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Conservative Group Led By EPA Chief Pruitt Received Dark Money to Battle Environmental Regulations

Climate, Environment, Koch, Trump

Source: Fast Company | Published: 6/7/2017

The fracking letter interested Devon Energy. Allen Wright, the company’s vice president for government affairs, contacted a top Pruitt aide for a copy of the letter, according to emails published by the Center for Media and Democracy. “Good to see you this week,” Wright wrote. “Can you send me a copy of Scott’s letter regarding the EPA [inspector general’s] inquiry into state regulation of O&G?”

Gagging the UW: Critics Worry Campus Speech Bill Is Another Attack on Academic Freedom

Bradley Files, Education, Koch

Source: The Cap Times | Published: 6/7/2017

The Bradley Foundation donated almost $3 million to the Ethics and Public Policy Center between 2001 and 2010, according the Madison-based Center for Media and Democracy. And the Goldwater Institute has received significant amounts of funding from sources with close ties to David and Charles Koch, leading funders in conservative politics and policy, the center reported.

Charity Doubles as a Profit Stream at the Daily Caller News Foundation

Economy

Source: The Washington Post | Published: 6/2/2017

The mission of the Daily Caller News Foundation, according to IRS filings, is “to train up-and-coming reporters and editors, to carry out investigative reporting, and to perform deep policy reporting with a purpose of consumer awareness and education.”

To evaluate the fulfillment of those goals, the Center for Media and Democracy, which first alerted The Fix to the Daily Caller’s business construct, analyzed the foundation’s output for two separate weeks, one in January and one in March. The watchdog found that only 39 percent of the articles represented original reporting; the rest hardly qualified as “investigative reporting” or “deep policy reporting.”

Fox News Host Exposed as Running a Scam Charity That Received Funding from Trump

Economy

Source: Daily Kos | Published: 6/2/2017

Now it has come to light that Carlson is more than just a terrible TV host. The Center for Media and Democracy conducted an exhaustive investigation into the stewardship of his website, The Daily Caller (TDC). Carlson launched the site six years ago and it quickly became a staple of wingnut propaganda. The Washington Post published CMD’s findings with this summary of the scam:

Muscular Right-Wing Foundation Vows to Rebuild National Conservative Infrastructure

Bradley Files

Source: Truthout | Published: 5/31/2017

Since its founding in the early 1940s, the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation has been a mainstay in funding and building conservative institutions, and supporting right-wing projects. A new report by The Center for Media and Democracy’s “Exposed” project, dives into a new “national effort funded by the … foundation to assess and expand right-wing ‘infrastructure’ [in order] to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide.”

BREAKING: Wisconsin May Bring the Koch Brothers One State Closer To Rewriting the Constitution

Democracy, Koch

Source: In These Times | Published: 5/31/2017

Wisconsin, in particular, has been a beachhead of rightwing state takeovers. The Koch brothers and other right-wing interests contributed handsomely to Gov. Scott Walker’s 2010 election campaign—an attempt to turn the traditionally progressive state into a laboratory for free market policies. Following suit, the language around Article V in Wisconsin suggests the state will use the convention to propose “amendments relating to a balanced budget.”

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“I really see it as a return to the Confederacy,” Arn Pearson, of Wisconsin’s Center for Media and Democracy, has said. “They want the ability for states to override Supreme Court rulings and any federal law they don’t like.”