The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding its 51st Annual Meeting in Denver this week at the four-star Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center. ALEC state lawmakers, right-wing…
Groups Behind State Anti-ESG Legislation Received $85 Million From Corporate Billionaires and Dark Money Funds
…Impact. Due to its unique role in producing and circulating model anti-ESG legislation in the states, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is included in this list. A handful of…
Heavy Hitters and Big Business Bankroll RAGA
…a major corporate sponsor of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and has used that pay-to-play organization to directly pitch tobacco industry deregulation to state lawmakers. Ronald Cameron: $250,000 Cameron…
How a Right-Wing Florida Group Influenced Wyoming’s Election Laws
…the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has hosted at least three voter suppression summits with HEP for its lawmakers. FGA also has close ties with ALEC. Sign up for…
Assets of Koch-Controlled Organizations Soar to Over $8.1 Billion
…particularly influential supporter of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Koch funding has enabled the spread of harmful cookie-cutter state law. Some of ALEC’s most infamous policies include voter suppression…
Wisconsin Right-Wing Litigation Center Grooms School Board Members
…American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for school boards. Echoing messaging used by Trump and MAGA Republicans that America was better in the past, WILL launched an initiative called “Restoring American…
ALEC Pushes Anti-Union Playbook
…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…