…in promoting voter ID legislation. “ALEC doesn’t have ‘template legislation’ on voting because ALEC doesn’t work on voting issues,” Nelson wrote in a June 2021 opinion piece for Real Clear…
State Policy Network and Affiliates Raises $152 Million Annually to Push Right-Wing Policies
…organization, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). SPN currently has 64 affiliate members, along with 99 associate members that include many prominent national right-wing groups—from Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity…
MAGA Group Grooms Members of Congress and Their Staff for America First Movement
…election fraud conspiracists like Meadows, DeSantis, Mike Gableman, Arizona Senate President and ALEC National Chair Karen Fann (R), and many others with the goal of subverting the electoral system. CPI…
ESG Companies Bankroll GOP AGs—the Very Officials Retaliating Against Their Climate Goals
…of the ultra-conservative, corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) approved a model bill with similar language, directing state treasurers or comptrollers to maintain a list of firms that have divested…
Koch Subsidiary Supplier of JUUL Vaping Products Announces Layoffs
…the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive pay-to-play corporate bill mill and lobbying group. In reviewing the Koch, Molex, and Phillips-Medisize websites, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)…
Koch-Controlled Organizations Spent More Than $1.1 Billion During the 2020 Election Cycle
…his company. Among the many groups excluded are the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Cato Institute, the Kansas Policy Institute, the Independent Women’s Forum, and the American Institute for…
Here are Five of ALEC’s Most Far-Right Members
The Center for Media and Democracy revealed on August 3 that 224 ALEC-affiliated legislators belong to far-right Facebook groups, based on “Breaching the Mainstream,” a report by the Institute for…
Emails Reveal South Carolina AG Alan Wilson’s Pay-to-Play Activities for National Group
…Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Annual Meeting, emails detail. When Wilson declined, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, an avid proponent of Trump’s Big Lie and a member of RAGA, delivered the…
More than 200 ALEC Politicians Participate in Far-Right Facebook Groups
…875 state legislators who are members. CMD cross-referenced this data with its own list of ALEC-affiliated legislators to identify which ones are also members of these extremist Facebook groups. ALEC…
Financial Firm Cashes in on the Anti-Woke Crusade
…year, he has been on a speaking tour sponsored by a number of right-wing organizations. https://twitter.com/ALEC_states/status/1552638943128178688 At the ALEC meeting, members considered amendments to its State Government Employee Retirement Protection…