…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…
Dispatches from COP 24 Climate Change Summit in Poland
ALEC Lost Membership Worth Over $7 Trillion in Market Cap
…tank once funded heavily by Exxon itself. Under pressure from multiple climate liability lawsuits nationwide that refer to Exxon’s history of funding climate denial since the 1990s, Exxon lawyers likely…
Koch Machine Suffers Major Losses on Its Health Care Agenda
…initiatives that passed and were opposed by AFP. A measure proposing a cigarette tax to fund Medicaid expansion lost in Montana, which passed expansion legislation in 2016. Thirty-four states had…
Wisconsin Nice Beats the Politics of Hate and the Scott Walker Money Machine
…Spending and Walker’s Big Money Advantage The campaign was a stunning display of Wisconsin “nice” overcoming huge money advantage of a well-funded incumbent who began and ended his campaign with…
Koch Brothers Are Watching You: And New Documents Reveal Just How Much They Know
…Victory Fund, Freedom Partners Action Fund, and Americans For Prosperity in Portman’s race. These outside spenders, two of which are Koch-funded groups, and Rob Portman’s campaign all used i360 to…
Schimel, Walker Went to Bat for Koch Brothers in Fight for Donor Secrecy
…$500,000 from the Kochs this cycle, has also given Schimel $44,000 through its RAGA Action Fund and has taken out a $2.5 million ad buy in support of his campaign….
ALEC-Backed Legislators Behind Suppressing Vote
…of North Dakota Tim Purdon said. This article was first published in the High Plains Reader here. The Campaign Legal Center and the Native American Rights Fund have filed a…
Exxon Faces Consequences for Climate Denial
…as a “potential fund allocator.” Public records show that Exxon’s funding of ALEC subsequently increased. Exxon’s more recent efforts to rehabilitate its public image around climate change led the oil…
Koch Big Federal Election Spending a Mixed Bag So Far
…races with large expenditures, mostly for advertising by Americans for Prosperity (AFP), AFP Action, Freedom Partners Action Fund (FPAF), Concerned Veterans of America (CVA), and other Koch front groups in…
Reporters Memo: Coke and Pepsi Play Hardball in Attempt to Prevent the Spread of Soda Taxes
…at governing in California and saying if you don’t do what we want, we’re going to pull the trigger and you are not going to be able to fund basic…
