…for the group’s annual States and Nation Policy Summit. CMD reported earlier today that, “One of the most extreme and divisive proposals on ALEC’s agenda is a proposed resolution calling…
ALEC Backs Extreme Climate Denial, Constitutional Rewrite, Corporate Wish List at Nashville Summit
…the corporate pay-to-play group holds its States & Nation Policy Summit this week in Nashville, Tennessee. The meeting begins today and runs through Friday at the 4-star Omni Nashville hotel,…
Koch Latino Front Group Instructs Arizona Moms About School Vouchers
…houses across the nation, these measures never succeed when they are put to the ballot. “The Kochs, Libre, DeVos, ALEC and the rest of the ideological billionaires may be able…
Dispatches from COP23 Climate Change Summit in Bonn
…both in the COP and at home in Senegal “awareness is growing.” She said her nation is under a lot of pressure from Climate Ruin, including “floods, droughts, and reduced…
The Koch Brothers Purchase a Stake in SINA, the Chinese Telecommunication Company
…taken a different tack. They have decided to invest in the totalitarian nation. In October, in what may be their first purchase of stock in a company from a communist…
ALEC’s Corporate Sponsors Top Nation’s Lawbreaker List
…also among the nation’s biggest violators of the health, safety, consumer, worker, and environmental protection laws ALEC seeks to dismantle. Just 38 of ALEC’s for-profit corporate members have paid out…
Cleaning Up the Courts, Citizen Hearings at Three Locations in Wisconsin
…Court has devolved from “one of the nation’s most respected state tribunals into a disgraceful mess,” wrote a national expert in the New Yorker. Rather than take steps to repair…
Consumer Product Safety Commission Cracks Down on Flame Retardants Linked to Health Problems
…promised.” The Tribune series, written by Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe, and Michael Hawthorne, brought national attention to a decades-long campaign of industry lies and deception. The reporters documented that the…
SCOTUS Prepares to Hear Case that Could Put an End to Hyper-Partisan Gerrymandering and One Party Rule
…Smith may be the most experienced redistricting attorney in the nation. He has argued 19 cases before the nation’s highest court and several redistricting cases. Smith told the New York…
Bradley Foundation Funnels Millions to State Policy Network Groups
…in states across the nation. Bradley grants to SPN’s affiliates, and to the broader network of national right-wing groups that SPN calls its associates, stretch back many years and amount…