…astroturf operation Americans for Prosperity (AFP) received the largest grant — $60 million — followed by its associated super PAC, Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), which received a grant…
Bradley Funneled $86 Million to Right-Wing Litigation, Policy, Media, Youth Groups, and Higher Education in 2022
…American Culture Project and the Franklin News Foundation, which publishes The Center Square. AIM apparently also operates under the names Restore American Communities Safely and Citizens Against Voter Fraud, but…
Constitution in the Crosshairs: The Far Right’s Plan for a New Confederacy
…had long funded to influence state laws—the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—and a dark money group with deep ties to Charles and the late David Koch (who died in 2019),…
ALEC Policy Summit Features Push to Legally Force a Constitutional Convention
State lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing operatives got together in Scottsdale, Arizona last week for the 2023 States and Nation Policy Summit hosted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)….
Dispatches from the COP28 Climate Talks in Dubai
…that moment hits we must support the right policies. Once you deny the right of people to practice in their own way — which is informed by nature — once…
Koch’s Super PAC Endorses and Will Canvass For Nikki Haley
Americans for Prosperity Action PAC (AFP Action), an outside super PAC largely bankrolled by industrialist Charles Koch and a handful of wealthy donors, has spent $972,000 to date running digital…
Louisiana Environmental Justice Groups Oppose $6 Million Subsidy for Koch Methanol Plant Expansion
…of new fossil fuel and chemical plants in St. James Parish. The lawsuit contends that decades of land use policies by the parish council and its planning board have caused…
DonorsTrust Funneled $134 Million to Right-Wing Groups in 2022
…upon to testify at hearings, producing “studies” or model legislation, and attracting media attention. SPN is the sister organization of the model policy factory the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),…
ALEC’s Stand Your Ground Laws Have Created a Deadly Culture of Shoot-First Vigilantism
…is clear: homicide rates and gun deaths are higher where these discriminatory, dangerous policies are on the books,” Sen. Shevrin Jones (D-34), the bill’s sponsor, told the Center for Media…
Mock Constitutional Convention Reveals Far Right’s Vision for Rewriting the U.S. Constitution
…the group has held since launching its campaign in 2013 in conjunction with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) — at Mount Vernon, the historic home of America’s first president….