Investigating Power
Conservative business executives launched an ad campaign against Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders yesterday, attacking the democratic socialist on his plans to provide health care to all Americans and clean…
State right-wing advocacy groups are increasingly going national, spreading their influence on energy, environmental, and labor policies and litigation. Large national groups, such as the Cato Institute, started by Charles…
…National Review Institute ($2.8 million), the American Enterprise Institute’s magazine, National Affairs (over $1 million), the American Spectator Foundation ($663,000), and neoconservative magazine Commentary, Inc. ($125,000). The Center for American…
…H.R. 2256, the Driving America Forward Act, which would expand tax credits for plug-in electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. The bill has 138 co-sponsors, not surprisingly all Democrats, and…
…to hate groups, it has been helping diminish the civil liberties of Muslim-Americans, immigrants, and the LGBTQ community. The Right’s favorite dark-money conduit, DonorsTrust, continued to fund several anti-Muslim and…
…president, increasing from $5.42 million in 2016 to $18.6 million in 2018. The group’s stated mission is to promote “the Judeo-Christian values on which America is founded: free speech, free…
…costs, something that’s currently prohibited. Ninety-two percent of Americans, including 85 percent of Republicans, want the government to negotiate Medicare drug prices. Still, the American Action Network has been claiming…
…president. Who might be funding these ads? The answer is tricky because both groups–the American Action Network (AAN), which is closely tied to House Republican leadership, and the pro-Trump America…
…Trump came into office, an America First Energy Conference. CEI employs Myron Ebell, who the Financial Times called “one of American’s most prominent climate-change skeptics,” and was tapped by Trump…
…American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has kept Shea in a leadership role as its Washington State Chair despite major controversies. In November 2018, Shea found himself in hot water with…
