…ALEC-affiliated lawmakers actively working to further restrict reproductive rights. This offers yet another clear sign of ALEC’s deep—albeit covert—engagement in a campaign to curtail access to abortion. In an attempt…
ALEC Feeds Lawmakers a Steady Diet of Anti-Abortion Arguments
…is where lawmakers affiliated with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) could step in. At ALEC’s 50th annual meeting, held in late July in Orlando, lawmakers were fed a steady…
Anti-Woke and Fossil Fuel Industry Operatives Dominate ALEC’s Energy Task Force
…Republican state financial officers has close ties to ALEC, with one in every four members having also been affiliated with ALEC. Its priorities include battling “woke capitalism,” promoting domestic fossil…
Fossil Fuel Consultant and Leonard Leo Lieutenant Lobby ALEC Lawmakers on “Stopping ESG”
At last week’s annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a fossil fuel industry consultant teamed up with a right-wing culture warrior to lobby ALEC lawmakers to move…
ALEC Plots Post-Dobbs Strategy at 50th Annual Meeting
…things like that, which has not ended well for ALEC,” ALEC CEO Lisa Nelson told attendees at the right-wing Council for National Policy (CNP) meeting in 2021. Instead, she said,…
ALEC Ditches Free Market and Limited Government Principles at its 50th Annual Meeting
…woke capitalism. Nuñez was a member of ALEC when she was a state lawmaker (2010–18), and as lieutenant governor has been promoting DeSantis’ anti-woke policies. As in the past, ALEC…
ALEC’s Funding Revealed
For years, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has claimed to be “committed to transparency”—yet it refuses to disclose its donors on its website. When asked about this, ALEC’s CEO…
ALEC Considers Blacklisting Companies That Voluntarily Recognize Unions
…that serves as the ALEC model was sponsored by two members of the ALEC task force who serve in the Tennessee House: Republican Reps. Dennis Powers and Dan Powell. Three…
Leading Anti-ESG Lobbyists Represent Firearms and Fossil Fuel Industries
…she describes as “North Dakota’s Free-Market Think Tank”). When Grande served as a North Dakota state representative from 1996–2014, she was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),…
House Republicans Grease Dark Money Wheels in “Election Integrity” Bill
…“it would invite corruption and undermine confidence in elections,” Spaulding said. This proposed change echoes the provisions of a model anti-disclosure resolution developed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),…