Investigating Power
Just before the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting in July, a former Oklahoma legislator and convicted felon reached out to ALEC state chairs to market a campaign data management platform favored by the Republican National Committee (RNC).
Richard Graber, president of the Bradley Foundation, will deliver the keynote address today at the State Financial Officers Foundation summit in Anchorage, Alaska.
A recent Arizona primary election sheds light on the entrenched power of the state’s utilities, with critics worried that more state representatives may work at the behest of the utilities instead of focusing on much-needed reforms to accelerate Arizona’s move towards renewable energy.
The Center for Media and Democracy released a major new report today highlighting the elevated threat to the peaceful transition of power following this November’s national elections — more than 200 public and Republican Party officials in swing states who either deny the 2020 election results, have refused to certify previous elections, or spread disinformation about widespread voter fraud.
The Center for Media and Democracy filed complaints today with the Internal Revenue Service and the Minnesota attorney general’s office requesting investigations into improper partisan and electoral activity by American Majority, a tax-exempt group that trains Republican candidates and party organizations on how to win elections.
In light of Donald Trump’s mockery of Vice President Kamala Harris and GOP attempts to discredit her as a DEI hire, it’s important to consider how Project 2025 seeks to eradicate DEI policies at all levels of government –– and what this would mean for Americans.
On April 30, the Indiana-based Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a right-wing litigation group, filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin to gain greater access to voter registrations in the state as part of its national campaign to purge voter rolls. The group has filed similar lawsuits in at least eight other states this election cycle.
Championing labor has long been the purview of progressives, despite recent rhetoric from Republicans who claim to represent working class America.
Americans for Citizens Voting is partnering with ALEC to pass noncitizen amendments in at least 11 more states.
An investment arm of the largest private company in the U.S. — Koch, Inc. — is investing in an agricultural business venture that will provide corporations with carbon offsets while pulling local natural resources from almost 7.2 million acres of land in three West African countries.