…Trump Foundation’s degree of involvement in a political campaign to be at a level he had never seen before. The letter is signed by American Family Voices, Americans for Tax…
Reform Groups Call for a Criminal Investigation of the Trump Foundation
‘Law and Order’ Trump Is Soft on Corporate Crime and Wrongdoing
…and women” from the scourge of “American carnage.” But even as the Trump administration ramps up “zero-tolerance” policies against street crimes and immigration, it has gone soft on enforcement policies…
Kochs Spread Wealth Widely on State Candidates
…and on its front groups, including Americans for Prosperity, Concerned Veterans for America, Freedom Partners Action Fund, Generation Opportunity, and The LIBRE Initiative. Koch Governors The Kochs continue to demonstrate…
American Beverage Association Sweetened the Pot in Cook County Race with Unsuccessful Last-Minute Funding
The American Beverage Association (ABA) spent $123,000 in just the last week of the March primary race for Cook County Commissioner and corporate lawyer Richard Boykin (D), Illinois campaign finance…
Book Review: The Fall of Wisconsin Is an Uplifting Read
A must-read on the summer book list is The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics, by Dan Kaufman. This remarkable…
State Policy Network Unleashes Wave of Front Groups to Attack Public Union Membership
…union in order to drop out. (Note that Americans for Fair Treatment shares the same acronym as the American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teacher union.) The website does…
Is ALEC Too Extreme for Exxon? Long-Term ALEC Board Member Dumps ALEC over Climate Denial Policy
ExxonMobil, the largest oil and gas company in the world, will not renew its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) after a split within the corporate lobbying group…
Democrats Reintroduce DISCLOSE Act to Combat Dark Money “Poison”
…ten” Americans do not have faith in our democratic institutions due to the influence of money-in-politics, Whitehouse said. He emphasized that Americans want to have a government that “works for…
Trump’s Supreme Court Strikes Blow to Government Workers, Good Paying Jobs
…means of undermining unions who were organizing black and white workers together in the same shop. Predictably, Koch brothers groups–such as Americans for Prosperity, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),…
The West Coast Soda Wars Threaten to Engulf the Nation
…health threat. In a June 2017 article in the American Journal of Public Health, Jennifer Pomeranz of New York University’s College of Global Public Health and Mark Pertschuk of Grassroots…
