Utah has one of the worst gender pay gaps in the nation, but the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ranked it as the state with the best economic outlook in…
ALEC’s Annual Economic Survey Puts Profits Before People
Oil and Gas Companies Get Enormous Welfare, Still Lay Off Workers and Enrich Executives
…states and indigenous nations, and during the pandemic this money would have been especially impactful. Porter introduced a bill, the Ending Taxpayer Welfare for Oil and Gas Companies Act of…
Rand Paul Is Working with ALEC to Suppress the Vote
…Group in 2019, which has actively pushed voter fraud myths and partisan gerrymandering strategies to a receptive audience of GOP lawmakers. A Center for Media and Democracy examination of voter…
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ALEC Big Pharma Members Hit with Billions in Fines and Penalties in 2020
…misdeeds. A 2017 study by the Center for Media and Democracy showed that ALEC’s “biggest corporate funders [including Novartis] are also among the nation’s biggest violators of the health, safety,…
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ALEC-Led Effort to Preserve Conservative Majority on Supreme Court Gains Steam in the States
…law professors, is tasked with debating potential Supreme Court reforms such as term limits, the Court’s case selection, and the Court’s composition and size. The nation’s highest court has been…
The Pro-LGBTQ Companies That Helped Elect Arkansas Anti-Trans Bill Sponsors
…congressional donations, but some have already begun to backtrack or funnel their donations through national GOP groups. National Groups Behind Anti-Trans Bills Many state legislatures are attacking their transgender constituents….
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The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots
…central tenet of white nationalism, the idea that people of color will cause a “white genocide.” White nationalists in the U.S. and around the world have used the white genocide…
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CMD President Lisa Graves to Testify Before Senate Judiciary on the Right’s Dark Money Campaign to Capture U.S. Courts
…of the Right’s secretive scheme to capture the courts and remake our nation’s Constitution and laws, and his dark money judicial influence network raised more than $400 million dollars between…
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Right-Wing Network Opposes Initiative to Increase Charitable Giving During Pandemic
…by contributing over $1.5 million to two notorious white nationalist hate groups, as CMD first reported. CEO Lawson Bader defended the donations in a comment to CMD by claiming that…
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Republicans Defended Oil and Gas Leases With Industry-Backed Study in Haaland Hearing
…and its national estimate of nearly one million lost jobs. The senator claimed that lost revenue from oil and gas production on federal lands would cost states’ education systems, a…
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