Investigating Power
…Pinnacle West, Freeport-McMoran, Southwest Gas, the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, and utility Salt River Project. Finchem and Bolick both sponsored Arizona’s bill HB 2905, signed by the governor in July,…
…Fund, Koch Industries, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, fossil fuel, telecom, and drug companies, and the National Rifle Association. Along with its 501(c)(4) affiliate the Rule of Law Defense Fund…
…stand. Rapert announced on Twitter that he would “update [NACL’S] law to mirror the Texas SB8 bill” and presented the NACL model bill as the standard. Sen. Brian Hughes, the…
…assertion that, after blowback stemming from its work on racist voter ID laws and “stand your ground” gun law, it stays out of social issues, ALEC is working hard to…
After the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) faced a public backlash and exodus of corporate members over its promotion of controversial and racist voter ID and “stand your ground” gun…
…upon all Americans to join us in taking a nonpartisan stand for this most basic and fundamental right of all Americans,” it concluded. At least seven companies that signed the…
…CMD shows that ALEC is working in lockstep with the billionaire Charles Koch’s astroturf group Americans for Prosperity, the Koch-linked front group Independent Women’s Voice, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,…
…adopt model legislation that weakens environmental protections, advances anti-union measures, reduces funding for health care, promotes private prisons, and weakens state regulation of corporations. The group previously promoted “Stand Your…
…a donor crisis and member exodus when its promotion of “Stand Your Ground” legislation was tied to the death of the unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin. He managed PR when…
…federal statute prohibiting lawmakers from working on bills primarily for furthering their financial interests,” Sludge reported. Manchin, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, has used the evenly split chamber…
