…free market approach that gets big government out of the way.” In an email to legislators obtained by CMD, ALEC touts that “your ALEC team has been value-pushing your ideas…
Ohioβs Buckeye Institute Uses Coronavirus to Push Its Budget Cuts Wish List
…freeze and budget cuts already imposed by Governor Mike DeWine (R). That group, the Koch-funded Buckeye Institute, is instead using the crisis to push its conservative agenda. Buckeye is part…
Funding Hate: How Online Merchants and Payment Processors Aid White Nationalists
…mainstream companies such as Amazon, DonorBox and Stripe. Among the more egregious examples are two notorious white nationalist groups that share leadership and hold conferences together. The Council of Conservative…
Anti-Coronavirus Lockdown Rally in Ohio Led by Trumpists and Tea Party Members
…to lift Ohio’s Stay at Home order and reopen businesses in the state. A Facebook page called “Open Ohio Now” (OON) is organizing the protest with the backing of five…
New Energy Wiki Provides Valuable Resource for Climate Activists Around the World
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Contact: David Armiak, Research Director, Center for Media and Democracy, david@prwatch.org James Browning, Communications Director, Global Energy Monitor, jamesabrowning@gmail.com MADISON, WI –…
Groups Aligned with Right-Wing Megadonors Are Promoting Coronavirus Protests
…FreedomWorks’ Moore is a member of ALEC’s Private Enterprise Advisory Council. FreedomWorks recently registered at least two websites, reopenoureconomy.com and reopensociety.com, concerned with ending the business closures. Reopenoureconomy.com is the…
100 Villages: How Bringing Back the Fish Will Repair the Climate
…a lot of materials, only about 100 tons of easily and cheaply obtained mineral dust, and one big boat can do it in a period of about two weeks. If…
COVID-19 ‘Liberate’ Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial
…combatting the climate crisis in arguing for a reopening of the economy during the COVID-19 outbreak. “It is clear we have experienced almost a complete loss of freedom,” wrote Luddy….
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…
ALECβs Post-Janus Wishlist Revealed in Policy Document
…union activities, and the Comprehensive Public Employee Freedom Act, which would prohibit public employers from requiring workers in a bargaining unit to join the union or pay dues, and allow…