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Misconceptions Shouldn’t Hold Up Key Climate Solution
By Alex Carlin, August 5, 2021

Ocean Pasture Restoration offers a nature-based strategy to avoid climate ruin.

Group Run by Trump’s “Judge Whisperer” Leonard Leo Provides More Than a Third of RAGA’s Revenue So Far in 2021
By David Armiak, August 5, 2021

The Republican Attorneys General Association reported $6.7 million in revenue in the first half of 2021, according to a mid-year IRS filing examined by the Center for Media and Democracy, $2.5 million of which came from came from a dark money group run by Trump's go-to man for packing the federal courts with right-wing judges.

At Least 100 ALEC Lawmakers Signed Letter Opposing Worker Protections in PRO Act
By David Armiak, August 2, 2021

ALEC Action organized a letter signed by 100 lawmakers to members of Congress urging them to oppose the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act).

ALEC’s Annual Meeting Queues Up Fights Over Federal Powers, Fossil Fuels, Big Tech, Labor Rights, and the GOP’s Culture Wars
By David Armiak, August 2, 2021

The American Legislative Exchange Council is holding its first post-Trump in-person meeting this week in Salt Lake City, Utah at the five-star Grand America Hotel.

ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills
By PRWatch Editors, August 2, 2021

Known for pushing bills that protect corporate interests, ALEC jumps back into culture wars to oppose teaching of systemic racism in schools.

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There is a "sucker punch" aspect of this entire episode, that has been used in the past, that makes it doubly despicable. The now dead open records issue was so completely outrageous and unexpected that it served its intended purpose – to draw attention away from the many other very contentious and controversial aspects of this budget. And that was exactly what Walker and the majority Republicans wanted to happen.

--Jay Heck, Common Cause in Wisconsin

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