CMD NEWS ABOUT Democracy

• Right-Wing Student Group Targets Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

  By Alyssa Bowen | March 20th, 2025 at 1:20 PM (CDT)

  Turning Point Action, which campaigned for Donald Trump in Wisconsin in 2024, is deploying its get-out-the-vote machinery to back Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1, 2025.

• The Republican State Leadership Committee’s “Judicial Fairness Initiative” Is Spending Millions to Influence Who Sits on the Wisconsin Supreme Court

  By Evan Vorpahl | March 18th, 2025 at 1:29 PM (CDT)

  An arm of the Republican State Leadership Committee, dubbed the “Judicial Fairness Initiative” (RSLC-JFI), has spent at least $2 million dollars to aid the election ambitions of Brad Schimel for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

• ALEC Legislators Dominate Leadership Positions in Republican States

  By Don Wiener and Colleen Scerpella | March 14th, 2025 at 11:43 AM (CDT)

  For more than 50 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council has moved a right-wing and pro-corporate Republican agenda of legislation in states across the country — all while posing as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt charity.

• ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025

  By Juliana Broad | February 25th, 2025 at 7:33 AM (CST)

  The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill-mill, has laid out its priorities for this year's state legislative sessions.

• Growing Grassroots Resistance to Trump Outpaces Democratic Party and Its Leaders

  By Colleen Scerpella | February 24th, 2025 at 2:49 PM (CST)

  Behind closed doors last month, House Democrats expressed their frustration at an unexpected target: their own base.