…legacy news giants, if we don’t need to hawk fossil fuels to our audiences, you don’t have to either,” said Alex Kotch, senior investigative reporter for the Center for Media…
CMD Presents Reporting at UnKoch Press Conference
On May 6, Center for Media and Democracy investigative reporter Alex Kotch presented his reporting on how Charles Koch and Koch Industries aided the careers of the Republicans who spread…
CMD President Lisa Graves to Testify Before Senate Judiciary on the Right’s Dark Money Campaign to Capture U.S. Courts
…the filing of coordinated amicus briefs by dark money groups and their growing influence over Supreme Court rulings. CMD’s research team–David Armiak and Alex Kotch–has found that a core cluster…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Gave $119,000 to Congress Members Who Voted to Overturn the Presidential Election
…questioned Covid-19’s mortality rate and denounced stay-at-home health orders as “fascist.” Arn Pearson and Alex Kotch contributed to this report. Image adapted from SpaceX/Flickr (license) and The Royal Society/Wikipedia (license)…
Coalition of Pro-Trump Doctors Will Defend the President’s COVID-19 Blunders
…doctors in the country, that are ready to speak if somebody would just call on them.” Alex Kotch · Center for National Policy call – Doctors clip (5/11/20) According to…
Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Chairman Art Pope’s Extreme Agenda in North Carolina
By Alex Kotch, Contributor The Center for Media and Democracy has been pulling back the curtain on the Bradley Foundation’s efforts to advance an extreme right-wing agenda in the states….
Kochs Bankroll Move to Rewrite the Constitution
By Alex Kotch, CMD contributor A constitutional convention, something thought impossible not long ago, is looking increasingly likely. Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, if 34 state legislatures “issue…
Charles Koch Ramps Up Higher Ed Funding to Fuel ‘Talent Pipeline’
— By Alex Kotch, Contributor Billionaire Koch Industries CEO and Republican mega-donor Charles Koch has, since the 1970s, funded higher education, typically giving large donations to free-market economics programs at…