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…
ALEC’s State Ratings Favor Corporate Policy Wish-List Over Quality of Life
…than one in ten North Carolinians lacks health insurance. Yet, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) cites these as among the top five states in the country with the best…
GOP Candidates Race to Outdo Each Other in Attacking ESG Investing
…oil and gas industry. “Instead of giving a leg up to less reliable energy producers, we must unleash American energy. ESG isn’t an investment strategy. It’s a movement toward socialism,”…
Right-Wing Culture Warriors Target Annual Shareholder Meetings
…NCPPR has spearheaded a campaign it calls Stop Corporate Tyranny, which rails against “cancel culture” and accuses corporations of both allowing themselves to be weaponized against “traditional American values” and…
Koch Spending to Influence Policy and Politics Eclipses Charitable Giving
…2020. These net totals account for expenditures between the groups, without double counting. In this three-year period, Koch groups that are primarily focused on influencing American policy and politics accounted…
Texas “Death Star” Bill on Track to Decimate Local Worker and Consumer Protections
…protections it aims to undermine. The bills are authored by state politicians with strong ties to industry groups, fossil fuels interests, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the right-wing…
How Koch Cash Is Bankrolling the Effort to Kill Big Tech Reform
…media, Americans have become aware of how much market concentration the big four technology companies have achieved. Americans of all political parties agree that Big Tech companies like Apple, Amazon,…
Court Ruling Could Curtail Koch’s Legal Sleight of Hand on Asbestos Claims
…asbestos liability claims. At the end of January, a federal appeals court ruled that J&J could not shield itself from pending lawsuits arising from exposure to its now off-the-market baby…
ALEC Loses Last-Ditch Efforts to Blunt Repeal of Michigan’s “Right-to-Work” Law
…senators involved in the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to salvage the anti-union legislation the group helped pass more than a decade ago. Senate Bill 34, which passed on…
Florida Bills Deliver on DeSantis and ALEC Anti-Union Wish Lists
…of the bills’ specifics, both large and small, are lifted directly from the anti-union playbook of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a pay-to-play operation in which state legislators and…