List of ALEC News Articles

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List of Archived ALEC Breaking News Articles

• This is how the Kochs' anti-renewable agenda becomes White House policy (ThinkProgress)

• Trump Team, ALEC, Koch Industries Debate Gerrymandering the U.S. Senate in Denver (ExposedByCMD)

• Colorado educators plan protest against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (Denver Post)

• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to speak at Denver organization annual meeting (KDVR)

• Betsy DeVos is coming to Denver for a meeting of the conservative group ALEC — and protesters are ready (Chalkbeat)

• Secretive lobbying group heads to Denver next week. Here's what you need to know (The Colorado Independent)

• Rooftop Solar Is No Match for Crony Capitalism (Bloomberg)

• ALEC's 'State Chair of the Year' will now run for Congress in New Mexico (Progress Now NM)

• ALEC in Colorado (Common Cause)

• Regulatory Capture of the FCC: Stacking the Deck with the New Proposed Republican Commissioner (Huffington Post)

• Betsy DeVos and Newt Gingrich will be in downtown Denver this month with ALEC (Denverite)

• The Deep Industry Ties of Trump's Deregulation Teams (New York Times)

• Flouting Paid-Sick-Day Laws (New York Times)

• ALEC​'s Covert War on Democracy (Common Dreams)

• City of Madison violates its own pesticide policies (The Cap Times)

• Local Media Organizations Announce "Colorado Media Alliance" (Huffington Post)

• Republicans punish people who dare to live in cities—even when it means hurting their own state (Daily Kos)

• Trump White House Staff Filled With Washington Insiders Despite 'Drain the Swamp' Pledge (Newsweek)

• Exxon Tries to Talk Good Game, While Still Funding Climate Deniers (EcoWatch)

• Searching for the Soul of the Democratic Party (HuffPost)

• Reagan vs. Cities: The Battle Over South African Apartheid and Lessons for the Trump Era (ExposedByCMD)

• Investors Want Transparency. ExxonMobil Offers Smoke and Mirrors (Union of Concerned Scientists)

• An Education Worth Fighting For (Jacobin Magazine)

• How Congress Turned on National Parks and Public Lands (Men's Journal)

• Vivitrol Opiate Crisis and Criminal Justice (Propublica)

• Oklahoma tries to crush Native American environmental protesters (People's World)

• The Right's War Against Liberal Democracy (New Republic)

• ALEC continues churning out blueprints for right wing experiments (People's World)

• Soda and Fast Food Lobbyists Push State Preemption Laws to Prevent Local Regulation (Forbes)

• Article V convention would face obstacles (Tahlequah Daily Press)

• Bradley Foundation Fueled "Independent Women's Forum" Campaign Against Paid Sick Leave Laws and More (ExposedByCMD)

• Delivery Robots Rolling Into Regulatory Thicket (Bloomberg BNA)

• Plain Talk: Put brakes on constitutional convention (The Cap Times)

• Nevada lawmakers debate travel reimbursement (Las Vegas Sun)

• A Billionaire-Backed 'Movement' Is Dangerously Close to Calling a Constitutional Convention (AlterNet)

• The Koch Brothers want to rewrite the Constitution. They may succeed. (Raw Story)

• Comcast shareholders reject lobby disclosure resolution for the fourth straight year (The Center for Public Integrity)

• Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Who Is Mark A. Green? (All Gov)

• A Progressive Electoral Wave Is Sweeping the Country (The Nation)

• How Conservatives Are Trying to Rewrite the Constitution (Pacific Standard)

• The Koch Brothers Want A New Constitution — And They’re Closer Than You Think (International Business Times)

• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for Factory Farm Reforms (Food & Water Watch)

• The Energy 202: Paris climate accord divides industrial trade group (Washington Post)

• Koch Convention to Rewrite Constitution Runs Into Roadblocks (ExposedByCMD)

• Former Senator Jim DeMint joins growing 'convention of the states' movement (9 News)

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

• ALEC continues to flex its muscles in statehouses (Johnson City Press)

• Eliminating more workers' rights (Springfield News-Leader)

• Organizations Representing Corporations Pass Regressive Legislation in the Shadows (Truth-Out)

• New 'Poor People's' Leader: Anti-Voter Laws Worse Than Russian Meddling (New America Media)

• You Dare Not Question Scott Walker (Urban Milwaukee)

• GOP Bill Allows No License Bakeries (Urban Milwaukee)

• Gagging the UW: Critics worry campus speech bill is another attack on academic freedom (WiscNews)

• White House wooing conservatives on infrastructure plan (Politico)

• Local Option Tax, Arsenic Testing & An ALEC Amendment (Freepress Online)

• The Hill is a dumping ground for anti-net neutrality pieces backed by undisclosed telecom money (Media Matters for America)

• "The Longer View." Inside the Bradley Foundation's Ambitious Push to Win State Policy Battles (Inside Philanthropy)

• The 50-State Corporate Agenda to Change the Rules of the Economy (WhoWhatWhy)

• Muscular Right-Wing Foundation Vows to Rebuild National Conservative Infrastructure (Truth-Out)

• Maine resolution would aid push to rewrite U.S. Constitution (Press Herald)

• Letters: GOP has sense of entitlement (Las Cruces Sun-News)

• Pesticide bill rejected by Legislative panel (Homestead)

• Legislative panel unanimously rejects pesticides bill proposed by LePage (Press Herald)

• The secret history of Illinois's rent control prohibition (Chicago Reader)

• Laying siege to state government (Youngstown Vindicator)

• What Would a Pence White House Look Like? (Hammer Forum)

• Zinke Tours Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Scolds Inquisitive Native Woman: 'Be Nice!' (EnviroNews)

• Letter to the editor: How many Maine legislators are dupes for outside group? (Press Herald)

• Pesticide-friendly bill from LePage mirrors model by secretive national group (Press Herald)

• Out-of-state lobbying group wants to weaken Maine laws. Legislators shouldn't fall for it. (Bangor Daily News)

• Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Attacks on Unions (ExposedByCMD)

• Local Pesticide Ordinances Under Attack in the State of Maine (Beyond Pesticides)

• General chaos (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

• Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Front Groups of Discredited PR Spin Doctor Richard Berman (ExposedByCMD)

• Weaponized Philanthropy: Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation’s Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide (ExposedByCMD)

• Students protest prison labor and discrimination (Iowa State Daily)

• Refugee babies kept behind bars in Texas (People's World)

• How States Are Trying to Force Federal Government to Control Spending (Daily Signal)

• Legislators sold out (Lexington Herald Leader)

• Wireless Industry Lobbies Statehouses For Access To 'Street Furniture' (KPBS)

• Two factions face off over Grand Staircase-Escalante (High Country News)

• Unions: Millionaires try to break labor movement (The News Tribune)

• Iowa becomes eighth state to prohibit bag bans (Waste Dive)

• Green is the old black: California looks to phase out private prison partnerships as Trump administration doubles down (Sacramento News & Review)

• North Carolina is Latest in State CAFO Battles (North Carolina Health News)

• Maryland Legislature Rescinds Call for Dangerous Constitutional Convention in the Face of Nationwide Special Interests Push (Common Dreams)

• The Green Wall Against Trump (The American Prospect)

• The Latest Threat to Electric Cars (Center For American Progress)

• EPA's Pruitt faces probe that could see him disbarred (Washington Examiner)

• The Constitution is weird…could get weirder (NUVO Newsweekly)

• Trans Rights Weren't the Only Target of North Carolina's 'Bathroom Bill' (The Nation)

• A Cruel New Bill Is About to Become Law in Mississippi (The Nation)

• Think globally and stand up locally (Huffington Post)

• Tennessee bill to limit state-paid legislative travel falters (The Tennessean)

• THE REGULARS: Democracy: It's messy, it's hard work .. and sometimes it's loud (Sioux City Journal)

• Dems continue push to rescind calls for US constitutional convention (Maryland Reporter)

• When it comes to our intrepid public servants, there's no fooling around (MDJOnline)

• Bill would revamp campaign reporting (Albuquerque Journal)

• Myrtle Beach lawmaker Alan Clemmons, a Mormon, gains a national name as pro-Israel advocate (Charleston Post Courier)

• Right-Wing Billionaires Are Buying Themselves a New Constitution (Fusion)

• Climate Denier Trump Meets Unexpected Opposition: Exxon Mobil (The Ring of Fire Network)

• EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Unfazed By Deadly Nature Of His Ideological Agenda (Shadowproof)

• Vinehout: Protect the Constitution from a convention (Jackson County Chronicle)

• Poor lead: Situation brought more proof of GOP leadership's disconnect (The Garden City Telegram)

• Class War in the Capital City (Nwlaborpress)

• Lawmakers use donor money to pay Sam's Club, NRA and sorority membership dues (WBIR-TV)

• Bag Ban Repeal Wrapped Up in Controversy (Coastal Review Online)

• E&E News, DOE deputy will be pressed on budget questions Perry avoided (E&E News)

• Think tank joins fight against sugary-drink tax (Santa Fe New Mexican, )

• No Obamacare ceasefire in red states (Politico)

• Oklahoma Bar Launches Investigation to Determine If Trump's EPA Chief Lied Under Oath (Common Dreams)

• Representative Zepnick Concerned About Legislation Authorizing Constitutional Convention (Urbanmilwaukee)

• Legislative overreach (Tower Timberjay News)

• Constitution Interrupted (ExposedByCMD)

• Republicans can still harm Obamacare through neglect (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

• '13th' exposes slavery through prison system (The UML Connector)

• Koch-Funded Group Wants to Quash Arizona Voter Rights (Rewire)

• Residents grill lawmakers at forum (Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier)

• House Approves Plan for Oklahoma Communities to Form "Prosperity Districts" (Public Radio Tulsa)

• Wisconsin Lawmaker Echoes ALEC’s Call for a Constitutional Convention (ExposedByCMD)

• Campaign to Convene Constitutional Convention Jeopardizes Americans' Fundamental Rights and Values (Between The Lines)

• The con-con resolution (Casper Star-Tribune)

• Report: What's Next for America's Public Land? (Outdoor Life Magazine)

• Lawmakers, Others Debate the Pros, Cons of Constitutional Convention (The Exponent Telegram)

• Flynn: Wisconsin legislators put constitutional rights at risk (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

• Trump's Budget Assault on the Environment Packs a Wallop (The Progressive)

• Speak out against wasteful plastic bag use (St. Cloud Times)

• American Legislative Exchange Council far from nonpartisan (Allentown Morning Call)

• ALEC & For-Profit Health Industry Embrace GOP Bill Despite Opposition from Doctors & Nurses (Democracy Now!)

• Electric Utility Executives Pony up for the GOP Roll Back of Environmental Protections (DeSmog)

• Legislature needs to get serious about minimum wage (Albuquerque Journal)

• Gold & Silver PAC March 2017 e-Newsletter: Tax Edition (CoinWeek)

• Don't Let the Kochs Buy Our Democracy (The Keene Sentinel)

• Hey, wouldn't it be cool to have a constitutional convention? Oh, hell no (Salon)

• Bill that would prevent local government ban on Airbnb passes committee (WISH-TV)

• Bipartisan criminal-justice reform bills working through Arizona Legislature (AZCentral)

• Criminal justice reform task force and other reform bills advance in Florida Senate (Florida Politics)

• Final plate of Eggs and Issues served Bipartisan criminal-justice reform bills working through Arizona Legislature (Spencer Daily Reporter)

• New Anti-Protesting Legislation: A Deeper Look (Truth-Out)

• Pruitt Emails Reveal Communications with ALEC and Koch Groups (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• ALEC Embraces Trumpism (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• A wrong-headed Maryland bill attacks local worker-friendly legislation (Washington Post)

• Ava DuVernay on Her Oscar-Nominated Documentary 13th and Resistance Through Art (TIME)

• Trump's EPA making American dirty again (Greeley Tribune)

• Wisconsin Senate passes bill limiting union influence (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

• The Empress Has No Clothes (Huffington Post)

• How the Left's Long March Back Will Begin in the States (Moyers & Company)

• House GOP Renews War On Workers With 'Right-To-Work' Bill (Huffington Post)

• Opponents cite ALEC influence on measure to restrict local governments (Workday Minnesota)

• How the Left's Long March Back Will Begin in the States (In These Times)

• Investigation Reveals the Extent the Koch Empire Is Willing to Go to Take Over a University (AlterNet)

• Academic accountability: How do ESAs measure up? (Arizona Education News Service)

• The Koch Brothers Are Attacking New Mexico Solar. Here's How Lawmakers Can Fight Back (Huffington Post)

• RAN Statement On Tillerson Confirmation (Oil and Gas Online)

• 13th Takes an Important Look at the 13th Amendment (Nashville Scene)

• Hurting special-needs students (United Federation of Teachers)

• Penn State professor explains chilling effect Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ has on academia: ‘It smells like fascism’ (Raw Story)

• Letter: Republican conceit (Sioux Falls Argus Leader)

• ALEC pushing to convene a constitutional convention (DC Urban Moms and Dads)

• Betsy DeVos' spokesperson, Ed Patru, works for a Washington "crisis management" firm that specializes in building "astroturf" groups (Eclectablog)

• Jim Hightower: Billionaires want to tamper with Constitution (Winston-Salem Journal)

• Donald Trump Puts Coal Lobbyist in Charge of Prosecuting Environmental Crimes (The Intercept)

• House prints Airbnb tax ordinance (Post Register)

• Nurses Urge Senate to Reject Pruitt for Critical EPA Post (Common Dreams)

• Expect More Conflict Between Cities And States (Huffington Post)

• Hough ranks third in General Assembly in fundraising from bail bond industry (Frederick News Post)

• A different choice (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

• Koch brothers' American dream (Colorado Springs Independent)

• Battling climate change--and those who deny it (Longmont Times-Call)

• Tillerson's damaging record of extraction and opposing climate action (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy)

• Bill would limit influence of unions on public project bids (Chippewa Herald)

• Misleading 'tort reform' making comeback (Scranton Times-Tribune)

• The DeVos Legacy: Crumbling Schools, Poisoned Water (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Indiana lawmakers are back with an education savings account plan that some advocates have called the "purest form" of school choice (Chalkbeat Indiana)

• Countering Attacks on Women's Equality (People For the American Way)

• Voting rights advocates ponder strategy (People's World)

• Trump's Election Has Been Very Good For K12 Inc. (Tucson Weekly)

• Don't forget Koch-ALEC cabal (Colorado Springs Independent)

• What if Betsy DeVos Were Your Boss? (AFL-CIO)

• Scott Pruitt: Trump's Pick for EPA (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Tillerson can’t be trusted as secretary of state (CapeGazette)

• Seema Verma: Trump's Pick for Medicaid and Medicare Cashes In on "Reform" (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Leftist Groups Plotting to Disrupt Inauguration Have Attacked Trump Supporters Before (Breitbart New)

• Bill Would Benefit Special Interests (Urban Milwaukee, )

• Campaign giving lacks big picture (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

• Taxpayers footing more for lawmakers to travel (Sioux Falls Argus Leader)

• Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention (In These Times)

• Holbrook: Women must once again raise their voices (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

• Mapping EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt's Many Fossil Fuel Ties (DeSmog)

• Only a part of the story: Funding more than just 'dollars in the classroom' (Seymour Tribune)

• Labor launches new fightback (Workers World)

• A closer sense of Trump climate stance? Tillerson says it's a 'threat.' (Christian Science Monitor)

• Protests Erupt as Lawmakers Continue Spread of Anti-Worker Legislation Nationwide (Common Dreams)

• What DeVos Might Do to Public Schools (Consortium News)

• For Companies Torn Between Industry and Climate, the Heat Is On (Bloomberg)

• How Corporations Rig the Rules and Crush Dissent (In These Times)

• #DayAgainstDenial Protests Across the U.S. Call Attention to Climate Change as Trump Cabinet Confirmation Hearings Begin (DeSmog)

• Cities Need a National Movement Against Conservative Meddling (Slate Magazine)

• Kentucky State AFL-CIO Responds to Republican Assault on Working People (AFL-CIO)

• Time to Grill Rex Tillerson on Climate Change (New York Times)

• Will DeVos Do for Schools What She Did for Flint Water? (Newsweek)

• Pass a Regulation, Repeal Another: House Approves Provision Tied to Koch Industries (DeSmog)

• Corporate Education Nominee DeVos Faces Pushback from Dem Senators (Common Dreams)

• Here's What You Need to Know on Six of Trump's Cabinet Nominations (EcoWatch)

• Conservatives Plot Their Course on the Rising 'Sea of Red' in State Capitals (ProPublica)

• Koch Astroturf Army Cheers Union Busting in Kentucky (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• It Can Happen Here (The Progressive)

• John Kasich to the rescue: Governor vetoes attack on Ohio's clean energy (PV-Tech)

• What Rex Tillerson's Exxon Mobil track record tells us (Los Angeles Times)

• Wisconsin Republicans Delete Phrase "Climate Change" From State Website (The Ring of Fire Network)

• ALEC Pay to Play on Display in Washington, DC (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Counterpoint: Story on 'gun rush' by minorities lacked evidence (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

• Solar neophytes join ACC as its new leaders (PV magazine USA)

• ALEC Exposed - Out in the open, yet hidden. The GOP boiler plate (Daily Kos)

• Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan may pursue versions of Scott Walker's Act 10 legislation (The Cap Times)

• Building the resistance to Trump: Lessons from history (People's World)

• Super PACs and school reform (Philadelphia Public School Notebook)

• Getting out of this Mess by Building support for Economic and Social Justice (Common Dreams)

• A failing grade (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

• Virginia voters reject anti-union move (Workers World)

• Best secretary of state Kremlin could buy (Redding Record Searchlight)

• DeVos is dangerous for public education (Charlotte Observer)

• News Reports Uncritically Portray Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson As Climate Change Advocate (Media Matters for America)

• Follow the Money Behind Attacks on Clean Energy in Ohio (DeSmog)

• How California Became America's First State to Ban Plastic Bags (EcoWatch)

• Ohio Republicans Advance Nationwide Wage-Suppression Campaign (The American Prospect)

• Hanna's Stokes to Audubon, Guthrie's Jackson to Alkermes, DoD's Jacobson to Wilmer (Politico)

• Trump's cabinet choices reflect deep Koch influence (High Country News)

• On Climate Change, Rex Tillerson Says One Thing With His Mouth and Another With His Money (Slate Magazine)

• Tillerson's relations with autocrats forged during decades in industry (Washington Post)

• Rex Tillerson's State of Denial (The New Yorker)

• A Trump Nation in an ALEC Land (PR Watch)

• Exxon & ALEC run illegal lobbying scheme (NJ Today)

• Another Voice: ExxonMobil has a history of denying climate change (Buffalo News)

• Democrats Need to Embrace Progressivism or Else Move Out of the Way (Common Dreams)

• Will "school choice on steroids" get a boost under a Trump administration? (The Hechinger Report)

• Trump team member slams unions, activists in favor of businesses (Politico)

• Tesla Hosts Lobby Group Shunned by Ford Over Climate Stance (Bloomberg)

• Why Targeting Corporate Democrats Is Part of the Fight Against Trump (Truth-Out)

• The new founder: What would the Fathers think of us now? (Arizona Daily Sun)

• Hypocrisy and Trumpism on the Agenda as ALEC Meets in Washington, D.C. (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• 5 Things to Know about Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump Education Choice (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Right-to-Work Backers Plan Push for Laws in Three States (Bloomberg BNA)

• U.S. appeals court upholds local 'right-to-work' law in Kentucky (Reuters)

• The Koch brothers' hidden election gambit: Just because the multibillionaires didn’t back a presidential candidate they were hardly idle (Salon)

• Fracking Special Interests Spent Big in 2016 Elections (EXPOSEDbyCMD)

• Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate Change (Motherboard)

• Progressive Policies Win at the Ballot Box (PR Watch)

• The architect of country's most racist law joins Trump team (The Grio)

• Slaves of the State: Prison Uprisings and the Legacy of Attica (Boston Review)

• When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens? (The New York Review of Books)

• Dead wrong: Media view of a GOP in crisis contradicted by state-level results nationwide (World Tribune)

• How to Get Deported (Complex)

• The Legend of Leah Vukmir (UrbanMilwaukee)

• Big Oil and Gas Take Aim at Ballot Initiative Process in Colorado (The Investigative Fund)

• Building the House of Breitbart (Jacobin)

• Red State, Blue City: How state governments fight city hall (Brown Political Review)

• The 10-Year Crusade to Reinvent Politics in the Grand Canyon State (The Nation)

• "CoreCivic": New Name, Same For-Profit Prison Greed (Huffington Post)

• Labor opposing "Right to Work" amendment in Virginia (People's World)

• From Chains to Chains: "13th" tells the story of mass incarceration (The Knight News)

• Outsized Influence: Online Charters Bring Lobbying 'A' Game to States (Education Week)

• ATT, Time Warner merger: tremendous power in even fewer hands (Liberation)

• Jury Finds Bundys Not Guilty in Refuge Occupation Trial (Environment News Service)

• Education Technology, Surveillance, and America's Authoritarian Democracy (Dissident Voice)

• Colorado Initiative 71 Promoted On False Pretenses: A Trojan Horse for Corporate Power Grab (Huffington Post)

• Ballot Bullies: Plastics Lobby Hopes Voters Will Unban Its Bags (Capital and Main)

• Netflix's '13th' Will Make You Mad (The Excelsior)

• AT&T Merger With Time-Warner May Go Ahead Without FCC Review: Corruption Loophole (The Ring of Fire)

• AT&T's Plan to Control Media Won't Let Freedom Ring (The Nation)

• K-12 support: Lawmakers should welcome feedback from the local level (The Garden City Telegram)

• Legislature should serve the people (Wisconsin State Journal)

• Ky. says 'pencils down,' but one group is writing a plan (Environment & Energy Publishing)

• The Boogeyman of Voter Fraud Does Not Exist (Time)

• 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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