…super PAC spent, $20 million came from Charles Koch’s conglomerate, Koch Industries, and $26.5 million from the Koch-funded Stand Together Chamber of Commerce. AFP Action is the third largest Republican-aligned…
Charles Koch Foundation Sent $52.6 Million to Colleges and Universities in 2022 to Promote Its Business and Policy Interests
…to right-wing litigation, advocacy, and other tax-exempt groups. The lion’s share of that funding, $1.9 million, went to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Charles Koch is the CEO and…
ALEC’s Stand Your Ground Laws Have Created a Deadly Culture of Shoot-First Vigilantism
…legacy of its Stand Your Ground model legislation. From Castle Doctrine to Stand Your Ground Stand Your Ground laws are an expansion of what’s known as the “Castle Doctrine,” the…
Mock Constitutional Convention Reveals Far Right’s Vision for Rewriting the U.S. Constitution
…mock convention seek to curtail the federal government’s discretionary spending authority, land ownership rights, ability to regulate interstate commerce — and, most radically, power to enforce any federal law or…
Lawmakers à la Carte: How ALEC Sells Access to State Legislators
…Project (HEP), tobacco giant Altria, Charles Koch’s Stand Together, UPS, PhRMA, as well as several trade groups representing hotel chains and the telecom and tech industries. Right-wing think tanks including…
Progressive Groups Protest ALEC’s “50 Years of Harm”
…joined ALEC. Sponsors also included some of the county’s most hard-line conservative think tanks and policy groups, including billionaire Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity and Stand Together; the State Policy…
After 50 Years, This Right-Wing Law Factory Is Crazier Than Ever
…violence to the people using them instead of guns themselves. And the list goes on. ALEC’s most infamous partnership with the NRA took the form of the “Stand Your Ground”…
Fossil Fuel Consultant and Leonard Leo Lieutenant Lobby ALEC Lawmakers on “Stopping ESG”
…forces (Energy, Environment, and Agriculture, along with Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development) at its State and Nation Policy Summit last December, but ALEC’s board of directors rejected it due to…
Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund is RAGA’s Top Funder So Far in 2023
…second largest donor to RAGA so far this year. This affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce focuses on advancing business-friendly legal reforms such as making class-action lawsuits more difficult…
ALEC Ditches Free Market and Limited Government Principles at its 50th Annual Meeting
…Altria, Charles Koch’s Stand Together, UPS, and another right-wing nonprofit active in the fight against woke capitalism: the Foundation for Government Accountability. Others listed as Vice Chairman-level sponsors include: American…