Tag: ALEC
Anti-regulation law, favored by Kochs, used to sue Wisconsin Education Agency
The Dairy State is once again serving as a test case and battleground for the implementation of the Koch agenda.
ALEC, corporate-funded bill mill, considers model state bill cracking down on...
“We are concerned this Bill would target peaceful protests in certain contexts, such as protests which focus on environmental rights, imposing disproportionate penalties on protesters.”
Former head of energy, environment at ALEC, Todd Wynn, hired by...
Wynn's new job at Interior will parallel his past role at ALEC.
A corporate supercell spawning a hailstorm of special-interest legislation
Protecting corporate profits and power by overruling democratically made local policies is a crime that's easily understood and loathed by nearly all Americans.
Infighting, legal questions slow ALEC push for second constitutional convention
Documents reveal a new legal analysis that casts serious doubt on claims that ALEC is within striking distance of calling a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution.
Trump team, ALEC, Koch Industries debate gerrymandering the US Senate in...
Right-wing extremists want to roll back the clock to enable Republican state houses and Republican governors to hijack at least 10 U.S. Senate Seats held by Democrats.
ALEC’s push for a constitutional convention reaches Wisconsin
The risks of a constitutional convention in this day and age far outweigh the benefits.
Pruitt emails reveal communications with ALEC and Koch groups
After Pruitt became attorney general, he stayed engaged with ALEC on energy and environmental issues.
Billionaires are tampering with our constitution
A corporate-backed lobbying group is pushing a slate of amendments to transfer power from people to big business.
ExxonMobil Top Sponsor at ALEC Annual Meeting
Exxon is represented on the ALEC corporate board, and has funded ALEC since as early as 1981, providing at least $1,730,200 between 1998 and 2014.
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25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast
Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger
Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says
Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.