Last week Senate Republicans passed a tax bill that hands massive tax breaks to corporations and the rich at the expense of low-income and middle-class Americans. Written behind closed doors…
GOP Angles for More Campaign Cash, Less Disclosure
ALEC Hires Former Koch Staffer to Lead Its Energy Task Force
By Jamie Corey, Senior Researcher with Documented The Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has hired Grant Kidwell, a former analyst from two major Koch-backed groups–Americans for Prosperity and the…
Credo Delivers Petition to UPS Demanding that It Drop ALEC
Credo Action delivered a petition to the United Parcel Service (UPS) with 84,453 signatures earlier today asking the company to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The text of…
ALEC Backs Extreme Climate Denial, Constitutional Rewrite, Corporate Wish List at Nashville Summit
…located next door to the Country Music Hall of Fame. ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Counsel) claims that it will have a record 1,000 people at the summit, which will feature…
Koch Latino Front Group Instructs Arizona Moms About School Vouchers
…promoted by the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council in the 1980’s and was implemented into law for the first time by Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, a big ALEC booster. At…
Interstate Policy Alliance Members
…Minnesota Center of the American Experiment (i) Freedom Foundation of Minnesota Mississippi Mississippi Center for Public Policy (i) Missouri Show-‐Me Institute (i) Montana Montana Public Policy Institute Nebraska Platte Institute…
ALEC Corporate Members Lay Off Over 12,000 Workers in 2017
More than one-third of the large corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and half of all pharmaceutical company members had mass layoffs in 2017. Through the corporate-funded…
ALEC MAY WANT TO RECONSIDER THIS “LEGISLATOR OF THE WEEK” AWARD
Every week the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), together with the right-wing FreedomWorks, announces a “Legislator of the Week.” This week, as the fate of Roy Moore, the GOP…
Fake News Machine Ready to Defend Trump White House Against Robert Mueller
…Russian sources via Facebook. That is about half of the American electorate eligible to vote. Twitter testified that it had identified 37,000 Russia-linked accounts, which tweeted 1.4 millions times in…
Dispatches from COP23 Climate Change Summit in Bonn
…value system AC: Try to explain that to The American People. AJ: It’s less about explaining than experiencing it. If back in the 90’s you tried to explain email to…
