…shared prosperity,” wrote economist Peter Fisher in a joint Good Jobs First and Iowa Policy Project report. Moore now faces confirmation by the US Senate, which is expected to be…
Trump Appoints Stephen Moore, ALEC’s Favorite Economist, to Fed
Koch Network and Christian Right Celebrate Apparent Hagedorn Victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
The Koch brothers’ astroturf operation, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and Wisconsin Family Action (WFA) are exuberant over Brian Hagedorn‘s apparent razor-thin victory over Lisa Neubauer on Tuesday for a seat…
Koch and Bradley Groups Battle Medicaid Expansion Proposed by Gov. Tony Evers
…model bills known as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and all three have been praised by the Kochs’ astroturf group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) for passing legislation on the…
DonorsTrust Bankrolled Right-Wing Judicial Appointments, Trump’s Acting AG, and Lobbying Front Groups in 2017
…Plan. Other groups in the Koch’s influence network benefited from DonorsTrust grants in 2017. Americans for Prosperity Foundation — reorganized in late 2016 to encompass the Koch front groups Libre…
How Scott Walker Made Wisconsin the National Poster Child for Dark Money Corruption
…with the IRS as tax-exempt 501(c)(4) “charitable” organizations, like the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity, which spend tens of millions every election cycle propping up candidates with phony issue ads and…
Meet Scott Beightol: Anti-Worker Corporate Lawyer and Scott Walker’s Lame Duck Pick for UW Board of Regents
…passed a verbatim American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “right to work” law in 2015 after a huge push by the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity group, Beightol cheered on the policy,…
ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck
…during his tenure as a state representative. The Mackinac Center, the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity, and the Michigan Freedom Fund, linked to the DeVos family, all supported his legislation….
Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session
…Americans for Prosperity astroturf group. Michigan voters demanded the state take a different direction when they elected Democrat Gretchen Whitmer as Governor. Now the outgoing GOP Senate Majority leader, Arlan…
Wisconsin Schools the Nation on Hypocrisy and Partisan Power Grabs
…Sunday, along with a chart entitled “Americans know literally nothing about the Constitution.” Predictably, the insult was greeted with outrage. Jay Bullock had the rewrite. In the lame duck package…
Former Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske Speaks Out on Electoral Manipulation, Lame Duck Session
…— as Americans — should be to have large turnouts for our elections. I understand why Justice Kelly would appreciate this change, but I do not understand how some legislators…
