…the Buckeye Institute, Fairness Center, Freedom Foundation, Liberty Justice Center, and National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have all represented plaintiffs in litigation against public sector unions, CMD has…
Koch-Backed Work Rule Requirements Suffer Setback at Hands of GOP Governor
…been to lobby nationally and in the states for work rule requirements in order to receive Medicaid, as well as food stamps and other social welfare benefits. Faced with a…
CMD Joins 200+ Groups to Call for Swift Action to Preserve 2020 Elections in Light of COVID-19 Pandemic
…nation comes together for the sake of the country and our collective communities. We are in a state of national crisis now; that is why it’s all the more important…
Dark Money “Women’s” Group Claims Pivotal Role in 2016 Presidential Election
…their lives, and IWF sent two mailings on the ACA to 880,000 households in Wisconsin. IWV later sent postcards linking the Supreme Court fight over Obama’s nominee to the nation’s…
Fox in the Henhouse: Koch-Backed Opponent of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Chairs Taskforce to Evaluate Its Regulations
…the rails,’” The Nation has highlighted. So, for the anti-regulation Koch, Zywicki is the most qualified to head up a group in charge of examining and recommending changes to the…
Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa
…“social welfare” nonprofit that’s not required to disclose its donors. But reporting has linked the think tank to Wall Street donors. In 2013, Lee Fang reported for The Nation that…
Pence to Speak at Madison School Choice Event
…Choice Student Showcase” is part of a larger campaign to privatize schools held this week in all 50 states under the banner of National School Choice Week (NSCW). School privatization…
Ohio’s Right-Wing Buckeye Institute Goes National
State right-wing advocacy groups are increasingly going national, spreading their influence on energy, environmental, and labor policies and litigation. Large national groups, such as the Cato Institute, started by Charles…
Right-Wing Megadonors Are Financing Media Operations to Promote Their Ideologies
…National Review Institute ($2.8 million), the American Enterprise Institute’s magazine, National Affairs (over $1 million), the American Spectator Foundation ($663,000), and neoconservative magazine Commentary, Inc. ($125,000). The Center for American…
Koch-Favored DonorsTrust Keeps Funding Anti-Muslim and Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups
…to numerous hate groups, including some white nationalist organizations, from the 2014 to 2017 fiscal years. Because of its heavy funding of anti-LGBTQ groups, DAF sponsor the National Christian Foundation…