Faced with the potential expansion of the Supreme Court, the political Right wants to amend the Constitution to limit the Court to nine justices.
The Right’s “Dark Money ATM” Launches Funding Stream to Exploit Pandemic for Movement Goals
DonorsTrust, the preferred donor conduit of the Koch political network, has launched a new funding stream to resist public health measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and use the crisis to further its broader policy goals.
Right-Wing Groups Unite in Campaign Against Bill to Improve U.S. Democracy
GOP-aligned groups are using ads, activist tool kits, social media posts, statements, and letters to Congress to attack the For the People Act, sometimes with falsehoods about its contents.
Koch-Funded Groups Back Anti-Union Bills in the States, Oppose Pro-Union Legislation in Congress
Anti-union forces are on the offensive again in the states, but are playing defense this year at the federal level.
New Right-Wing Litigation Center Working to Upend COVID-19 Public Health Restrictions, Fight Unions
American Juris Link, a new right-wing legal center with close ties to the State Policy Network, is actively working to track and support right-wing legal challenges to upend COVID-19 health restrictions, fight workers’ rights to unionize, and coordinate legal strategies and amici.
RAGA Raised $1.6 Million as Republican AGs Challenged Election Results
The Republican Attorneys General Association raised $1.6 million between November 24 and December 31 last year as Republican attorneys general challenged election results, its latest IRS filing discloses.
ALEC Gives Lawmakers Free Data Program Run by Republican Operatives
The tax-exempt corporate bill mill’s gift of sophisticated voter software to its almost exclusively Republican legislative members may run afoul of federal and state laws.
ALEC’s Numerous Ties to the Capitol Insurrection and “Big Lie”
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?
ALEC Working in Partnership with Turning Point USA, Major Player in Capitol Insurrection
Documents obtained by CMD show that ALEC forged a new partnership in December with radical pro-Trump group Talking Points USA, a coalition partner in the #StoptheSteal rally that led to the violent invasion at the U.S. Capitol.
Republican AGs Forever Tied to Violent Pro-Trump Insurrection
RAGA’s effort to cover its tracks in promoting Trump’s “big lie” and the pro-Trump insurrection last week fall short and leave questions unanswered.