“Saying the word Roe doesn’t help us,” Marjorie Dannenfelser told a room full of Christian right activists and donors at the late February meeting of the secretive Council for National…
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Revealed: New Leaders of Council for National Policy Set Extremist Agenda
At its first meeting of 2022, the secretive Council for National Policy (CNP) laid out its plans for influencing this year’s midterm elections, abolishing abortion rights, defunding the left, limiting…
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How Dark Money Shaped the School Safety Debate
…risk of the nation’s children. “Tapping Into the Full Productive Capacity of the Workforce” When the pandemic first hit the U.S. in the spring of 2020, Koch-affiliated groups saw an…
ALEC Cozies Up with Designated Hate Group Promoting Anti-Abortion Policies
…July, where the group promoted anti-trans legislation to ALEC legislators. ALEC has also provided space at its meeting for Alliance Defending Freedom, the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, and the…
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Billionaires Bet Big to Influence 2022 Elections
…BlackPAC, which mobilizes Black voters; and Workers Vote, a super PAC affiliated with the Unite Here labor union. In 2021, Soros also gave $500,000 to WFP National PAC, the super…
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Republican Group of State Financial Officers Takes on Woke Capitalism
…the firearms and ammunition industry, which they also spin as discrimination. In a Jan. 31 letter, SFOF urged President Biden to withdraw his nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin for Vice-Chair…
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ALEC’s “Critical Energy Theory” Bills Moving in Four States
…model policy, the Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, as part of what The New Republic’s Kate Aronoff coined as Republicans’ new war on “critical energy theory.” The bill was based on…
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Insurrectionist Mark Meadows Flies to Atlanta to Help Launch Far-Right State Caucuses
…communities nationwide,” CPI writes. “From election integrity, critical race theory, school choice, vaccine mandates, and police reform — our nation’s most important battles are taking place in state legislatures.” House…
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ALEC Is Enabling Anti-LGBTQ Hate
…half of LGBTQ workers reported experiencing job discrimination during their careers. Roughly one in 10 LGBTQ workers reported experiencing some discrimination within the last year, the study found. CMD and…
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ALEC Launches Attack on Banks That Divest From Fossil Fuels
…policy that would prevent financial companies that end investments in oil, gas, and coal companies from receiving state government contracts or managing state funds. The bill, the Energy Discrimination Elimination…
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