…Koch-backed groups actively pressured the governor and legislators to pass a slate of bills reducing taxes on the wealthy and corporations: Americans for Prosperity–Louisiana (AFP–LA) and the Pelican Institute. Both…
State Battles Over Ranked Choice Voting Reveal Shifting Fault Lines
…their candidates. Indeed, “election integrity” groups associated with Leonard Leo and Cleta Mitchell have been attacking ranked-choice voting options in their larger sweep to restrict voting rights, and the American…
Top Leonard Leo Lieutenant Leads ALEC Bootcamp Against “Woke” Capitalism
On December 5, right-wing culture warriors instructed lawmakers attending the American Legislative Exchange Council’s States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., on the steps their states can take to…
ALEC Maps Out Right-Wing Legislative Agenda for 2025 in DC
With less than two months until Trump begins his second term, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is meeting in Washington, D.C., this week for its annual States and Nation…
Billionaire Megadonors Push State Courts Rightward
…and the American Civil Liberties Union, both of which started spending on state court races in 2022. “After Roe v. Wade was overturned, we had to turn to state courts…
When Voters Vote, Vouchers Lose
…vice president for strategy and innovation and state director for Charles Koch’s astroturf operation Americans for Prosperity. As of 2022, Unite for Colorado provided Colorado Dawn with almost half of…
DonorsTrust Injected More Than $150 Million in Untraceable Cash Into Right-Wing Groups in 2023
…the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which received $111,100 from DonorsTrust in 2023. The largest SPN affiliate grant of $2.6 million went to the Florida-based Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA),…
The Invisible Hand: How Dark Money Is Inventing Prestige for Right-Wing Academics
This article was first published by Important Context. On October 24, an organization called the American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) honored Stanford University Professor and health economist Dr….
Dispatches From the COP29 Climate Talks in Baku
…Climate Emergency Forum. One of his comments encapsulated a very positive touchstone of the United Nations COP crusade, which aims to solve the problems arising from too much CO2 in…
The American Invasion: Climate Denialism Crosses the Atlantic
…environmental progress, prominent American climate change denial organizations recently teamed up with a conservative Austrian trade union known as the Union for Sovereignty and the German climate denialist European Institute…