…page provides users ways to urge Trump and state and federal officials to “re-open American for business.” It features a U.S. map that identifies the main protest organizing group in…
CMD Files Lawsuit Against IRS for Refusing to Release Tax Records for 18 Right-Wing Groups
…Chamber of Commerce JM Foundation Judicial Education Project Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Mercer Family Foundation Sarah Scaife Foundation Searle Freedom Trust Stand Together Foundation Over the next month and…
ALEC’s Post-Janus Wishlist Revealed in Policy Document
…of Commerce, or Glenn Spencer, Senior Vice President of the Employment Policy division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Both emailed lawmakers attending ALEC’s policy summit seeking to discuss their…
Koch Foundation Criticizes Turning Point USA Even as Koch Network Funds the Group
…Feinberg is a GOP megadonor and Trump ally but is not affiliated with the Koch network. The only other grantee of the Tracking Foundation from 2017-18 was the U.S. Chamber…
Right-Wing Super PAC Runs Pro-Sanders Ad After Running Anti-Sanders Ad
…the Charles Koch-backed trade association now called The Seminar Network Chamber of Commerce donated $175,000 to Club for Growth in 2017. A few years before, the group received over $1…
Radical Resolution Calling for a Constitutional Rewrite Passes Wisconsin Assembly
The Wisconsin Assembly passed a resolution calling for a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution on February 18 by a 60-38 vote, almost entirely along party lines. The measure, Assembly Joint…
Private Prison Giant GEO Group Gives to Super PAC Backing Susan Collins
…and a Columbia Journalism Review columnist, told CMD. “Newsmax should be held to account, and so should Senator Collins.” A Daily Beast report linked 1820 PAC to the U.S. Chamber…
Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa
…cites a report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonprofit heavily funded by the foundation of the late Wall Street billionaire and Nixon Commerce Sec. Peter G….
Ex-Pharma Lobbyist Embedded in White House Tanked Drug Pricing Bill, While His Former Employer Helped From the Outside
…of the president on Pelosi’s bill. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has pharmaceutical executives from Bayer, Celgene, and Pfizer on its board, has run online ads against H.R. 3,…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Makes Unscheduled Appearance at ALEC Conference in Arizona to Promote Costly School Voucher Program
…of Arizona Policy, Jake Logan of the AZ Charter Association, Laura Ciscomani, Development Director of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, and others. The roundtable did not appear to include any…