Fox News has been radicalizing the American Right for decades, and it has never been more racist and conspiratorial than it is today. The Center for Media and Democracy tracks…
CMD Signs Coalition Letter Asking Corporations to Drop Fox News
Despite Covid, Koch’s Americans for Prosperity Continues Assault on Medicaid
After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in…
Rand Paul Is Working with ALEC to Suppress the Vote
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) last month said he has spoken with state legislators through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) about passing state bills that restrict voting rights and…
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Officials Use Digital Dodges to Hide Records
…digital dodges to evade Wisconsin’s Open Records Law extends far beyond the university. Wisconsin lawmakers who are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are using the corporate pay-to-play…
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Major Right-Wing Funders Push Supreme Court Case Against Donor Disclosure
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rodriquez. The case challenges the constitutionality of a California law that requires nonprofits operating in…
Leaking Oil and Gas Wells: A Ticking Time Bomb
…of abandoned wells leak methane, according to the American Geosciences Institute. The Environmental Defense Fund notes that methane is 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in contributing to climate…
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The Food Industry Is Shaping the Principles of Scientific Integrity, Study Says
…American Journal of Public Health, Elisa Ong and Stanton Glantz wrote of tobacco industry’s “sophisticated public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the…
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ALEC Big Pharma Members Hit with Billions in Fines and Penalties in 2020
Two pharmaceutical companies that are corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) were hit with some of the biggest criminal and regulatory penalties by federal and state governments…
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Wisconsin Far Right Lawmakers Seek Radical Rewrite of U.S. Constitution…Again
…are sponsors of the current resolution, Kapenga introduced a 2017 resolution based off of an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model that he claimed would limit a constitutional convention to…
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Businesses and Trade Groups Bankrolled Sponsors of Texas’ Cruel Anti-Trans Bill
…the anti-trans senators include Allstate Insurance, American Electric Power, Atmos Energy, Centerpoint Energy, Eli Lilly, Entergy, Exelon, and Union Pacific. American Electric Power and Union Pacific previously told CMD that…
