Investigating Power
ALEC, Constitutional Convention, Democracy, Trump
Fewer than half the states have laws or policies governing convention procedures. The majority of those would give state legislators, rather than voters, the ability to select delegates. They’d also permit each state one vote, according to a 2025 review by the Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive government watchdog. The center obtained audio […]
Bradley Files, Extremism, Koch, labor
An analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy found that the Freedom Foundation — a 501(c)3 registered nonprofit that’s not required to disclose its donors — has received significant funding over the years from right-wing organizations like the Bradley Foundation (known for backing efforts to defund and get rid of unions) and the Charles […]
As the Center for Media and Democracy points out, there’s a strategic purpose to peddling these kinds of copy-cat proposals across GOP-controlled states. “Model bills like those developed and promulgated by ALEC serve a dual purpose: they both advance a cookie-cutter, pro-corporate agenda at the state level and create avenues for impact litigation whereby state […]
The scale of the Concord Fund’s giving to RAGA can be seen in a review by the nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy (CMD): from 2014 into 2024, the Concord Fund has given the 527 organization more than $17.8 million, and it gave millions of dollars more to RAGA last year.
Democracy, Economy, Environment, Koch, Trump
“Koch Inc is primarily a fossil fuel company, so they are going to do very well under Trump,” said Arn Pearson, executive director of the progressive non-profit watchdog Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). CMD obtained the donors’ letter and shared it with the Guardian.
“At issue is whether GOP Attorney General Dave Yost should be required to provide records to an appeals court that had been requested by the Center for Media and Democracy, which pertain to the nonprofit Republican association as well as its fundraising arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund. Yost’s office also is fighting a […]
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s five-year refusal to comply with a public records request from a progressive watchdog went before the Ohio Supreme Court for the third time on Wednesday. The Center for Media and Democracy in March 2020 issued records requests seeking documents pertaining to a winter meeting of the Republican Attorneys General Association […]
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) made the records request, which was limited to the time frame between February 2019 and the office’s response. The attorney general’s office answered that it had no records responsive to the center’s request or the information wasn’t a record, as defined in the Ohio Public Records Act. CMD […]
The records request, initially made by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) in March 2020, has been hovering in legal limbo, with the attorney general contending that he has no relevant records within the scope of CMD’s inquiry or that the requested information doesn’t qualify as a public record. The CMD urged the Tenth […]
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Environment
“For preemption laws, and the rapid explosion of them in state houses, it’s definitely ALEC that’s more responsible than any other group or organization or company,” explained David Armiak, research director with The Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit watchdog group, who investigates dark money in American politics. According to Armiak, the group is […]