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ICYMI: ALEC Brings Voter Suppression Activities Out of the Dark and Coddles Fossil Fuel Industry at This Week’s Annual Meeting #ALECExposed #ALECideas #ALECinIndy exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/17/ale…
ICYMI: ALEC Brings Voter Suppression Activities Out of the Dark and Coddles Fossil Fuel Industry at This Week’s Annual Meeting #ALECideas #ALEC25 #ALECIndy exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/17/ale…
NEW: Who Funds ALEC? ALEC’s largest identifiable funder is the Bradley Foundation, which funneled $3.6 m (2019-24) into its coffers. Some of the $ was used to bankroll ALEC CARE, the group’s voter management campaign software exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/18/who… #ALECideas #ALEC25 #ALECIndy
NEW: ALEC Brings Voter Suppression Activities Out of the Dark and Coddles Fossil Fuel Industry at This Week’s Annual Meeting exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/17/ale… #ALECideas #ALEC25
Charles Koch has been more successful at pushing regressive tax policies onto states in the last four years than any other time in history. Don Weiner and @apearson15 with @EXPOSEDbyCMD explore those changes: trib.al/SOpHsEA
Trump’s right-wing agenda is getting a financial boost from blue states under attack by the administration More: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
NEW in partnership w/@RollingStone California, New York, and Illinois have invested their public employees’ retirement savings in firms promoting and profiting off Trump’s second term. exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/11/blu…
ICYMI: Insurrectionist Cleta Mitchell's FAIR Elections Fund brought in $3.9 mil between July 1, 2023 & June 30, 2024, and disclosed $2.1 mil in expenses, more than three-quarters of which was disbursed in grants to other organizations. exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/10/cle…
ICYMI: GOP state legislators backed by corporate-funded advocacy groups have made significant strides toward flattening or eliminating once-progressive state income taxes in this year’s legislative sessions. exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/10/rig…
The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity is pushing regressive tax schemes on state governments across the country, despite no evidence that they drive economic growth. From Don Weiner and @apearson15 with @EXPOSEDbyCMD: trib.al/ukJD8r8
If you think the tax cuts from Congress were bad, check out the states, where multiple legislatures are putting together flat taxes or eliminating income tax entirely. It's part of a long game bankrolled by the Koch network. Co-published with @exposedbycmd. (link below)
NEW: Insurrectionist Cleta Mitchell's FAIR Elections Fund brought in $3.9 mil between July 1, 2023 & June 30, 2024, and disclosed $2.1 mil in expenses, more than three-quarters of which was disbursed in grants to other organizations. exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/10/cle…
NEW: In partnership with The American Prospect GOP state legislators backed by corporate-funded advocacy groups have made significant strides toward flattening or eliminating once-progressive state income taxes in this year’s legislative sessions. exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/10/rig…
ICYMI: The far right Heritage Foundation is partnering with an Ivermectin group. exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/02/her…
NEW: Despite its failed Covid “miracle cure,” the anti-vax Independent Medical Alliance has gained political power in the MAHA world thanks to support from right-wing stalwarts. exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/02/her…
NEW: The national debate over whether rideshare and delivery drivers should be classified as either independent contractors or employees arrived in Wisconsin this month and is now parked on the desk of Governor Tony Evers (D). exposedbycmd.org/2025/06/30/ale…
NEW in partnership with the Accountability Journalism Institute: Kennedy Stacks Critical Vaccine Panel With Anti-Vaxxers exposedbycmd.org/2025/06/20/ken…
NEW: At the center of Trump’s partisan takeover of the Kennedy Center is a woman named Donna Arduin, its new CFO. A well known budget analyst, Arduin has been tapped by GOP governors to slash Medicaid spending and other social services in their states. exposedbycmd.org/2025/06/11/now…
The University of Michigan spent nearly a million dollars hiring private security to spy on, intimidate, and threaten pro-Palestine students on campus: "The university is responding to student activism with a massive expansion of surveillance" theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
"Members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a secretive, well-funded group of powerful conservatives, received a tutorial on how to use public school boards and transphobia to drive voters to the polls in Republicans’ favor in 2022." capitalandmain.com/grace-under-fi…