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EXPOSEDbyCMD - Investigating Power. Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. At the heart of this exemption from the retention rules for state lawmakers are arrogance and cowardice. Arrogance that legislators don't think they should be RIGHT-WING GROUPS UNITE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST BILL TO Right-Wing Groups Unite in Campaign Against Bill to Improve U.S. Democracy. The For the People Act, Democrats’ wide-ranging election and ethics reform bill, got its first hearing today in the Senate Rules Committee. The bill, Senate Bill 1 (S. 1), addresses numerous problems with the current electoral system and includes sweepingmeasures to
WISCONSIN LOOPHOLE LETS LEGISLATORS DESTROY EMBARRASSING Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. If you want to see all of the emails your mayor received and sent during the week of March 16-20, 2020, to find communications regarding the coronavirus outbreak, all you have to do is ask. Under state law, the mayor is required to retain these and provide them on request. MAJOR RIGHT-WING FUNDERS PUSH SUPREME COURT CASE AGAINST $36.1 Million from Bradley Groups. The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation and its Bradley Impact Fund chipped in 16 percent, or $36.1 million, of the amicus filers’ funding between 2015 and 2019 that CMD was able to identify. Bradley is a major funder of right-wing infrastructure in the states, backing efforts to misinform the public on climate change, push school privatization schemes ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at KOCH-FUNDED GROUPS BACK ANTI-UNION BILLS IN THE STATES David Armiak is research director with the Center for Media and Democracy. David joined CMD in 2015, has conducted extensive investigations on dark money, corporate corruption, and right-wing networks, and is responsible for filing and analyzing hundreds of public records requests every year. ALEC’S NUMEROUS TIES TO THE CAPITOL INSURRECTION AND "BIG ALEC’s leaders, legislative members, and alumni played a major role in promoting Trump’s stolen-election disinformation campaign, attempting to overturn the election, and inciting the resulting violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Will its corporate backers hold it accountable?EXPOSEDBYCMD
EXPOSEDbyCMD - Investigating Power. Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. At the heart of this exemption from the retention rules for state lawmakers are arrogance and cowardice. Arrogance that legislators don't think they should be RIGHT-WING GROUPS UNITE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST BILL TO Right-Wing Groups Unite in Campaign Against Bill to Improve U.S. Democracy. The For the People Act, Democrats’ wide-ranging election and ethics reform bill, got its first hearing today in the Senate Rules Committee. The bill, Senate Bill 1 (S. 1), addresses numerous problems with the current electoral system and includes sweepingmeasures to
WISCONSIN LOOPHOLE LETS LEGISLATORS DESTROY EMBARRASSING Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. If you want to see all of the emails your mayor received and sent during the week of March 16-20, 2020, to find communications regarding the coronavirus outbreak, all you have to do is ask. Under state law, the mayor is required to retain these and provide them on request. MAJOR RIGHT-WING FUNDERS PUSH SUPREME COURT CASE AGAINST $36.1 Million from Bradley Groups. The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation and its Bradley Impact Fund chipped in 16 percent, or $36.1 million, of the amicus filers’ funding between 2015 and 2019 that CMD was able to identify. Bradley is a major funder of right-wing infrastructure in the states, backing efforts to misinform the public on climate change, push school privatization schemes ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at KOCH-FUNDED GROUPS BACK ANTI-UNION BILLS IN THE STATES David Armiak is research director with the Center for Media and Democracy. David joined CMD in 2015, has conducted extensive investigations on dark money, corporate corruption, and right-wing networks, and is responsible for filing and analyzing hundreds of public records requests every year. ALEC’S NUMEROUS TIES TO THE CAPITOL INSURRECTION AND "BIG ALEC’s leaders, legislative members, and alumni played a major role in promoting Trump’s stolen-election disinformation campaign, attempting to overturn the election, and inciting the resulting violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Will its corporate backers hold it accountable? RIGHT WING DARK MONEY TARGETS WELLESLEY The first question to ask of a group like PDE is, who is funding it? PDE president Nicole Niely refuses to answer. But there are clues. According to the Center for Media and Democracy, Ms. Niely is a veteran political operative affiliated with the Koch network.She is the president of Speech First, set up in 2018 as a pass through for tax deductible donations to the law firm Consovoy McCarthy THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for RIGHT-WING NETWORK OPPOSES INITIATIVE TO INCREASE Right-Wing Network Opposes Initiative to Increase Charitable Giving During Pandemic. During a pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 460,000 Americans and decimated the economy, more than $1 trillion meant for charitable purposes are sitting unused in private foundations and donor-advised funds. The Initiative to AccelerateCharitable
RIGHT-WING CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLIONS ATTACKING BIDEN Leaders of these and other organizations are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerful, secretive group of leading right-wing figures that has influenced Republican politicians and administrations for decades. Many CNP leaders, including Ralph Reed, are evangelical Christians, but the group has recruited Catholics and has a Catholic caucus. TOP ALEC OFFICIAL IS RINGLEADER OF ARIZONA ELECTION AUDIT One was filed by Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward, a former ALEC-tied lawmaker, who has faced allegations within her own party that her election to the party’s top post in the state was fraudulent. Ward tweeted on the day of the Capitol insurrection: “Congress is adjourned. Send the elector choice back to the legislatures.”. THINK TANK POLICY AND THE 67TH MONTANA LEGISLATURE “They go for a few days and they’re in these hotels together with corporate lobbyists, discussing policies and voting as equals with these corporate lobbyists or trade association lobbyists or whatever,” David Armiak, research director at the Wisconsin-based watchdog nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy, told MTFP. TEXAS ACTIVISTS ARE WORKING TO ‘FREE PALESTINE’ BUT The state of Texas is one of Israel’s largest trading partners: In 2018, eight Texas lawmakers participated in an all-expenses trip to Israel sponsored by the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council and energy companies CenterPoint and Vistra. WHO FUNDS THE FEDERALIST? FINALLY, WE KNOW. Journalist Andrew Perez found that the George E. Coleman Jr. Foundation is an investor in FDRLST Media, LLC, the company behind The Federalist. In 2018, the Coleman Foundation had $148,000 invested in FDRLST Media. The foundation’s trustee, Daniel Oliver, is a former Reagan official who was once executive editor of the conservativeNational
RESEARCH CITED ARCHIVE The two largest for-profit prison companies in the United States – GEO and Corrections Corporation of America – and their associates have funneled more than $10 million to candidates since 1989 and have spent nearly $25 million on lobbying efforts. RIGHT-WING MEGADONORS ARE FINANCING MEDIA OPERATIONS TO Lucy Burns Institute—$13.4 million. The Lucy Burns Institute, a Madison, Wisconsin-based nonprofit and member of the right-wing State Policy Network, received the most money from these nonprofit donors out of all media recipients. From 2015-18, the Institute took in nearly $13.4 million, mostly from DonorsTrust and DCF but also fromthe Coors
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EXPOSEDbyCMD - Investigating Power. Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. At the heart of this exemption from the retention rules for state lawmakers are arrogance and cowardice. Arrogance that legislators don't think they should be RIGHT-WING GROUPS UNITE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST BILL TO Right-Wing Groups Unite in Campaign Against Bill to Improve U.S. Democracy. The For the People Act, Democrats’ wide-ranging election and ethics reform bill, got its first hearing today in the Senate Rules Committee. The bill, Senate Bill 1 (S. 1), addresses numerous problems with the current electoral system and includes sweepingmeasures to
MAJOR RIGHT-WING FUNDERS PUSH SUPREME COURT CASE AGAINST $36.1 Million from Bradley Groups. The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation and its Bradley Impact Fund chipped in 16 percent, or $36.1 million, of the amicus filers’ funding between 2015 and 2019 that CMD was able to identify. Bradley is a major funder of right-wing infrastructure in the states, backing efforts to misinform the public on climate change, push school privatization schemes WISCONSIN LOOPHOLE LETS LEGISLATORS DESTROY EMBARRASSING Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. If you want to see all of the emails your mayor received and sent during the week of March 16-20, 2020, to find communications regarding the coronavirus outbreak, all you have to do is ask. Under state law, the mayor is required to retain these and provide them on request. DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at KOCH-FUNDED GROUPS BACK ANTI-UNION BILLS IN THE STATES David Armiak is research director with the Center for Media and Democracy. David joined CMD in 2015, has conducted extensive investigations on dark money, corporate corruption, and right-wing networks, and is responsible for filing and analyzing hundreds of public records requests every year. THE KOCH COUP: CHARLES KOCH'S POLITICAL MACHINE BANKROLLED Charles Koch's political operation and his close family members have funded the campaigns and leadership PACs of all 13 U.S. senators who will attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6 based on Trump's conspiracy theories and lies.EXPOSEDBYCMD
EXPOSEDbyCMD - Investigating Power. Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. At the heart of this exemption from the retention rules for state lawmakers are arrogance and cowardice. Arrogance that legislators don't think they should be RIGHT-WING GROUPS UNITE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST BILL TO Right-Wing Groups Unite in Campaign Against Bill to Improve U.S. Democracy. The For the People Act, Democrats’ wide-ranging election and ethics reform bill, got its first hearing today in the Senate Rules Committee. The bill, Senate Bill 1 (S. 1), addresses numerous problems with the current electoral system and includes sweepingmeasures to
MAJOR RIGHT-WING FUNDERS PUSH SUPREME COURT CASE AGAINST $36.1 Million from Bradley Groups. The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation and its Bradley Impact Fund chipped in 16 percent, or $36.1 million, of the amicus filers’ funding between 2015 and 2019 that CMD was able to identify. Bradley is a major funder of right-wing infrastructure in the states, backing efforts to misinform the public on climate change, push school privatization schemes WISCONSIN LOOPHOLE LETS LEGISLATORS DESTROY EMBARRASSING Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. If you want to see all of the emails your mayor received and sent during the week of March 16-20, 2020, to find communications regarding the coronavirus outbreak, all you have to do is ask. Under state law, the mayor is required to retain these and provide them on request. DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at KOCH-FUNDED GROUPS BACK ANTI-UNION BILLS IN THE STATES David Armiak is research director with the Center for Media and Democracy. David joined CMD in 2015, has conducted extensive investigations on dark money, corporate corruption, and right-wing networks, and is responsible for filing and analyzing hundreds of public records requests every year. THE KOCH COUP: CHARLES KOCH'S POLITICAL MACHINE BANKROLLED Charles Koch's political operation and his close family members have funded the campaigns and leadership PACs of all 13 U.S. senators who will attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6 based on Trump's conspiracy theories and lies.EXPOSEDBYCMD
EXPOSEDbyCMD - Investigating Power. Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. At the heart of this exemption from the retention rules for state lawmakers are arrogance and cowardice. Arrogance that legislators don't think they should be RIGHT-WING GROUPS UNITE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST BILL TO Right-Wing Groups Unite in Campaign Against Bill to Improve U.S. Democracy. The For the People Act, Democrats’ wide-ranging election and ethics reform bill, got its first hearing today in the Senate Rules Committee. The bill, Senate Bill 1 (S. 1), addresses numerous problems with the current electoral system and includes sweepingmeasures to
RIGHT WING DARK MONEY TARGETS WELLESLEY The first question to ask of a group like PDE is, who is funding it? PDE president Nicole Niely refuses to answer. But there are clues. According to the Center for Media and Democracy, Ms. Niely is a veteran political operative affiliated with the Koch network.She is the president of Speech First, set up in 2018 as a pass through for tax deductible donations to the law firm Consovoy McCarthy TOP ALEC OFFICIAL IS RINGLEADER OF ARIZONA ELECTION AUDIT One was filed by Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward, a former ALEC-tied lawmaker, who has faced allegations within her own party that her election to the party’s top post in the state was fraudulent. Ward tweeted on the day of the Capitol insurrection: “Congress is adjourned. Send the elector choice back to the legislatures.”. RIGHT-WING CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLIONS ATTACKING BIDEN Leaders of these and other organizations are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerful, secretive group of leading right-wing figures that has influenced Republican politicians and administrations for decades. Many CNP leaders, including Ralph Reed, are evangelical Christians, but the group has recruited Catholics and has a Catholic caucus. THINK TANK POLICY AND THE 67TH MONTANA LEGISLATURE “They go for a few days and they’re in these hotels together with corporate lobbyists, discussing policies and voting as equals with these corporate lobbyists or trade association lobbyists or whatever,” David Armiak, research director at the Wisconsin-based watchdog nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy, told MTFP. THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for TEXAS ACTIVISTS ARE WORKING TO ‘FREE PALESTINE’ BUT The state of Texas is one of Israel’s largest trading partners: In 2018, eight Texas lawmakers participated in an all-expenses trip to Israel sponsored by the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council and energy companies CenterPoint and Vistra. FEATURED INVESTIGATIONS ARCHIVES In October 2012, nine U.S. state legislators went on an industry paid trip to explore the Alberta tar sands. Publicly described as an “ALEC Academy,” documents obtained by CMD show the legislators were accompanied on a chartered flight by a gaggle of oil-industry lobbyists, were served lunch by Shell Oil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expenses ALEC’S NUMEROUS TIES TO THE CAPITOL INSURRECTION AND "BIG ALEC’s leaders, legislative members, and alumni played a major role in promoting Trump’s stolen-election disinformation campaign, attempting to overturn the election, and inciting the resulting violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Will its corporate backers hold it accountable? RIGHT-WING GROUPS UNITE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST BILL TO The For the People Act, Democrats’ wide-ranging election and ethics reform bill, got its first hearing today in the Senate Rules Committee. The bill, Senate Bill 1 (S. 1), addresses numerous problems with the current electoral system and includes sweeping measures to block voter suppression efforts, expand voting, disclose dark money, and limit financial conflicts of interest among elected THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for the supposed “law and order” candidate. DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
WISCONSIN LOOPHOLE LETS LEGISLATORS DESTROY EMBARRASSING At the heart of this exemption from the retention rules for state lawmakers are arrogance and cowardice. Arrogance that legislators don't think they should be subject to the same scrutiny as other public officials. Cowardice that they're afraid of the scrutiny. RIGHT-WING NETWORK OPPOSES INITIATIVE TO INCREASE Alex is an investigative reporter with the Center for Media and Democracy. A campaign finance expert, Alex helped launch money-in-politics website Sludge, and his work has been published by more than two dozen media outlets including The American Prospect, The Nation, and Vice.com. ALEC’S NUMEROUS TIES TO THE CAPITOL INSURRECTION AND "BIG ALEC’s leaders, legislative members, and alumni played a major role in promoting Trump’s stolen-election disinformation campaign, attempting to overturn the election, and inciting the resulting violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Will its corporate backers hold it accountable? THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at BLACK VOTERS CONTINUE TO FACE VOTER SUPPRESSION 155 YEARS “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shelby County v. Holder (2013). THE KOCH COUP: CHARLES KOCH'S POLITICAL MACHINE BANKROLLED Charles Koch's political operation and his close family members have funded the campaigns and leadership PACs of all 13 U.S. senators who will attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6 based on Trump's conspiracy theories and lies. RIGHT-WING GROUPS UNITE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST BILL TO The For the People Act, Democrats’ wide-ranging election and ethics reform bill, got its first hearing today in the Senate Rules Committee. The bill, Senate Bill 1 (S. 1), addresses numerous problems with the current electoral system and includes sweeping measures to block voter suppression efforts, expand voting, disclose dark money, and limit financial conflicts of interest among elected THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for the supposed “law and order” candidate. DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
WISCONSIN LOOPHOLE LETS LEGISLATORS DESTROY EMBARRASSING At the heart of this exemption from the retention rules for state lawmakers are arrogance and cowardice. Arrogance that legislators don't think they should be subject to the same scrutiny as other public officials. Cowardice that they're afraid of the scrutiny. RIGHT-WING NETWORK OPPOSES INITIATIVE TO INCREASE Alex is an investigative reporter with the Center for Media and Democracy. A campaign finance expert, Alex helped launch money-in-politics website Sludge, and his work has been published by more than two dozen media outlets including The American Prospect, The Nation, and Vice.com. ALEC’S NUMEROUS TIES TO THE CAPITOL INSURRECTION AND "BIG ALEC’s leaders, legislative members, and alumni played a major role in promoting Trump’s stolen-election disinformation campaign, attempting to overturn the election, and inciting the resulting violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Will its corporate backers hold it accountable? THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at BLACK VOTERS CONTINUE TO FACE VOTER SUPPRESSION 155 YEARS “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shelby County v. Holder (2013). THE KOCH COUP: CHARLES KOCH'S POLITICAL MACHINE BANKROLLED Charles Koch's political operation and his close family members have funded the campaigns and leadership PACs of all 13 U.S. senators who will attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6 based on Trump's conspiracy theories and lies.EXPOSEDBYCMD
The Center for Media and Democracy released a new report today, “Using Unions to Carry Big Oil’s Water,” detailing how the fossil fuel industry and the American Legislative Exchange Council cynically use unions to win Democratic support for legislation that criminalizes and chills environmental protests under the guise of “worker safety.” TOP ALEC OFFICIAL IS RINGLEADER OF ARIZONA ELECTION AUDIT The public face of the preposterous Maricopa County ballot audit is Republican Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann—who also serves as the second-highest ranking board member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the country’s pre RIGHT-WING CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLIONS ATTACKING BIDEN Leaders of these and other organizations are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerful, secretive group of leading right-wing figures that has influenced Republican politicians and administrations for decades. Many CNP leaders, including Ralph Reed, are evangelical Christians, but the group has recruited Catholics and has a Catholic caucus. WHO FUNDS THE FEDERALIST? FINALLY, WE KNOW. Alex is an investigative reporter with the Center for Media and Democracy. A campaign finance expert, Alex helped launch money-in-politics website Sludge, and his work has been published by more than two dozen media outlets including The American Prospect, The Nation, and Vice.com. RIGHT WING DARK MONEY TARGETS WELLESLEY The first question to ask of a group like PDE is, who is funding it? PDE president Nicole Niely refuses to answer. But there are clues. According to the Center for Media and Democracy, Ms. Niely is a veteran political operative affiliated with the Koch network.She is the president of Speech First, set up in 2018 as a pass through for tax deductible donations to the law firm Consovoy McCarthy THINK TANK POLICY AND THE 67TH MONTANA LEGISLATURE “They go for a few days and they’re in these hotels together with corporate lobbyists, discussing policies and voting as equals with these corporate lobbyists or trade association lobbyists or whatever,” David Armiak, research director at the Wisconsin-based watchdog nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy, told MTFP. TEXAS ACTIVISTS ARE WORKING TO ‘FREE PALESTINE’ BUT The state of Texas is one of Israel’s largest trading partners: In 2018, eight Texas lawmakers participated in an all-expenses trip to Israel sponsored by the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council and energy companies CenterPoint and Vistra. WHERE DOES THE BIZARRE HYSTERIA ABOUT “CRITICAL RACE Victor Davis Hanson is a retired California State University - Fresno classics professor, and visiting lecturer at Arnn's Hillsdale College.He is also a
MICHIGAN TRIBES PLAN PEACEFUL GATHERINGS FOR ENBRIDGE The nonprofit Consumers Energy Alliance — a front group for the energy industry that pushes pro-oil and gas messaging in the United States, according to SourceWatch — released a report Monday arguing that a Line 5 shutdown would devastate energy supplies of surroundingstates.
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In October 2012, nine U.S. state legislators went on an industry paid trip to explore the Alberta tar sands. Publicly described as an “ALEC Academy,” documents obtained by CMD show the legislators were accompanied on a chartered flight by a gaggle of oil-industry lobbyists, were served lunch by Shell Oil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expensesEXPOSEDBYCMD
EXPOSEDbyCMD - Investigating Power. New Report: The Big Oil and ALEC Ploy for Getting Unions to Help Chill Climate Protests. The Center for Media and Democracy released a new report today, "Using Unions to Carry Big Oil's Water," detailing how the fossil fuel industry and the American Legislative Exchange Council cynically use unions to win ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. BLACK VOTERS CONTINUE TO FACE VOTER SUPPRESSION 155 YEARSERIC VOTER REGISTRATION PARTICIPATING STATESGEORGIA STATE VOTER REGISTRATIONVIRGINIA VOTER REGISTRATIONVOTER REGISTRATION IN PENNSYLVANIAVOTER REGISTRATION OHIO Black Voters Continue to Face Voter Suppression 155 Years After Juneteenth. This piece was originally published by the Campaign Legal Center and is republished here with permission. In the Reconstruction Era immediately following the U.S. Civil War, Black voters in the South were able to participate in federal elections in 1868 for thefirst time.
ALEC’S PENNSYLVANIA LEADERS LOBBY TO OVERTURN 2020 Almost two weeks after Pennsylvania declared Joe Biden the winner of the states November 3 election, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) state chairs Rep. Seth Grove, Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill, and Rep. Eric Nelson are leading a last-ditch push to overturn the presidential election results in order to save Trump’s presidency. The ALEC-led movement is the latest attempt to THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at CHARLES KOCH’S POLITICAL NETWORK RAISES FEARS OF VOTER True North Research has released a new report detailing the Koch network’s history of alleged election violations. Right-wing politicians and outside interests funded by Charles Koch continue to make false claims of widespread “voter fraud” and drum up fear over mail-in voting, while Koch’s Americans for Prosperity continues a large-scale canvassing effort ahead of the 2020 election. RIGHT-WING CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLIONS ATTACKING BIDEN Leaders of these and other organizations are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerful, secretive group of leading right-wing figures that has influenced Republican politicians and administrations for decades. Many CNP leaders, including Ralph Reed, are evangelical Christians, but the group has recruited Catholics and has a Catholic caucus. KOCH INDUSTRIES IS TOP CORPORATE DONOR TO REPS WHO WILLBIGGESTREPUBLICAN DONOR
Koch Industries is the top corporate PAC donor, and the National Association of Realtors is the top trade association PAC contributor, to these right-wing politicians. Trump lost the Electoral College 306-232 to Joe Biden, who earned over seven million more votes than his opponent. The results became official on December 14, when theElectoral
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EXPOSEDbyCMD - Investigating Power. New Report: The Big Oil and ALEC Ploy for Getting Unions to Help Chill Climate Protests. The Center for Media and Democracy released a new report today, "Using Unions to Carry Big Oil's Water," detailing how the fossil fuel industry and the American Legislative Exchange Council cynically use unions to win ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. BLACK VOTERS CONTINUE TO FACE VOTER SUPPRESSION 155 YEARSERIC VOTER REGISTRATION PARTICIPATING STATESGEORGIA STATE VOTER REGISTRATIONVIRGINIA VOTER REGISTRATIONVOTER REGISTRATION IN PENNSYLVANIAVOTER REGISTRATION OHIO Black Voters Continue to Face Voter Suppression 155 Years After Juneteenth. This piece was originally published by the Campaign Legal Center and is republished here with permission. In the Reconstruction Era immediately following the U.S. Civil War, Black voters in the South were able to participate in federal elections in 1868 for thefirst time.
ALEC’S PENNSYLVANIA LEADERS LOBBY TO OVERTURN 2020 Almost two weeks after Pennsylvania declared Joe Biden the winner of the states November 3 election, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) state chairs Rep. Seth Grove, Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill, and Rep. Eric Nelson are leading a last-ditch push to overturn the presidential election results in order to save Trump’s presidency. The ALEC-led movement is the latest attempt to THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at CHARLES KOCH’S POLITICAL NETWORK RAISES FEARS OF VOTER True North Research has released a new report detailing the Koch network’s history of alleged election violations. Right-wing politicians and outside interests funded by Charles Koch continue to make false claims of widespread “voter fraud” and drum up fear over mail-in voting, while Koch’s Americans for Prosperity continues a large-scale canvassing effort ahead of the 2020 election. RIGHT-WING CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLIONS ATTACKING BIDEN Leaders of these and other organizations are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerful, secretive group of leading right-wing figures that has influenced Republican politicians and administrations for decades. Many CNP leaders, including Ralph Reed, are evangelical Christians, but the group has recruited Catholics and has a Catholic caucus. KOCH INDUSTRIES IS TOP CORPORATE DONOR TO REPS WHO WILLBIGGESTREPUBLICAN DONOR
Koch Industries is the top corporate PAC donor, and the National Association of Realtors is the top trade association PAC contributor, to these right-wing politicians. Trump lost the Electoral College 306-232 to Joe Biden, who earned over seven million more votes than his opponent. The results became official on December 14, when theElectoral
WISCONSIN LOOPHOLE LETS LEGISLATORS DESTROY EMBARRASSING Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. If you want to see all of the emails your mayor received and sent during the week of March 16-20, 2020, to find communications regarding the coronavirus outbreak, all you have to do is ask. Under state law, the mayor is required to retain these and provide them on request. RIGHT-WING CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLIONS ATTACKING BIDEN Leaders of these and other organizations are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerful, secretive group of leading right-wing figures that has influenced Republican politicians and administrations for decades. Many CNP leaders, including Ralph Reed, are evangelical Christians, but the group has recruited Catholics and has a Catholic caucus. MAJOR RIGHT-WING FUNDERS PUSH SUPREME COURT CASE AGAINST $36.1 Million from Bradley Groups. The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation and its Bradley Impact Fund chipped in 16 percent, or $36.1 million, of the amicus filers’ funding between 2015 and 2019 that CMD was able to identify. Bradley is a major funder of right-wing infrastructure in the states, backing efforts to misinform the public on climate change, push school privatization schemes WHERE DOES THE BIZARRE HYSTERIA ABOUT “CRITICAL RACE Victor Davis Hanson is a retired California State University - Fresno classics professor, and visiting lecturer at Arnn's Hillsdale College.He is also a
THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at MICHIGAN TRIBES PLAN PEACEFUL GATHERINGS FOR ENBRIDGE The nonprofit Consumers Energy Alliance — a front group for the energy industry that pushes pro-oil and gas messaging in the United States, according to SourceWatch — released a report Monday arguing that a Line 5 shutdown would devastate energy supplies of surroundingstates.
ALEC 2020 ANNUAL MEETING ATTENDEES AND SPONSORS REVEALED The American Legislative Exchange Council‘s (ALEC) annual meeting continues this week online with workshops on rewriting the U.S. Constitution, reopening schools amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and school privatization. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held in Orlando, but was moved online with cases of COVID-19 surging in theSunshine State.
THE KOCH COUP: CHARLES KOCH'S POLITICAL MACHINE BANKROLLED Charles Koch's political operation and his close family members have funded the campaigns and leadership PACs of all 13 U.S. senators who will attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6 based on Trump's conspiracy theories and lies. KOCH-LINKED CHARITY BANKROLLED PROJECT VERITAS AS IT Erik Prince, the former head of private mercenary firm Blackwater Worldwide, recruited ex-spies to work with right-wing sting operation Project Veritas to infiltrate liberal groups, The New York Times reported on March 7. He also gave Project Veritas staff access to his Wyoming ranch, where they took “ surveillance and elicitation training ” from a former British MI-6 officer, as TheNEWS ARCHIVES
In October 2012, nine U.S. state legislators went on an industry paid trip to explore the Alberta tar sands. Publicly described as an “ALEC Academy,” documents obtained by CMD show the legislators were accompanied on a chartered flight by a gaggle of oil-industry lobbyists, were served lunch by Shell Oil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expensesEXPOSEDBYCMD
EXPOSEDbyCMD - Investigating Power. New Report: The Big Oil and ALEC Ploy for Getting Unions to Help Chill Climate Protests. The Center for Media and Democracy released a new report today, "Using Unions to Carry Big Oil's Water," detailing how the fossil fuel industry and the American Legislative Exchange Council cynically use unions to win ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. BLACK VOTERS CONTINUE TO FACE VOTER SUPPRESSION 155 YEARSERIC VOTER REGISTRATION PARTICIPATING STATESGEORGIA STATE VOTER REGISTRATIONVIRGINIA VOTER REGISTRATIONVOTER REGISTRATION IN PENNSYLVANIAVOTER REGISTRATION OHIO Black Voters Continue to Face Voter Suppression 155 Years After Juneteenth. This piece was originally published by the Campaign Legal Center and is republished here with permission. In the Reconstruction Era immediately following the U.S. Civil War, Black voters in the South were able to participate in federal elections in 1868 for thefirst time.
ALEC’S PENNSYLVANIA LEADERS LOBBY TO OVERTURN 2020 Almost two weeks after Pennsylvania declared Joe Biden the winner of the states November 3 election, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) state chairs Rep. Seth Grove, Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill, and Rep. Eric Nelson are leading a last-ditch push to overturn the presidential election results in order to save Trump’s presidency. The ALEC-led movement is the latest attempt to THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at CHARLES KOCH’S POLITICAL NETWORK RAISES FEARS OF VOTER True North Research has released a new report detailing the Koch network’s history of alleged election violations. Right-wing politicians and outside interests funded by Charles Koch continue to make false claims of widespread “voter fraud” and drum up fear over mail-in voting, while Koch’s Americans for Prosperity continues a large-scale canvassing effort ahead of the 2020 election. RIGHT-WING CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLIONS ATTACKING BIDEN Leaders of these and other organizations are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerful, secretive group of leading right-wing figures that has influenced Republican politicians and administrations for decades. Many CNP leaders, including Ralph Reed, are evangelical Christians, but the group has recruited Catholics and has a Catholic caucus. KOCH INDUSTRIES IS TOP CORPORATE DONOR TO REPS WHO WILLBIGGESTREPUBLICAN DONOR
Koch Industries is the top corporate PAC donor, and the National Association of Realtors is the top trade association PAC contributor, to these right-wing politicians. Trump lost the Electoral College 306-232 to Joe Biden, who earned over seven million more votes than his opponent. The results became official on December 14, when theElectoral
EXPOSEDBYCMD
EXPOSEDbyCMD - Investigating Power. New Report: The Big Oil and ALEC Ploy for Getting Unions to Help Chill Climate Protests. The Center for Media and Democracy released a new report today, "Using Unions to Carry Big Oil's Water," detailing how the fossil fuel industry and the American Legislative Exchange Council cynically use unions to win ALEC MEMBERS LEAD VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS IN 2020SEE MORE ONEXPOSEDBYCMD.ORG
THE RIGHT'S CAMPAIGN TO ERASE AMERICA'S RACIST ROOTS The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots. Donald Trump’s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for DESPITE COVID, KOCH'S AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CONTINUES After failing to stop a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid last year, the Missouri branch of billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) continued its assault on Medicaid expansion in the state. In recent months, the group has written op-eds attacking the constitutionally mandated expansion, mobilized its supporters to oppose it, and advertised online. BLACK VOTERS CONTINUE TO FACE VOTER SUPPRESSION 155 YEARSERIC VOTER REGISTRATION PARTICIPATING STATESGEORGIA STATE VOTER REGISTRATIONVIRGINIA VOTER REGISTRATIONVOTER REGISTRATION IN PENNSYLVANIAVOTER REGISTRATION OHIO Black Voters Continue to Face Voter Suppression 155 Years After Juneteenth. This piece was originally published by the Campaign Legal Center and is republished here with permission. In the Reconstruction Era immediately following the U.S. Civil War, Black voters in the South were able to participate in federal elections in 1868 for thefirst time.
ALEC’S PENNSYLVANIA LEADERS LOBBY TO OVERTURN 2020 Almost two weeks after Pennsylvania declared Joe Biden the winner of the states November 3 election, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) state chairs Rep. Seth Grove, Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill, and Rep. Eric Nelson are leading a last-ditch push to overturn the presidential election results in order to save Trump’s presidency. The ALEC-led movement is the latest attempt to THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at CHARLES KOCH’S POLITICAL NETWORK RAISES FEARS OF VOTER True North Research has released a new report detailing the Koch network’s history of alleged election violations. Right-wing politicians and outside interests funded by Charles Koch continue to make false claims of widespread “voter fraud” and drum up fear over mail-in voting, while Koch’s Americans for Prosperity continues a large-scale canvassing effort ahead of the 2020 election. RIGHT-WING CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLIONS ATTACKING BIDEN Leaders of these and other organizations are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerful, secretive group of leading right-wing figures that has influenced Republican politicians and administrations for decades. Many CNP leaders, including Ralph Reed, are evangelical Christians, but the group has recruited Catholics and has a Catholic caucus. KOCH INDUSTRIES IS TOP CORPORATE DONOR TO REPS WHO WILLBIGGESTREPUBLICAN DONOR
Koch Industries is the top corporate PAC donor, and the National Association of Realtors is the top trade association PAC contributor, to these right-wing politicians. Trump lost the Electoral College 306-232 to Joe Biden, who earned over seven million more votes than his opponent. The results became official on December 14, when theElectoral
WISCONSIN LOOPHOLE LETS LEGISLATORS DESTROY EMBARRASSING Wisconsin Loophole Lets Legislators Destroy Embarrassing Emails. If you want to see all of the emails your mayor received and sent during the week of March 16-20, 2020, to find communications regarding the coronavirus outbreak, all you have to do is ask. Under state law, the mayor is required to retain these and provide them on request. RIGHT-WING CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLIONS ATTACKING BIDEN Leaders of these and other organizations are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a powerful, secretive group of leading right-wing figures that has influenced Republican politicians and administrations for decades. Many CNP leaders, including Ralph Reed, are evangelical Christians, but the group has recruited Catholics and has a Catholic caucus. MAJOR RIGHT-WING FUNDERS PUSH SUPREME COURT CASE AGAINST $36.1 Million from Bradley Groups. The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation and its Bradley Impact Fund chipped in 16 percent, or $36.1 million, of the amicus filers’ funding between 2015 and 2019 that CMD was able to identify. Bradley is a major funder of right-wing infrastructure in the states, backing efforts to misinform the public on climate change, push school privatization schemes WHERE DOES THE BIZARRE HYSTERIA ABOUT “CRITICAL RACE Victor Davis Hanson is a retired California State University - Fresno classics professor, and visiting lecturer at Arnn's Hillsdale College.He is also a
THE REAL MONEY BEHIND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTED TO Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at least $272 million to elect most of the 147 members of Congress who voted to reject Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Corporations and wealthy individuals poured millions of dollars into super PACs, political committees, and dark money groups that spent at MICHIGAN TRIBES PLAN PEACEFUL GATHERINGS FOR ENBRIDGE The nonprofit Consumers Energy Alliance — a front group for the energy industry that pushes pro-oil and gas messaging in the United States, according to SourceWatch — released a report Monday arguing that a Line 5 shutdown would devastate energy supplies of surroundingstates.
ALEC 2020 ANNUAL MEETING ATTENDEES AND SPONSORS REVEALED The American Legislative Exchange Council‘s (ALEC) annual meeting continues this week online with workshops on rewriting the U.S. Constitution, reopening schools amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and school privatization. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held in Orlando, but was moved online with cases of COVID-19 surging in theSunshine State.
THE KOCH COUP: CHARLES KOCH'S POLITICAL MACHINE BANKROLLED Charles Koch's political operation and his close family members have funded the campaigns and leadership PACs of all 13 U.S. senators who will attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6 based on Trump's conspiracy theories and lies. KOCH-LINKED CHARITY BANKROLLED PROJECT VERITAS AS IT Erik Prince, the former head of private mercenary firm Blackwater Worldwide, recruited ex-spies to work with right-wing sting operation Project Veritas to infiltrate liberal groups, The New York Times reported on March 7. He also gave Project Veritas staff access to his Wyoming ranch, where they took “ surveillance and elicitation training ” from a former British MI-6 officer, as TheNEWS ARCHIVES
In October 2012, nine U.S. state legislators went on an industry paid trip to explore the Alberta tar sands. Publicly described as an “ALEC Academy,” documents obtained by CMD show the legislators were accompanied on a chartered flight by a gaggle of oil-industry lobbyists, were served lunch by Shell Oil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expenses * Skip to main content*
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CMD JOINS LEGAL COMMUNITY CALL TO END BASELESS CLAIMS OF ELECTIONFRAUD
More than 1,200 lawyers across the country take a stand against the Trump campaign’s dangerous attempt to disenfranchise millions and call for the lawyers making false claims in court to be heldaccountable.
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KOCH FUNDING OF UNIVERSITIES TOPPED $100 MILLION IN 2019 IRS filings obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy show that the Charles Koch Foundation gave $141 million to universities and colleges, right-wing organizations, and other causes in 2019. by David Armiak | Nov 23, 2020*
VOTERS PASS ECONOMIC JUSTICE MEASURES DESPITE CORPORATE OPPOSITION While House Democrats took a hit in the 2020 elections, voters in several states favored progressive policies. by Alex Kotch | Nov 19, 2020*
COMING UP SHORT IN HUNT FOR VOTER FRAUD, DESPERATE REPUBLICANS TRY TOPAY FOR EVIDENCE
After more than a week of frivolous lawsuits attempting to disenfranchise voters, some right-wing groups and an elected official are trying something else: offering cash for evidence of fraud. by Alex Kotch | Nov 13, 2020*
KOCH OPERATION FIGHTS TO KEEP THE GOP MAJORITY IN THE U.S. SENATE Americans for Prosperity Action, the super PAC of Charles Koch’s political operation, spent millions on digital ads, attack mail, and door-to-door canvassing in seven key U.S. Senate races, and more spending is likely in the two Georgia runoffs, the outcome of which will determine control of the U.S. Senate. by Don Wiener | Nov 12, 20201
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After more than a week of frivolous lawsuits attempting to disenfranchise voters, some right-wing groups and an elected official are trying something else: offering cash for evidence of fraud. KOCH OPERATION FIGHTS TO KEEP THE GOP MAJORITY IN THE U.S. SENATEby Don Wiener |
November 12th, 2020
Americans for Prosperity Action, the super PAC of Charles Koch’s political operation, spent millions on digital ads, attack mail, and door-to-door canvassing in seven key U.S. Senate races, and more spending is likely in the two Georgia runoffs, the outcome of which will determine control of the U.S. Senate. 82% OF KOCH CANDIDATES ELECTED TO OFFICEby David Armiak |
November 11th, 2020
Charles Koch and his political network won at least 82 percent of the 439 candidates it invested in in the 2020 election cycle, according to an analysis of results by the Center for Media and Democracy. More CMD InvestigationsMORE NEWS
DEMOCRACY ON THE BALLOTby David Armiak |
November 9th, 2020
In addition to electing the next president, voters in a dozen states weighed in on a wide variety of democracy reform ballot measures. OPERATIVES TIED TO COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY ORGANIZING PROTESTS ALLEGING VOTER FRAUDby David Armiak |
November 6th, 2020
#StoptheSteal protests planned for every state capitol tomorrow, while FreedomWorks organizes “Protect the Vote” rallies in five statestoday.
VOTERS BEWARE: THE RIGHT’S SCHEME TO DISQUALIFY THOUSANDS OFSWING-STATE VOTES
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November 2nd, 2020
The GOP, ALEC, and right-wing justices at the Supreme Court are pushing a legal theory that could disqualify hundreds of thousands of votes in states like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Minnesota that come in after legislative deadlines but before Covid-19 extensions granted by state courts or the executive branch.More CMD News
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