…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…
Pence to Speak at Madison School Choice Event
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…
Group Behind Wisconsin Voter Purge Lawsuit Has Strong GOP Ties
…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…
