…but it means a historical pride in the south in others, and we should be able to look at it as history.” Rep. King is an alumnus of the American…
GOP Strips Rep. King of Posts, but ALEC Keeps White Supremacist State Chair
Billionaire Eli Broad Takes Public Education Private
…the highest-challenge neighborhood schools in order to discredit educators in them who seek win-win school improvement policies.” In response to the resignation of Broad-trained Los Angeles superintendent John E. Deasy…
ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck
…worth exploring the origins of this idea. ALEC Fingerprints Meekhof’s bill, Senate Bill 1260, is strikingly similar in its language to a “model bill” promoted by the Koch-funded American Legislative…
Wisconsin Schools the Nation on Hypocrisy and Partisan Power Grabs
…Sunday, along with a chart entitled “Americans know literally nothing about the Constitution.” Predictably, the insult was greeted with outrage. Jay Bullock had the rewrite. In the lame duck package…
Dispatches from COP 24 Climate Change Summit in Poland
…Trump Administration, he said: NC: “The underlying assumption [of the Trump policies] of course is that everyone in the world is as criminally insane as [the Trump Administration] is, and…
ALEC Lost Membership Worth Over $7 Trillion in Market Cap
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative nonprofit whose membership includes state legislators, corporations, and think tanks, is holding it’s 2018 States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, DC…
AT&T Drops ALEC for Hosting Hate Speech
AT&T, the world’s largest telecom company with assets of $446 billion, is no longer a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). AT&T’s exit from the corporate bill mill…
Wisconsin GOP Hopes to Pull Rug Out from Under New Governor, Rig Key Supreme Court Election in Lame Duck Session
If you pick up an election administration manual anywhere in America, what you won’t find are instructions on how to minimize voter turnout. But that is what is what the…
ALEC Embraces Trumpism, Climate Catastrophe, and School Privatization at Policy Summit
…these scholarships have zero tolerance policies for LGBTQ students, and others promoted prejudiced ideas about different races and religions. Many participating schools also have strict hair policies that ban students…
The Koch Brothers’ Freedom Partners Group Spends $115.2 Million in 2017
…living. Freedom Partners reports $18.7 million in compensation, salaries and wages presumably for the groups in the network, a whopping 15 percent of the total raised. $47.5 Million to Americans…
