…an offer for a federal contract to disclose” any payments for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, says one obscure provision in the Senate bill. With more than $400 billion in…
ALEC Backs Extreme Climate Denial, Constitutional Rewrite, Corporate Wish List at Nashville Summit
…one as well. The model legislation requires the state board of education to determine which schools are “low performing” and to force school districts to work with “independent school turnaround…
Interstate Policy Alliance Members
…and a media state contact list on the Interstate Policy Alliance website, the following 64 institutions were identified as being members. Alabama Alabama Policy Institute (i) Alaska Alaska Policy Forum…
Fake News Machine Ready to Defend Trump White House Against Robert Mueller
…three major voter suppression operations under way.” These were, writes the magazine, “aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans.” For…
Cleaning Up the Courts, Citizen Hearings at Three Locations in Wisconsin
…Massey, that a West Virginia justice needed to step aside from involvement in a case concerning a person who had made major independent expenditures to benefit the judge’s campaign, no…
Consumer Product Safety Commission Cracks Down on Flame Retardants Linked to Health Problems
…the Center for Media and Democracy in its Sourcewatch.org wiki. These include: the Independent Women’s Forum, an anti-feminist front group dubbed “the Koch feminists” by the Nation magazine that boasts…
Trump v. Mueller?
…comes to safeguarding an independent Russia investigation. This article was first published in Huffington Post by Arn Pearson in his capacity as a Senior Fellow for People For the American…
SCOTUS Prepares to Hear Case that Could Put an End to Hyper-Partisan Gerrymandering and One Party Rule
…academics along with Republicans and Democrats at all levels of government, civil rights groups, voting rights groups, and good government groups like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters….
Bradley Foundation Funnels Millions to State Policy Network Groups
…LBGTQ community here. Bradley funded efforts to counter the women’s movement here. Bradley funded right wing media machine here. But what is the SPN network up to in your state?…
State Policy Network Attacks Public Sector Workers as Waters Rise in Texas
…“think tanks” claim to be “independent,” “non-partisan,” “charitable organizations.” Behind closed doors, its all politics. SPN’s secret campaign to get rid of public sector unions was brilliantly exposed yesterday in…