Investigating Power
…“activist groups like MoveOn and Indivisible” facilitating “thousands of phone calls to members’ offices,” according to Axios. The calls were from Americans demanding that Democrats do more to fight broadside…
In launching a $20-million campaign last month to persuade Congress to extend President Trump’s first-term Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), Charles Koch’s astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity…
…of billionaire Charles Koch’s astroturf operation Americans for Prosperity (AFP), which spent $157 million on federal elections in 2024 through its super PAC AFP Action. AFP opposes health care reform,…
…Policy (ITEP) found that in favoring the rich, the permanent provisions of the TCJA result in a net tax hike for the bottom 80% of Americans. It estimates that the…
…testimony from representatives of the National Right to Work Committee and Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Utah, a political arm of the right-wing network founded by the petrochemical billionaire brothers David…
…big corporations. Americans aren’t seeing this big story yet because Trump’s divisiveness is masking it. One example: Trump fired Lina Khan, the aggressive monopoly-buster chair of the Federal Trade Commission,…
…Koch-backed groups actively pressured the governor and legislators to pass a slate of bills reducing taxes on the wealthy and corporations: Americans for Prosperity–Louisiana (AFP–LA) and the Pelican Institute. Both…
…by 2050 through renewable energy production would force Americans to cede “two-thirds of [the] U.S. electricity generation supply chain to the Communist Party of China.” He didn’t cite a source…
…a deliberate attempt to confuse,’” Truthout reported in June. A 2021 University of Chicago and Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that “almost all Americans see the…
…and democracy project at True North Research. State judges, especially in the post-Dobbs era, “wield extraordinary power over the lives of millions of Americans.” Still, progressive judicial candidates were able…
