Investigating Power
Climate, Democracy, Environment
ExxonMobil severed ties with ALEC in 2018, but had given more than $1.7 million to the group between 1998 and 2015, according to Exxon’s publicly available disclosures published by the Center for Media and Democracy. Chevron and Energy Transfer have not replied to CNN’s request for comment.
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
A new survey of eight vital swing states reveals that at least 239 election deniers who have signed up to Trump’s “election integrity” conspiracy theories – including the false claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him – are actively engaged in electoral battles this year. The deniers are standing for congressional or state […]
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
More than 100 election officials across eight swing states in the U.S. presidential race have engaged in partisan election denial in recent years, raising fears they could try to turn the November result in favor of Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to a report released Friday. The 88-page report, produced by the Center for Media […]
Complaints filed with the Minnesota Attorney General and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday by The Center for Media and Democracy allege that the nonprofit American Majority broke campaign finance laws that limit political activity by charitable organizations. The complaint says American Majority, which trains Republican political activists and candidates, should be barred from […]
Who’s behind the campaign to cement a stacked Supreme Court into the Constitution, what it would mean for the country, and options for reforming a rogue Court.
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.