List of ALEC News Articles

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List of Archived ALEC Breaking News Articles

• Kansas ends bad economic news - by not reporting it (Chicago Tribune)

• '13th' is among the best movies of 2016, and is probably the most important (The Boston Globe)

• Climate change snubbed again at presidential debate (Politico)

• Voter ID in Wisconsin, a Slow-Motion Train Wreck (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• McCrory is a tool of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Daily Kos)

• Holding Corporate Carbon Producers Accountable (Huffington Post)

• Leading Fossil Fuel Companies Fail Climate Responsibility Test (InsideClimate News)

• The New Slave Revolt (TruthDig)

• IRS Should Probe Exxon-Conservative Group Ties: Watchdogs (Bloomberg BNA)

• Groups accuse ALEC, Exxon of tax violations (The Hill)

• Ava DuVernay’s Netflix film ’13th’ reveals how mass incarceration is an extension of slavery (Washington Post)

• The Climate Accountability Scorecard: Ranking Major Fossil Companies on Climate Deception, Disclosure, and Action (2016) (Union of Concerned Scientists)

• Climate's growing role in presidential race (Politico)

• Exxon and ALEC Running Illegal Lobbying Scheme, Watchdog Groups Charge in IRS Complaint (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• How ALEC & the Kochs Publicly Back Criminal Justice Reform & Privately Expand Mass Incarceration (Democracy Now!)

• 'The 13th': Ava DuVernay’s Damning Netflix Doc Finds the Truth About Mass Incarceration (Daily Beast)

• Advocates: The U.S. Still Profits from Slavery Because the 13th Amendment Perpetuates Prison Labor (Democracy Now!)

• New York Film Festival Opens With Oscar Worthy '13th' by Ava DuVernay (Reel Life With Jane)

• Bayer Makes Deal With GMO Giant Monsanto (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• New Grants Announced: ED Continues to Pour Millions into Charter School Black Hole (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Trump Economic Adviser "Pushing" for Climate Denier and Fossil Fuel Apologist to Head EPA (DeSmog)

• Meet America's super polluters (USA Today)

• Big Spending by Fossil Fuel Supporters Swings Ohio Senate Race to GOP (InsideClimate News)

• Laboratories of Democracy (Creators)

• Ava DuVernay: 'There's a Lot Going on That We Close Our Eyes To' (Village Voice)

• Enterprise drops membership in conservative group ALEC (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

• Gov. Walker should resign -- Tim Melin (Wisconsin State Journal)

• Enterprise car rental company leaves Alec after public outcry (The Guardian)

• The American Legislative Exchange Council is publicly commenting after Enterprise Rental Car resigned (Politico)

• Scientific organizations must stop taking money from Exxon (The Hill)

• Student investment fund challenges ExxonMobil (Yale Daily News)

• More spin: Chief of Kansas Chamber won’t acknowledge reality. (Garden City Telegram)

• Preemption Laws Take Power Away From Cities, Writer Says (Wisconsin Public Radio)

• The Shackling of the American City (Slate)

• Democracy by the distant and the detached (Journal Review)

• The Independent "Women's" Voice? Most Known Donors Are Men (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Inside the Conservative Push for States to Amend the Constitution (The New York Times)

• Enterprise Rent-A-Car becomes paid Alec member despite green efforts (The Guardian)

• Slimantics: Mississippi: The Free State of ALEC (The Commercial Dispatch)

• Independent Women’s Forum and Independent Women’s Voice Use "Independent" Brand to Push Right-Wing Agenda to Women Voters (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Meet the 'Feminists' Doing the Koch Brothers' Dirty Work (The Nation)

• ALEC's goal is to leave out regular Hoosiers (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

• ALEC Under Attack: Activism Matters (CounterPunch)

• Federal Court Delivers a Blow to Municipal Broadband (Common Dreams)

• ALEC influencing Arizona (Sierra Vista Herald)

• The Anti-Transparency Agenda Hailed Inside ALEC (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• World’s largest online travel company Expedia severs ties with ALEC (The Guardian)

• Expedia Latest to Exit ALEC (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• AARP: Adios, ALEC (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

• A shamed AARP withdraws from right-wing lobbying organization ALEC (Los Angeles Times)

• AARP Drops ALEC Amidst Pressure Campaign (Talking Points Memo)

• AARP to drop out of ALEC (Politico)

• Mike Pence Loves ALEC and Keeps Pushing Public School Privatization, Despite Lousy Indiana Record With Charters and Vouchers (AlterNet)

• Did You Know That AARP Is A Paying Member Of ALEC? (Common Dreams)

• Democrats are losing to Republicans at the state level, and badly. Here's why. (Vox)

• Why is AARP cozying up to the right-wing group ALEC while big corporations flee? (Los Angeles Times)

• ALEC in Indianapolis: ExxonMobil and the #WebOfDenial (Common Dreams)

• Mike Pence Praises Controversial Conservative Group ALEC (NBCNews)

• Pence attacks 'same failed policies' of Democrats in speech at ALEC (Indianapolis Star)

• Back Home Again, Pence Greets Bikers, Conservative Legislators (WIBC Indianapolis)

• Gov. Pence returns to Indiana for motorcycle benefit ride, ALEC (WTHR)

• Gov. Pence speaks at ALEC meeting in Indianapolis (WRTV Indianapolis)

• Revealed: AARP Is Funding ALEC (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Casino Dollars Now Funding ALEC (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Hoosiers Rally to Protect Education from ALEC "Reforms" (Public News Service)

• ALEC's 'secretive' meeting in Indianapolis draws criticism (WRTV Indianapolis)

• The Trouble For Democrats That’s Not Spelled With a Capital T-R-U-M-P (Moyers & Company)

• ExxonMobil Top Sponsor at ALEC Annual Meeting (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Black Lives, Blue Lives, and the Fight Over Criminal Justice in America (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• ALEC 2016 Agenda Boosts Charters, Coal, and Other Corporate Funders (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Pence back on for ALEC's annual meeting in Indianapolis (Indianapolis Star)

• Editorial: Protecting right to change laws (The Journal Record)

• If California's a 'bad state for business,' why is it leading the nation in job and GDP growth? (Los Angeles Times)

• The First Amendment Isn't a Shield for Fraud (U.S. News & World Report)

• Vote power: Deliberate voter suppression should compel Kansans to act (Garden City Telegram)

• The First Night of the RNC Was a Cynical Exploitation of Grief (The Nation)

• Koch Brothers’ Fingerprints Can Be Found All Over GOP Convention (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Déjà vu: as with tobacco, the climate wars are going to court (The Guardian)

• 19 Senators Expose 'Web of Denial' Blocking Action on Climate Change (EcoWatch)

• Exxon Is Still Helping Fund The Spread Of Climate Denial (ThinkProgress)

• War on federal parks: Radicalized Republicans try prevent turning Bears Ears in Utah into a national monument (Salon)

• ExxonMobil: New Disclosures Show Oil Giant Still Funding Climate Science Denial Groups (DeSmog)

• ALEC to meet in state this month (The Journal Gazette)

• A constitutional convention would be a Brexit-scale crisis for the U.S. (Los Angeles Times)

• Cities Clash With State Governments Over Social and Environmental Policies (Wall Street Journal)

• ALEC to hold national meeting in Indianapolis (The Journal Gazette)

• It's "political sleight-of-hand": For their next trick, Republican magicians will make your federal land disappear (Salon)

• Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Special Report on Reentry and Following the Money (PR Watch)

• Another Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Reentry and Privatization (PR Watch)

• Peabody Coal Bankruptcy Reveals Climate Denial Network Funding (PR Watch)

• In right-to-work fight, unions spend $1.4m; business, $375k (Washington Times)

• Biggest US Coal Company Funded Dozens of Groups Questioning Climate Change (The Guardian)

• When Did the Freedom to Use Plastic Bags Become a GOP Priority? (Slate Magazine)

• Climate Resolutions Fall Short at Exxonmobil’s Annual Meeting (The Washington Post)

• Shareholders Vote to Alter Exxon's Board Due to Climate Change (Scientific American)

• Remembering Marcia Moody: The Amazing Legislator Who Took On ALEC and Austerity (The Nation)

• No relief: Ultraconservatives endorse overreach from Statehouse (The Garden City Telegram)

• We Need to Stop the Legalized Theft of Public Land in the West (Truth-Out)

• Do the Opposite (Sierra Vista Herald)

• Voter Suppression Measures on Trial in Walker's Wisconsin (PR Watch)

• Wisconsin Republicans Were ‘Giddy’ About Making It Harder to Vote (The Nation)

• Pittsburgh Protesters March Against Conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) (Pittsburgh City Paper)

• ALEC is a puppet show controlled by corporations (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

• ALEC Appoints New Chair To Climate Denial Task Force (PR Watch)

• Constitutional Convention Chaos (U.S. News & World Report)

• Land Grab Duplicity (Pacific Standard)

• Painful toll: Kansas must show pragmatism in tackling Medicaid expansion (Garden City Telegram)

• ALEC is harmful (Barre Montpelier Times Argus)

• ALEC's 2016 Agenda Moving in the States: A Snapshot (PR Watch)

• Morning Reads: Kochs Try to Make Dark Money Darker; The Devil and John Boehner (Moyers & Company)

• KIPP's Dark Secrets, Revealed by Center for Media and Democracy (DianeRavitch.net)

• Who is Funding the Bathroom Wars? (Civitas Institute)

• Legislative Losers: All Who Disagree With Legislators (Memphis Daily News)

• U.S. Chamber Works Behind the Scenes to Gut Whistleblower Protections (PR Watch)

• ALEC Spring Task Force Summit Agenda in Pittsburgh 2016 (PR Watch)

• The Gang That Helped Gov. Sam Brownback Wreck Kansas (The Kansas City Star)

• ALEC Gives Arizona an 'Economic Outlook' Magic Pony Award (Tucson Weekly)

• DCI Group Subpoenaed in Expanding Exxon Climate Denial Investigation (PR Watch)

• CMD Exclusive: Why I Chose to Get Arrested in Defense of Our Democracy (PR Watch)

• Who Should Control Our Public Lands? (The Register-Guard)

• North Carolina's 'Bathroom Law' and the GOP Drive to Disempower Upstart Local Governments (The Washington Post)

• The South’s new re-segregation plan: The Koch brothers, ALEC and the sneaky scheme to undo Brown v Board of Education (Salon)

• Democracy Awakening: A Call to Action for People and the Planet (Food and Water Watch)

• ALEC "Right to Work" Law Tossed Out in Wisconsin (PR Watch)

• Exposed: Coal Companies Secretly Funding Climate Science Denial (AlterNet)

• ALEC Touted "Transparency" in Pushing for the Panama Free Trade Agreement (PR Watch)

• Sam Brownback declares war on Kansas: This is how extremists gut a state — and democracy (Salon)

• Who do the state Chambers of Commerce represent? Not their members (The Hill)

• Democracy at Risk (Dunn County News)

• Corporate Polluters Undermining Clean Power in Virginia (PR Watch)

• 'Faith-Based' Economics vs. Actual Math (Jackson Free Press)

• States Are Barring Cities From Raising The Minimum Wage (BuzzFeed News)

• Debate on Medicaid Warrants more Grassroots Engagement (Garden City Telegram)

• Wage Laws Undemocratic (The Huntington News)

• Barring Plastic Bag Bans, another ALEC Law Takes Aim at Local Democracy (PR Watch)

• CMD Calls on ALEC to Disclose Information during Sunshine Week (PR Watch)

• Missouri Bills Would Halt State’s Work on Clean Power Plan (Midwest Energy News)

• Anti-Union 'Right-to-Work' Laws Have Passed in Majority of States (RH Reality Check)

• Idaho Loves Outdoors, So Let’s Hang on to Access (Idaho Statesman)

• Cashing in on Kids: 172 ALEC Education Bills Push Privatization in 2015 (PR Watch)

• The Right Wing’s Casting Agency, and Its Agent (The New York Times)

• Koch-ALEC Right to Work Power Play Exposed in a Small Illinois Village (PR Watch)

• Asbestos Victims, Lawyers Fear New ALEC-Inspired Utah Bill May Delay Compensation (Salt Lake Tribune)

• Arch Coal Funded US 'Libertarian' Think Tank and ALEC (End Coal)

• Georgia Senate Hears “Campus Carry” Gun Bill (Atlanta Progressive News )

• Who Is Behind Right to Work? (The Telegraph)

• Legislative Forum Draws Capacity Crowd (Winfield Daily Courier)

• Be Aware of Tactics in the Legislature (The Oxford Eagle)

• Preemption Bills: A New Conservative Tool to Block Minimum Wage Increases (New Republic)

• Vouchers for All (Sierra Vista Herald)

• Citizens Watch, Discuss Movie on ALEC (Winfield Daily Courier Online)

• Bankruptcy Filing Shows Arch Coal Funding for Climate Denial Legal Group (PRWatch)

• The Kochs Go After Electric Car Subsidies (PRWatch)

• How Nevada’s Solar Showdown Could Play Into the Caucuses (Mother Jones)

• Adelante! El Dia Sin Latinos en Wisconsin (PRWatch)

• Ford latest to walk away from ALEC (MSNBC)

• Ford Becomes Latest Major Corporation to Dump ALEC (PRWatch)

• Who's Funding Voter Suppression? (Al Jazeera America)

• "National School Choice Week" Fueled by Major Right-Wing Funders and Corporate Lobby Groups (PRWatch)

• Vermont ranks 49th again in ALEC's 'Rich States, Poor States' report (Vermont Biz)

• Years After 'ExxonSecrets,' Activist Applauds New Spotlight on Old Nemesis (InsideClimate News)

• We Need to Stand Up for Our Children Not Corporations (Fox News Latino)

• ALEC's "Rich States, Poor States" Paints a Happy Face on Failing State Policies (PRWatch)

• CMD Submits Evidence of ExxonMobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to CA Attorney General (PRWatch)

• Koch Self-Interest in Criminal Justice Reform, Exposed (PRWatch)

• ALEC and ACCE Pay-to-Play Meeting: in the Belly of the Beast in Scottsdale (PRWatch)

• Major Electric Utility Dumps ALEC over Clean Power Plan (PRWatch)

• Major Utility to Quit ALEC (The Hill)

• CMD Submits Evidence of Exxon Mobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to NY Attorney General (PRWatch)

• Amid Controversy, Ben Carson Named ALEC Event Speaker (PRWatch)

• Ford Revealed as Funder of Climate Denial Group ALEC (PRWatch)

• Hypocrisy Alert: Speaker Vos and Rep. Craig Use Private Email, Too (PRWatch)

• ALEC Vice-Chair Falsely Attacks CMD (PRWatch)

• How SPN "Think Tanks" Will Spin ALEC's 2016 Agenda (PRWatch)

• Scott Walker: Back in the Saddle, Back to His Old ALEC Tricks (PRWatch)

• Showdown in the "Show-Me State" (PRWatch)

• Scott Walker's Day One Plan to "Wreak Havoc" Lifted from ALEC (PRWatch)

• Back to ALEC, Back to (Private) School (PRWatch)

• Koch Draws on Big Tobacco for New PR Hires (PRWatch)

• Not Just Trump and Walker: ALEC Called for Ending Birthright Citizenship Too (PRWatch)

• Shell Parts Ways with ALEC over Climate Change, Exodus at 106 (PRWatch)

• Scott Walker Wins Koch Straw Poll, $900 Million in the Offing (PRWatch)

• Blowing the Whistle on ALEC's Little Brother ACCE (PRWatch)

• Scott Walker Is the Belle of the ALEC Ball (PRWatch)

• Under a Shroud of Secrecy and Security, ALEC Conference Gets Underway (PRWatch)

• ALEC Conference Funding Dominated by Big Polluters (PRWatch/Greenpeace)

• Meet ALEC's Little Brother ACCE (The Nation)

• ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia (PRWatch)

• How San Diego Is a Petri Dish for the ALEC Agenda (PRWatch)

• Hot Topics at ALEC's 2015 Meeting in San Diego (PRWatch)

• Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Your State This Year (PRWatch)

• Scott Walker: The First ALEC President? (PRWatch)

• ALEC Wants to Educate High Schoolers on Balanced Budgets and Austerity (PRWatch)

• So a Lobbyist and an ALEC Legislator Walk into a Bar...Caught on Tape by NBC (PRWatch)

• Groups Add to Evidence in "Whistleblower" Tax Fraud Claim Against ALEC (PRWatch)

• Wage Crushers' Prevailing Wage Claims Are Nonsense (PRWatch)

• CREDO Rejects ALEC's Cease and Desist Letter on Municipal Broadband (PRWatch)

• Reporters Guide to ALEC’s "Rich States, Poor States" Report (PRWatch)

• The ALEC-Backed War on Local Democracy (PRWatch)

• ALEC, NFIB Push Prevailing Wage Repeal (PRWatch)

• BP Dumps ALEC; Tally at 102 (PRWatch)

• Wisconsin Introduces Word-for-Word ALEC Right to Work Bill (PRWatch)

• Scott Walker Pushes ALEC 'Right to Work' Bill, Divide and Conquer Comes Full Circle (Huffington Post)

• Undercover at ACCE: ALEC Offshoot Spins City and County Officials on Dirty Energy, Local Control (PRWatch)

• “Death by a Thousand Cuts” and ALEC’s Local Strategy for Attacking Unions (PRWatch)

• How a Powerful Rightwing Lobby is Plotting to Stop Minimum Wage Hikes (The Guardian)

• ACCE Wants Your Town to Subsidize ALEC-Style Corporate Lobbying (PRWatch)

• ALEC Helps Philip Morris Block Plain Packaging Tobacco Rules (PRWatch)

• Republicans Call for Imposing ALEC Zones on Poorest Neighborhoods of Milwaukee (PRWatch)

• Fond du Lac Nuns Get Northrop Grumman to Dump ALEC (PRWatch)

• 5 Years after Citizens United, Democracy Is for Sale (PRWatch)

• Good Money after Bad, WI GOP Demands More For-Profit Schools (PRWatch)

• Koch Party Delivers SOTU Response (PRWatch)

• White House Issues Veto Threat for KXL (Keystone Pipelies Exposed)

• ALEC Pols Moving Up in 2014 Midterms (PRWatch)

• ALEC Sharpens Attack on Environmental Safeguards (Union of Concerned Scientists)

• Fossil-fuel lobbyists, bolstered by GOP wins, work to curb environmental rules (The Washington Post)

• More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda (PRWatch)

• ALEC doubles down on anti-environmental agenda (Salon)

• After Republican wins, right to work bills on the agenda (The Washington Post)

• An upbeat end to a turbulent year for conservative state legislature group (The Washington Post)

• ALEC is Back and Ready to Resume its Conservative Agenda (Bloomberg)

• Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union Busting Bill in Wisconsin (PRWatch)

• Conservative lobby group Alec plans anti-environmental onslaught (The Guardian)

• Fat on Restaurant Cash, Democratic Lawmakers Float Minimum Wage Preemption in IL (PRWatch)

• Billionaires Push ALEC Agenda in Minneapolis School Board Election (PRWatch)

• An Embattled ALEC, Buoyed by Election Results, Lays Blueprint for 2015 (PRWatch)

• Emerson Electric Latest to Confirm ALEC Exit (PRWatch)

• ALEC and Big Oil Work to Overturn Denton Fracking Ban (PRWatch)

• ALEC Fueled Supreme Court Challenge to Obama Health Law (PRWatch)

• More Lies From ALEC About Climate Change (Huffington Post)

• AOL, Owner of Huffington Post, Quits ALEC (PRWatch)

• ALEC Corporate Board Chair Quits Over Climate Change, Renewables and Voting Rights (PRWatch)

• ALEC Pols Moving Up in 2014 Midterms (PRWatch)

• More Lies From ALEC About Climate Change (Huffington Post)

• AOL, Owner of Huffington Post, Quits ALEC (PRWatch)

• SiX Could Be the Answer to ALEC (Huffington Post)

• Koch Party Wins Big, Planet in Peril (PRWatch)

• ALEC Corporate Board Chair Quits Over Climate Change, Renewables and Voting Rights (PRWatch)

• ALEC Tampers with Wisconsin Constitution (PRWatch)

• Google Quits ALEC, But Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell Stay Put (Huffington Post)

• Alec lobbying group lashes out at Google over climate change 'lies' charge (The Guardian)

• Spending for ALEC Member Tillis Breaks All Records in NC Senate Race (PRWatch)

• MO ALEC Leader Says Right to Work Is Solution to Ferguson (PRWatch)

• U.S. Supreme Court Puts ALEC-Inspired Voter ID on Hold in Wisconsin (PRWatch)

• WI Attorney General's Latest Attack on Transparency Reeks of Partisanship (PRWatch)

• In Paid Sick Days Fight, Open Records Dropbox Dodge Reemerges in Florida (PRWatch)

• In Wisconsin, a Push for Voter ID Law, But Not Voter IDs (PRWatch)

• News Corp and Occidental Among Latest Firms to Cut Ties with ALEC (PRWatch)

• Yelp, Facebook, Google Are Latest Tech Companies to Drop ALEC (PRWatch)

• WI ALEC Plagiarists Criticize Burke for Copying Jobs Plan (PRWatch)

• Google Says ALEC Is Literally Lying about Climate Change, Ends Membership (PRWatch)

• Toronto Star Details ALEC Efforts to Derail Climate Change Policy (PRWatch)

• Microsoft and More Leave ALEC, 80 Corporations Out (PRWatch)

• Dark Money Casts Shadow over Push to Tax the Sun (PRWatch)

• Some ALEC Funders Flee, but Koch, Big Tobacco, and PhRMA Remain Loyalists (PRWatch)

• My ALEC Diary: Day 1 (The Progressive)

• Coal and Oil Polluters Dominate ALEC Conference (PRWatch)

• ALEC's Jeffersonian Project Pushes to Amend U.S. Constitution (PRWatch)

• Paid Sick Day Campaigns Gain Traction as ALEC Allies Push Back (PRWatch)

• The ALEC Angle in Scott Walker's "Toxic Strain of Racial Politics" (PRWatch)

• Like His Dad, Charles Koch Was a Bircher (New Documents) (The Progressive)

• Conservative group Alec trains sights on city and local government (The Guardian)

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