…Finance Wins South Dakotans passed Initiated Measure 22 52-48, a statewide ballot referendum, that cracks down on dark money and phony industry front groups by barring candidate coordination with outside…
Progressive Policies Win at the Ballot Box
Dispatches from COP 22, UN Climate Negotiations in the Hottest Year on Record
…industry finally again coming to the United Nations negotiations and trying to sell their technology, because they are desperate for money. Russia is in a deep economic crisis, they need…
WI Senate Race Tightens with Flood of Last Minute Ads against Russ Feingold
…The National Republican Senatorial Committee Claims Washington “Changed Feingold” The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign committee of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans, dropped a planned ad…
Voter ID in Wisconsin, a Slow-Motion Train Wreck
…and African-Americans in Wisconsin–some of the strongest testimony offered in the nation–Petersen hesitated to strike down Wisconsin’s voter ID in its entirety. Instead, he struck down early voting restrictions and…
Federal Government Continues To Feed Charter School Beast Despite Auditor’s Warning
…across the nation. Regardless of how you feel about these schools, you should be concerned about how this new government outlay to charters will be used, based on the extensive…
Transcript of RAGA Session on ExxonMobil Investigations
…is clearly an abuse of power, wholly inappropriate. It’s designed to silence critics, the trying to, it’s viewpoint discrimination. You know, pure and simple. So again as Myron mentioned some…
New Grants Announced: ED Continues to Pour Millions into Charter School Black Hole
…nation when it comes to fraud and lack of charter school oversight. More than 120 charter schools have closed in the little more than a decade that Florida began authorizing…
Leaked Documents Show Court’s Dismissal of the John Doe Was Based on a False Premise
…2015 ruling. “The Wisconsin court was wrong to say that coordination between a candidate and outside groups only matters if there’s express advocacy,” said Donald Simon, a prominent national expert…
Supreme Cover-Up: How the Wisconsin Justice System Failed in the Walker John Doe
…this week are replete with evidence of expenditure coordination. In concert with federal FEC rules, Wisconsin Government Accountability Board rules at the time stated that there is coordination “where there…
Coveted Records Exemption Wrong for Wisconsin
…public records law enjoys as one of the nation’s broadest. While the federal approach relies on a purported need for agencies to operate in secrecy in order to produce the…
