Capital Research Center is America's Investigative Think Tank, covering all the influencers in our politics.
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We compiled all of Scott Walter’s testimony before the DOGE subcommittee into one video.
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The Sierra Club wasn't always anti-nuclear.
In fact, the organization once supported California's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant before becoming one of the country's most vocal opponents of nuclear energy.
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The Breitbart News Network, also known as just Breitbart News, is a right-of-center news and opinion media outlet. Journalist, technology entrepreneur, and conservative activist Andrew Breitbart founded the outlet in 2007 with Larry Solov and led it until his death in 2012.
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The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is a professional association of film and television directors in the United States that aims to promote and protect the interests of directors and the entertainment industry at large.
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The Craigslist Charitable Fund is a private foundation affiliated with the classified advertisements website Craigslist. The organization has donated heavily to nonprofit journalism outlets, gun control groups, and environmentalist groups. However, as of 2026, the group had shifted its focus to funding animal rights causes.
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The Everglades Law Center (ELC) is a left-of-center public-interest law firm based in Miami, Florida that uses litigation, advocacy, and negotiation to oppose development and resource-use decisions it claims will affect South Florida ecosystems. Founded in 1995, the ELC has become partners with more than 30 national, state, and local environmental organizations in its efforts to restrict land use, block infrastructure projects, and advance environmentalist goals throughout the Everglades region.
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The Organizing Group (TOG) is a for-profit political consulting firm founded in 2005 by Steve Rosenthal, the former political director of the AFL-CIO, the largest American federation of labor unions. The firm markets direct voter contact, phone banking, direct mail, and door-to-door canvassing, as a more effective tool than mass media advertising for left-of-center political organizations, labor unions, and Democratic candidates. Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show that MoveOn.org, Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential Campaign, Working for Us PAC, and Emily’s List reported payments to The Organizing Group for political consulting services.
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Rising Majority is a left-of-center coalition of activist organizations that coordinates strategy and mobilization across labor, immigration, environmentalist, and racial-identity causes. Founded in 2017 following the Democratic loss in the 2016 presidential election, the coalition explicitly frames its work in anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist terms, and has called for the abolition of police and prisons, an end to what it characterizes as U.S. imperialist foreign policy, and a fundamental restructuring of the American economy. At its creation, the coalition operated as a project of the Movement for Black Lives, initially under the fiscal sponsorship of the Alliance for Global Justice, an organization which has supported communist and authoritarian regimes, and later was fiscally sponsored by the Common Counsel Foundation. Rising Majority later separated to become an project of Common Counsel independent of Movement for Black Lives in 2024. Approximately 55 organizations are members of the coalition, spanning racial, labor, environmentalist, and immigrant-advocacy networks.
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The Schmidt Family Foundation now grants roughly $200 million per year to climate and environmental causes.
In an interview with Inside Philanthropy, executive director Joe Sciortino acknowledged the foundation has been "named" by Capital Research Center while discussing the organization's climate and DEI-focused grantmaking.
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"Nuclear power remains America's single largest emissions-free electricity source, generating more annual kilowatts than wind and solar combined."
Philanthropy Daily highlights findings from Ken Braun's *Enemies of Energy* series on anti-nuclear activism and the NGOs opposing nuclear energy expansion.
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For decades, activist organizations have warned that rising sea levels would create a climate catastrophe unless society dramatically reduced fossil fuel use.
Ken Braun examines what the data actually shows.
How much have sea levels risen in recent decades? How quickly are they rising today? And do those numbers support claims of a climate emergency?
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The Women's March leadership is getting the band back together.
A new Washington Times report examines Linda Sarsour's Next250 initiative and its effort to reshape America's 250th anniversary around issues like climate justice, reparations, and voting rights. The article also draws on InfluenceWatch research to trace the project's organizational and funding connections.
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CHISPA (short for Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Association, Inc.) is a left-of-center nonprofit housing developer based in Salinas, California that constructs and manages rental apartments and single-family homes for low- and moderate-income residents of Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties. 1 It described itself as the largest private nonprofit housing developer in Monterey County as of 2026.
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America's 250th birthday is becoming the next battleground in the culture war.
The Federalist takes a look at Next250 and the activist groups organizing around the anniversary, including the 50501 Movement, which InfluenceWatch has profiled.
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes isn't giving up her prosecution of Trump allies.
The Federalist reports that Mayes plans to seek a new indictment while questions remain about her office's coordination with States United Democracy Center, a group profiled by InfluenceWatch.
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The phrase "climate emergency" is often treated as an established fact.
But what if it's an opinion rather than a conclusion supported by the evidence?
In the latest installment of Enemies of Energy, Ken Braun examines one of the most influential claims driving today's energy debate.
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Black Men United (BMU) is a left-of-center anti-violence organization that works in low-income Black communities, offering workforce development programs, food and supply drives, peace rallies, youth development programs, and low-income housing opportunities. BMU is funded almost entirely by government grants and grants from the nonprofit groups Givenkind and the Weitz Family Foundation.
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A new AI-generated political ad targeting Texas state Sen. candidate James Talarico is drawing attention.
The article notes that Citizens for Sanity—the group behind the ad—is based in Washington, D.C., according to InfluenceWatch.
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Without energy, we have nothing.
On this episode of Who Funds That?, Ken Braun joins Michael Watson and Sarah Lee to discuss his new Enemies of Energy report, the nonprofit groups opposing traditional energy sources, and the myths driving the modern anti-energy movement.
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CRC Investigative Researcher @ParkerThayer contributed to a new Daily Wire investigation into alleged Medicaid fraud that reportedly generated millions in taxpayer-funded payments.
Read more about the investigation on our Substack:
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Nuclear power produces no emissions, generates more carbon-free electricity in the U.S. than wind and solar combined, and remains one of the most reliable sources of energy available.
So why do so many activist groups treat it as uniquely dangerous?
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