…president, increasing from $5.42 million in 2016 to $18.6 million in 2018. The group’s stated mission is to promote “the Judeo-Christian values on which America is founded: free speech, free…
Right-Wing PragerU Triples Revenue in Two Years
Ex-Pharma Lobbyist Embedded in White House Tanked Drug Pricing Bill, While His Former Employer Helped From the Outside
…costs, something that’s currently prohibited. Ninety-two percent of Americans, including 85 percent of Republicans, want the government to negotiate Medicare drug prices. Still, the American Action Network has been claiming…
Some of America’s Biggest Corporations Help Finance Anti-Impeachment Ads
…president. Who might be funding these ads? The answer is tricky because both groups–the American Action Network (AAN), which is closely tied to House Republican leadership, and the pro-Trump America…
DonorsTrust Pumped $142 Million into Right-Wing Causes in 2018
…Trump came into office, an America First Energy Conference. CEI employs Myron Ebell, who the Financial Times called “one of American’s most prominent climate-change skeptics,” and was tapped by Trump…
ALEC’s Washington State Chair Engaged in Domestic Terrorism, Report Concludes
…American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has kept Shea in a leadership role as its Washington State Chair despite major controversies. In November 2018, Shea found himself in hot water with…
Dispatches from COP 25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid
…will cause them to become even wavier than they are now, and also it will bring a jet stream ‘trough’ over North America for extended periods of time. What does…
Dispatches from the People’s Summit in Santiago, Chile
…is the main one. Alex: What is your main solution? Zunilda: The solution is to unite South America, unite Latin America. Alex: This is great. Zunilda: The new constitution everywhere…
Eli Broad Pays $100M to Move His Ed-Reform-Producing “Broad Center” from LA to Yale
…And in 2011, Broad donated $25M to help make the teacher-temp org, Teach for America (TFA), a permanent training program for those temp teachers. (Ironic to work to make TFA…
Gerrymandering, Elections, School Privatization, and More on the Agenda as ALEC meets in Arizona
…cuts, orchestrated by Americans for Prosperity, the Koch machine’s grassroots operation. Charles Koch’s political network is usually well-represented at ALEC’s meetings. Close to 70 staffers from Americans for Prosperity, Stand…
Koch Foundations Increased Media Investments in 2018
…Atlantic‘s expansion of their courageous and nuanced coverage of growing polarization,” said CKF’s Ruger. “America’s an increasingly diverse nation, and we can be better for our differences. Dedicated efforts like…
