Last year, the Supreme Court handed a major victory to Charles Koch in his long-running quest to make political dark money even darker. The Court ruled in Americans for Prosperity…
Charles Koch’s Campaign to Make Dark Money Even Darker
ALEC Doubles Down on Punishing ESG Firms
At last week’s States and Nation Policy Summit, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) doubled down on its latest strategy of protecting the fossil fuel industry by blacklisting “woke” companies…
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Koch’s Political Ground Game Came up Short in 2022
Charles Koch’s political operation had a rough year. Despite the billionaire’s huge investments in Americans for Prosperity (AFP), his political and advocacy organization, and its super PAC, AFP Action, scored…
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CMD Launches Insurrection Exposed Website
…that prevented disaster in 2020. In response to this ongoing threat to American democracy, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is launching a new Insurrection Exposed website today. The…
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ALEC Has Half the Legislative Members It Claims
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) grossly overstates the number of state lawmakers who are members of the organization, internal documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)…
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ALEC Lawmakers and Corporate Lobbyists Meet in D.C. to Debate Rewriting the Constitution, Punishing Socially Responsible Businesses, and Protecting Misinformation
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meets this week in Washington, D.C., for its annual States and Nation Policy Summit at the four-star Grand Hyatt Washington, where rewriting the U.S….
Grand Hyatt Washington
“Dark Money ATM” Injected Right-Wing Groups with $123 Million in 2021
…That legislation is sometimes drafted as model bills by corporate lobbyists and lawmakers at SPN’s sister organization, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC received $191,000 from DonorsTrust. In September,…
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ALEC Eyes Sweeping Government Blacklists
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has quietly uploaded a sweeping model bill to its website that would require states to blacklist companies that consider anything other than maximizing profits…
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Koch Group Fails to Stop Medicaid Expansion Amendment in South Dakota
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the right-wing astroturf operation backed by billionaire Charles Koch, suffered a defeat in South Dakota on Tuesday when 56% of voters approved a constitutional amendment to…
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Dispatches From the COP27 Climate Talks in Egypt
…message he would like to give the American people. He said, “Hello American people. Plankton are our best friend. We will try to disseminate all those good practices to our…
