Grassroots Global Justice Alliance.
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Real Clear Energy—America’s Energy Independence Threatened By “Dark Money” Lawfare
This is an opinion essay written for RCE by Capital Research Center president Scott Walter. It was later picked up by Watt Up With That?
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Washington Examiner—Confessions from Texas antifa cell operatives could pull back curtain
Capital Research Center president Scott Walter said their confessions “should destroy the lie that antifa doesn’t exist as organized groups.”
“This is an unprecedented case,” Walter told the Washington Examiner. “They have gone on the record, saying, ‘Here’s how we operated. Here are the other people I was working with. Here’s the person I was helping to hide out.’”
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Washington Examiner—Liberal dark money giant rebrands to dodge scrutiny, observers say
“I can’t read minds, but it is certainly conceivable that all of this scrutiny of the sector makes them nervous,” Capital Research Center president Scott Walter told the Washington Examiner. “They are desperately trying to obscure how they actually operate, and this is just further obscurantism … They change the stationery and the logos, and there is, obviously, some legal reorganization, but they always had a complicated structure. Now they have a more complicated structure, but it’s the same people doing the same things as far as anybody can see.”
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Daily Caller—Soros-Backed Soft-On-Crime Democrat Runs For Same Job She Was Fired From
Price is among a number of Democratic prosecutorial candidates across the country who have received campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros, the Capital Research Center reported in 2022.
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The Daily Signal—What, Exactly, Just Happened to the Left’s Dark Money Behemoth Arabella Advisors?
Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center and author of the book “Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America,” characterized the transition as a “rebrand” and took credit for making the Arabella Advisors brand “toxic.”
“We’re proud of ourselves for what we’ve been able to do,” Walter told The Daily Signal in a phone call Tuesday. “Why do you rebrand? To make yourself less toxic.”
Walter dismissed the idea that Arabella Advisors might have been going out of business. He noted that the 2024 IRS records for the Arabella-connected nonprofits recently became public, and “total nonprofit revenues were up a bit in 2024.”
“It is just a rebranding and a complexifying and maybe it’s also a c3-c4 splitting,” he theorized.
Walter has repeatedly testified before Congress, sometimes alongside me, on how Americans’ tax dollars supported left-leaning groups such as the nonprofits linked to Arabella. His work on Arabella, along with my research, highlighted the structure and political influence of the Left’s dark money network.
Walter suggested Sunflower Services acquired Arabella Advisors in part to make the dark money funding trail more complex. “The more complex this story is, the harder it is for you or me to explain it anywhere,” he said.
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California Globe—Democrats Reintroduce the Dream Act: The event was led by Greisa Martinez Rosas who has claimed that ‘the police and the deportation force of ICE and CBP were born of white supremacy and anti-Blackness’
United We Dream (UWD) has called for the United States to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
According to Influence Watch, “UWD has criticized President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget proposal for not doing enough to dramatically defund immigration enforcement efforts led by ICE and CBP.”
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The Dallas Express— Black Lives Matter Scandal: Oklahoma Director Indicted For Embezzling $3.15M On Luxury Vacations, Properties
While BLMOKC was not a registered tax-exempt organization, it accepted donations from the Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice (AFGL).
AFGJ is an organizing group that sponsors left-wing causes and receives funding from groups like George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and the Tides Foundation, according to InfluenceWatch. It arose from the Nicaragua Network, which supported the violent communist Sandinista regime.
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NewsBusters—WashPost Casts Soros As Conspiracy Theory Victim After Exposing His Power Over DAs
The basis for the Trump Justice Department’s investigation into Soros stemmed from a groundbreaking Capital Research Center report revealing that he funneled at least $80 million into organizations tied to domestic and foreign terrorism.
Some of the Soros-funded terror-linked organizations include the radical climate-obsessed, youth-led Sunrise Movement, which the CRC noted “endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments.” The coalition engaged in variety of riot activities like “setting a police vehicle ablaze; throwing Molotov cocktails, bricks and rocks at police; setting construction equipment on fire; blocking roads with obstacles like tires; harming police officers’ eyes with lasers; and attacking the Atlanta Police Foundation’s building with fireworks.”
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The National News Desk—Fact Check Team: Trump administration’s homelessness policy faces legal fight
The Trump administration has also sharply criticized the “Housing First” model, which prioritizes getting people into housing without requiring treatment or sobriety first. Critics argue the approach has been misapplied and turned into what they call “housing-only”, offering apartments but not enough mental health or addiction services.
A report from the Capital Research Center highlights California’s experience, pointing to a 47.1% increase in unsheltered homelessness after the state required all homelessness funding to go to Housing First programs between 2015 and 2019.
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Alaska Watchman—Alaska GOP lawmakers lauded by left-leaning political activists
Formerly known as the Millennial Action Project (MAP), Future Caucus recently rebranded its name. Influence Watch, however, notes that while the group claims to be nonpartisan, it “is funded by left-of-center nonprofit groups and promotes many left-of-center policy goals, especially liberal expansionist immigration policy, government job training programs, environmentalist regulations, and gun control. MAP has organized legislators in Congress and at the state-level to form voting blocs to pass targeted bills.”
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BizPac Review—Climate brat Greta Thunberg banned from Venice after latest stunt
After one past performance that saw activists “brutally dragged” from a tennis match during the Citi Open, it was reported that considerable funding for the activists and sister groups like Just Stop Oil and the Sunrise Movement comes from the Climate Emergency Fund. That fund is, in turn, padded by the likes of Abigail Disney, the great niece of Walt Disney, and Getty Oil Company founder J. Paul Getty’s granddaughter Aileen Getty, according to Influence Watch.
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The Center Square—Op-Ed: Louisiana Supreme Court should restore local control over land use decisions
Attorney General Liz Murrill has also weighed in, noting the “coordinated effort, largely funded by out-of-state activists” behind this litigation. Indeed, the plaintiffs, represented by Tulane’s Environmental Law Clinic on behalf of RISE St. James, Inclusive Louisiana, and Mount Triumph Baptist Church, receive significant funding from the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, which Influence Watch identifies as an organization that “seeks to stop the building and expansion of any energy producing company or pipeline.”
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Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs—New York group seeks to overhaul Oklahoma election system
The website for Open Primaries lists 244 Madison Avenue, #1106 in New York as its headquarters.
Influence Watch notes that Open Primaries President John Opdycke “has worked for independent and radical-left political candidates and organizations throughout his career,” including his work on the independent presidential campaign of Lenora Fulani, “an avowed Marxist of the New Alliance Party.”
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Townhall—How This Prominent Health Foundation Became a Progressive Political Bankroller
Saint Luke’s has given money to several leftist organizations, including Policy Matters Ohio, which InfluenceWatch describes as a progressive outfit that advocates for higher taxes, expanded government spending, strengthening labor unions, and climate-related economic regulations. In fact, the group advocates higher taxes to fund the Green New Deal.
