Research Cited

Investigation on Weed Killer Dicamba Adds to Pattern of Corporate Deception on Pesticide Hazards

Source: Beyond Pesticides | Published: 12/18/2020

The Center for Media and Democracy’s (CMD’s) PR Watch reported in 2012 on documents it had obtained showing that Syngenta’s “PR team investigated the press and spent millions to spin news coverage and public perceptions in the face of growing concerns about potential health risks from the widely used weed-killer atrazine.” The company used a variety […]

Koch-Funded Group Seeks to Overturn Voter-Approved Tax on Arizona’s Wealthiest 1%

ALEC, Bradley Files, Democracy, Economy, Education, Koch, News, SPN

Source: Sludge | Published: 12/16/2020

Behind the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling, reporters Scott Zimmerman and David Armiak found at Exposed by CMD, was a 2017 bill passed by Republicans that required a “strict compliance” legal standard for ballot initiatives. That law signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, in turn, had been supported by the right-wing Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy […]

Potential Education Secretary Nominee Attacked by Antiunion Group

Democracy, Education

Source: Inside Higher Education | Published: 12/14/2020

The group says on its website that it is a nonprofit, “supported by foundations, businesses, union members, and the general public,” that is “dedicated to showing Americans the truth about today’s union leadership.” The Center for Media and Democracy’s SourceWatch, however, calls it a “front group for individuals and industries opposed to union activities” and […]

White Nationalists Sought Resumes for Trump White House, Emails Show

Democracy, Trump

Source: Southern Poverty Law Center | Published: 12/14/2020

The Center for Media and Democracy reported in December that DonorsTrust, a dark money group that “manages and disperses wealthy conservatives’ charitable funds anonymously,” gave VDARE a staggering $1.5 million in 2019. DonorsTrust bundles money from “Republican billionaire families such as the DeVoses, Kochs, and Mercers,” the watchdog noted.

Fossil Fuel Lobbying Group Floats Model Legislation to Limit Climate Suits

ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured Investigations, News

Source: The Climate Docket | Published: 12/11/2020

Materials from the Civil Justice Task Force meeting obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, a non-profit watchdog group, indicate that the task force instead addressed ways to limit the ability of municipalities to bring public nuisance-based suits.

“Campus Reform” Is Funneling Koch Money to Groom Right-Wing “Journalists”

Democracy, Koch

Source: Truthout | Published: 11/15/2020

Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, son of Robert W. Kirk, the project architect manager at Trump Tower in New York City. The group’s “Professor Watchlist” names hundreds of progressives who are said to be indoctrinating students with anti-capitalist messaging that threatens the survival of Western civilization. According to Alex Kotch, […]

Tech platforms continue to let U.S.-based hate groups use them to make payments

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Source: NBC News | Published: 10/27/2020

Numerous analyses over the last few years have examined the funding mechanisms of hate groups, including reports by the Anti-Defamation League, the Center for Media and Democracy, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Color of Change.

The Dark-Money Funded Women’s Group Rallying Behind Amy Coney Barrett

Democracy, SPN, Trump

Source: The Intercept | Published: 10/24/2020

IWF and IWV are carefully branded as independent nonprofits supporting women, regardless of their policy positions, which include opposing Title IX, employer and tax-funded paid leave, and the Violence Against Women’s Act. “Being branded as neutral, but actually having people who know know that you’re actually conservative puts us in a unique position,” Higgins told donors […]

Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination Is Backed By Dark Money. So Is Her Refusal To Acknowledge Basic Climate Science

Bradley Files, Democracy, Koch, SPN, Trump

Source: wbur | Published: 10/16/2020

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the judiciary committee, used his allotted time during Monday’s hearing to lay out this case. Basing his presentation on research from the Center for Media and Democracy, Whitehouse showed that a common set of billionaire donors, shielded by an identity-scrubbing funding organization, administers a three-pronged assault on the judiciary to further their […]

Senator accuses Milwaukee-basedBradley Foundation of being part of conservative ‘scheme’ in Barrett confirmation hearings

Bradley Files, Democracy, Koch, SPN, Trump

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Published: 10/14/2020

Citing the work of the Center for Media and Democracy in Madison, Whitehouse pointed to an email in which a Bradley grant officer conferred with Leonard Leo, then a top official at the Federalist Society, about how the foundation could fund “two Supreme Court amicus projects” in 2014. Leo directed him to the Judicial Education […]