The Center for Media and Democracy and 24 other groups release statement calling Trump’s state of emergency “an attack on our democracy.”
Pro-Democracy Groups Denounce Trump’s Emergency Power Grab
By ExposedByCMD Editors | at
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How Scott Walker Made Wisconsin the National Poster Child for Dark Money Corruption
By Mary Bottari | at
The tale of Wisconsin’s lead poisoned children becomes “Exhibit A” in congressional hearing Thursday.
Acting EPA Chief Appoints Climate Denier John R. Christy to Science Advisory Board
By Don Wiener and David Armiak | at
Christy has made a career of providing academic legitimacy to the climate denier movement.
ALEC Corporations Are Leaders in Workplace Discrimination and Harassment
By Don Wiener | at
ALEC is good at protecting the “rights” of corporations, not so good at encouraging its members to protect the legal rights of their employees.
Koch Kumbaya: The Billionaire Industrialists Appropriate Frederick Douglass, Pledge to “Do Right”
By Mary Bottari | at
What are we to make of all the good news and talk of bipartisanship coming from the Koch camp?
Louisiana Senator Sharon Hewitt, ALEC’s Legislator of the Year, Voted “No” on Equal Pay for Equal Work
By Don Wiener | at
The fact that Louisiana has the worst gender pay gap in the nation doesn’t seem to bother her.
Meet Scott Beightol: Anti-Worker Corporate Lawyer and Scott Walker’s Lame Duck Pick for UW Board of Regents
By Maxwell Abbott | at
Scott Beightol defends corporations accused of racial, gender, and age discrimination, and employers who want to deny workers medical and family leave.
ALEC’s New Union-Busting Toolkit Illustrates the Goal Is to Bankrupt Unions Not Protect Workers
By Mary Bottari | at
ALEC’s post-Janus toolkit inadvertently sheds light on the real aims of the group’s union-busting activities.
Howard Buffett’s Border War
By Beau Hodai | at
A billionaire’s son is spending millions in Cochise County.
GOP Strips Rep. King of Posts, but ALEC Keeps White Supremacist State Chair
By David Armiak | at
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea keeps his leadership post in ALEC despite circulating a white nationalist manifesto calling for a violent Christian holy war.