…a 2018 report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “voter roll purges often disproportionately affect African-American or Latino-American voters.” WILL, the conservative litigation group leading the charge in Wisconsin,…
Ex-Pharma Lobbyist Embedded in White House Tanked Drug Pricing Bill, While His Former Employer Helped From the Outside
…costs, something that’s currently prohibited. Ninety-two percent of Americans, including 85 percent of Republicans, want the government to negotiate Medicare drug prices. Still, the American Action Network has been claiming…
Some of America’s Biggest Corporations Help Finance Anti-Impeachment Ads
…having given $2.5 million in 2017. The other donors are tobacco giant Reynolds American, gas and electric utility Southern Company, Dow Chemical, pharmacy benefit manager CVS Health, and the American…
DonorsTrust Pumped $142 Million into Right-Wing Causes in 2018
…DonorsTrust doled out over $20.3 million in grants in 2018 to build right-wing infrastructure in the states, CMD has calculated. DonorsTrust gave $610,000 in 2018 to the American Legislative Exchange…
ALEC’s Washington State Chair Engaged in Domestic Terrorism, Report Concludes
…American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has kept Shea in a leadership role as its Washington State Chair despite major controversies. In November 2018, Shea found himself in hot water with…
As GOP State Attorneys General Fight Environmental Regulations, Fossil Fuel Companies Bankroll Their Campaigns
…energy interests and sued to stop the emails’ destruction. The correspondence records led to national coverage of Pruitt’s close relationships with Devon Energy, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers trade…
ALEC Influence in Ohio Greases Skids for Anti-Protest Bill
…Dominion Energy Ohio, Duke Energy, and Marathon Petroleum Company Eshenbaugh was previously a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, and his lobbying firm represents two other ALEC corporate backers, Caterpillar,…
Dispatches from the People’s Summit in Santiago, Chile
…Santiago to Madrid, was that I wanted to interview indigenous South American activists. I got lucky, as an amazing Paraguayan indigenous activist named Zunilda Flores agreed to tell me her…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Makes Unscheduled Appearance at ALEC Conference in Arizona to Promote Costly School Voucher Program
…American Federation for Children. “It appears they actively recruited Native American families into unknowingly breaking the law (by using ESA at an out-of-state school) and now that the state has…
Gerrymandering, Elections, School Privatization, and More on the Agenda as ALEC meets in Arizona
…cuts, orchestrated by Americans for Prosperity, the Koch machine’s grassroots operation. Charles Koch’s political network is usually well-represented at ALEC’s meetings. Close to 70 staffers from Americans for Prosperity, Stand…