I first attended an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) winter policy meeting in 2014. There I learned that many so-called “model bills” in the ALEC library had become law in…
ALEC Pay to Play on Display in Washington, DC
Election Losses Don’t Stop Corporate Efforts to Block Voter-Approved Minimum Wage Hikes
…Governor’s action’s are part of a power struggle going on all over America, pitting corporate lobbyists, their legislative allies, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), against popular efforts to…
Trump Urged to Put Nation Before Family Profits
With just four weeks left until inauguration, President Elect Donald Trump has yet to deliver on his promise to tell the American people how he is going to handle his…
ALEC’s Little Brother, ACCE, Has Big Plans for 2017
— By Steve Arnold, Mayor of Fitchburg, Wisconsin I recently returned from the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2016 States and Nation Policy Summit, in Washington, DC. As a Mayor, I…
Jeff Sessions and Trump’s White House Swamp
…should not take place until then. This article was written by Arn Pearson in his capacity as Senior Fellow at People for the American Way and first published in Salon….
Rex Tillerson and Exxon Spent Big on Climate Change Denial while Misleading Public, Evidence Shows
…the election, Exxon has used the American Legislative Exchange Council “as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block…
Revealed: The Trump Administration’s Energy Plan
…of Energy transition team. Pyle is the President of both the American Energy Alliance and the Institute for Energy Research. Both organizations have received cash from numerous fossil fuel funders…
A Trump Nation in an ALEC Land
The first post-presidential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting this week in Washington, DC made clear that starry-eyed conservative state legislators had visions of more power dancing in their heads….
Hypocrisy and Trumpism on the Agenda as ALEC Meets in Washington, D.C.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and its offshoot the American City and County Exchange (ACCE) are meeting in Washington, D.C., today to strategize on how to advance a far-right…
5 Things to Know about Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump Choice for Education
…Through her riches, Betsy DeVos has had a disproportionate influence on national and state policies affecting millions of Americans, helping to force through changes to the law that gut the…
