CRC News: Following the money

Fox News— China’s American Mao: Inside Singham’s blueprint to ‘wage war’ for a ‘new world order’: At a Shanghai conference blessed by the Communist Party of China, Neville Roy Singham emerged as China’s new American Mao, tapping an ‘International Revolutionary Front’ to crush US ‘hyperimperialism’

The House of Singham “has a major transparency problem,” says Robert Stilson, a senior research analyst at Capital Research Center, an investigative think tank based in Washington, D.C., following the money on nonprofits.

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The National News Desk— Comer: 2020 Census miscalculated; ‘biased’ against Republicans

“And now you have congressional seats in Minnesota, Colorado and Rhode Island that should actually be in Texas and Florida,” Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Researcher Center told The National News Desk.

Thayer said while the pandemic made it a lot harder to count in 2020, he believes the problem looking ahead to the 2030 census, is that the bureau doesn’t plan to adjust.

“Just asking them hey, do you have any plans to improve upon your past failures is a very important question to be asking and hopefully one that will be followed up with some legislative action,” Thayer said.

Comer’s comments also come at a time multiple states are currently in redistricting battles ahead of the 2026 midterms. Including Texas and Florida, who were both undercounted in 2020. Along with New York, Virginia and North Carolina.

“How the census is going to be done to fix what went wrong is an enormous question. It should be at the front of everyone’s minds as they consider questions of gerrymandering and redistricting and all the debates that are surrounding that,” Thayer said.

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Albany Times-Union— Congresswoman asks IRS to probe illegal nonprofit election activity

Nevertheless, there has been seemingly little enforcement action by the IRS and state regulators to address nonprofit electioneering issues, said Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, a conservative organization that studies charitable organizations. He noted a handful of cases have been initiated by state regulators in Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi and Alabama in recent years.

“States attorneys general are one of the better tools for doing any sort of enforcement on 501(c)(3) electioneering because the IRS seems asleep at the wheel,” he said.

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The National News Desk— Treasury department launches fraud whistleblower program, tipsters could cash in big

President of the Capital Research Center, Scott Walter, told The National News Desk, offering between 10%-30% of what’s collected is an enormous incentive.

“There is no honor among thieves so it is entirely possible that you would have some thieves angry at other thieves and turning them in and then you would blow up the entire operation,” Walter said.

But Walter said the administration could face some hurdles. Pointing to comments made by Bessent, who noted that while the fraud in Minnesota has made headlines, one reason it was identified was that the state has some transparency. Which isn’t the case for other areas.

“Secretary Bessent complained that in the case of New York and California it is opaque. So it is nearly impossible for anybody to discover such things,” said Walter.

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The Federalist— Left-Wing Propagandists Send Virginians Fake ‘Newspaper’ Promoting Democrat Gerrymander

Mike Watson, research director for the Capital Research Center and managing editor for InfluenceWatch, told The Federalist he believes WP LLC is just a shell for a left-wing dark money network, which is using the LLC to pay for the propaganda.

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AIF went from having about $18 million in revenue in 2023 to more than $58 million in revenue in 2024, Watson said, according to the organization’s 990 filings. Watson also noted that AIF takes money from Media Matters for America, which was also founded by [David] Brock, as well as millions from the left-wing Arabella Advisors dark money network.

“If you don’t know that ‘The Virginia Independent’ is David Brock, you are going to be one-shotted by the fact that you are being fed progressive talking points,” Watson told The Federalist. He also explained that the phenomenon of left-wing causes hiding behind a facade of local journalism is not new, and that AIF is not even the biggest offender. Courier Newsroom, he said, is probably the best known.

But the model of propagandizing is based on Americans’ desire to have a functional local press again.

“The local journalism that liberals romanticized, but that did provide something of a service, has declined and left a vacuum and into that vacuum has stepped what are, if they’re not explicitly political action committees — and some of them are, American Independent Foundation is not, but some of them are — they’re just ideological talking points factories that present themselves as ‘I am the independent journalism that you miss,’” Watson said.

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The Virginia Independent also has an arts section highlighting an initiative to fund artists in Virginia, a “Commonwealth Cooking” section with a recipe, and another story showcasing a local high school’s tech project, all in an effort to sell the idea that this is local news. When asked whether all these articles were generated with artificial intelligence, just to get a mailer out, Watson said he did not think so.

“Media Matters, and the Brock Empire have the resources to hire cubicle farm libs who can churn out 500 words,” Watson said. “If you’re familiar with the margarine brand I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, this is like ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not AI.’”

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Daily Caller— Governor’s New Chief Energy Officer Tied To Billionaire Obsessed With Population Control

SELC [Southern Environmental Law Center] received prominent donations from organizations tied to billionaire Fred Stanback. Stanback frequently donates to groups supporting environmental causes, anti-immigration policy, abortion, and population control, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

SELC received $175.4 million from the Foundation for the Carolinas, where Stanback is one of the largest account holders, between 2001 and 2017. Stanback has been credited with giving at least $50 million in donations to the SELC. Stanback and his family controlled 3 out of 11 seats on the SELC’s President’s Council, according to reporting from the Capital Research Center.

The SELC received $4.5 million from the Energy Foundation between 2007 to 2014, according to InfluenceWatch.

Snopes— Posts claim Trump is giving Iran $14B ‘handout’ for oil. We drilled into rumor: The Treasury announcement about lifting sanctions on purchases of Iranian oil came as the war continued to disrupt shipments from the Middle East.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies — which Influence Watch, a database founded by conservative think tank Capital Research Center, said usually supported a “confrontational policy” against countries like Iran — wrote on March 21 that the U.S. government must add escrow “safeguards” and reporting requirements to the Treasury license.

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The Federalist Radio Hour (podcast)—The Money Behind The Left’s ‘No Kings’ Movement

On this episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour,” Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to analyze the weekend’s “No Kings” demonstrations and dissect the dark money network behind the latest wave of left-wing activism.

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Legal Insurrection— Faculty Members at U. Wisconsin Donate Massive Amounts of Cash to Democrats Ahead of Midterms: “Right-leaning contributions were minimal in comparison”

The data also highlights the most generous individual donors affiliated with the university, many of whom are faculty members. Joel Rogers, listed as a teacher, was the top contributor with $90,150 in donations. Rogers founded and serves as the director of the High Road Strategy Center, formerly the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, which is described by Influence Watch as a “left-of-center think tank that primarily focuses on union-aligned labor policy.”

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Daily Mail— Inside the Texas school accused of ‘martyr brainwashing’ for Iran… locals fear radicalized teens pose a threat on US soil

But critics say its growth has been fueled not just by community demand – but by links to Tehran.

The center’s property has long been owned by the Alavi Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit that US prosecutors have described as a front for the Iranian government.

That connection has placed the IEC squarely in the crosshairs of federal scrutiny for years.

In a separate case, two Houston men admitted in 2024 to funneling tens of thousands of dollars in donations to funds associated with Iran’s leadership – moving the cash in increments designed to avoid detection and bypass US sanctions.

InfluenceWatch, a right-of-center watchdog group, said those men, Muzzamil Zaidi and Asim Mujtaba Naqvi, were linked to the IEC.

The group also accused the center of promoting a pro-Iranian worldview and teaching principles aligned with jihadist ideology – claims that have been fiercely debated but continue to fuel concern.

Attempts to reach IEC officials by phone and email, including resident scholar Farhat Abbas Rizvi, were unsuccessful. The center has in the past stressed that it operates independently of Alavi and rejected any ties to terrorism or illegal activity.