In launching a $20-million campaign last month to persuade Congress to extend President Trump’s first-term Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Charles Koch’s astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity, boasted about making the largest investment of any other conservative group in support of Trump’s second-term legislative agenda.
ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill-mill, has laid out its priorities for this year's state legislative sessions....
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Growing Grassroots Resistance to Trump Outpaces Democratic Party and Its Leaders
Behind closed doors last month, House Democrats expressed their frustration at an unexpected target: their own base....
by Colleen Scerpella | Feb 24, 2025In a North Dakota Courtroom, the Battle for Standing Rock Continues
Greenpeace and the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline square off in court....
by Winona LaDuke | Feb 20, 2025GOP and Koch Groups Want to Slash Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts
In launching a $20-million campaign last month to persuade Congress to extend President Trump’s first-term Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Charles Koch’s astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity, boasted about making the largest investment of any other conservative group in support of Trump’s second-term legislative agenda....
by Don Wiener | Feb 14, 2025Who is Brad Schimel, the Extremist Running for a Seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court?
Schimel, a Republican, previously served as Wisconsin’s attorney general from 2015–19. He has held close associations with several right-wing organizations and taken far-right positions on hot-button issues from abortion to guns, health care, and the J6 rioters who attacked the Capitol....
by Tom O'Connor | Feb 13, 2025
