…GOP continued through 2018. Since 1987, according to Federal Election Commission records, Bloomberg donated over $900,000 directly to Republican candidates’ campaigns, national GOP party committees, and federal PACs of state…
Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Designed to Chill Campus Protests
…does lift much of its text liberally from the Goldwater Institute’s Campus Free Speech Act. Goldwater is an affiliate member of the State Policy Network (SPN), ALEC’s sister organization composed…
Fox in the Henhouse: Koch-Backed Opponent of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Chairs Taskforce to Evaluate Its Regulations
…Commission; Dr. Thomas Durkin, former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board; L. Jean Noonan, partner at Hudson Cook, former general counsel at the Farm Credit Administration, and former associate…
Charles Kochβs Political Operation Readies for 2020 Election: New PAC Report
…chairman of Mountaire Corporation, the sixth largest U.S. poultry company, based in Arkansas, gave $1 million. He was a major contributor to Freedom Partners’ political action committee, giving it $1…
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….
Pence to Speak at Madison School Choice Event
…their community’s schools positively, and 76% give their own child’s school an A or B grade, up a slight 6 percentage points from last year,” according to the 2019 PDK…
Ohioβs Right-Wing Buckeye Institute Goes National
…have started releasing their policy papers and pushing legislation and litigation elsewhere as well. SPN groups, right-wing “think tanks” dedicated to promoting “free markets” and limited government, often operate as…
Right-Wing Megadonors Are Financing Media Operations to Promote Their Ideologies
…since 2015. The nine donors provided 27 percent of the Media Research Center’s contribution revenue from 2015-17. The Media Research Center, which operates conservative sites such as CNSNews.com and Newsbusters…
Koch-Favored DonorsTrust Keeps Funding Anti-Muslim and Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups
…Impact Fund, which combined to give DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund $360,000 from 2014-18, donated $928,000 directly to the David Horowitz Freedom Center, $175,000 to the anti-LGBTQ Family Research Council,…
Right-Wing PragerU Triples Revenue in Two Years
…president, increasing from $5.42 million in 2016 to $18.6 million in 2018. The group’s stated mission is to promote “the Judeo-Christian values on which America is founded: free speech, free…