…national organizations such as the AARP, the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association, among others. Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in 2014, only 12 states…
Big Polluter is Top Donor to Koch Political Group
…according to Good Jobs First’s Violation Tracker. Ronald Cameron, the CEO of Mountaire, donated $1 million to the political arm of Koch’s astroturf group Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action)…
RAGA Revenues Continue Their Post-Insurrection Slide
…American, primarily to fund the campaigns of Republican attorneys general candidates. Together with the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF), its 501(c)(4) affiliate, RAGA runs a cash-for-influence operation that coordinates…
Two Koch-Tied Candidates Vie for Colorado’s New 8th CD
…28 pits six candidates against each other so far, including State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, endorsed by Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), and former State Rep. Lori Saine, a former…
Donations Pour in for Trump’s Secretary of State Candidate in Arizona
…the primary are state Rep. Shawnna Bolick, who raised $157,000, and state Sen. Michele Ugenti-Rita, who brought in $94,000. Bolick co-chairs the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)’s secretive elections working…
How The Koch Network Hijacked The War On Covid
…Michigan called Hillsdale College announced it was launching an Academy for Science and Freedom to “educate the American people about the free exchange of scientific ideas and the proper relationship…
The Right Is Trying to Rewrite the Constitution to Cement Minority Rule Forever
During a private workshop at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) recent policy summit, speakers discussed a right-wing movement to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to “balance the budget,” limit the…
Insurrectionist Mark Meadows Flies to Atlanta to Help Launch Far-Right State Caucuses
…South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wyoming. “Building Freedom Caucuses in every state, composed of principled, America-First conservatives, will help better protect our liberties and American values in…
ALEC Is Enabling Anti-LGBTQ Hate
…(SPLC) Hatewatch found. Lisa Nelson, the CEO of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—a powerful group of corporate lobbyists and mostly Republican state lawmakers who write model legislation—stated in a…
ALEC Launches Attack on Banks That Divest From Fossil Fuels
…fossil fuel companies, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has learned. Today at the annual States and Nation Policy Summit of the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a…