…On its website, the task force lists ALEC and the Heartland Institute as partner organizations. “ALEC has been instrumental in providing us a forum within which to present our campaign,…
Kochs Bankroll Move to Rewrite the Constitution
Gorsuch Would Move the Supreme Court in the Wrong Direction on Money in Politics
…spend unlimited amounts on independent expenditures and electioneering. Gorsuch hasn’t exactly left the corporate world behind since becoming a judge, and has become a millionaire in his own right. A…
Greenpeace Responds to National Review Piece by Richard Garneau of Resolute Forest Products
…the forest and impairing its ability to support the viability of woodland caribou. In an affidavit filed on January 23, 2017, Dr. Jay Malcolm, PhD, an independent forestry professor at…
Secret Scott Walker John Doe Leak Inquiry Underway
…July 2015 4-2 decision ending the Walker John Doe investigation, outside groups were required to work independently of candidates on elections. Two justices, including Gableman, were asked to recuse themselves…
John Humphries: Schooled by Team Walker, Betsy DeVos and ALEC
…was the subject of a bipartisan criminal probe into whether or not the Walker campaign had illegally coordinated with “independent expenditure” groups like RGA, which had sworn an oath not…
Don’t Let Them Smear Us as “Fake News”
…support a strong and independent press and to fund real investigative journalism, like CMD’s. We need your help to expose how the Kochs, ALEC, and ALEC corporations are filling Trump’s…
Charles Koch Ramps Up Higher Ed Funding to Fuel ‘Talent Pipeline’
…2015 – 990 Fred and Mary Koch Foundation 2015 – 990 Alex Kotch is an independent investigative journalist. This article is published exclusively with the Center for Media and Democracy….
Betsy DeVos: Transcript of James Madison Center Awards Banquet Speech, July 12, 2002
…from 1985 to 1988 before resigning after independent prosecutor James McKay concluded a 14-month investigation into his conduct. No charges were filed against Meese, but the independent counsel referred certain…
Trump Picks a Fight with the Facts on His First Full Day
…inauguration. This compares to the 470,000, calculated by the crowd scientists, for the Women’s March on Washington D.C. This compares to the 3.1 to 4.6 million, tallied by academics in…
Betsy DeVos and “Biblical Capitalism:” Transcript of Interview at The Gathering 2001
CMD transcribed audio of Betsy and Dick DeVos being interviewed at an event called “the Gathering” in 2001. The audio is available here. Founded in the mid 1980’s, the Gathering…
