…applicable rights and obligations,” the model bill states. ALEC’s advocacy arm, ALEC Action, worked to oppose the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021. “Increasing barriers to independent…
For-Profit Bail Industry Teams Up with ALEC to Target Charitable Bail Funds
…platinum-level sponsorship of ALEC’s ritzy 50th anniversary gala; its chairman, Bill Carmichael, is the vice chair of ALEC’s private sector board of directors; and an ABC representative sits on ALEC’s…
ALEC Legislator Proposes Law to Take Away Voters’ Ability to Choose Presidential Electors
…election outcomes. Moreover — and in stark contrast to ALEC’s statement, which unequivocally condemned the violence on Jan. 6 — ALEC has openly celebrated the Trump loyalists who stormed the…
Koch Still Funding Last Stand Against Medicaid Expansion
…for its repeal. ALEC’s Decade-Long Fight ALEC has opposed Medicaid expansion since it first took effect in 2014 in 26 states and the District of Columbia, providing state legislatures with…
“Nonpartisan” ALEC Teams Up with Run GenZ to Recruit and Train Young Republican Candidates for State and Local Office
…partnership through its advocacy arm, ALEC Action, does nothing to insulate ALEC from that prohibition since ALEC exclusively controls and largely funds it. ALEC Action (legally registered with the IRS…
Supporters of Tort Reform in Iowa Accused of Manufacturing a Crisis
…to vote to pass the cap [on med-mal judgments].” AFP Action is not the only Koch-founded group pushing limits on medical malpractice judgments. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has…
Republican State Financial Officers Group Doubled Its Revenue After Being Weaponized to Fight “Woke” Capitalism and Sustainable Investing Practices
…anti-ESG model bills at ALEC, and sent Executive Director Will Hild to rail against woke capitalism at ALEC and Heritage conferences. The Sarah Scaife Foundation gave $125,000 to SFOF in…
Charles Koch’s “Stand Together” Donor Conduits Move $176 Million into his Network, Higher Education, and Right-Wing Policy, Advocacy, Litigation, and Media Groups in 2022
…College for Free Speech” rankings and its “Campus Disinvitation Database.” The numbers produced in these projects aid state lawmakers — usually American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) members — in passing…
Constitution in the Crosshairs: The Far Right’s Plan for a New Confederacy
…had long funded to influence state laws—the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—and a dark money group with deep ties to Charles and the late David Koch (who died in 2019),…
ALEC Policy Summit Features Push to Legally Force a Constitutional Convention
…The summit — one of the largest annual gatherings of the ALEC faithful, along with the summer meeting — caps off ALEC’s 50th anniversary year. Following its 50th Annual Meeting…