…warmest seven years on record. The Earth’s temperature is rising faster today than at any time since the end of the last ice age, 11,300 years ago. We are pushing…
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ALEC-Led Effort to Preserve Conservative Majority on Supreme Court Gains Steam in the States
…amending America’s founding document to preserve the Court’s current conservative 6-3 majority. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which called Barrett “tremendously qualified” for the Supreme Court in a letter…
ALEC Members Lead Voter Suppression Efforts in 2020 Battleground States
State legislative leaders and members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are spearheading many of the GOP’s efforts at voter suppression in the states, especially those that saw close…
The Pro-LGBTQ Companies That Helped Elect Arkansas Anti-Trans Bill Sponsors
…its PAC, and CVS Caremark have given nearly $25,000 to the campaigns of anti-trans bill sponsors, including $21,000 to sponsors of the health care law. https://twitter.com/CVSHealth/status/1354144580321603588?s=20 Altria, American Electric Power,…
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The Right’s “Dark Money ATM” Launches Funding Stream to Exploit Pandemic for Movement Goals
…the American citizen sees government intrusion into our lives and livelihoods as counterproductive and harmful.” Operatives with deep ties to DonorsTrust decide on which organizations get funding through this new…
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Right-Wing Groups Unite in Campaign Against Bill to Improve U.S. Democracy
…rights of Americans.” A large number of State Policy Network members signed onto the letter, as well as Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity and Libre Initiative. A messaging kit distributed…
Democratic senators hold a press conference about the For the People Act in 2019. (Credit: Senate Democrats)
Right-Wing Groups Rally Around Anti-Union Case Argued in Supreme Court Today
…group Americans for Prosperity, filed amicus briefs in support of Cedar Point’s argument in December and January. Several additional ideologically aligned groups did so as well. Many of the amicus…
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The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots
…principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority” and co-founded by Hillsdale College’s Arnn, recently launched a new Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Center for the American Way…
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Alaska Senator Mum on Haaland Vote, Has Financial Conflict of Interest
…GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski—have said they will support Haaland’s confirmation, but Sullivan has stayed mum. Haaland would be the first ever Native American Cabinet secretary. Alaska is more impacted by…
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CMD President Lisa Graves to Testify Before Senate Judiciary on the Right’s Dark Money Campaign to Capture U.S. Courts
…(D-RI) will chair the hearing. Other witnesses include Ben Jealous, the President of People for the American Way and the former CEO of the NAACP, and Michael Klarman, a constitutional…
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