…queen of the American Legislative Exchange Council, state Senator Leah Vukmir. It wasn’t the one Governor Walker continues to repeat. That’s the one where newly elected tea party politicians who…
The Anti-Transparency Agenda Hailed Inside ALEC
Koch Money Trail Reveals Great Interest in 2016 State Elections In WI, OK, and TX
…Koch’s Americans for Prosperity is offering door-to-door support of the GOP challenger to Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris who is running for the open 18th District. The Koch’s Americans for…
AARP To Drop ALEC after Members’ Outcry
AARP will drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has a long history of peddling bills that harm the interests of retirees and other Americans. The…
Revealed: AARP Is Funding ALEC
…pensions and healthcare of those over 50, is secretly funding the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization whose bills have acted against the interests of ordinary Americans, including retirees…
ExxonMobil Top Sponsor at ALEC Annual Meeting
ExxonMobil, facing multiple state investigations connected to its funding of climate change denial, is listed as a top corporate sponsor of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) annual meeting, taking…
Black Lives, Blue Lives, and the Fight Over Criminal Justice in America
…one of the most divisive issues of our time, the shootings of unarmed African Americans by police and civilians. The conventions took place against a backdrop of traumatic news stories….
ALEC 2016 Agenda Boosts Charters, Coal, and Other Corporate Funders
…attacks a new EPA rule to protect American streams—and along with them American families and wildlife—from dangerous pollution caused by surface coal mining. Mimicking ALEC’s “guerilla warfare” strategy against the…
Trump Promises Law and Order for an America He Says Is in Crisis
…a Republican, but most of all I am proud to be an American.” His remarks were historic and apparently well-received by an audience that on Monday approved a party platform…
Koch Brothers’ Fingerprints Can Be Found All Over GOP Convention
…Phillips, President of the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity, said he loved Mike Pence: “he had a great record in the House.” But Phillips was being too modest. Over the years,…
Policy Matters, but RNC Has Little to Say to Cleveland
…American Dream is simply out of reach. “Make America Work Again” was the theme of the day at the RNC on Tuesday. But delegates had few answers for a city…
