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• Backlash Against Koch Agenda Leads to Recall Drive Against Alaska Governor

  By Don Wiener and Arn Pearson | October 3rd, 2019 at 4:59 PM (CST)

  Grassroots opposition to draconian budget cuts orchestrated by the Kochs’ influence machine gain steam, putting Governor Dunleavy’s political future in question.

• Revealed: ALEC’s Health and Human Services Task Force Legislative Members

  By David Armiak | September 25th, 2019 at 11:24 AM (CST)

  Many of the task force legislative members will be attending ALEC's Life Sciences Academy this week with undisclosed drug industry representatives.

• Pay-to-Play Group Garnered Sackler’s Access to Attorneys General Deciding their Fate

  By Scott Zimmerman | September 24th, 2019 at 9:43 AM (CST)

  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.

• Massachusetts Law Could Blunt the Effect of Janus’s Attack on Unions

  By Don Wiener | September 23rd, 2019 at 3:08 PM (CST)

  On September 19, the Massachusetts legislature overrode Republican Governor Charlie Baker's veto of a bill that would help public employee unions maintain dues-paying members.

• Workers Lose in Koch’s Georgia-Pacific Restructuring

  By Don Wiener | August 20th, 2019 at 11:22 AM (CST)

  Koch Industries' paper subsidiary cuts more than 2,100 jobs in the past two years, with taxpayers left holding the bill.