The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meets virtually this week for its second conference of the year, the States and Nation Policy Summit. Like its annual meeting in July, ALEC…
ALEC Holds Virtual States and National Policy Summit
DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Pumped at Least $90 Million into Right-Wing Causes in 2019
…$441 million. Over $42 Million in Right-Wing Infrastructure Funding DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund gave a combined total of $42.6 million in 2019 to national and state-based policy and advocacy…
CMD Joins Legal Community Call to End Baseless Claims of Election Fraud
…to our democracy,” the letter states. “If ever there were a time for the nation’s bar associations to speak out for the rule of law, it is now,” writes Lauren…
Voters Pass Economic Justice Measures Despite Corporate Opposition
…close to $700,000 against the amendment, included the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, which donated $202,000, the National Restaurant Association ($100,000), the Caldwell Trust Company ($50,000), McLure Properties ($30,000), the…
Voters Beware: The Right’s Scheme to Disqualify Thousands of Swing-State Votes
…polling, the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign appear to be increasingly relying on a plot to invalidate potentially millions of votes in those states after Election Day. The…
Right-Wing Catholic Group Spends Millions Attacking Biden, a Catholic, as an Existential Threat
…National Catholic Reporter implicitly endorsed Biden, listing many problems created or exacerbated by Trump and urging readers to “vote their conscience.” It also opposed the Supreme Court nomination of Amy…
Net Worth of Wisconsin Billionaires Jumps $11 Billion Since Pandemic
…ordinary workers did not fare as well. From mid-March to mid-September, the collective work income of rank-and-file private-sector employees declined by 3.5%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics national data….
GOP Politicians and Conservative Groups Set the Stage for Attempted Kidnapping of Michigan Governor
…peak of new daily COVID-19 cases. Cases were dropping by the day but still quite high. At the time, Michigan had the fourth-highest number of coronavirus cases in the nation….
ALEC Board Member Reveals Kansas Partisan Gerrymandering Plan to Donors
…into their districts, thereby making the rest of the map whiter and more conservative,” David Daley reported. Then, at its December 2019 States and Nation Policy Summit, ALEC attendees learned…
Senator Whitehouse Calls Out Dark-Money Networks Behind Amy Coney Barrett’s SCOTUS Nomination
…do with money. This is an interesting comparison. National Federation of Independent Businesses, until it filed the NFIB v. Sebelius case, had its biggest donation ever of $21,000. In the…
