…House candidate Andrew Rorabach, as well as $963,000 supporting Dold. Americans for Responsible Solutions, a gun control-focused super PAC heavily funded by Bloomberg, also spends the majority of its money…
Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Designed to Chill Campus Protests
…Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) show. Both Horlacher and Kapenga have ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a pay-to-play operation where legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind…
Fox in the Henhouse: Koch-Backed Opponent of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Chairs Taskforce to Evaluate Its Regulations
…of the American Bar Association, and former bureau director at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The pro-industry slant of the task force prompted Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sherrod Brown…
Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa
…Meanwhile, other analyses, including one by the Koch-funded Mercatus Center, have Sanders’s plan saving trillions on overall health expenditures while providing health care to the millions of Americans who are…
Pence to Speak at Madison School Choice Event
…American Federation for Children, so its exact revenue and budget for the Badger state are unknown. Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity Foundation is the $17 million “education” arm of its…
Right-Wing Business Billionaires Launch Attack on Bernie Sanders
Conservative business executives launched an ad campaign against Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders yesterday, attacking the democratic socialist on his plans to provide health care to all Americans and clean…
Ohio’s Right-Wing Buckeye Institute Goes National
…the policy, communications, and litigation arm of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and give the corporate lobby front group’s extreme agenda a sheen of academic legitimacy and state-based support….
Right-Wing Megadonors Are Financing Media Operations to Promote Their Ideologies
…National Review Institute ($2.8 million), the American Enterprise Institute’s magazine, National Affairs (over $1 million), the American Spectator Foundation ($663,000), and neoconservative magazine Commentary, Inc. ($125,000). The Center for American…
Koch Spends More in 2019 to Stop Action on Climate
…by a group sign-on campaign led by Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, which has received money from front groups created by Koch and foundations controlled by Charles Koch. Saying…
Koch-Favored DonorsTrust Keeps Funding Anti-Muslim and Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups
…$70,000 from 2014-16. “These findings are disturbing, even if unsurprising,” Abbas Barzegar, national director of research and advocacy at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told CMD. “In particular, the continued…