…tank supports. Check. Now cue up the marketing blitz for David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity. As the National Journal reported, “Americans for Prosperity is pushing for a right to work…
Koch-Fueled Playbook against Working Families Exposed by CMD
Reporters’ Guide on the Koch Right to Work Playbook
…(Senate Bill 1) and Prevailing wage repeal (HB4005), mirror model legislation promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which receives a substantial part of its funding from Koch Industries…
“National School Choice Week” Fueled by Major Right-Wing Funders and Corporate Lobby Groups
…religious and for-profit ventures. In federal and state budgets, “school choice” policies often divert or reduce Americans’ tax dollars available for traditional public schools that educate our most underserved students…
CMD Submits Evidence of ExxonMobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to California Attorney General
…change denial through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). CMD believes this information is relevant to her office’s investigation into whether ExxonMobil deceived its shareholders and the public about the…
How Charles Koch Backed the John Birch Society at the Height of Its Attacks on Martin Luther King
…a measure that made it harder for Americans to vote through ID restrictions following the election of President Barack Obama, the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office….
Koch Daddy and the Nazis, a Revealing History from Jane Mayer
…million is 1929 dollars. 1930 By the spring, more than 3.1 million Americans are unemployed. 1931 In February, there are food riots, with starving Americans standing in breadlines at the…
Right-Wing Network Puts Friedrichs v. California Teachers in Samuel Alito’s Lap
…close interlocking ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). CMD first documented this anti-worker Koch-ALEC-SPN agenda in a 2013 report. Today, CMD obtained a rally flyer with the SPN…
Koch Self-Interest in Criminal Justice Reform, Exposed
…Anglo-American heritage” to protect white collar criminals from criminal prosecution—when the burdens of an unjust criminal justice system have largely fallen on non-Anglo-Americans—further indicates the divide between the corporate criminal…
The Market Has Spoken: Funders Flee “Free-Market” Climate Denial Group
…the science. CMD recently provided the New York Attorney General with detailed information about ExxonMobil’s funding of another climate change denial group, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Both CFACT…
Koch-Funded Special Interest Groups and Utilities Bankrolling ALEC Meeting
…their private sector chair American Electric Power, are challenging the Clean Power Plan rule in court. Below is a list of the known funders of this ALEC resort meeting, although…
