Investigating Power
Former Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who left office in 2017 to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under former President Donald Trump, was rebuked by an Oklahoma County district judge for taking more than two years to fulfill some records requests. The case involved emails requested by the Center for Media and Democracy in 2015 […]
America’s Frontline Doctors was assembled by leading conservative and Republican organisations such as Tea Party Patriots and the evangelical Council for National Policy (CNP). A CNP conference call leaked by the Center for Media and Democracy showed that Trump campaign staff sought medically qualified voices willing to support the president’s call to reopen the economy. […]
In August 2020, the Center for Media and Democracy found that the SBA distributed between $2.35 and $5.7 million dollars in loans to six groups designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
ALEC, Climate, Economy, Environment
Since the conference, though, like-minded bills featuring shared language have been introduced by Republican state legislators around the country. According to a registration list obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD is also the institution that first reported on the December ALEC meeting), several state lawmakers from drought-affected areas attended the meeting. Some […]
ALEC has opposed efforts to strengthen labor unions and protections for workers, fought environmental and climate regulations, and worked with state lawmakers to punish Palestinian rights activists who support boycotts and divestment from Israel. While the group is more focused on economic issues than the culture wars, ALEC members in affiliated Christian groups have also […]
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Economy, Environment
The American Legislative Exchange Council is an avid supporter of the fossil fuel industry and lobbies state legislatures to pass laws friendly to the industry. One of its primary supporters is Koch Industries. According to Source Watch, “ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is […]
Democracy, Economy, SPN, Wisconsin
“The ethic of work, the expectation of work is failing,” claimed Chase Martin of the Opportunity Solutions Project, part of a larger network the Center for Media and Democracy has linked to various right-wing interests. “Wisconsin needs to use every tool at its disposal to get folks back to work.”
A 2021 Turning Point USA investor prospectus, which was obtained and published by the watchdog Center for Media and Democracy, highlights the project, which the prospectus says is necessary because “the Left has permeated America’s educational institutions.”
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Economy, Environment
At that meeting in San Diego, members of Alec’s energy taskforce voted to promote the model legislation requiring banks and financial companies to sign a pledge to not boycott petroleum companies in order to obtain state contracts. The wording closely resembles that of laws drafted by Alec and adopted in more than 30 states to […]
It’s not entirely clear where Gaffney’s nonprofit got the funds to hire Liberty Consulting. (Gaffney didn’t respond to interview requests.) But, according to David Armiak—the research director at the Center for Media and Democracy, which tracks nonprofit political spending—one of the biggest donors to Gaffney’s group in 2017 was a pro-Trump political organization, Making America […]