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InfluenceWatch, a project of Capital Research Center, is a comprehensive and ever-evolving compilation of our research into the numerous advocacy groups, foundations, and donors working to influence the public policy process.
Influence Watch
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Influence Watch
@influence_watch
A project of Capital Research Center.
Joined November 2023
- The Bay Rage Brigade (BRB), also known as Be Right Back and Banko Revenge Brigade, is a radical-left extremist group that is anonymously organized though its takes credit for acts of vandalism in the San Francisco area. The group has conducted acts of vandalism against business
- Ecority is a left-of-center nonprofit that was established to leverage and scale the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-administered Greenhouse Gas Reduction (GHGR) Fund. Its members include a national network of credit unions, community development
- Better Elections Partnership pushed for ranked choice voting in Missouri. Backed by out-of-state dark money, the effort faced bipartisan resistance and ultimately failed. 🔗
- Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW) investigates online extremism, produces reports, and advocates for a safer internet. It identifies organizations and groups that leverage social media to spread extremist messaging and to recruit for and organize violent activities across the
- TAWANI Enterprises is an umbrella entity for businesses and other organizations run by President and CEO Jennifer Pritzker, a member of the Pritzker family of billionaires and Democratic politicians. TAWANI Enterprises’ nonprofit arms include the left-of-center TAWANI Foundation
- The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice (Hive Fund) is a funding intermediary that connects donors to local environmental advocacy organizations. The Hive Fund supports cutting carbon emissions to half of 2021 levels by 2030 as well as ending construction of all new gas
- Replying to @influence_watchThe information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties research to use in reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
- The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is a network of businesses that promotes international trade while supporting the United Nations (UN) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). The ICC claims that it played a “vital role in scaling widespread action on Sustainable
- Immigrant Movement Visioning Process (IMVP) is a left-of-center coalition that advocates for illegal immigrants by convening with leading migrant groups and discussing key issues. In June 2024, members of IMVP met in Phoenix, Arizona, to discuss their “resistance” plans should
- Imagine North Carolina First is a left-of-center activist group with a mission to increase representation of ethnic and racial minorities by funding policy research and garnering votes. The group claims its actions are nonpartisan, though it has targeted the Republican-controlled
- The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a right-of-center research group that manages an online database tracking radical Islamic terrorism within the United States and around the world. Its database claims to provides the names of alleged organizations, individuals, and
- Judith Butler's War on Science: The Architects of Woke The Architects of Woke released episodes throughout 2019. The series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at
00:00 - Replying to @influence_watchThe website offers transparency into these influencers’ funding, motives, and connections while providing insight often neglected by other watchdog groups.
