…to pandemic lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates, with its 2024 Bradley Prize, a $250,000 award. Previous winners of the prize include former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Trump’s “judge…
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…
GOP Megadonor Richard Uihlein’s PAC Brings in $3.1 Million in First Quarter
…“true freedom” fails to include women and their reproductive freedom. Last month, Richard’s wife Elizabeth told the Financial Times that the couple would again back Trump for president after initially…
U.S. House Anti-Woke Caucus Targets Programs Benefiting Minorities
…in office, President Trump proposed eliminating the MBDA, but minority-owned businesses and groups representing them got so outraged that he backed down. Up until then, the GOP had generally supported…
For-Profit Bail Industry Teams Up with ALEC to Target Charitable Bail Funds
…on the right to protest and ongoing threats from 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump to deploy the military against civilian protesters. A Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) analysis of…
ALEC Legislator Proposes Law to Take Away Voters’ Ability to Choose Presidential Electors
…falsely certifying that then-President Trump had won the state’s Electoral College votes in 2020 instead of Joe Biden. Kern won his bid for state senator in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement…
Gearing Up for 2024 Elections, Big Tobacco Leads Top Donors to Republican AG Group
…to $225,000. With all RAGA IRS filings in for 2023, The Concord Fund — a dark money group affiliated with the Trump “judge whisperer” Leonard Leo who has played a…
ULINE CEO Funnels $4.7 Million into His Restoration PAC Prior to 2024 Elections
…in 2023. Despite being major backers of the former president, Richard and his wife Elizabeth have yet to donate to the presidential campaigns of either Donald Trump or Nikki Haley…
“Nonpartisan” ALEC Teams Up with Run GenZ to Recruit and Train Young Republican Candidates for State and Local Office
In the last presidential election, Gen Z voters — those between the ages of 18 and 29 — supported Joe Biden over Donald Trump by a margin of 24 points…
Republican State Financial Officers Group Doubled Its Revenue After Being Weaponized to Fight “Woke” Capitalism and Sustainable Investing Practices
…a far-right PR firm catering to the fossil fuel industry and founded by Trump’s “court whisperer” Leonard Leo. In 2021, SFOF held its national meeting “in conjunction” with ALEC’s own…