Investigating Power
Campaign Finance, Democracy, Economy
But that success won’t come easy. Private equity execs are spending more than ever these days on politics. In the current election cycle, notes the Center for Media and Democracy, the top 50 national contributors to political campaigns include 11 private equity giants. These 11 have already contributed over $223 million to congressional and presidential […]
Most recently, several states across the South have passed laws prohibiting companies from receiving state-provided economic subsidies if they voluntarily recognize a union (AP 2024; Wiener 2023). This is a particularly telling choice, given the region’s embrace of subsidizing employers with generous economic development incentives, not to mention the Southern economic development model’s general deference […]
Democracy, Elections, Extremism
Watchdog databases on America’s far right. Glawe says useful databases for this work include the Insurrection Index; the Election Threat Index from Public Wise; the Resources dashboard at the States United Democracy Center; and the Center for Media and Democracy’s Insurrection Exposed database.
Documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy show SFOF holding events and panels at ritzy hotels all over the country, attended by right-wing state treasurers and auditors as well as executives from conservative think tanks, financial firms, and lobbying and consulting firms.
In fact, this was delivered as part of a 1943 speech by Henning W. Prentis Jr., former president of the National Association of Manufacturers, a group that, according to the Center for Media and Democracy, more recently has been heavily funded by the libertarian Koch brothers.
Campaign Finance, Climate, Democracy, Environment, RAGA
Further, Raga has received a whopping $18.8m from the Leo-linked Concord Fund since 2014 when the dark money non-profit first registered with the IRS, according to the liberal-leaning Center for Media and Democracy.
Campaign Finance, Democracy, Elections
In the current cycle, just 11 private equity billionaires all by themselves have so far pumped over $223 million in contributions to congressional and presidential candidates, an amount that more than doubles, notes the Center for Media and Democracy, what moguls from 147 private equity firms plowed into political campaigns back in the 2016 election […]
“Behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line,” the Center for Media and Democracy watchdog wrote about the organization on their website, ALEC Exposed. “Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as […]
Climate, Environment, Koch, SPN
The Center for Media and Democracy’s research is cited multiple times in this report.
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
CMD reported that with the selection of election denier extraordinaire, J.D. Vance, as the vice presidential candidate, the liars have effectively taken over the Republican Party. Plus, at least 16 delegates invited to the convention had signed fraudulent Electoral College documents in their states in an attempt to subvert the official counting of the ballots […]