Investigating Power
…with the IRS as tax-exempt 501(c)(4) “charitable” organizations, like the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity, which spend tens of millions every election cycle propping up candidates with phony issue ads and…
Since 2000, corporate members of ALEC piled up almost $150 million in fines, penalties, and court settlements in cases involving racial and age discrimination and harassment. ALEC is the American…
…bipartisan criminal justice reform is making headlines, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has issued a report entitled “Private Prison Investment Risks” that provides a timely reminder of the perverse…
…failed to mention Koch Industries’ decades of support for policies, such as the American Legislative Exchange Council’s “Truth in Sentencing” bill, which spread to more than half the states and…
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the right-wing corporate bill mill, gave its “National Legislator of the Year” award to state Senator Sharon Hewitt of Louisiana. Senator Hewitt, a former…
…passed a verbatim American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “right to work” law in 2015 after a huge push by the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity group, Beightol cheered on the policy,…
The industry front group American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) has created a clunky new website containing an intriguing list of its enemies. You may find a few folks…
…toolkit, giving ammunition and guidance to Republican politicians on how to attack and dismantle a major funder of the Democratic Party. The toolkit appears to have been prepared by American…
…but it means a historical pride in the south in others, and we should be able to look at it as history.” Rep. King is an alumnus of the American…
…worth exploring the origins of this idea. ALEC Fingerprints Meekhof’s bill, Senate Bill 1260, is strikingly similar in its language to a “model bill” promoted by the Koch-funded American Legislative…
