Hello, I'm Michael Watson, joined by Sarah Lee, and this is Capital Research Centers,

Who Funds That?

As working class Americans demonstrate increasing willingness to support conservative political candidates,

some ostensible conservatives, some perhaps in service to their think tanks, funders,

and 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.

Tom, welcome to who funds that. And can you tell us a little bit about

your work and what American Accountability Foundation does? Sure. Hey, and thanks for having me on.

You guys do great work and just really excited to have the opportunity to talk about this.

The American Accountability Foundation, we are essentially a research firm that's modeled in the style of a research function you'd have on a campaign, but we focus on working the conservative movement and researching people on the left and in the establishment to really underscore problems and help it make it more difficult for those on the left to really push an aggressive, progressive agenda.

But at our heart, we're researchers. We're research nerds. We research in a lot of specific policy areas.

But our goal is to find stuff, expose facts, tell people the story so that they can make better decisions and we can have more informed policy and better organizations.

So what's behind your, you've now done, I've seen two of these reports on union expenditures on progressive left-wing advocacy, despite the fact that these

are private sector unions that have, in the case of the Teamsters, it appears to be a majority.

Lyuna, I'm not entirely sure, but there's at least a substantial group of Republican or

Trump-friendly or otherwise not down the line everything leftist membership.

So what's the reason for this project?

Yeah.

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