…and PACs, including over $20 million to the American Values 2024 super PAC that supports Kennedy’s independent run for president. This represents almost half of the PAC’s $43-million haul so…
ALEC Pushes Anti-Union Playbook
…(AFP) along with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), New Jobs America, and the Independent Institute challenged AB5, but the court declined to hear their case. Four years later,…
Koch Network Bets Big on Candidates with Military Experience
…contributing to candidates directly or as a super PAC that collects unlimited funds for “independent expenditures.” This gives Koch and its affiliated advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a “tool…
ALEC Legislator Proposes Law to Take Away Voters’ Ability to Choose Presidential Electors
…embrace of the radical “independent state legislature doctrine,” which holds that state courts don’t have the authority to review state election laws. If the doctrine had been embraced by the…
Bradley Funneled $86 Million to Right-Wing Litigation, Policy, Media, Youth Groups, and Higher Education in 2022
…Freedom ($110,000); Alliance Defending Freedom ($824,000); American Legislative Exchange Council ($500,000); Lucy Burns Institute DBA Ballotpedia ($315,500); Consumers’ Research ($50,000); Foundation for Government Accountability ($661,560); Independent Women’s Forum ($305,000); Reason…
After 50 Years, This Right-Wing Law Factory Is Crazier Than Ever
…to comply? “Kill all the males,” Shea’s manual suggested. In December 2019, an independent investigation by the Washington House of Representatives concluded that “Shea planned, engaged in, and promoted a…
Software Giant Oracle Joins American Legislative Exchange Council
…the GOP. During the 2022 midterm elections, Ellison gave more than $30 million to the Opportunity Matters Fund, a conservative independent expenditure campaign fund — or super PAC — he…
Fossil Fuel Consultant and Leonard Leo Lieutenant Lobby ALEC Lawmakers on “Stopping ESG”
…opposition from the bankers industry. Heritage Action and Consumers’ Research, along with SFOF, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), The Heartland Institute, the Independent Women’s Forum, America First Works, and…
House Republicans Grease Dark Money Wheels in “Election Integrity” Bill
…of their funds on elections. Since the bill also eliminates the requirement of nonpolitical committees to report donors for independent expenditures, the result would be that countless “social welfare organizations”…
Walmart Heirs, Freedom Foundation Behind Latest Attack on Arkansas Teachers
…Foundation hired Christian Camara—who also lobbies on behalf of the anti-union Center for Independent Employees—to push for legislation enacted in Florida this year that expanded the anti-teachers’ union blueprint to…