Corporate Front Group, American Council on Science and Health, Smears List of Its Enemies as "Deniers for Hire"
Website calls prominent scientists, reporters, and environmental groups "threats to humanity."
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ALEC's New Union-Busting Toolkit Illustrates the Goal Is to Bankrupt Unions Not Protect Workers
ALEC’s post-Janus toolkit inadvertently sheds light on the real aims of the group’s union-busting activities.
Howard Buffett's Border War
A billionaire's son is spending millions in Cochise County.
GOP Strips Rep. King of Posts, but ALEC Keeps White Supremacist State Chair
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea keeps his leadership post in ALEC despite circulating a white nationalist manifesto calling for a violent Christian holy war.
Time for a Clean Sweep at the Capitol
When I arrived in Madison in the early 1990s from the mean streets of Philadelphia, I thought Wisconsin's commitment to clean and open government was quaint, charming -- at times a little irritating. Badger Rules, the state ethics code, meant that legislative staffers like myself couldn't even take a cup of coffee from a lobbyist, and I remember one lowly public official was nabbed for using a state phone for a few private calls.
Billionaire Eli Broad Takes Public Education Private
Eli Broad is one of several mega-billionaires who have spent hundreds of millions on education think tank research and charter schools, shaping current trends in what they call education reform.
ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck
Bill's author never met the threshold for election that he is demanding for union recertification.
Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session
Unconstitutional voter restrictions, lower wages, less health care, donor secrecy, and union-busting add up to an agenda only the Koch brothers would love.
Truckers Run Over Railroads at ALEC
ALEC passes resolution backed by UPS and FedEx encouraging Congress to allow twin 33-foot trailers on the road.
Wisconsin Schools the Nation on Hypocrisy and Partisan Power Grabs
Record-setting early voting is not an emergency -- it's democracy.
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