If the corporate-funded influence groups on the Right have their way, there will be no honeymoon for newly elected Democratic governors. Affiliates of the State Policy Network (SPN), a network…
Right-Wing Funded Groups Battle New State Governors
DonorsTrust Bankrolled Right-Wing Judicial Appointments, Trump’s Acting AG, and Lobbying Front Groups in 2017
…fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Scalia’s death. Funding ALEC and SPN DonorsTrust has also provided millions to support the right-wing agenda and lobbying efforts of the Koch-funded…
Pro-Democracy Groups Denounce Trump’s Emergency Power Grab
…signature on the compromise bill to avoid another government shutdown. Trump’s bypassing of Congress to get his wall money has created a “fundamental confrontation over [the] separation of powers” according…
American Federation of Teachers Targets Mass Incarceration, Private Prison Profiteers
…Detention and Investment Risk” identifying hedge fund managers who invest millions in companies that profit from detention facilities that house separated immigrant families. That month, the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund…
Koch Kumbaya: The Billionaire Industrialists Appropriate Frederick Douglass, Pledge to “Do Right”
…required defendants to serve 85 percent of their sentence behind bars. Koch Industries has long funded and had a representative serve on the corporate board of ALEC, giving it a…
Billionaire Eli Broad Takes Public Education Private
On Saturday, thousands of teachers, students, and other public school supporters marched in downtown Los Angeles to the Broad Museum to protest billionaires such as Eli Broad that fund the…
ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck
…worth exploring the origins of this idea. ALEC Fingerprints Meekhof’s bill, Senate Bill 1260, is strikingly similar in its language to a “model bill” promoted by the Koch-funded American Legislative…
A Special Message from Bill Moyers
It’s our year-end fund drive, and this month anything you give will be matched 1-to-1, so your donation goes twice as far!…
Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session
…recertifications. Meekhof paid ALEC membership dues with taxpayer funds in 2009, during his tenure as a state representative. In 2015, he followed ALEC’s agenda and supported repealing prevailing minimum wage…
Dispatches from COP 24 Climate Change Summit in Poland
…it helped to write the Paris Agreement is only more evidence of this reality. We urgently need to fund real solutions, not waste time with dangerous distractions. But here we…
