Reporters Memo: Coke and Pepsi Play Hardball in Attempt to Prevent the Spread of Soda Taxes
Big bucks are being spent by the soda industry on ballot measures to ban local soda tax campaigns in Oregon and Washington state.
Democracy
Americans for Prosperity Lies in Recent Tennessee, Wisconsin TV Ads
Koch astroturf group’s ads are fake news.
NC Decision to Bar Climate Science from Planning Will Prove Costly
Here's a reprint of a story we ran on North Carolina's shocking climate denial legislation back in 2012. Our hearts go out to all who are suffering from Florence's impact. As we watch the ocean water rush into city streets, in some places as much as two miles, it's worth reminding readers that North Carolina had a chance to reduce shore -- and inland -- damage for years to come. Instead it stuck its head in what little will be left of the sand.
Tar Heel Lawmakers Put Global Warming on Hold! (or, a Rising Tide Lifts No Votes)
By Jonathan Rosenblum
Kochs Put Cash over Principle to Endorse Pro-ACA Rep. Will Hurd
The Koch brothers' ground operation, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), recently announced that it is endorsing Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican incumbent from Texas who voted against Speaker Paul Ryan's health care replacement bill that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.
Initiative 1634 Misleads on Grocery Taxes, Preempts Soda Taxes and Tramples Local Control
Misleading ad campaigns spearheaded by industry giants spin soda as "basic human need."
I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About
He should be impeached, not elevated.
Trump Attacks on First Amendment Are Un-American
The Center for Media and Democracy joins more than 350 news outlets across the country in denouncing Trump's attacks on a free press.
Wisconsin GOP Just Nominated ALEC's "Iron Lady" to Take on Tammy Baldwin
After a vicious GOP primary, one of the Kochs' favorite candidates is ready to take on Tammy Baldwin for the U.S. Senate.
ALEC in Disarray
Hatemonger David Horowitz takes center stage at ALEC Conference in NOLA.
Watchdog Groups Call for Access to All Records of SCOTUS Nominee Kavanaugh
CMD joins coalition letters to Sen. Grassley and former President George W. Bush decrying partisan deal to limit access to Kavanaugh records and demanding full transparency.
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