This is the disturbing conclusion from a survey by the Center for Media and Democracy of the 50 states’ laws on how delegates to an Article V convention would be chosen. In only one state — Rhode Island — would the voters have any role in the selection of the delegates. Everywhere else, it would be […]
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The Deranged Demands of the “Anti-ESG” Movement
Enterprising grifters are also cashing in on the trend. “Anti-woke” money manager Strive ($DRLL), which launched this year with backing from Peter Thiel, recently announced it has $250 million in assets under management, building on a $20 million seed funding round in May. As Alex Kotch pointed out for the Center for Media and Democracy, […]
Chicken Little is right: The sky is falling
Which makes no sense at all because, as The Center for Media and Democracy pointed out, “Arizona isn’t home to many private equity firms, yet she has become the Senate’s leading defender of the industry.”
A Rare Peek Inside the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
The Center for Media and Democracy has published the agenda for a recent CNP meeting, held February 22 to 24 at the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, California.
Koch Donor Network Building Army of GOP Doorknockers; Spending Millions on Midterms
According to the Center For Media And Democracy’s Exposed project, “28 organizations controlled by Charles Koch, his family, and Koch Industries executives spent a combined $1.1 billion, primarily to influence public policy and politics in the U.S., and had net revenues of $2.7 billion.” CMD’s Connor Gibson reported that Koch money “has financed groups involved […]
Right-Wing Dark Money Group Gets $1.6 Billion Donation From Tax-Dodging Business Mogul
Seid is a major but relatively low-profile donor to Republicans and right-wing causes, including to organizations that attack climate science. The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) notes that Seid is “closely allied with the Koch network and funnels dark money through the same groups used by the Kochs, including DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund.”
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Wants To Change The US Constitution And Radically Transform The Country
“Rural voters, even though there are fewer of them … actually have an outsize granted power under this process,” said Santorum in leaked audio obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). “And we have the opportunity as a result of that to have a supermajority, even though … we may not even be […]
Maine Nurses Vote to Keep Their Union Despite Right-Wing Push to Decertify It
“The so-called ‘Right to Work Foundation’ is not welcome at Maine Med,” O’Sullivan added, “and it’s not welcome in Maine.” According to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the foundation has “supplied the lawyers for most of the anti-union cases before the U.S. Supreme Court,” including the infamous Janus v. AFSCME case in which the high […]
Conservative push to alter Constitution focuses on primaries
“They have gone out of their way to set up a web of dark money groups to obscure where the money is coming from and evade reporting requirements,” said Arn Pearson, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which filed complaints with authorities in Arizona and Montana against the network’s campaign apparatus.
The Daily 202: A new constitutional convention?
“You take this grenade and you pull the pin, you’ve got a live piece of ammo in your hands,” former Republican senator Rick Santorum, a two-time GOP presidential candidate explained in audio of his remarks obtained by the left-leaning watchdog group the Center for Media and Democracy, Insider‘s Grace Panetta and Brent D. Griffiths report. “34 states […]