Investigating Power
Climate, Democracy, Environment, Extremism, RAGA, SPN
It’s hard—or impossible—to know these days who funds TPPF as the organization does not disclose its donors; the most-recent publicly available lists of its financial backers are now more than a decade old. That, of course, makes the process of holding public officials accountable for their relationships to the organization (and the organization’s own motivations) […]
But the American Legislative Exchange Council, known for pushing conservative model legislation, is involved in these efforts to draft and enact model legislation, and the American Bail Coalition is one of ALEC’s members and has a representative on ALEC’s Criminal Justice Task Force, according to the Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive watchdog organization.
Climate, Democracy, Environment
“Secretary of State Ashcroft is acting like he is the legislative branch of the government,” Michael Berg, political director of the Missouri chapter of the Sierra Club, told the Center for Media and Democracy. “He enacted rules that were rejected by the legislature.”
As of July 2022, Moms for Liberty had about 95,000 members and more than 200 chapters in 40-plus states, according to Sourcewatch.com, an initiative from the Center for Media and Democracy that tracks corporate front groups. While initially it appeared as a grassroots organization, Moms for Liberty is more of an astroturf operation — national groups that expand rapidly […]
ALEC, Climate, Economy, Environment, Koch
Multiple citations to the Center for Media and Democracy’s work included throughout this publication.
Bradley Files, Democracy, Extremism, Trump
A key strategist working with Trump is Stephen Miller, the White House policy adviser, who created America First Legal, a nonprofit to lead the disinformation effort in February 2021 and within a year got a $27 million contribution from the Bradley Impact Fund, as David Armiak reported for the Center for Media and Democracy. “The […]
Climate, Democracy, Environment, Koch, SPN
Koch is the billionaire CEO and chairman of Koch Industries, which operates in multiple sectors of the fossil fuel industry. His Stand Together Trust contributed $5 million in 2022 to SPN-affiliated think tanks and millions more to SPN associates like the American Legislative Exchange Council and Cato Institute, according to the Center for Media & Democracy.
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
But the group’s tax records, provided to CNBC by Dave Armiak, a research director at the Center for Media and Democracy, show that Mitchell’s group entered 2023 with very little money left that could be used for those goals. The Election Integrity Network raised just over $753,000 and spent about $746,000 in 2022, which left […]
ALEC, Democracy, Extremism, Koch
That endorsement is likely to drive even more cash to add to the over $70 million in IRS-traceable contributions that groups solely focused on convening such a gathering have garnered from 2012 to 2022, in findings of the Center for Media and Democracy. That figure does not include contributions to ALEC, which has promoted the convention since […]
In 2021, ALEC hosted two panels related to Israel during its “States and Nation Policy Summit” in San Diego, California, one of which was billed as a workshop for legislators on “how to recognize antisemitism in all its modern devastation.” CMD was able to obtain audio of the panel, which included Elise Steinberg of the […]