Who Funds that?

"Who Funds That?" EP5: Ohio’s Medicaid Millions

Seven buildings with 288 companies. Empty offices with unopened government notices in the mail slots. Convicted fraudsters vaguely warning that they know who journalists’ families are. It’s all real, and it’s all been uncovered in Columbus, Ohio, where millions of taxpayer dollars are disappearing into questionable home healthcare businesses and the state government and the businesses have few answers to many, many questions. Joining us to discuss their Ohio Medicaid investigation are Luke Rosiak, an investigative reporter for the Daily Wire, and Capital Research Center’s investigative researcher Parker Thayer. Medicaid Millionaires [https://www.dailywire.com/topic/medicaid-millionaires] He Was Convicted For Defrauding The Government. Now Medicaid Pays His Wife Millions. [https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-was-convicted-for-defrauding-the-government-now-medicaid-pays-his-wife-millions?author=Luke+Rosiak&category=News&elementPosition=undefined&row=0&rowType=Vertical+List&title=He+Was+Convicted+For+Defrauding+The+Government.+Now+Medicaid+Pays+His+Wife+Millions.] Ohio Restores Medicaid Anti-Fraud Measures After Daily Wire Investigation [https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-restores-medicaid-anti-fraud-measures-after-daily-wire-investigation?author=Luke+Rosiak&category=News&elementPosition=undefined&row=0&rowType=Vertical+List&title=Ohio+Restores+Medicaid+Anti-Fraud+Measures+After+Daily+Wire+Investigation] Inside Ohio’s Home Health Empire: 7 Buildings, 288 Medicaid Companies, $250 Million [https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million?author=Luke+Rosiak&category=News&elementPosition=undefined&row=0&rowType=Vertical+List&title=Inside+Ohio%E2%80%99s+Home+Health+Empire:+7+Buildings%2C+288+Medicaid+Companies%2C+%24250+Million] No One Is Safe: Homecare Fraud Schemes Are Ripping Off Americans In Every State [https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-is-safe-homecare-fraud-schemes-are-ripping-off-americans-in-every-state?author=Parker+Thayer&category=News&elementPosition=0&row=0&rowType=Vertical+List&title=No+One+Is+Safe%3A+Homecare+Fraud+Schemes+Are+Ripping+Off+Americans+In+Every+State]

Who funds That? EP4 Democrat Union Bosses, Republican Workers

As working-class Americans demonstrate increasing willingness to support conservative political candidates, some ostensible conservatives—some perhaps in service to their think tank’s funders in left-wing Big Philanthropy and others perhaps in the delusion that Big Labor will lead them to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—have argued that the path to working-class support is through union bosses’ marble and stone palaces in Washington, D.C. and other big blue cities. Today’s guest brings warnings that that way lies madness—or at least self-inflicted defeat, because those palaces still serve the Left as they have for (at least) almost a century. Today Tom Jones of the American Accountability Foundation brings the receipts, with documentation on how private-sector unions that have Republican members have been using their (often forced) dues to fund the Institutional Left.see less Scathing report claims nation's oldest labor union 'betrayed' MAGA members through 'shocking' spending [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scathing-report-accuses-top-labor-union-of-betraying-trump-supporter-members-with-shocking-spending-on-dems] DUKE: A Shaky Ceasefire And A Union Betrayal [https://dailycaller.com/2026/04/09/amber-duke-unfit-to-print-iran-war-unions-catholic-nuns-fraud/] Making the AFL-CIO great again: labor policy in 2026 [https://capitalresearch.org/article/making-the-afl-cio-great-again-labor-policy-in-2026/] Some local Teamsters groups announce Harris endorsements after national union declines to do so [https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/local-teamsters-groups-announce-harris-endorsements-national-union-dec-rcna171984] Does Big Labor truly represent the American worker? [https://capitalresearch.org/article/does-big-labor-truly-represent-the-american-worker/] Big Labor sees pensions as a “weapon” [https://capitalresearch.org/article/big-labor-sees-pensions-as-a-weapon/]

Who Funds That? EP 3: Justice Samuel Alito (with Mollie Hemingway)

When conservatives wax poetic about their favorite Supreme Court justices from what one might call the “Federalist Society [https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/federalist-society-for-law-and-public-policy-studies/] era” of Republican appointments, Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia take precedence. The oldest may prefer the late William Rehnquist, for a time the lone “originalist” on the court; the youngest may prefer Neil Gorsuch, the libertarian radical appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017. But today’s guest argues for Samuel Alito, appointed as George W. Bush’s second choice for the vacancy created by the retirement of Sandra Day O’Connor in 2005, as perhaps the most consequential of them all. Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, joins us to discuss her latest book: Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution. Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution [https://www.amazon.com/Alito-Justice-Reshaped-Restored-Constitution/dp/1541607139] Alito: The fulcrum of the conservative Court [https://capitalresearch.org/article/alito-the-fulcrum-of-the-conservative-court/] Demand Justice [https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/demand-justice/] ProPublica [https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/propublica/] Brett Kavanaugh’s Would-Be Assassin Gets Time Off for Trans Behavior [https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/brett-kavanaughs-would-be-assassin-gets-time-off-for-trans-behavior/]

Who Funds That? EP2 with Corey DeAngelis: Maryland Lawmakers and the Teachers Unions vs. Parents

Maryland, for my sins my home state, is almost completely controlled by the teachers unions—this was proven during COVID-19, when the state had among the longest school closures in the nation. But the end of the pandemic did nothing to curb Maryland teachers unions’ ambitions, which are now focused against private education, which the unions and their allies in state government hope to ideologically compel to follow the party line. Today’s guest, Corey DeAngelis of the Heritage Foundation among other places, focuses on an effort by the union-backed state legislature to require private schools in the state to acquiesce to gender transitions—even schools that have sincere religious objections to gender transitions likely protected by the First Amendment. He joins us today to discuss what this effort by blue-state teachers-union-controlled legislatures can tell us about parental rights campaigns across the country. Maryland’s assault on private education [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/8/marylands-assault-private-education/] Teachers Unions Extort States Unwilling to Resist [https://capitalresearch.org/article/teachers-unions-extort-states-unwilling-to-resist/] InfluenceWatch Podcast #397: Teachers Unions Target Target [https://capitalresearch.org/article/influencewatch-podcast-397-teachers-unions-target-target/] BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Union just sent out curriculum for public school teachers and it indoctrinates kids by calling Trump fascist. [https://x.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/2047472156053762181]

Who Funds That? EP1: Cutting Class for the Radical Left

Hello, I’m Michael Watson joined by Sarah Lee and this is our first episode of Capital Research Center’s “Who Funds That?” podcast. I am fond of reminding anyone who will hear me that organized labor is an institutional pillar of “Everything Leftism,” the omnibus ideology of progressive-liberal-socialist politics that relies on every single issue—yes, including that one—has one right answer and every issue relies on all issues following the party line. Today’s guest, Rhyen Staley of Defending Education, found documents from the Sunrise Movement, the radical left mobilization group that has shifted focus from the Green New Deal and environmentalism toward the full Everything Leftist agenda, that further prove these ties. He joins us today to discuss his research on Sunrise Movement’s guide to planned school disruptions and the role of the teachers’ unions in supporting them. A Sunrise Movement training guidebook calls for students to ‘take action monthly’ to ‘disrupt business as usual’ to bring about a ‘political revolution’ [https://defendinged.org/investigations/a-sunrise-movement-training-guidebook-calls-for-students-to-take-action-monthly-to-disrupt-business-as-usual-to-bring-about-a-political-revolution/] Newly obtained slides from a Sunrise Movement membership meeting calls for a ‘political revolution’ that includes the ‘need to structurally change the foundations of this country’ to achieve ‘Eco-socialism, [a] multi-racial democracy, and Green New Deal legislation’ [https://defendinged.org/investigations/newly-obtained-slides-from-a-sunrise-movement-membership-meeting-calls-for-a-political-revolution-that-includes-the-need-to-structurally-change-the-foundations-of-this-country-to-achieve-eco/] A May Day 2026 Host Toolkit includes training information for a “coordinated day of action” and promotes tactics such as a school ‘walk-in’; NEA provided $1.7M in funding to organization involved with training. [https://defendinged.org/investigations/a-may-day-2026-host-toolkit-includes-training-information-for-a-coordinated-day-of-action-and-promotes-tactics-such-as-a-school-walk-in-nea-provided-1-7m-in-funding-to-organization-involved/] K-12 Student Walkout and Protest Tracker [https://defendinged.org/investigations/k-12-student-walkout-and-protest-tracker/]