Investigating Power
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Economy, Environment
An email obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy from the director of an uber-conservative group backing the draft said it’s an “opportunity to push back against woke financial institutions that are colluding against American energy producers.” What it really is, though, is a way to protect the companies most responsible for destroying the […]
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Economy, Environment
In an email obtained and first reported by Alex Kotch of the Center for Media and Democracy, Jason Isaac, director of the Koch-funded Texas Public Policy Foundation, wrote that “this morning at the ALEC Committee meetings you’ll have the opportunity to push back against woke financial institutions that are colluding against American energy producers.”
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Environment, Koch
This morning at the ALEC Committee meetings,” Jason Isaac, director of the Koch-funded Texas Public Policy Foundation, wrote last Friday morning, “you’ll have the opportunity to push back against woke financial institutions that are colluding against American energy producers.” The email—obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, and first reported by CMD investigative journalist […]
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Economy, Environment
This segment from All in With Chris Hayes features research first published in the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) piece, “ALEC Launches Attack on Banks That Divest From Fossil Fuels.” CMD consulted with reporter Kate Aronoff, who was interviewed for the segment, for her piece in The New Republic titled, “Conservatives Have a New […]
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Environment
“This morning at the ALEC Committee meetings,” Jason Isaac, Director of the Koch-funded Texas Public Policy Foundation wrote last Friday morning, “you’ll have the opportunity to push back against woke financial institutions that are colluding against American energy producers.” The email—obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), and first reported by CMD investigative […]
The Center for Media and Democracy says more than 100 corporations have canceled their ALEC membership since 2011 as a result of ongoing investigations and “whistleblowers wanting to make a difference.”
The Center for Media and Democracy found that right-wing donors and foundations gave a total of $9.2 million to ALEC from 2014 to 2019.
Democracy, Education, Extremism, Trump
A 2021 investor prospectus circulated in August and obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) details a seven-pronged approach by the MAGA youth group led by Charlie Kirk to “win the American Culture War and to inspire our kids [to] love America again. The $43 million ask is close to $20 million more […]
With the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo at the heart of this operation, they funneled over $400 million through a network of front groups to guide hand-picked judicial nominees onto the federal courts, including Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
Another military presence at the Capitol in January was the Veterans in Defence of Liberty – an organisation run by shadowy radical-right network Council for National Policy (CNP) member Dr Scott Magill. CNP’s membership includes radical-right actors, donors and Trump allies. Magill emailed his “fellow warriors and friends” to answer Trump’s “clarion call” and to […]