For years, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has claimed to be “committed to transparency”—yet it refuses to disclose its donors on its website. When asked about this, ALEC’s CEO…
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ALEC’s Funding Revealed
ALEC Considers Blacklisting Companies That Voluntarily Recognize Unions
When the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) holds its annual meeting in Orlando this week, GOP state legislators and corporate lobbyists will likely embrace model legislation that creates new barriers…
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Leading Anti-ESG Lobbyists Represent Firearms and Fossil Fuel Industries
…she describes as “North Dakota’s Free-Market Think Tank”). When Grande served as a North Dakota state representative from 1996–2014, she was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),…
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House Republicans Grease Dark Money Wheels in “Election Integrity” Bill
…American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act are provisions that would gut donor disclosure requirements and allow nonprofits to circumvent certain campaign finance regulations, paving the way for an even larger…
House Republicans introduced the ACE Act last week. Source: House Administration Committee Republicans
House GOP Joins the War on ESG, Brought to You by Big Oil
…witnesses at the first hearing on Wednesday included representatives from the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), two conservative think tanks that have accepted significant funding from the…
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), who has holdings in Halliburton, questions witnesses during "ESG Month." Source: GOP Financial Services/YouTube
ALEC State Lawmakers Lead Campaign to Conceal Conservative Donors
Seventeen states have enacted broad anti-disclosure laws since 2018 that will further conceal the influence of dark money in politics based on model language first developed by the American Legislative…
Source: People United for Privacy anti-disclosure ad (YouTube)
Walmart Heirs, Freedom Foundation Behind Latest Attack on Arkansas Teachers
…anti-union legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Among those are a “Public Employee Paycheck Protection Act,” adopted by ALEC in 2012, and a more recent “Public Employee Rights…
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders discussing Arkansas LEARNS, what she calls "the most far-reaching, conservative education reform in the nation." Source: Twitter
Koch Network Unleashes Early Attacks Against Trump
Even before the Justice Department announced the federal indictment of former President Trump last week, the super PAC for Charles Koch’s political operation, Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), had…
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Federal Covid Relief Funds Fuel Koch-Backed Flat Tax “Revolution”
…taxed under the personal income tax code,” according to ITEP. It’s no surprise, then, that the primary players in the push for flat taxes are Koch’s astroturf lobbying group Americans…
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ALEC Is Using Wolf-PAC to Help the Right Rewrite the Constitution
In spearheading far-right efforts to rewrite the U.S. Constitution, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is increasingly counting on an unexpected ally: a campaign finance reform group founded during the…
Wolf-PAC's Samuel Fieldman answering questions alongside Path to Reform's Vickie Deppe at an ALEC-affiliated convening in July 2022. (Photo Credit: Path to Reform/YouTube)