The groups are running misleading and racist ads against HHS nominee Xavier Becerra and DOJ nominee Vanita Gupta.
Right-Wing Groups Coordinate Attacks on Biden Nominees
By Alex Kotch | at
RAGA
New Right-Wing Litigation Center Working to Upend COVID-19 Public Health Restrictions, Fight Unions
By David Armiak | at
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
By David Armiak | at
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’s Numerous Ties to the Capitol Insurrection and “Big Lie”
By David Armiak | at
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?
Republican AGs Forever Tied to Violent Pro-Trump Insurrection
By David Armiak and Alex Kotch | at
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.
Senator Whitehouse Calls Out Dark-Money Networks Behind Amy Coney Barrett’s SCOTUS Nomination
By ExposedByCMD Editors | at
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse draws on CMD research to connect the dots between the dark money forces hand-picking Trump’s Supreme Court nominees and those spending millions to bankroll right-wing, pro-corporate amicus briefs in scores of important Supreme Court cases.
Facing Increased Scrutiny, TikTok Gave Money to State Attorneys General Groups
By Alex Kotch | at
The Chinese-owned company made its first-ever political donation on June 30 to the Republican Attorneys General Association, followed by a donation to the group’s Democratic counterpart.
Pay-to-Play Group Garnered Sackler’s Access to Attorneys General Deciding their Fate
By Scott Zimmerman | at
The makers of an opioid tied to 400,000 deaths had special access to the attorneys general that chose to take their “sweetheart deal” — saving the owners of the company from admitting wrongdoing — thanks to a pay-for-play group called the Republican Attorneys General Association.
Koch Kumbaya: The Billionaire Industrialists Appropriate Frederick Douglass, Pledge to “Do Right”
By Mary Bottari | at
What are we to make of all the good news and talk of bipartisanship coming from the Koch camp?
Exxon Faces Consequences for Climate Denial
By Scott Zimmerman | at
A New York state lawsuit charges Exxon with orchestrating a misinformation campaign on climate change. ALEC and RAGA helped.