…Catholic University of America ($16 million), New York University ($14.1 million), and Utah State University ($12.1 million) account for the four universities with the next highest aggregate of Koch funding…
ULINE CEO Funnels $4.7 Million into His Restoration PAC Prior to 2024 Elections
…from SBA Pro-Life America and Women Speak Out PAC have made 830,916 visits to date to voters in Arizona, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The Iowa-based Americas PAC received…
“Nonpartisan” ALEC Teams Up with Run GenZ to Recruit and Train Young Republican Candidates for State and Local Office
…point behind in favoring Democrats. Now the ostensibly “nonpartisan” American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has teamed up with a new Gen Z political group to try to shift the balance…
First Avenue Workers’ Victory: Another Win for Union and Worker Center Collaborations
…Council between CTUL and construction trades including the Carpenters Union and Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA). While not all worker center and union relationships have been seamless, in…
Charles Koch’s “Stand Together” Donor Conduits Move $176 Million into his Network, Higher Education, and Right-Wing Policy, Advocacy, Litigation, and Media Groups in 2022
…astroturf operation Americans for Prosperity (AFP) received the largest grant — $60 million — followed by its associated super PAC, Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), which received a grant…
Bradley Funneled $86 Million to Right-Wing Litigation, Policy, Media, Youth Groups, and Higher Education in 2022
…American Culture Project and the Franklin News Foundation, which publishes The Center Square. AIM apparently also operates under the names Restore American Communities Safely and Citizens Against Voter Fraud, but…
Constitution in the Crosshairs: The Far Right’s Plan for a New Confederacy
…had long funded to influence state laws—the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—and a dark money group with deep ties to Charles and the late David Koch (who died in 2019),…
ALEC Policy Summit Features Push to Legally Force a Constitutional Convention
State lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing operatives got together in Scottsdale, Arizona last week for the 2023 States and Nation Policy Summit hosted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)….
Dispatches from the COP28 Climate Talks in Dubai
…that moment hits we must support the right policies. Once you deny the right of people to practice in their own way — which is informed by nature — once…
Koch’s Super PAC Endorses and Will Canvass For Nikki Haley
Americans for Prosperity Action PAC (AFP Action), an outside super PAC largely bankrolled by industrialist Charles Koch and a handful of wealthy donors, has spent $972,000 to date running digital…