…agenda” with the goal of “enabl[ing] all Americans to live in true freedom.” However, the PAC has sent millions to groups committed to restricting women’s freedom to control their own…
“Nonpartisan” ALEC Teams Up with Run GenZ to Recruit and Train Young Republican Candidates for State and Local Office
…point behind in favoring Democrats. Now the ostensibly “nonpartisan” American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has teamed up with a new Gen Z political group to try to shift the balance…
Supporters of Tort Reform in Iowa Accused of Manufacturing a Crisis
…malpractice cases in Iowa involving severe injury or death. Tyler Raygor, director of Iowa’s American for Prosperity (Iowa AFP), and Drew Klein, director of the group’s Des Moines branch, lobbied…
Republican State Financial Officers Group Doubled Its Revenue After Being Weaponized to Fight “Woke” Capitalism and Sustainable Investing Practices
…community interests (instead of just shareholders) when making business decisions. SFOF has deep ties to both the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the pay-to-play, corporate bill mill, and CRC Advisors,…
Charles Koch’s “Stand Together” Donor Conduits Move $176 Million into his Network, Higher Education, and Right-Wing Policy, Advocacy, Litigation, and Media Groups in 2022
…astroturf operation Americans for Prosperity (AFP) received the largest grant — $60 million — followed by its associated super PAC, Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), which received a grant…
Bradley Funneled $86 Million to Right-Wing Litigation, Policy, Media, Youth Groups, and Higher Education in 2022
…American Culture Project and the Franklin News Foundation, which publishes The Center Square. AIM apparently also operates under the names Restore American Communities Safely and Citizens Against Voter Fraud, but…
Constitution in the Crosshairs: The Far Right’s Plan for a New Confederacy
…had long funded to influence state laws—the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—and a dark money group with deep ties to Charles and the late David Koch (who died in 2019),…
ALEC Policy Summit Features Push to Legally Force a Constitutional Convention
State lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing operatives got together in Scottsdale, Arizona last week for the 2023 States and Nation Policy Summit hosted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)….
Dispatches from the COP28 Climate Talks in Dubai
…our high and rising CO2 combines with water it becomes carbonic acid: H20+CO2 = H2CO3. If there is sufficient plankton photosynthesis present, the plankton competes for the CO2 and prevents…
Charles Koch Foundation Sent $52.6 Million to Colleges and Universities in 2022 to Promote Its Business and Policy Interests
…also contributed voluntarily to colleges and universities on the erroneous assumption that this assistance benefits businesses and the free enterprise system, even though these institutions encourage extreme hostility to American…