Investigating Power
…the GOP. During the 2022 midterm elections, Ellison gave more than $30 million to the Opportunity Matters Fund, a conservative independent expenditure campaign fund — or super PAC — he…
At least 684 state lawmakers affiliated with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have voted to make it illegal for pregnant people across the country to access the right to…
…the America First Policy Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Club for Growth, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Family Research Council, and the Eagle Forum, all of which are pushing for a…
…(ALEC), an analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveals. In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022, state lawmakers across…
…18 days and that “human life is conceived at fertilization.” The same pamphlet promotes an “abortion pill reversal hotline” that claims to have received thousands of calls from “women who…
…early,” as CMD reported. Dannenfelser’s organization, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, works closely with ALEC to deny women bodily autonomy. Leo teamed up with Greg Mueller in 2020 to found…
…opposition from the bankers industry. Heritage Action and Consumers’ Research, along with SFOF, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), The Heartland Institute, the Independent Women’s Forum, America First Works, and…
…right to life.” At its annual meeting last summer, ALEC and SBA first celebrated the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling removing women’s right to access abortion in the U.S. over…
…campaign software, and since 2018 has been sponsoring Bradley “forums” at ALEC meetings that feature other Bradley grant recipients. In December 2021, Bradley forum speakers at the ALEC States and…
…of their funds on elections. Since the bill also eliminates the requirement of nonpolitical committees to report donors for independent expenditures, the result would be that countless “social welfare organizations”…
