…stand. Rapert announced on Twitter that he would “update [NACL’S] law to mirror the Texas SB8 bill” and presented the NACL model bill as the standard. Sen. Brian Hughes, the…
ALEC Leaders Boast About Anti-Abortion, Anti-Trans Bills
Here’s Who Funds the Right-Wing American Legislative Exchange Council
…assertion that, after blowback stemming from its work on racist voter ID laws and “stand your ground” gun law, it stays out of social issues, ALEC is working hard to…
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ALEC Claims Credit for Voter Suppression and Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws at Secret Meeting
After the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) faced a public backlash and exodus of corporate members over its promotion of controversial and racist voter ID and “stand your ground” gun…
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Companies That Publicly Opposed Voter Suppression Continue to Fund Voter Suppression Group
…upon all Americans to join us in taking a nonpartisan stand for this most basic and fundamental right of all Americans,” it concluded. At least seven companies that signed the…
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At Least 100 ALEC Lawmakers Signed Letter Opposing Worker Protections in PRO Act
…CMD shows that ALEC is working in lockstep with the billionaire Charles Koch’s astroturf group Americans for Prosperity, the Koch-linked front group Independent Women’s Voice, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,…
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ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills
…adopt model legislation that weakens environmental protections, advances anti-union measures, reduces funding for health care, promotes private prisons, and weakens state regulation of corporations. The group previously promoted “Stand Your…
ALEC’s PR Man has a Dark Past as Spin Doctor for African Dictators
…a donor crisis and member exodus when its promotion of “Stand Your Ground” legislation was tied to the death of the unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin. He managed PR when…
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Joe Manchin May Block Federal Budget That Would Cost Him Coal Profits
…federal statute prohibiting lawmakers from working on bills primarily for furthering their financial interests,” Sludge reported. Manchin, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, has used the evenly split chamber…
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Domino Theory: ALEC Lawmakers Eye Arizona-Style Election Audits in Other States
…and denounced by GOP Arizona election officials. But that hasn’t stopped ALEC’s Fann from touting it as the “gold standard” and Republican politicians from trying to force similar audits in…
Pfizer Dumps ALEC
…least 120 corporations have severed their ties with ALEC in the last decade over the front group’s backing of controversial “Stand Your Ground” and voter ID laws, ties to extremists,…
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