Investigating Power
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Economy
Enterprising grifters are also cashing in on the trend. “Anti-woke” money manager Strive ($DRLL), which launched this year with backing from Peter Thiel, recently announced it has $250 million in assets under management, building on a $20 million seed funding round in May. As Alex Kotch pointed out for the Center for Media and Democracy, […]
Which makes no sense at all because, as The Center for Media and Democracy pointed out, “Arizona isn’t home to many private equity firms, yet she has become the Senate’s leading defender of the industry.”
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
The Center for Media and Democracy has published the agenda for a recent CNP meeting, held February 22 to 24 at the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, California.
According to the Center For Media And Democracy’s Exposed project, “28 organizations controlled by Charles Koch, his family, and Koch Industries executives spent a combined $1.1 billion, primarily to influence public policy and politics in the U.S., and had net revenues of $2.7 billion.” CMD’s Connor Gibson reported that Koch money “has financed groups involved […]
Democracy, Economy, Extremism, Koch
Seid is a major but relatively low-profile donor to Republicans and right-wing causes, including to organizations that attack climate science. The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) notes that Seid is “closely allied with the Koch network and funnels dark money through the same groups used by the Kochs, including DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund.”
“Rural voters, even though there are fewer of them … actually have an outsize granted power under this process,” said Santorum in leaked audio obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). “And we have the opportunity as a result of that to have a supermajority, even though … we may not even be […]
“The so-called ‘Right to Work Foundation’ is not welcome at Maine Med,” O’Sullivan added, “and it’s not welcome in Maine.” According to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the foundation has “supplied the lawyers for most of the anti-union cases before the U.S. Supreme Court,” including the infamous Janus v. AFSCME case in which the high […]
“They have gone out of their way to set up a web of dark money groups to obscure where the money is coming from and evade reporting requirements,” said Arn Pearson, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which filed complaints with authorities in Arizona and Montana against the network’s campaign apparatus.
“You take this grenade and you pull the pin, you’ve got a live piece of ammo in your hands,” former Republican senator Rick Santorum, a two-time GOP presidential candidate explained in audio of his remarks obtained by the left-leaning watchdog group the Center for Media and Democracy, Insider‘s Grace Panetta and Brent D. Griffiths report. “34 states […]
Campaign Finance, Democracy, Economy, Elections, Extremism
Last year, Arkansas became the first state to ban gender-affirming medical care for trans youth. Despite a sustained and targeted campaign to get the Waltons to speak out against the bill as it made its way through the state legislature, the family was quiet until after Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed the bill (his veto […]