…$3.4 million to Women Speak Out PAC In the third quarter, Restoration PAC doled out $3.4 million to Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America‘s anti-abortion Women Speak Out PAC. This represents…
Koch’s Political Operation Bets Big On Direct Voter Contact in Wisconsin U.S. Senate Race
…Action can accept unlimited corporate contributions and spend unlimited money on independent expenditures. Koch Industries, Charles Koch’s conglomerate, has given AFP Action $12.5 million of its $32.2 million in contributions…
Charles Koch’s Shape-Shifting Influence Machine
…independent expenditures and electioneering, including advertising and door-to-door canvassing. AFP Action replaced the Koch brothers’ previous super PAC, Freedom Partners Action Fund, which shuttered in August 2019 after its remaining…
Koch Network Uses National Philanthropic Trust to Conceal Transactions
…A massive donor-advised fund—independent from the Koch family—the NPT routes billions of dollars to thousands of charities, policy organizations, and nonprofits every year. The NPT does not disclose its donors…
Son of a Koch: $1.2 Billion Infusion Into Chase Koch’s Dark Money Group Suggests Political Ambitions
…in this series will examine one large grant that CCKC4 made to an independent donor advised fund, which the Koch network appears to be using to further obscure its spending….
Koch-Controlled Organizations Spent More Than $1.1 Billion During the 2020 Election Cycle
…the Independent Women’s Forum, and the American Institute for Economic Research. Our calculations exclude numerous Koch-controlled LLCs that are part of the network’s overall political operations, such as i360 and…
Here are Five of ALEC’s Most Far-Right Members
…far-right: from long-time Tea Party leaders and establishment groups like Turning Point USA and Women for America First; to nationalist paramilitaries like the Three Percenters and Oath Keepers; to the…
More than 200 ALEC Politicians Participate in Far-Right Facebook Groups
…a reception in conjunction with SBA celebrating the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. In addition, immediately after its December 2021 policy conference, ALEC gave the Family Research Council…
Financial Firm Cashes in on the Anti-Woke Crusade
…and other people in power, the crusade represents an opportunity to slow—or even reverse—progress towards justice and equity for women, people of color, and LGBTQ communities. And for at least…
Abandoning Free Market and Liberty Principles, ALEC Takes on “Woke Capitalism,” Bodily Autonomy, and More at Its Annual Meeting
Adherents of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have come together this week for their first big meeting of the year to take on “woke capitalism,” women’s right to abortion,…