CMD NEWS ABOUT ALEC

• The Right’s Vision of a Constitutional Convention Would Sideline Voters and Spark a Constitutional Crisis

  By ExposedByCMD Editors | March 14th, 2025 at 1:51 PM (CDT)

  The Center for Media and Democracy released a revised and updated edition of its report today documenting how a constitutional convention would give hand-picked GOP delegates supermajority control over any proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

• ALEC Legislators Dominate Leadership Positions in Republican States

  By Don Wiener and Colleen Scerpella | March 14th, 2025 at 11:43 AM (CDT)

  For more than 50 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council has moved a right-wing and pro-corporate Republican agenda of legislation in states across the country — all while posing as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt charity.

• ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025

  By Juliana Broad | February 25th, 2025 at 7:33 AM (CST)

  The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill-mill, has laid out its priorities for this year's state legislative sessions.

• GOP and Koch Groups Want to Slash Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts

  By Don Wiener | February 14th, 2025 at 11:49 AM (CST)

  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.