…supported the lawsuit: The Cato Institute—founded and heavily funded by Koch—submitted an amicus brief with seven other organizations to support the AFP Foundation. The Koch-funded Reason Foundation, Mountain States Legal…
ALEC Doubles Down on Punishing ESG Firms
…fossil fuel industry’s campaign to deny climate change and block climate action, and has received more than $8.9 million in funding from oil giant Charles Koch’s foundation and funding vehicles…
“Dark Money ATM” Injected Right-Wing Groups with $123 Million in 2021
…to The 85 Fund, Leonard Leo’s well-funded 501(c)(3) nonprofit connected to a powerful network of dark money right-wing groups that influenced the shaping of the federal judiciary during Donald Trump‘s…
Dispatches From the COP27 Climate Talks in Egypt
…Defense Fund (EDF) or Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) follow their members in promoting the specific goal of restoring CO2 levels that humans have survived long-term. We are getting rapidly…
Republican State Financial Officers Bring ESG Fight to Washington
…”woke” capitalism, Vivek Ramaswamy. Heritage has partnered with SFOF in building opposition to ESG and funding its work on the issue. At Heritage’s Resource Bank meeting last spring, SFOF was…
RAGA Discloses $3.7 Million in Third-Quarter Revenue with the General Election Just Weeks Away
…funders access to those AGs and their staff. In addition to funding campaigns directly, RAGA is also setting up local PACs to attack Democrats. In Wisconsin, its Wisconsin Freedom PAC…
Richard Uihlein Goes All-In For Johnson in Wisconsin Senate Race
…Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin. In addition to his funding of the No Better Friend PAC, Uihlein and his wife Elizabeth have contributed $3.5 million into Wisconsin Truth, a new super…
ULINE CEO Pours Another $7.1 Million Into His Restoration PAC to Boost Anti-Abortion and Right-Wing Candidates and Causes
Republican megadonor and ULINE CEO Richard Uihlein injected his Restoration PAC with another $7.1 million between July and September to help elect right-wing Republicans, bringing his total funding for the…
ALEC Held Third Voter Suppression Summit with Dark Money Group This Summer
…restrictions and spread baseless and dangerous claims about election fraud, laying the groundwork for Trump’s attempt to overturn the election. It is a project of The 85 Fund, the legal…
Koch’s Political Operation Bets Big On Direct Voter Contact in Wisconsin U.S. Senate Race
…for direct mail. Two other major super PACs supporting Johnson, Wisconsin Truth and the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), account for almost half of the outside money spent in the Wisconsin…