Investigating Power
Republican state lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing operatives are descending on Orlando this week for the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ready to fight “woke…
For years, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has claimed to be “committed to transparency”—yet it refuses to disclose its donors on its website. When asked about this, ALEC’s CEO…
When the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) holds its annual meeting in Orlando this week, GOP state legislators and corporate lobbyists will likely embrace model legislation that creates new barriers…
…she describes as “North Dakota’s Free-Market Think Tank”). When Grande served as a North Dakota state representative from 1996–2014, she was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),…
…American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act are provisions that would gut donor disclosure requirements and allow nonprofits to circumvent certain campaign finance regulations, paving the way for an even larger…
…witnesses at the first hearing on Wednesday included representatives from the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), two conservative think tanks that have accepted significant funding from the…
Seventeen states have enacted broad anti-disclosure laws since 2018 that will further conceal the influence of dark money in politics based on model language first developed by the American Legislative…
…anti-union legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Among those are a “Public Employee Paycheck Protection Act,” adopted by ALEC in 2012, and a more recent “Public Employee Rights…
Even before the Justice Department announced the federal indictment of former President Trump last week, the super PAC for Charles Koch’s political operation, Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), had…
…taxed under the personal income tax code,” according to ITEP. It’s no surprise, then, that the primary players in the push for flat taxes are Koch’s astroturf lobbying group Americans…
