The American Legislative Exchange Council is where corporations and far-right groups go to buy government policy.
After 50 Years, This Right-Wing Law Factory Is Crazier Than Ever
By Arn Pearson and David Armiak | at
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Anti-Woke and Fossil Fuel Industry Operatives Dominate ALEC’s Energy Task Force
By David Armiak | at
A senior operative in Leonard Leo’s influence network now holds a seat on the Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council—a task force that is increasingly dominated by anti-woke warriors and leaders in the fossil fuel industry.
Fossil Fuel Consultant and Leonard Leo Lieutenant Lobby ALEC Lawmakers on “Stopping ESG”
By David Armiak | at
At last week’s annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a fossil fuel industry consultant teamed up with a right-wing culture warrior to lobby ALEC lawmakers to move legislation that punishes companies embracing sustainable business practices.
Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund is RAGA’s Top Funder So Far in 2023
By David Armiak | at
One of Leonard Leo’s funding vehicles is once again the top contributor to the Republican Attorneys General Association, according to an analysis of the group’s latest 2023 IRS filing by the Center for Media and Democracy.
ALEC Ditches Free Market and Limited Government Principles at its 50th Annual Meeting
By David Armiak | at
Republican state lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing operatives are descending on Orlando this week for the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council ready to fight “woke capitalism,” extend a lifeline to big polluters, ban ranked-choice voting, attack bodily autonomy, and consider an array of other model policies.
ALEC’s Funding Revealed
By David Armiak | at
A review of hundreds of tax filings by the Center for Media and Democracy has uncovered 39%—or $16.4 million—of the $41.7 million ALEC received in contributions between 2017 and 2021.
Koch Network Unleashes Early Attacks Against Trump
By Don Wiener | at
Even before the Justice Department announced the federal indictment of former President Trump last week, the super PAC for Charles Koch’s political operation, Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), had spent $347,022 in May to discredit his presidential bid in 2024.
Federal Covid Relief Funds Fuel Koch-Backed Flat Tax “Revolution”
By Don Wiener and Arn Pearson | at
A decade-long push by Koch’s political and policy network to get more states to flatten or abolish income taxes is finally beginning to pay off, thanks to billions in federal Covid relief funds flowing to the states.
Koch Spending to Influence Policy and Politics Eclipses Charitable Giving
By Connor Gibson | at
In 2021, a fleet of 27 organizations controlled by Charles Koch and other Koch Industries executives spent a combined net total of $656.8 million on political and charitable causes.
How Koch Cash Is Bankrolling the Effort to Kill Big Tech Reform
By Mike Lux | at
When the next big disaster unfolds due to deregulation, don’t be fooled. Republicans are deflecting blame by attacking the Biden administration as insufficiently populist, but the seeds of the East Palestine train derailment and Silicon Valley Bank bailout were sown under the Trump deregulatory regime and more broadly by the anti-government ethos of the GOP and its Big Money donors.