Speech First may look like a student group, but its staff and PR firm are paid for by the Koch operation’s DonorsTrust.
Comcast Is Latest Telecommunications Company to Drop ALEC
The news of Comcast’s departure was made public in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing calling for increased lobbying disclosure by Comcast.
ALEC Teams up with Anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom to Promote So-Called “Campus Free Speech” Bills
The noted hate group is also a dues-paying member of ALEC, CMD has found.
ALEC’s Washington State Chair Discussed Violence, Surveillance Against Constituents
Rep. Matt Shea offered to gather information on political opponents for right-wing extremists advocating violence.
Koch Network and Christian Right Celebrate Apparent Hagedorn Victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Right-wing Judge Brian Hagedorn leads Judge Lisa Neubauer by less than half a percent.
Trump Taps Climate Denier to Lead a Secret White House Climate Panel
Physicist and climate science denier William Happer has no formal training in climate science.
Koch and Bradley Groups Battle Medicaid Expansion Proposed by Gov. Tony Evers
Bradley network lined up to attack Evers, back GOP in budget battles.
DonorsTrust Bankrolled Right-Wing Judicial Appointments, Trump’s Acting AG, and Lobbying Front Groups in 2017
The Koch network’s favorite piggy bank DonorsTrust and its sister organization Donors Capital Fund doled out $114.2 million in grants in 2017.
Acting EPA Chief Appoints Climate Denier John R. Christy to Science Advisory Board
Christy has made a career of providing academic legitimacy to the climate denier movement.
GOP Strips Rep. King of Posts, but ALEC Keeps White Supremacist State Chair
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea keeps his leadership post in ALEC despite circulating a white nationalist manifesto calling for a violent Christian holy war.