Investigating Power
…them to bring the nation to the brink of default in May over increasing the debt ceiling and repeat their brinkmanship on the pending government shutdown on October 1. And,…
A coalition of progressive groups gathered in front of the National Portrait Gallery yesterday to protest the 50th anniversary celebrations of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and draw attention…
…the National Portrait Gallery, just a mile away. Over the past five decades, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has brought corporate lobbyists and conservative state legislators together behind closed…
…the safety of various abortion methods. For example, the National Right to Life Committee, which considers itself the nation’s oldest pro-life organization, distributed materials that promote conflicting information about “fetal…
…Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, which was established in 2020 with a $1.6-billion donation from Tripp Lite CEO Barre Seid. Leo—who is also known as Trump’s “judge whisperer” and is credited…
…2024, has made fighting “woke” companies—from Disney to Budweiser—central to his platform. Following the Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, unanimously passed by ALEC’s Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force in December…
…does include donation amounts, all donors’ names are redacted. So who funds ALEC? A review of hundreds of tax filings by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has uncovered…
…face discrimination and unwanted scrutiny by the federal government. They rely heavily on the 1958 Supreme Court case NAACP v. Alabama—which upheld the Black civil rights organization’s prerogative to refuse…
…York’s Zuccotti Park. Instead, Wolf-PAC has chosen to team up with the nation’s biggest corporate lobby group to pursue its goal—and is helping to advance ALEC’s right-wing plans for revising…
…sustainable investment approaches through model legislation like ALEC’s above-mentioned bill targeting public pensions, its Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, and its Eliminate Political Boycotts Act (which blacklists “woke” companies). In less…
