Investigating Power
…But they also gave large amounts to the pro-Trump America First Action ($1.5 million), Americas PAC ($1.5 million), House Freedom Action ($1 million), Kentucky Tomorrow ($250,000), Restoration PAC ($2.5 million),…
…project founded by Mark Meckler and Eric O’Keefe and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is a pay-to-play operation where legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind closed…
…the 21st century.” The Heartland Institute, which once received funding from ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute, hasn’t gotten direct donations from Koch’s family foundations in recent years, but DonorsTrust…
…Obama administration announced it would end the use of private prisons by the federal government, GEO Group subsidiary GEO Corrections Holdings gave $100,000 to the pro-Trump super PAC Rebuilding America…
…Manufacturers of America; $108,000 from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association; $50,000 from ExxonMobil; $40,000 from the American Gas Association; $25,000 from generic drug trade group the Association for…
Conservative business executives launched an ad campaign against Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders yesterday, attacking the democratic socialist on his plans to provide health care to all Americans and clean…
State right-wing advocacy groups are increasingly going national, spreading their influence on energy, environmental, and labor policies and litigation. Large national groups, such as the Cato Institute, started by Charles…
…National Review Institute ($2.8 million), the American Enterprise Institute’s magazine, National Affairs (over $1 million), the American Spectator Foundation ($663,000), and neoconservative magazine Commentary, Inc. ($125,000). The Center for American…
…H.R. 2256, the Driving America Forward Act, which would expand tax credits for plug-in electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. The bill has 138 co-sponsors, not surprisingly all Democrats, and…
…to hate groups, it has been helping diminish the civil liberties of Muslim-Americans, immigrants, and the LGBTQ community. The Right’s favorite dark-money conduit, DonorsTrust, continued to fund several anti-Muslim and…
