Press on ALEC Exposed

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About ALEC

ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's ALECexposed.org, and check out breaking news on our PRWatch.org site.

Major Press

• "Northrop Grumman Cuts Ties With ALEC" (Dustin Volz, National Journal, January 4, 2015)

• "Fond du Lac Nuns Get Northrop Grumman to Dump ALEC" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "Education Savings Accounts Give Parents And Students Choice In Education Decisions" (Jonathan Butcher, Daily Caller, January 4, 2015)

• "Pfizer Should Follow the Tech Industry Out of ALEC" (Brant Olson, Huffington Post, January 4, 2015)

• "Republicans Call for Imposing ALEC Zones on Poorest Neighborhoods of Milwaukee" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "Score one for ALEC: West Virginia is first state to repeal a renewable energy standard" (John Light, grist, January 4, 2015)

• "Associated Press Hides Dirty Energy Interests Behind Anti-Renewables Campaign" (Denise Robbins, Media Matters, January 4, 2015)

• "Meet Lewis Latimer, the African American who enlightened Thomas Edison" (Brentin Mock, grist, January 4, 2015)

• "Todd Stern's Mission Impossible" (William Becker, Huffington Post, January 4, 2015)

• "ALEC Helps Philip Morris Block Plain Packaging Tobacco Rules" (Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "5 States Where Republicans Are Getting Serious About Criminal Justice Reform" (Luke Whelan, Mother Jones, January 4, 2015)

• "Bruce Rauner Inaugurates War on Working Families" (Jody Knauss, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "ALEC Helps Philip Morris Block Plain Packaging Tobacco Rules" (Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "5 States Where Republicans Are Getting Serious About Criminal Justice Reform" (Luke Whelan, Mother Jones, January 4, 2015)

• "Bruce Rauner Inaugurates War on Working Families" (Jody Knauss, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "Politicians should ditch ALEC" (Amy B Dean, Al Jazeera America, January 4, 2015)

• "Greening the Tea Party" (Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, January 4, 2015)

• "Heroin-Plagued County Looks To New Medication To Aid Addiction" (Alysia Santo, Huffington Post Politics/The Marshall Project, January 4, 2015)

• "Black consumers can hold corporations accountable" (Rashad Robinson, Al Jazeera America, January 4, 2015)

• "The Wrong Way to Revitalize a City" (Rachel M Cohen, In These Times, January 4, 2015)

• "The One Percenters: How A Handful Of California Power Brokers Work To Further Inequality" (Bill Raden, Huffington Post, January 4, 2015)

• "Koch brothers join up with liberals to tackle rising prison numbers" (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, January 4, 2015)

• "ALEC Wins Big in Ethics Case" (Peter Roff, US News & World Report, January 4, 2015)

• "How a powerful rightwing lobby is plotting to stop minimum wage hikes" (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, January 4, 2015)

• "Wisconsin Introduces Word-for-Word ALEC Right to Work Bill" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "Scott Walker Pushes ALEC 'Right to Work' Bill, Divide and Conquer Comes Full Circle" (Mary Bottari, CMD/Huffington Post, January 4, 2015)

• "Lobbyist dubbed ‘Dr Evil’ is behind campaign attacking Obama’s new power plant rules" (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, January 4, 2015)

• "Lobbyist dubbed ‘Dr Evil’ is behind campaign attacking Obama’s new power plant rules" (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, January 4, 2015)

• "Illinois governor takes a local approach to right-to-work" (Justin Glawe, Al Jazeera America, January 4, 2015)

• "States Are Blocking Local Regulations, Often at Industry’s Behest" (Shaila Dewan, New York Times, January 4, 2015)

• "Undercover at ACCE: ALEC Offshoot Spins City and County Officials on Dirty Energy, Local Control" (Steve Arnold, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "ALEC Responds To Right-Wing Conspiracy Claims" (Connor D Wolf, Daily Caller, January 4, 2015)

• "Watch Wisconsin GOP lawmakers walk out to escape public outcry against ‘right-to-work’ bill" (Connor D Wolf, Raw Story, January 4, 2015)

• "Wisconsin, Workers and the 2016 Election" (By the Editorial Board, New York Times Editorial, January 4, 2015)

• "No One in Wisconsin Asked to Kill Unions Except Special Interests" (Justin Glawe, Daily Beast, January 4, 2015)

• "Net-"Sue-Me"-Neutrality: Get Ready for the Spring Offensive" (Bruce Kushnick, Huffington Post, January 4, 2015)

• "Will Obama's Climate Plan Really Cause Blackouts?" (Tim McDonnell, Mother Jones, January 4, 2015)

• "What happened to the lobbyists who tried to reshape the US view of climate change?" (Graham Readfearn, The Guardian, January 4, 2015)

• "What happened to the lobbyists who tried to reshape the US view of climate change?" (Graham Readfearn, The Guardian, January 4, 2015)

• "Scott Walker to sign anti-union bill that will make inequality worse" (John Logan, The Hill, January 4, 2015)

• "Who Should Make the Rules?" (David Morris, Huffington Post, January 4, 2015)

• "CMD Submits Testimony on Right to Work" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "Those Obamacare Nullification Amendments Could Make a Big Comeback Post-SCOTUS" (Dylan Scott, National Journal, January 4, 2015)

• "National Right to Work Committee Attacks WI Workers with Hypocritical Zeal" (Jona Persson, PR Watch, January 4, 2015)

• "What we can learn from Dr. Evil’s attack on Obama’s carbon rules" (David Roberts, Grist, January 4, 2015)

• "The Right-to-Work Advantage" (Luke Hilgemann and David Fladeboe, Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2015)

• "White House, Elizabeth Warren team up to roll back GOP state dominance" (Kenneth P Vogel, Politico, January 4, 2015)

• "Mitch McConnell Is Now Telling States To Ignore Obama's Climate Rules" (Tim McDonnell, Mother Jones, January 4, 2015)

January 2015

• "A dozen states ring in new year with lower taxes" (Washington Times, January 4, 2015)

• "Shellacked on the state level, Democrats chart a way out of the wilderness" (Greg Sargent, Washington Post, January 5, 2015)

• "On the News With Thom Hartmann: Half of US States Have a Minimum Wage Higher Than Minimum, and More" (, Truthout, January 5, 2015)

• "Koch Brothers Do Common Core" (Alan Singer, Huffington Post, January 5, 2015)

• "Why the Kochs and the Walmart clan are trying to stop you from putting solar panels on your roof" (Raw Story, January 6, 2015)

• "Climate Advocates are Shifting Their Focus to State and Local Levels" (Katherine Bagley, Moyers & Company, January 8, 2015)

• "As White House defends unions, states go on the attack" (Ned Resnikoff, AlJazeera America, December 6, 2014)

• "Obama to tout fast Web access in Iowa town that's wired everyone" (Todd Shields and Angela Greiling Keane, Bloomberg, January 13, 2015)

• "Community benefits agreements under attack" (Amy Dean, AlJazeera America, January 13, 2015)

• "'Citizen' board of wealthy Texas donors will help lawmakers" (Associated Press, January 15, 2015)

• "Trade Deals and Democrat Delusions" (, CounterPunch, January 16, 2015)

• "Barack Obama: The FDR of Internet Access?" (Susan Crawford, Moyers & Company, January 15, 2015)

• "Year of the Tax Cut" (James Freeman, Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2015)

• "Koch Party Delivers SOTU Response" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, January 19, 2015)

• "5 Years after Citizens United, Democracy Is for Sale" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, January 19, 2015)

• "Community College in the Crosshairs" (Rebecca Burns, In These Times, January 21, 2015)

• "ALEC Forces the Question: Will Labor Really Go Local?" (Simon Davis-Cohen, Truthout, January 26, 2015)

• "Northrop Grumman Cuts Ties With ALEC" (Dustin Volz, National Journal, January 28, 2015)

• "Fond du Lac Nuns Get Northrop Grumman to Dump ALEC" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, January 28, 2015)

December 2014

• "Mark Levin Wows State Legislators: “Take Your Power Back”" (Michael Patirck Leahy, Breitbart News/Fox Nation, December 6, 2014)

• "ALEC Opposes Efforts to Combat Climate Change at All Costs" (Mike Ludwig, Truthout, December 5, 2014)

• "ALEC Fumes: Transparency Threatens Corporate Free Speech!" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, December 5, 2014)

• "Fossil-fuel lobbyists, bolstered by GOP wins, work to curb environmental rules" (Tom Hamburger, Washington Post, December 7, 2014)

• "Not the way women wanted to make history this election" (PBS News Hour, December 8, 2014)

• "ALEC Members Are Ready for a Surge of Land and Energy De-Regulation" (David Weigel, Bloomberg, December 8, 2014)

• "North Carolina Newspapers Mostly Silent As ALEC And Koch Brothers Rewrite History" (Daniel Angster, Media Matters, December 8, 2014)

• "Conservative groups seek limits during lame duck on wind energy subsidies" (Tom Hamburger, Washington Post, December 8, 2014)

• "Fossil fuel lobbyists take aim at environmental regs " (Laura Barron-Lopez, The Hill, December 8, 2014)

• "Liberal state lawmakers form new group to counter growing GOP power" (Tom Hamburger, Washington Post, December 6, 2014)

• "Uber pressures regulators by mobilizing riders and hiring vast lobbying network" (Roalind Helderman, Washington Post, December 8, 2014)

• "Progressives plot state-level strategy to reverse GOP tide" (Naureen Khan, AlJazeera America, December 13, 2014)

• "Who’s Afraid of Shareholder Democracy?" (Coara Tprees-Spelliscy, Moyers & Company/Brennan Center for Justice, December 15, 2014)

• "Why America Is Starting to Agree on Marijuana" (Adam Stites, Huffington Post, December 15, 2014)

• "5 Really Big Myths About 'Next Generation' Civil Rights and the Fight for an Open Internet" (Malkia Cyril, Huffington Post, December 15, 2014)

• "Louisiana Charter Closes: Two Teachers Granted Back Pay" (Mercedes Schneider, Huffington Post, December 15, 2014)

• "Will eBay Give Out ALEC Coal This Holiday Season?" (Emily Southard, Huffington Post, December 15, 2014)

• "These Six Blue States Cut Taxes in 2014" (Rachel Stoltzfoos, Daily Caller, December 17, 2014)

• "How ALEC helped undermine public unions" (Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Washington Post, December 17, 2014)

• "EBay parts ways with controversial political group ALEC" (Deepa Seetharman, Reuters, December 19, 2014)

• "EBay follows tech crowd, cutting ties with conservative group" (Julian Hattem, The Hill, December 19, 2014)

• "Ebay joins Google and others in dumping Alec over climate stance" (Anna Codrea-Rado, The Guardian, December 19, 2014)

• "President Walker? Five Things You Should Know About Scott (Calvin) Walker" (Mary Bottari, PR Watch, December 1, 2014)

• "Just Don’t Fly the Confederate Flag and You Should be Fine" (, CounterPunch, December 1, 2014)

• "ALEC is back and ready to resume its conservative agenda" (Julie Bykowicz, Bloomberg Politics, December 3, 2014)

• "Conservative lobby group Alec plans anti-environmental onslaught" (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, December 2, 2014)

• "Mark Levin Wows State Legislators: “Take Your Power Back”" (Michael Patirck Leahy, Breitbart News/Fox Nation, December 6, 2014)

• "ALEC Opposes Efforts to Combat Climate Change at All Costs" (Mike Ludwig, Truthout, December 5, 2014)

• "ALEC Fumes: Transparency Threatens Corporate Free Speech!" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, December 7, 2014)

• "Fossil-fuel lobbyists, bolstered by GOP wins, work to curb environmental rules" (Tom Hamburger, Washington Post, December 7, 2014)

• "Not the way women wanted to make history this election" (PBS News Hour, December 8, 2014)

• "ALEC (not Baldwin) is trying to destroy the environment" (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, December 3, 2014)

• "ALEC doubles down on anti-environmental agenda" (Lindsay Abrams, Salon, December 3, 2014)

• "More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda" (Lisa Graves, PR Watch, December 3, 2014)

• "An upbeat end to a turbulent year for conservative state legislature group" (Tom Hamburger, Washington Post, December 3, 2014)

• "After Republican wins, right to work bills on the agenda" (Reid Wilson, Washington Post, December 3, 2014)

• "Are Cities the Next Front in the Right’s War on Labor?" (Moshe Z Marvit, The Nation, December 3, 2014)

November 2014

• "Koch Party Wins Big, Planet in Peril" (Mary Bottari, PR Watch, November, 2014)

• "Democrats create an ALEC-killer" (Kenneth Vogel, Politico, November, 2014)

• "Liberal donors plan new investments in state politics" (Fredreka Schouten, USA Today, November, 2014)

• "Is Nevada the new North Carolina?" (Krystal Ball, MSNBC, November, 2014)

• "Fingas: Don't let business make critics mute" (Greg Fingas, Leader-Post, November, 2014)

• "Democracy Alliance State Spending Plans Revealed" (Lachlan Markay, The Washington Free Beacon, November, 2014)

• "More Lies From ALEC About Climate Change" (Elliot Negin, Huffington Post Blog, November, 2014)

• "ALEC Fueled Supreme Court Challenge to Obama Health Law" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, November, 2014)

• "Emerson Electric Latest to Confirm ALEC Exit" (Nick Surgey, PR Watch, November, 2014)

• "ALEC and Big Oil Work to Overturn Denton Fracking Ban" (Jessica Mason, PR Watch, November 14, 2014)

• "ALEC Support Drops 19 Percent in 2013" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, November 14, 2014)

• "The Democratic comeback plan" (Jill Lawrence, AL Jazeera America, November 17, 2014)

• "A Dozen Greedy, Inhumane and Cruel Policies That Top Corporate Lobbyists Will Push In 2015" (Brendan Fischer, AlterNet/PR Watch, November 19, 2014)

• "Big-box Retailers Spend Big On Politics" (Moyers & Company, November 24, 2014)

• "Mike Brown Dies, a Generation Comes Alive" (Roland S Martin, Daily Beast, November 24, 2014)

• "Bangalore Blogger: Black Friday Frenzy is Capitalism's Scorn of a Broken Consumer System" (International Business Times, November 26, 2014)

• "Push for constitutional convention gathers steam" (Albert R Hunt, Bloomberg News, November 30, 2014)

• "GOP's tech hurdle: They don't always get it" (Tony Romm, Politico, November 19, 2014)

• "How David Brock Built an Empire to Put Hillary in the White House" (Michelle Goldberg, The Nation, November 25, 2014)

• "What’s driving the tech exodus from ALEC? In a word, tech." (Nancy Scola, Washington Post, November 6, 2014)

• "Sapping ALEC's Power: Software Giant SAP Dumps Group Over Climate Denial" (Brad Johnson, Huffington Post, November 6, 2014)

• "ALEC Corporate Board Chair Quits Over Climate Change, Renewables and Voting Rights" (Nick Surgey, Huffington Post, November 6, 2014)

• "How The Midterms Delivered State Climate Policies A Lot Of New Problems And One Big Win" (Jeff Spross, Think Progress, November 4, 2014)

• "Shell Pressured to Sever Ties With ALEC" (Ben Elgin, Bloomberg Businessweek, November 4, 2014)

• "Direct Democracy Brings Economic Justice Wins, But Watch Out for ALEC" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, November 5, 2014)

• "John Oliver Takes on ALEC" (Michael Winship, Moyers & Company, November 3, 2014)

• "Watch John Oliver Go to Town on State Legislatures" (Melissa Locker, Time, November 3, 2014)

• "The GOP Joy Divisions" (David Weigel, Bloomberg, November 5, 2014)

• "Watch Party Dispatch: In the Durham Bubble, N.C. Progressives Caught Off-Guard By Hagan's Defeat" (Barry Yeoman, The American Prospect, November 5, 2014)

• "Direct Democracy Tackles Fracking, GMOs, Pesticides on Election Day" (Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch, November 3, 2014)

• "Voters approve minimum wage increases, yet elect GOP Senators who are opposed to a federal hike" (Miranda Green, ABC 7, November 6, 2014)

• "What are the lessons from the midterms?" (David Russell, The Hill, November 7, 2014)

• "The Republicans' profane attack on the sacred right to vote" (Amy Goodman, AthensNews, November 2, 2014)

October 2014

• "Governor Brownback Outsourced Child Support Services to Donor" (Mary Bottari and Jonas Persson, PR Watch, October 17, 2014)

• "ALEC’s disgusting new ploy: How corporate America’s trying to roll back local liberal laws" (Ellen Bravo, Salon, October 17, 2014)

• "Unfriending ALEC" (Michael Brune, Truthout, October 19, 2014)

• "Political targets" (Joseph Lawler, Washington Examiner, October 20, 2014)

• "The epic struggle over retirement" (Susan Greenbaum, Al Jazeera America, October 19, 2014)

• "Hotly contested NC Senate race fuels 'jaw-dropping' spending" (Jonathan M Katz, Al Jazeera America, October 19, 2014)

• "A constitutional convention could be the single most dangerous way to ‘fix’ American government" (Robert Greenstein, Washington Post, October 21, 2014)

• "Spending for ALEC Member Tillis Breaks All Records in NC Senate Race" (Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch, October 21, 2014)

• "Three Prominent G.O.P. Governors Struggle for Reëlection" (John Cassidy, New Yorker, October 21, 2014)

• "Dirty Energy Barons Go to Bat for WI AG Candidate Schimel" (Mary Bottari, PR Watch, October 31, 2014)

• "Google is Gone, but ALEC is Still Winning" (Dustin Volz, National Journal, October 9, 2014)

• "Charter School Power Broker Turns Public Education Into Private Profits" (Marian Wang, ProPublica, October 8, 2014)

• "Google Steps Up Lobbying" (Anne L Kim, Roll Call, October 8, 2014)

• "Greens target Google for backing GOP rep" (Julianh Hattem, The Hill, October 8, 2014)

• "OFA gets behind Google's withdrawal from ALEC" (Mario Trujillo , The Hill, October 8, 2014)

• "New right-to-farm laws protect Big Ag, not small farmers" (Mary Turck, Al Jazeera America, October 9, 2014)

• "In Paid Sick Days Fight, Open Records Dropbox Dodge Reemerges in Florida" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, October 8, 2014)

• "As Election Looms, Cuomo Announces $750 Million To Green Energy Billionaire" (Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, October 8, 2014)

• "Understanding ALEC And Its Influence In U.S. Politics" (The Diane Rehm Show, October 2, 2014)

• "ALEC CEO: Google's Departure Was Like Getting Dumped Via Text Message" (Dustin Volz, National Journal, October 1, 2014)

• "Left embraces boycott politics" (Julian Hattem, The Hill, October 2, 2014)

• "The War Over Wages, City by City" (Peter Dreier, Huffington Post Blog, October 1, 2014)

• "Koch-Backed Small Biz Group Endorses Walker " (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, October 1, 2014)

• "ALEC is coming to a city block near you" (Amy B. Dean, Al Jazeera America, October 6, 2014)

• "Why California is both liberal utopia and tech boom central" (Ned Resnikoff, MSNBC, October 4, 2014)

• "How the Koch Brothers Helped Bring About the Law That Shut Texas Abortion Clinics" (Adele M. Stan, American Prospect, October 3, 2014)

• "Koch-Backed Small Business Group Endorses Walker" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch/truthout, October 3, 2014)

• "Supreme Court Preview: Labor Law, Facebook Threats And Administrative Overreach On Docket" (Daniel Fisher, Forbes, October 3, 2014)

• "7 GOP Governors Who May Lose Re-Election" (John Nichols, The Nation, October 1, 2014)

• "Viewpoints: California must continue to lead on home energy efficiency" (The Sacramento Bee, October 6, 2014)

• "More harmful initiatives than good ones on Missouri’s Nov. 4 ballot" (Kansas City Star, October 3, 2014)

• "Guest column: High-stakes testing hurts students, teachers" (Rich Roach, Florida Today, October 6, 2014)

• "Pa. Senate Looks At Registering Healthcare Navigators" (Pat Loeb, CBS Philly, October 5, 2014)

• "Left Bank of the Fox" (Rudy Willis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 4, 2014)

• "Head Of ALEC: ‘I Don’t Know The Science’ Of Climate Change" (Emily Atkin, Think Progress, October 2, 2014)

• "Berkeley's Freedom Flame Kept Alive by New Generation of Digital Activists" (Ruairí McKiernan , Huffington Post Blog, October 2, 2014)

• "It’d Be Simpler if We Just Gave All Our Money to the Nearest Billionaire" (Pete Dolak , Counterpunch.org, October 3, 2014)

• "Browner Stumps for Michaud in Maine" (Susan Sharon , MPBN News, October 2, 2014)

• "Letter: Walker ‘plagiarized’ his right-wing policies" (Stevens Point Journal, October 3, 2014)

September 2014

• "Google Leads a Corporate Exodus From Lobbying Group ALEC" (John Light, Moyers and Company, September 30, 2014)

• "This lobbying shop is so dirty even oil companies want out" (Sara Bernard, Grist, September 30, 2014)

• "Google's Climate Name-Calling" (Sara Bernard, Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2014)

• "News Corp and Occidental Among Latest Firms to Cut Ties with ALEC" (Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch, September 30, 2014)

• "On the News With Thom Hartmann: Activists Take Over Wall Street After Climate March, and More" (Thom Hartmann, Truthout, September 30, 2014)

• "Expedia Is Under Attack For Refusing To Quit A Right-Wing Group" (Dominic Rushe, The guardian/Business Insider, September 27, 2014)

• "Silicon Valley's Done With American Legislative Exchange Council" (Jeff Nesbit, US News, September, 29, 2014]

• "Facebook, Yahoo and Yelp Follow Google by Leaving ALEC" (Barbara E. Hernandez, NBC Bay Area, September, 26, 2014]

• "Yahoo, Google Cut Ties with Right-Wing ALEC" (Democracy Now!, September, 26, 2014]

• "Tech Firms Desert Powerful Right-Wing Group After Climate Change Spat" (Time, September, 25, 2014]

• "Tech Firms Desert Powerful Right-Wing Group After Climate Change Spat" (Time, September, 25, 2014]

• "Google CEO Has Links to Climate Change Deniers" (Chris Roberts, NBC Bay Area, September, 27, 2014]

• "Large Oil Company Bolts From ALEC" (Chris Roberts, National Journal, September, 29, 2014]

• "Amid Climate Change Backlash, Even Oil Companies Are Dumping ALEC Now" (Emily Atkin, Think Progress, September, 30, 2014]

• "Oil company cuts ties with ALEC" (Laura Barron-Lopez, The Hill, September, 29, 2014]

• "ALEC tries to prove it’s not lying about climate change, fails miserably" (Lindsay Abrams, Salon, September, 26, 2014]

• "Greens take 2014 to states" (Darren Goode, Politico, September, 30, 2014]

• "Solar power is growing so fast that older energy companies are trying to stop it" (Brad Plumer, Vox, September, 28, 2014]

• "Despite recent split from conservative group, Google’s connections to climate change denial runs deep" (Joe Garofoli , San Francisco Gate, September, 30, 2014]

• "Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and the Chamber of Climate Liars" (Rick Claypool, Huffington Post Blog, September, 30, 2014]

• "WSJ Editorial Conceals ALEC's Climate Change Denial" (Denise Robbins , Media Matters, September, 30, 2014]

• "Google Kills Birds" (Wall Street Journal, September, 30, 2014]

• "Venture Capitalists Are Poised to "Disrupt" Everything About the Education Market" (Lee Fang, The Nation, September, 30, 2014]

• "Liberal groups critical of ALEC influencing laws, but not labor unions" (Adam Tobias, Watchdog.org, September, 30, 2014]

• "Despite split from group, Google’s links to climate change denial run deep" (Jooe Garofoli and David Baker, San Francisco Gate, September, 27, 2014]

• "Tech Firms Desert Powerful Right-Wing Group After Climate Change Spat" (Denver Nicks, Time, September, 2014]

• "Silicon Valley Companies Follow Google's Lead By Cutting Ties with ALEC" (Robert S Eshelman, Vice, September, 2014]

• "Google cites climate change as tech titans quit ALEC" (Wendy Koch, USA Today, September, 26, 2014]

• "Alec lobbying group lashes out at Google over climate change 'lies' charge" (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, September, 25 2014]

• "Google Exec: Climate Change Deniers Are “Just Literally Lying”" (Phil Plait, Slate, September, 23 2014]

• "Yahoo, Yelp, Facebook, Google and Microsoft reconsider their relationship with free-market group ALEC" (Niraj Chokshi, Washington Post, September, 23 2014]

• "Yahoo the latest tech firm to cut ties with conservative group ALEC" (Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Gate, September, 2014]

• "Facebook and Yelp Also Fleeing From ALEC" (Dustin Volz, National Journal, September, 24, 2014]

• "Yahoo Parts Ways With ALEC" (Dustin Volz, Huffington Post, September, 24, 2014]

• "ALEC: Global Warming Could Be Good for You" (Clare Foran, National Journal, September, 25, 2014]

• "ALEC and 156 state legislators: Google’s departure from the group is ‘based on misinformation’" (Niraj Chokshi, Washington Post, September, 24, 2014]

• "Yahoo Joins Exodus of Tech Giants Quitting on ALEC" (Dustin Volz, National Journal, September, 24, 2014]

• "ALEC sees more losses as Facebook and Yelp jump ship, too" (Brian Fung, Washington Post, September, 24, 2014]

• "ALEC: Google acting on ‘misinformation’" (Julian Hattem, The Hill, September, 24, 2014]

• "Yelp Takes a Quieter Approach to Breaking Up With ALEC" (Joshua Brustein, BloombergBusinessweek, September, 24, 2014]

• "Google Cuts Ties With Right-Wing Group: ‘They’re Just Literally Lying’" (Josh Eidelson, BloombergBusinessweek, September, 23, 2014]

• "Google Gags the Global Warming Debate" (Peter Roff, US News, September, 23, 2014]

• "Facebook Plans to Cut Ties With ALEC" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, September, 23, 2014]

• "Facebook set to join rush to abandon rightwing lobby group Alec" (Dominic Rushe, The Guardian, September, 24, 2014]

• "Companies Are Taking the Baton in Climate Change Efforts" (Justin Gillis, New York Times, September, 24, 2014]

• "WI ALEC Plagiarists Criticize Burke for Copying Jobs Plan" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, September, 23, 2014]

• "Google Announces Plans to Cut Ties with ALEC" (Dustin Volz, National Journal, September, 22, 2014]

• "Google Says ALEC Is Literally Lying about Climate Change, Ends Membership" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, September, 22, 2014]

• "Google to cut ties with rightwing lobby group over climate change 'lies'" (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, September, 23, 2014]

• "Google: We’re parting with the climate change skeptics at ALEC" (Brian Fung, Washington Post, September, 22, 2014]

• "Google Chairman: Giving Money To ALEC Was A 'Mistake'" (James Gerken, The Huffington Post, September, 22, 2014]

• "Google Quits ALEC, Says Link With Climate Skeptics Wrong" (Jim Snyder and Brian Womack, Bloomberg, September, 22, 2014]

• "Climate Change You Can Believe In" (Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers and Company, September, 18, 2014]

• "Google Refuses to Respond to Letter Questioning ALEC Ties" (Rebekah Wilce, The Progressive, September, 18, 2014]

• "Dark Money Corruption of Democracy Forces Climate Change Direct Action and Mass Mobilization" (Ben Ptashnik, Truthout, September, 2014]

• "Oregon Residents Challenge the State "Right-to-Farm" Law" (Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch, September, 2014]

• "Our Climate, Our Economy and Our Democracy" (Michael Brune, Larry Cohen, Huffington Post, September, 2014]

• "Liberal Activists to Google: Stop Being Evil With ALEC" (Dustin Volz, National Journal, September, 3, 2014]

August 2014

• "ALEC And Jeb Bush Are Conspiring To Kill Off Public Schools For Good" (PoliticsUSA, August 26, 2014)

• "Reporters, Under Fire, Need Friends; Where's PR?" (Jack O’Dwyer, O’Dwyer’s, August 25, 2014)

• "Microsoft Leaves Lobbying Group ALEC Amid Split Over Renewables" (Ari Natter, Bloomberg, August 21, 2014)

• "Microsoft and More Leave ALEC, 80 Corporations Out" (Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch, August 25, 2014)

• "Microsoft Drops Membership in Highly Controversial Conservative Lobbying Group" (Tess VandenDolder, In The Capital, August 21, 2014)

• "Wednesday’s Mini-Report" (Steve Benen, MSNBC, August 20, 2014), ,

• "Microsoft pulls out of bad energy group ALEC to boost green credentials" (Dave Neal, The Inquirer, August 20, 2014), ,

• "Dark Money Casts Shadow over Push to Tax the Sun" (Brendan Fischer, The Progressive, August 18, 2014)

• "City, state and federal governments are fighting over Chattanooga’s effort to bring broadband to rural consumers" (Reid Wilson, Washington Post/GovBeat, August 12, 2014)

• "ALEC Annual Conference: New Bills, New Spin-Offs, Same Corporate Backers" (Jessica Mason, PR Watch, August 12, 2014)

• "A Main Street Lobby Group Gets Closer to Big Business" (Patrick Clark, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 11, 2014)

• "Largest PR firm won't accept climate denial campaigns" (Laura Barron-Lopez, The Hill, August 11, 2014)

• "Missouri Farming Initiative Passes With Narrow Margin" (Jesse Newman, Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2014)

• "Edelman formally declares it will not accept climate denial campaigns" (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, August 7, 2014)

• "How ALEC Fronts for Fossil Fuels" (Nick Surgey, The Progressive, August, 2014)

• "ALEC's Jeffersonian Project Pushes to Amend the Constitution" (Jessica Mason, Truthout, August, 2014)

• "The Koch Brothers' Reign of Terror: How Their Great Wealth Is Buying Our Government" (Pearl Korn, Huffington Post, August, 2014)

• "Texas: Hundreds Protest Right-Wing American Legislative Exchange Council" (Democracy Now!, August 1, 2014)

• "Protests Greet Lawmakers, Corporate Officials Gathering in Dallas as New Arm of ALEC Is Announced" (Candice Bernd, Truthout, August, 2014)

• "Friday’s Mini-Report" (MSNBC, August 1, 2014)

• "Koch-Backed Small Business Front Group Added to ALEC Board" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, August, 2014)

July 2014

• "Paid Sick Day Campaigns Gain Traction as ALEC Allies Push Back" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, July, 2014)

• "Conservative group Alec devises offshoot ACCE to lobby at local levels" (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, July 30, 2014)

• "Texans rally against Rick Perry’s deployment request" (Michele Richinick, MSNBC, July, 2014)

• "Utility Trade Group Funds ALEC Attack on Americans Using Solar" (Nick Surgey, Huffington Post, July, 2014)

• "Building a progressive alternative to ALEC" (Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Washington Post, July 28, 2014)

• "In Kansas, embattled Gov. Brownback’s mixed record is case study in GOP control" (Zachary A Goldfarb, Washington Post, July 30, 2014)

• "Is the Future of the Planet in ALEC's Secret Hands?" (Truthout, July, 2014)

• "Pension Cutters Hope California Ballot Measure Could Start A Domino Effect" (Gary Cohen, Huffington Post, July 24, 2014)

• "Halliburton Fracking Spill Mystery: What Chemicals Polluted an Ohio Waterway?" (Mariah Blake, Mother Jones, July, 2014)

• "Kochs and Corporations Have Bankrolled American Council on Science and Health" (Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch, July, 2014)

• "Progressive Groups Merge in Effort to Counter ALEC in State Capitols" (Reid Epstein, The Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2014)

• "What are they thinking?" (David Russell, The Hill, July, 2014)

• "Union Severs Ties with United Negro College Fund Over Koch Donation" (Kayla Ruble, Vice News, July, 2014)

• "United Negro College Fund accepts $25 million from Kochs, tells Big Labor to get over it" (Sean Higgins, Washington Examiner, July, 2014)

• "The Original Vast Right-Wing Conspirator" (Karen Rothmyer, Politico Magazine, July, 2014)

• "State wireless facility reforms promise jobs and economic benefits" (Georgia State Sen Judson Hill, The Hill, July, 2014)

• "ALEC, the free-market group liberals love to hate, gets a new boss" (Niraj Chokshi, Washington Post GovBeat, July 8, 2014)

• "ALEC Politicians Caught Plagiarizing ALEC Bill, Drafting Error and All" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, July, 2014)

• "Surveillance fireworks: NSA collects mostly on ordinary web users - What does this mean for reform?" (, Politico Morning Tech, July, 2014)

• "3 Reasons Harris v. Quinn Matters to All of Us" (LeeAnn Hall, Huffington Post, July, 2014)

• "The Rosetta Stone of the Professional Left" (David Weigel, Slate, July 1, 2014)

• "Foundations Must Be 'Freedom Funders' Once Again" (Aaron Dorfman and Ben Jealous, Huffington Post, July, 2014)

June 2014

• "The Ultra-Right-Wing State Nobody Mentions" (Bryan K Bullock, Truthout, June, 2014)

• "FreeHer: Formerly Incarcerated Women Demand an End to Mass Incarceration" (Victoria Law, Truthout, June, 2014)

• "How One GOP-Controlled Committee Is Waging A War On Science" (Brad Johnson, Huffington Post, June 24, 2014)

• "Koch Network, Fossil-Fuel Front Groups Lobby Congress Against Wind-Energy Tax Breaks" (Gabe Elsner, Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "How Rupert Murdoch created the world’s newest climate change villain" (Alexander White, Salon, June 22, 2014)

• "Koch-Funded Group Won’t Back Kansas Republicans Who Supported Clean Energy" (Joanna Foster, Think Progress, June 17, 2014)

• "Exclusive: Inside the Koch Brothers’ Secret Billionaire Summit" (Lauren Windsor, The Nation, June, 2014)

• "The ALEC Angle in Scott Walker's "Toxic Strain of Racial Politics"" (Brendan Fischer, The Progressive, June, 2014)

• "Jeb Bush Charts Tricky Course With Embrace of Common Core" (Beth Reinhard, Wall Street Journal, June, 2014)

• "Tenure: Education's Friend or Foe?" (Dave Pruett, Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "Ohio governor signs bill freezing renewable-energy standards" (Steven Mufson and Tom Hamburger, Washington Post, June 13, 2014)

• "Ohio just signed its terrible anti-renewable energy bill into law" (Lindsay Abrams, Salon, June 13, 2014)

• "Why Are Rhode Island Democrats Blocking Minimum-Wage Increases?" (Sam Alder-Bell, The Nation, June, 2014)

• "An Educator's Lament: Part II -- Causes of Our Educational Demise" (Dave Pruett, Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution" (Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post, June 7, 2014)

• "States Testing Obama's Carbon Limits" (Ken Silverstein, Forbes, June 8, 2014)

• "80th Birthday, Bill Moyers" (Peter Breier, Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "Studies ranking states' business climates are all over the map" (Jim Pettit, Washington Examiner, June, 2014)

• "Obama Sells Climate Plan Abroad" (Ben Geman, National Journal, June 6, 2014)

• "How Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage Victory Began in New York City's Zuccotti Park" (Peter Dreier, Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "Big Brother: Meet the Parents" (Stephanie Simon, Politico, June, 2014)

• "Some states already lashing at climate rule" (Andrew Restuccia, Politico, June, 2014)

• "Who Is Behind the National Right to Work Committee and its Anti-Union Crusade?" (Mary Bottari, The Progressive, June 6, 2014)

• "Wikipedia Critic Kohs Banned from New York Meeting" (O’dwyers, June 3, 2014)

May 2014

• "Idaho Gag Law Hides Horrors of Ag Industry" (Lauren Carasik, AlJazeera America, June, 2014)

• "'Radical Animal Rights Movement' Gets New Foe" (Michael Becket, Center for Public Integrity/Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "Why and How Fossil Fuel and Utility Interests Are Attacking Clean Energy" (Gabe Eisner, Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "Charity ethical investments push corporates like PepsiCo on morals" (Emily Kenay, The Guardian, June, 2014)

• "Derek Cressman Crusades Against the Koch Brothers in California" (Ruth Conniff, PR Watch, June, 2014)

• "Judge Who Halted Walker Dark Money Criminal Probe" (Brendan Fischer, The Progressive, June, 2014)

• "The Luxe Life of the School-Privatization Business" (Randi Weingarten and Lisa Graves, National Journal, June, 2014)

• "In big public push, White House seeks to smooth way for carbon curbs" (Valerie Volcovici, Reuters, June, 2014)

• "Defending Clean Energy in Ohio and Beyond" (Mary Anne Hitt, Huffington Post Blog, June, 2014)

• "Beating Monsanto in the Food Fight: Oregon Counties Vote to Ban GMO Crops" (John Nichols, The Nation, June, 2014)

• "60 Years After Brown v. Board, Will Congress Revive a Dual School System?" (Diane Ravitch, Moyers & Company, June, 2014)

• "How the War on Workers Is Changing" (Truthout, June, 2014)

• "5 ways privatization is fleecing American taxpayers" (Dave Johnson, Salon, June, 2014)

• "11 Things The Koch Brothers Don't Want You To Know, From Robert Greenwald's Newly Updated Documentary" (Steven Roesnfeld, AlterNet, June, 2014)

• "Showtime Exposes Climate Change Deniers, like James Taylor and Joseph Bast's Heartland Institute" (PR Watch, June, 2014)

• "Unnoticed Fossil Fuel Influence Could Soon Dismantle Ohio's Clean Energy Policies" (Denise Robbins, Media Matters June, 2014)

• "The National Restaurant Association Spends Big to Keep Wages Low" (Mary Bottari, The Progressive, June, 2014)

• "The National Restaurant Association Spends Big to Keep Wages Low" (Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari, PR Watch, June, 2014)

• "ALEC Otherworld" (Rep Chris Taylor, The Progressive, June, 2014)

• "In Texas, Construction Reform Has an Unlikely Champion" (Amien Essif, In These Times, June, 2014)

• "Where do elite meet? Invitation-only, confidential forums" (Associated Press, June, 2014)

• "Where does the Republican Party stand on voter ID?" (Jaime Fuller, Washington Post The Fix, June, 2014)

• "When ‘Patriots’ Unite To Restrict Voting Rights" (Amy Dean, Al Jazeera America, June, 2014)

• "The White House Steps Up its Fight Against Climate Change" (Akio Stevenson, Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "Realistic Solution to End Voter Lines and Intimidation" (Dina Rasor, Truthout, June, 2014)

• "All business leaders should consider the source of their electrical power" (Alison Kemper, The Guardian, June, 2014)

• "ALEC Has a New Tactic It’s Using to Take Down the EPA" (Emily Atkin, Moyers & Company, June, 2014)

• "Highlights: Is Net Neutrality Dead?" (Karin Kamp, Moyers & Company, June, 2014)

• "The Drive to Ban Mandated Paid Sick Days" (Amy Dean, Al Jazeera America, June, 2014)

• "Are Tea-Party Republicans Really Trying to Kill Oil-Industry Tax Breaks?" (Bwn Geman, National Journal, June, 2014)

• "Following the Money: Energy Dollars Hard at Work on Capitol Hill" (Bill Chameides, Huffington Post Blog, June, 2014)

• "Wonkbook: The Keystone XL controversy is back again" (Puneet Kolliparia, Washington Post Wonkbook, June, 2014)

• "Barack Obama's emissions plan comes under new line of attack" (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, June, 2014)

April 2014

• "ALEC in the News: Oklahoma Punishes Solar Power Users; Wisconsin Voter ID Law Overturned" (Democracy Now!, April 30, 2014)

• "Federal Court Strikes Down WI's "Discriminatory" Voter ID as Unconstitutional" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, April, 2014)

• "One of the Koch Family-Controlled Foundations Has Quietly Folded" (Nick Surgey, PR Watch, April, 2014)

• "New Reporters' Guide Documents Rex Sinquefield's Effort to Railroad Personal Agenda through Missouri State House" (PR Watch, April, 2014),

• "Why Is the NAACP In Bed With Donald Sterling?" (Peter Dreier, Huffington Post, April, 2014)

• "Wal-Mart fortune shapes school alternatives" (Motoko Rich, New York Times, April, 2014)

• "The Koch Attack on Solar Energy" (, New York Times Editorial, April 27, 2014),

• "A battle is looming over renewable energy, and fossil fuel interests are losing" (Steven Mufson and Tom Hamburger, Washington Post, April 25, 2014)

• "Scathing Report Finds School Privatization Hurts Poor Kids" (Ruth Conniff, In These Times, April, 2014)

• "We need new laws to protect student privacy" (Zack Christenson, The Daily Caller, April 24, 2014)

• "Ohio GOP Legislator Accused of Insulting Veterans In Hearing" (Andrew Perez, Huffington Post, April 24, 2014)

• "Revealed: ALEC’s 2014 Attacks on the Environment" (Nick Surgey, The Progressive/PR Watch, April, 2014)

• "Revealed: ALEC’s 2014 Attacks on the Environment" (Nick Surgey, PR Watch, April, 2014)

• "The Tea Party Wants to Help You Go Solar" (Josh Voorhees, Slate, April, 2014)

• "Covering Dark Money's Tennessee Takeover" (Daniel Angster, Media Matters, April 22, 2014)

• "Voting with one’s feet shows folly of liberal economic policies" (Washington Times EDITORIAL, April 22, 2014):

• "Kochs, conservative allies align against solar" (Steve Benen, MSNBC, April, 2014)

• "Rachel Maddow: Oklahoma’s ‘sun tax’ law means it’s a threat to Koch Brothers’ allies" (Arturo Garcia, Raw Story, April 22, 2014)

• "Toppling the Tea Party" (David Moberg, In These Times, April, 2014) ,

• "The Not-so-smart ALEC" (William F Jasper, The New American, April, 2014)

• "Local Media Fooled By Discredited Economic Competitiveness Report" (Salvatore Colleluori, Media Matters, April 18, 2014)

• "Oklahoma Provides a Win for ALEC’s 50-State Campaign Against Democracy" (Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company, April 18, 2014)

• "Democratic Congressman Wants Federal Investigation Into ALEC-Backed Laws" (Kate Sheppard, Huffington Post, April 16, 2014)

• "One Democratic congressman escalates the fight over ALEC" (Niraj Chokshi, Washington Post GovBeat, April 14, 2014)

• "Raul Grijalva Tries to Tie ALEC to Bundy Ranch" (Lachlan Markay, Washington Free Beacon, April, 2014)

• "Rep. Grijalva Demands Federal Investigation into ALEC's Role in Neo-Sagebrush Rebellion" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, April, 2014)

• "The joke’s on them: High-ranked states in ‘Rich States, Poor States’ perform better" (Will Freeland and Ben Wilterdink, Daily Caller, April 16, 2014)

• "Free-market group ALEC: Utah has the best economic outlook this yea" (Niraj Chokshi, Washington Post GovBeat, April 15, 2014)

• "State economy showdown: Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Mike Pence vs. Chris Christie" (Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, April, 2014)

• "A Reporters' Guide to the Koch-funded Rich States, Poor States ALEC Report" (Mary Bottari, PR Watch, April, 2014)

• "The Hill Fails To Disclose Pro-Telecom Writer Is Paid By Telecom" (Eric Hananoki, Media Matters, April 12, 2014)

• "Major Kansas Papers Ignore Koch Connection To Anti-Teachers' Rights Legislation" (Hilary Tone, Media Matters, April 10, 2014)

• "Climate change is good for you, says ultra-conservative Heartland Institute" (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, April 9, 2014)

• "ACLU’s slurs and lies target foes of illegal immigration" (Tom Fitton, Washington Times, April 9, 2014)

• "Ohio Papers Miss Fossil Fuel Connection Behind Latest Attack On Clean Energy" (Denise Robbins, Media Matters, April 8, 2014)

• "Heartland Institute’s ridiculous new lie: “Climate change is good for you" (Lindsay Abrams, Salon.com, April 8, 2014)

• "ALEC and Paul Ryan Team Up to Convert Pensions Into Tax Cuts for Millionaire" (, PoliticsUSA, April 8, 2014)

• "Outside Special Interests Lean on MO Legislators to Push ALEC’s Anti-Worker Agenda" (Jay Riestenberg, PR Watch, April, 2014)

• "So-Called Right to Work Is Still Wrong for Workers" (James Hoffa, Huffington Post Blog, April, 2014)

• "Exclusive: Shady double-agent’s Obamacare sabotage: Top “supporter” quietly funded its opposition" (Eli Clifton, Salon, April 8, 2014)

• "Documents from Open Records Lawsuit Further Undermine Claims that ALEC Is Legislator-Driven" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch", April, 2014)

• "All for One and One for All: Learning To Build a Social Justice Union" (Eleanor Bader, Truthout, April, 2014)

• "Why Paid Sick Days Are a No-Brainer" (Terry Allen, In These Times, April, 2014)

• "McCutcheon, the Majority, and the Challenge of Our Time" (Richard Eskow, Huffington Post Blog, April, 2014)

• "The High-Profile People Who Are Doubling Down on the Common Core" (Mercedes Schneider, Huffington Post Blog, April, 2014)

• "ANALYSIS-Coal-reliant states readying for EPA power plant rules" (Valerie Volcovici, Reuters, April 1, 2014)

March 2014

• "EXography: States passing laws to pull the shades on high-tech police snooping on mobile phones, devices" (Mark Flatten, Washington Examiner, June, 2014)

• "Public Education: Who Are the Corporate Reformers?" (Diane Ravitch, Moyers & Company, June, 2014)

• "Is Connecticut the First Domino in a Higher National Minimum Wage? Not So Fast" (Emma Roller, National Journal, June, 2014)

• "How Cincinnati Beat The Tea Party" (Amy Dean, Al Jazeera, June, 2014)

• "Why Did the FBI Label Ryan Shapiro’s Dissertation on Animal Rights a Threat to National Security?" (Democracy Now!, June, 2014)

• "ALEC: The New-and-Improved Political Corruption" (Barbara Easterling, Huffington Post Blog, June, 2014)

• "Jeb Bush seeks common ground in higher education, invites Clinton to conference" (Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press, June, 2014)

• "Big Corporations coming to town. A curse or a blessing?" (PoliticsUSA, June, 2014)

• "From Tacoma to Texas, Hunger Strikers Challenge Private Immigration Detention Centers" (Candice Bernd, Truthout, June, 2014)

• "Newark's School Crisis and the GOP's War on Our Cities" (Richard Eskow, Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "Oil Industry Conjures Illusion of Public Support for KXL Using ALEC Politicians" (Nick Surgey, PR Watch, June, 2014)

• "WI GOP Marches in Lockstep with ALEC Agenda, Voting Records Show" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, June, 2014)

• "Republicans Slash Public Education to Fund Tax Cuts For Millionaires and Corporations" (, PoliticsUSA, June, 2014)

• "ALEC Goes Hyper Local With New Nationwide Network" (, Moyers & Company, June, 2014)

• "Keystone PipeLIES Exposed: The Facts on Petroleum Politicians, Crude Money and Media Spin" (Dave Saldana, PR Watch/truthout, June, 2014)

• "Big Oil and the Koch Brothers Have Hijacked Our Government and Trampled Liberty" (PoliticsUSA, June, 2014)

• "Conservative group Alec trains sights on city and local government" (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, June, 2014)

• "Rabble turns on tech's aristocracy" (Sanjiv Bhattacharya, The Daily Telegraph, June, 2014)

• "Will State Legislatures Join Congress And Cut Green Energy Incentives?" (Ken Silverstein, Forbes, June, 2014)

• "ACU at 50: Strong and looking ahead" (Meredith Somers, Washington Times, June, 2014)

• "Zero likes: how the world came to hate Silicon Valley" (Sanjiv Bhattacharya, The Telegraph, June, 2014)

• "Let's Make Capitalism a Dirty Word" (Carl Gibson, Huffington Post Blog, June, 2014)

• "North Carolina's toxic deregulation experiment" (Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg News, June, 2014)

• "Apple CEO tells climate change deniers to sell their Apple shares" (Ned Resnikoff, MSNBC, June, 2014)

• "Brewer's Other Veto: Silencing Arizona" (Justine Sarver, Huffington Post, June, 2014)

• "Keystone PipeLIES Exposed: The Facts on Burning Crude and Blistering Climate Change" (PR Watch, June, 2014)

February 2014

• "Utility Interests Push Protectionism in the State of Washington" (Gabe Elsner, Huffington Post, February, 2014)

• "‘Stand Your Ground’ Still Stands 2 Years After Trayvon’s Death" (Charles Ellison, The Root, February, 2014)

• "Pro-life Virginia Sen. values rights of fetus over those of ‘host,’ which ‘some refer to as mothers’" (Scott Kaufman, Raw Story, February 24, 2014)

• "Study: Local Newspapers Fail to Connect Anti-Choice Group To 20-Week Abortion Ban" (Daniel Angster, Media Matters, February 24, 2014)

• "One way to help solve America’s major curriculum problem" (Valerie Strauss, Washington Post/The Answer Sheet, February 24, 2014)

• "McDomination: How corporations conquered America and ruined our health" (Nicholas Freudenberg, Salon.com, February 23, 2014)

• "Walker Staff on the Mentally Ill: "No One Cares about Crazy People"" (Seep Paliwal and Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, February 2014)

• "New Report Exposes America's Highest Paid Government Workers" (PR Watch, February, 2014)

• "Protesters Demand Google Stop Funding Climate Change Deniers" (Lydia O’Connor, Huffington Post, February 19, 2014)

• "10 Reasons to Oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline" (Rose Ann Demoro, Huffington Post Blog, February, 2014)

• "Protesters Gripe About Group’s Google Funding" (Rolfe Winker, Wall Street Journal, February 18, 2014)

• "A Portrait of Time Warner's Active Role in ALEC " (PR Watch, February, 2014)

• "Article V Convention: Dangerous Precedent, Dangerous Loyalties" (Joe Wolverton, The New American, February, 2014)

• "Religious conservatives behind push to rewrite U.S. Constitution using obscure maneuver" (Travis Gettys, Raw Story, February 13, 2014)

• "Verdict in Jordan Davis Case Highlights Continuing Injustice of "Stand Your Ground"" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, February, 2014)

• "How ALEC Helps Big Telecom Change State Laws for Corporate Gain" (Brendan Fischer, PR Watch, February, 2014)

• "The Latest Attack on Public Sector Unions: Paycheck Protection in Pennsylvania and Missouri" (John Logan, Truthout, February, 2014)

• "Which party will grab the mantle of transparency?" (David Rehr, Huffington Post Blog, February, 2014)

• "Decent Economic Growth Hides The Increasing Gap Between the Rich and Everyone Else" (RMuse, PoliticusUSA, February 2, 2014)

January 2014

• "ALEC’s Half-Century Contract on the Boulder Highway, US 36" (Anne Butterfield, Huffington Post Blog, January, 2014)

• "Legal Experts Reject Food Industry Claims That GMO Labeling Laws Are Unconstitutional" (Truthout, January, 2014)

• "The real state of the union: Education, immigration and environment; Mentions ALEC in “Education” chapter" (Al Jazeera America, January, 2014)

• "Do ALEC Denials of Bill Tracking Signal an IRS Examination?" (Nick Surgey, PR Watch, January, 2014)

• "President To Lay Out Bold Vision Of Why You Shouldn't Hate Him" (Huffpost Hill, January, 2014)

• "Yes, the right is behind on campaign tech. But it’s seizing the mantle on tech policy" (Brian Fung, Washington Post, January, 2014)

• "Private Prisons: The Case for Divestment" (Rashad Robinson, Huffington Post, January, 2014)

• "Medicaid Estate Recovery, Latest Obamacare Horror Story, Was Backed By ALEC" (Sam Stein, Huffington Post, January, 2014)

• "Fissures in G.O.P. as Some Conservatives Embrace Renewable Energy" (John Schwartz, New York Times, January, 2014)

• "Who Backs the TPP and a ‘NAFTA on Steroids’? ALEC" (John Nichols, The Nation, January, 2014)

• "Why ALEC is so effective, How ALEC serves the right" (All In with Chris Hayes, January, 2014)

• "The Infrastructure of American Democracy Is Dysfunctional" (Steve Nichols, The Nation, January, 2014)

• "$185M in Corporate Money to Political Non-Profits Disclosed" (Kent Cooper, Roll Call, January, 2014)

• "What Would MLK Be Marching for Today?" (Peter Dreier, Huffington Post, January, 2014)

• "Pulling back the veil on corporate contributions" (Michael Beckel, Center for Public Integrity, January, 2014)

• "Database Shines Light on Corporate Donations" (Thomas Catan, Wall Street Journal/Washington Wire, January, 2014)

• "Chris Christie Is an Amateur" (Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal, January, 2014)

• "And now, the Bunkum Awards (you wouldn’t want to win)" (Valerie Strauss, Washington Post/Answer Sheet, January, 2014)

• "Xcel Energy and Endo Health Cut Ties to ALEC, Making 72 Corporations Out" (Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch, January, 2014)

• "ALEC Wants Your Legislator's Loyalty -- And You Get to Foot the Bill" (Dan Montgomery, Huffington Post Chicago, January, 2014)

• "A Constitutional Right to Industrial Farming?" (Brooke Jarvis, Bloomberg Businessweek, January, 2014)

• "Don’t Think the Feds Will Rein In the NSA? Maybe the States Can Help" (Dustin Volz, National Journal, January, 2014)

• "2014: The End Game in Telecommunications: The Perfect, Man-Made Storm" (Bruce Kushnick, Huffington Post Blog, January, 2014)

• "Chris Christie Is the True Face of the Republican Party" (Richard Eskow, Huffington Post Blog, January, 2014)

• "The real problem behind the Rachel Maddow-Koch Brothers feud" (Bruce Maiman, Examiner.com, January, 2014)

• "Retired Cops, Activist Pensioners, and the Economic Blowback over Snowden" (David Sirota, Pandodaily/PR Watch, January, 2014)

• "What war on poverty?" (Susan Greenbaum, Al Jazeera America, January, 2014)

• "New Hampshire Newspapers Create Faux Legitimacy For ALEC-Connected Group" (Daniel Angster, Media Matters, January, 2014)

• "2014 promises plenty of positive change" (Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, January, 2014)

• "North Carolina’s Conservative Shift is Good for ALEC" (Moyers & Company, January, 2014)

December 2013

• "As Critics Gain, ALEC Gives Ground" (Politico, December 27, 2013)

• "ALEC’s "Institutional Corruption," From Backing Apartheid to Assault on Clean Energy, Public Sector" with CMD's Lisa Graves (Democracy Now!, December 11, 2013)

• "The Pledge of Corporate Allegiance?" (Leo Gerard, In These Times, December 11, 2013)

• "Shining a Light on ALEC’s Power to Shape Policy" (Wendell Potter, Bill Moyers, December 11, 2013)

• "How ALEC Serves As A 'Dating Service' For Politicians And Corporations" (NPR, December 10, 2013)

• "Is ALEC falling on hard times?" (MSNBC, December 8, 2013)

• "ALEC Opposed Divestment From South Africa’s Apartheid Regime" (Lee Fang, The Nation, December 6, 2013)

• "ALEC Boots Mother Jones From Its Annual Conference" (Andy Kroll, Mother Jones, December 6, 2013)

• "Advocacy group angles for $35K to help you leave your union" (Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun, December 6, 2013)

• "Senator, farmer, rabbi speak on climate change" (Andy Marso, Topeka Capitol Journal, December 6, 2013)

• "Barbara Shelly: ALEC wants more influence" (Barbara Shelly, The Wichita Eagle, December 6, 2013)

• "ALEC, Backer Of Stand-Your-Ground Laws, Faces Funding Issues After Trayvon Martin Shooting" (Ashley Lopez, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, December 6, 2013)

• "Your daily jolt: 38 percent of state lawmakers are ALEC members" (Greg Bluestein, Jim Galloway and Daniel Malloy, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 6, 2013)

• GUARDIAN SERIES: "State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax" (Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, December 5, 2013)

• "Rachel Maddow: Powerful right-wing lobby ALEC desperate and hurting after Trayvon Martin" (David Ferguson, The Raw Story, December 5, 2013)

• "ALEC documents show strong ties to NC lawmakers" (John Frank, News Observer, December 5, 2013)

• "ALEC sought a loyalty oath from key state lawmakers" (Barbara Shelly, The Kansas City Star, December 5, 2013)

• "Conservative thinktank: turn Maine's poorest county into tax-free zone" (Colin Woodard, The Guardian/Portland Press Herald, December 5, 2013)

• "Revealed: the wealthy conservative groups behind fight to wreck Medicaid" (Forrest Wilder, The Guardian/Austin Observer, December 5, 2013)

• "Free-market research group's climate proposal denounced by host university" (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, December 5, 2013)

• "Inner workings of influential pro-business group ALEC revealed" (Dee J. Hall and Matthew Defour, Wisconsin State Journal, December 5, 2013)

• "Document shows Sinquefield-backed think tank asked for money for pension report" (Jonathan Shorman, Springfield News-Leader, December 5, 2013)

• "ALEC stands its ground" (Dana Milbank, Washington Post, December 4, 2013)

• "ALEC under scrutiny over plans to win back stray members" (Jack Craver, The Capital Times, December 4, 2013)

• "If You Liked ‘Stand Your Ground,’ You’ll Love the Jeffersonian Project" (David Firestone, The New York Times, December 4, 2013)

• GUARDIAN SERIES: "ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy" (Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, December 4, 2013)

• "Negotiations may end open records lawsuit against Leah Vukmir" (Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 4, 2013)

• "Report: ALEC faces financial, possibly legal, problems" (United Press International (UPI), December 3, 2013)

• "ALEC sought a loyalty oath from key state lawmakers" (Kansas City Star, December 3, 2013)

• GUARDIAN SERIES:"ALEC facing funding crisis from donor exodus in wake of Trayvon Martin row" (Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, December 3, 2013)

• "'Stand Your Ground' Laws Under Scrutiny Post-Zimmerman Verdict", (Liz Halloran, NPR, July 15, 2013)

• "Series of bills would limit inquiries of animal abuse" (Associated Press, March 18, 2013)

• "Arizona's Gun Buybacks Incite a Gun-Rights Backlash" (Amanda J. Crawford, Businessweek, February 28, 2013)

• "The separation of profit and state" (Robert Koehler, The Chicago Tribune, February 28, 2013)

• "After Tough 2012, Conservative Koch Brothers Regroup" (Peter Overby, NPR, February 28, 2013)

• "ALEC-Backed Laws Promote Controversial Charter Schools" (Matthew Charles Cardinale, Inter Press Service, February 27, 2013)

• "Trayvon Martin did not die in vain" (Roland Martin, CNN, February 26, 2013)

• "The educational charities that do PR for the rightwing ultra-rich" (George Monbiot, The Guardian, February 18, 2013)

• "Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states" (Paul Abowd, The Center for Public Integrity, February 14, 2013)

• "E-mails link Bush foundation, corporations and education officials" (Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post, January 30, 2013)

• "The States Confront Gun Violence" (New York Times editorial, January 17, 2013)

• "NRA’s lobbying bags big legislative wins in states over the past two decades" (Peter Wallsten & Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post, January 16, 2013)

• "State tax-cut plans tempered by caution in 2013", (David A. Lieb, Associated Press, January 7, 2013)

National Press (2013)

December 2013

• "Report: ALEC Has A Funding Problem After Trayvon Martin Saga" (Eric Lach, Talking Points Memo, December 5, 2013)

• "Leaked Documents: IRS Concerns, Funding Crisis at Corporate Lobbying Group ALEC" (Steve Horn, Huffington Post, December 4, 2013)

• "Times are tough for the fossil-fuel lovers at ALEC " (Lisa Hymas, Grist, December 4, 2013)

• "Pocan Comments on ALEC’s New Attempts to Shield Itself against Tax Laws" (Rep. Pocan, press release, December 4, 2013)

• "Leaked Documents Reveal IRS Concerns, Funding Crisis At Corporate Lobbying Group ALEC" (Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog, December 3, 2013)

• "Explosive ALEC Documents Reveal Budget Woes, New Front Group" (Crooks and Liars, December 3, 2013)

• "ALEC Facing 'Funding Crisis' Following Public Scrutiny" (Common Dreams, December 3, 2013)

• "As IRS Inquiry Looms, ALEC Hatches Escape Plan" (Dale Eisman, CommonBlog, December 3, 2013)

• "Report: Corporate supporters abandoning GOP advocacy group ALEC over stand-your-ground laws" (Stan Daniel, Alabama Media Group, December 3, 2013)

• "ALEC: In Town and Under Fire: Lawmakers to Respond to Corporate-Owned Agenda and Disturbing New Revelations Detailed in Leaked" (Salem-News.com, December 3, 2013)

• "ALEC crawls from under rock to do damage control" (Daily Kos, December 3, 2013)

• "Three Signs That The Power Of Secret Lobbying Group ALEC Is Fading" (Annie-Rose Strasser and Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress, December 3, 2013)

• "The Secret Misspelled Comeback Plan of America's Creepiest Lobbyists" (Adam Weinstein, Gawker, December 3, 2013)

• "ALEC tries to claw back support lost after Trayvon furor" (Natasha Lennard, Salon, December 3, 2013)

July 2013

• "The End of the (Wire)Line", (BillMoyers.com, Tom Casciato & Laura Macomber, July 23, 2013)

• "Blacks Who Stand Their Ground Are Often Imprisoned", (Zenitha Smith, Atlanta Daily World, July 22, 2013)

• "'Stand your ground' laws rattle U.S. politics, society", (Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor, July 22, 2013)

• "Rural Wisconsin, don’t lose the home phone", (Senator Kathleen Vinehout, La Crosse Tribune, July 22, 2013)

• "The Gunshine State", (Tom Diaz, excerpt of his book The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It published at BillMoyers.com July 19, 2013)

• "ALEC And The NRA Have Blood On Their Hands", (Terrance Heath, Campaign for America's Future, July 18, 2013)

• "Tennessee Black Caucus Calls For Review Of ‘Stand Your Ground’", (Robin Young, Here & Now on WBUR (NPR), July 18, 2013)

• "How NRA lobbied for 'Stand Your Ground' law that let Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman free", (Tim Walker, The Independent, July 15, 2013)

• "After Aiding Zimmerman’s Case, ALEC-Backed "Stand Your Ground" Could Threaten a Civil Lawsuit", (Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, July 15, 2013)

April 2013

• "Undercover Activist Details Secret Filming of Animal Abuse & Why "Ag-Gag" Laws May Force Him to Stop" (Democracy Now!, April 9, 2013)

• "Former Animal Rights Prisoner on Ag-Gag Laws, Secretive Prison Units & Detention of Daniel McGowan" (Democracy Now!, April 9, 2013)

• "How Big Pharma Lobbyists Are Bringing Mandated Drug Tests To A State Near You" (Nicole Flatow, ThinkProgress, April 8, 2013)

• "Two big city mayors oppose paid sick leave" (Mark Greuenberg, People's World, April 8, 2013)

• "6 states that might criminalize taping animal cruelty" (Steven Hsieh, Salon, April 8, 2013)

• "Behind Jindal's tax plan, an old debate that still rages", (Andrew Vanacore, New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 5, 2013)

March 2013

• "House, Senate bills toe constitutional tightrope", (Tim Carpenter, The Capital-Journal, March 23, 2013)

• "FCC regulation & VoIP: What’s next?", (Michael Ventimiglia, Venture Beat, March 22, 2013)

• "US prison population’s shameful rise" (Chuck Arnold, Lompoc Record, March 22, 2013)

• "More States Consider 'Parent Trigger' Laws", (Andrew Ujifusa, Education Week, March 21, 2013)

• "Republicans embrace ALEC in new national report" (Alex Sakariassen, Missoula Independent, March 21, 2013)

• "SOLAR 2013 Panel to Address Political Attacks on Solar in State Legislatures Across the US", (Seth Masia & Lili Francklyn, Investor Ideas, March 21, 2013)

• "ALEC Updates & Action Alert: State-By-State Renewable Energy Attacks Are Underway", (Marita Mirzatuny, Environmental Defense Fund, March 20, 2013)

• "Assaults on Successful State Renewable Energy Standards Continue", (Peter Lehner, Natural Resources Defense Council's '"Switchboard, March 20, 2013)

• "Flies, Maggots, Rats, and Lots of Poop: What Big Ag Doesn't Want You To See", (Tom Philpott, Mother Jones, March 20, 2013)

• "How ALEC Has Undermined Food Safety By Pushing ‘Ag Gag’ Laws Across The Country", (Katie Valentine, ThinkProgress, March 19, 2013)

• "Renewables Easier to Manage Than Expected for Grid Operators", (Chris Clarke, ReWire, March 19, 2013)

• "Forty Years Behind on Sick-Leave Policy, But Catching Up" (Sharon Lerner, The American Prospect, March 18, 2013)

• "Don't stifle probes of animal abuse", (Monterey County Herald editorial, March 18, 2013)

• "Koch Industries’ Clean Energy Assault Reaches Far And Wide"(EcoWatch, Earth Techling, March 18, 2013)

• "Renewable Energy Standards Target of Multi-Pronged Attack"(Maria Gallucci, Inside Climate News, March 18, 2013)

• "ALEC Education Bill Hides Privatization Behind a Reading Skills Disguise"(Dennis S., Politicus USA, March 18, 2013)

• "ALEC Releases Model Education Bills; Foes Not Satisfied"(Andrew Ujifusa, Education Week, March 18, 2013)

• "ALEC Posts Model Legislation Online(John Celock, Huff Post Politics, March 15, 2013)

• "Beam: Whose reform ideas were they?(Jim Beam, American Press, March 13, 2013)

• "Georgia's Internet Uprising(Timothy Karr, Huff Post Tech, March 12, 2013)

• "Let's Bring Back American Jobs(Harlan Green, Huff Post Business, March 12, 2013)

• "Southeast Leads in Creating Clean-Energy Manufacturing Jobs, but Will Politicians Kill the Momentum?(Sue Sturgis, Facing South, March 12, 2013)

• "Real Consequences of ‘School Choice’(Valerie Strauss, The Answer Sheet, March 12, 2013)

• "Corporate-Approved State Bills Kick Low-Wage Workers While They’re Down"(Michelle Chen, In These Times, March 11, 2013)

• "State Efforts to ‘Reclaim’ Our Public Lands" (Jessica Goad and Tom Kenworthy, Center for American Progress, March 11, 2013)

• "Technology matters" (Markos Moulitsas, The Hill, March 5, 2013)

• "Municipal Broadband Networks Bridge the Digital Divide as Telecom Industry Tries to Block Them" (Democracy Now!, March 4, 2013)

• "The Loophole That’s Letting Conservatives Manipulate Renewable Energy Standards" (Tiffany Germain & Matt Kasper, Think Progress, March 4, 2013)

• "The Bullies Are Bringing the Fight to Your Playground" (Heather Taylor-Miesle, The Huffington Post, March 1, 2013)

February 2013

• "How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System" (Lee Fang, The Nation, February 27, 2013)

• "Bills target renewable energy standards in three states" (Dan Haugen, Midwest Energy News, February 27, 2013)

• "States seek “ag-gag” laws to silence farm whistleblowers" (Natasha Lenard, Salon, February 27, 2013)

• "Unlocking a movement" (Curt Guyette, Detroit Metro Times, February 27, 2013)

• "Shedding a Tear for the Insurance Industry?" (Brian Young, The Huffington Post, February 27, 2013)

• "ALEC Now Looking to Teach Climate Denial in Schools" (R.P. Siegel, Triple Pundit, February 26, 2013)

• "Is Divestment the Only Solution to Climate Catastrophe?" (Tim Brennan, The Huffington Post, February 26, 2013)

• "What ALEC’s Arthur Laffer Wants to Do To Your Tax Code" (Chris Lewis, Campus Progress, February 26, 2013)

• "Rubio's school plan is a retread of a bad idea" (Robyn Blummer, The Columbus Dispatch, February 25, 2013)

• "Dems keep shooting themselves in foot" (Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, February 23, 2013)

• "A Year After Trayvon Marton's Shooting, Gun Debate Bypasses 'Stand Your Ground'" (Amy Green, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, February 23, 2012)

• "After 50 Years, the Voting Rights Act's Biggest Threat: The Supreme Court" (Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic, February 22, 2013)

• "Republican Governors No Longer a Force for Moderation" (Chad Stone, U.S. News & World Report, February 22, 2013)

• "The NRA's Flip-Flop on Machine Guns" (Josh Sugarmann, The Huffington Post, February 22, 2013)

• "The Flawed Objections to Corporate Political-Spending Disclosures" (M. Joy Haynes, The Motley Fool, February 21, 2013)

• "A Deadly Disorder at the EPA" (Joel Bleifuss, In These Times, February 21, 2013)

• "A moderate voice in the Senate" (Paul Rolly, The Salt Lake Tribune, February 20, 2013)

• "Dear Telecom Unions: Time to Fight for the Public Switched Network Infrastructure & Technology (PSNIT) -- The State-based Utility Wires" (Bruce Kushnik, The Huffington Post, February 20, 2013)

• "Corporations Write Our Laws and Profit From Our Misery" (Chris Hedges, Truthdig, February 19, 2013)

• "How To Spot A Fake Grassroots Movement" (Graham Readfearn, Desmog Blog, February 17, 2013)

• "How the Other NRA Is Making Us Sick" (Michele Simon, Food Safety News, February 15, 2013)

• "Georgia state legislature becomes the latest to tackle municipal broadband menace" (Brad Reed, Boy Genius Report, February 14, 2013)

• "AT&T's FCC Petition Should Be Denied: AT&T Should be Investigated" (Bruce Kushnik, The Huffington Post, February 14, 2013)

• "Labor Voices: Right to work is a right-wing conspiracy" (James P. Hoffa, The Detroit News, February 13, 2013)

• "Why Investors Should Favor Political-Spending Disclosures" (M. Joy Haynes, The Motley Fool, February 12, 2013)

• "Anti-Immigration Efforts At the State Level Jeopardize Reform" (Frank Hagler, Policy Mic, February 10, 2013)

• "Walk held in honor of Trayvon Martin attracts hundreds including actor Jamie Foxx" (Ina Paiva Cordle, The Miami Herald, February 9, 2013)

• "The End to Net Neutrality" (David Rosen, Counterpunch, February 9, 2013)

• "The War on Reality: News From the Front Lines" (Linda Buzzell, The Huffington Post, February 5, 2013)

• "Pressure Mounts in Some States Against Common Core" (Andrew Ujifusa, Education Week, February 4, 2013)

• "The Other GOP Plan To Blow Up The Electoral Vote" (Benjy Sarlin, Talking Points Memo, February 4, 2013)

• "K-12 Climate Denial Curriculum Introduced in 3 More States" (Sustainable Business, February 1, 2013)

• "Wind and Solar Groups Flee ALEC" (Tina Gerhardt, The Progressive, February 1, 2013)

January 2013

• "Koch brothers pour more cash into think tanks, ALEC" (Paul Abowed, The Center for Public Integrity, January 31, 2013)

• "Where the Wingers Won" (Abby Rapoport, The American Prospect, January 31, 2013)

• "Statehouses introduce ALEC climate skeptic school bill" (Natasha Lennard, Salon, January 31, 2013)

• "The NRA vs. America" (Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, January 31, 2013)

• "Wind, solar groups quit ALEC as conservative powerhouse targets clean-energy programs" (Hannah Northey, Greenwire, January 30, 2013)

• "Green energy groups dump ALEC membership" (Ben Geman, The Hill, January 30, 2013)

• "What Democracy Lost in 2012" (Bob Sloan, The American Prospect, January 28, 2013)

• "‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast" (Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches, January 27, 2013)

• "New Hampshire, Wyoming, and Nebraska Introduce Ag-Gag Laws" (Kathy Will, Food Poisoning Bulletin, January 26, 2013)

• "GOP Version2013: Battling Not Just Democrats but Democracy" (John Nichols, The Nation, January 23, 2013)

• "The GOP and National Planning? Count on It" (Steven Jonas, Truthout, January 22, 2013)

• "States Continue to Realize the Benefits of Renewable Energy Standards" (Matt Kasper & Tom Kenworthy, Center for American Progress, January 18, 2013)

• "Proposals to drug-test the unemployed gain momentum" (Natasha Lennard, Salon, January 16, 2013)

• "Republicans hit unions where it hurts" (Jaime Weinman, Maclean's, January 15, 2013)

• "Europe caves in to Big Tobacco" (David Cronin, New Europe, January 13, 2013)

• "Gun control action will rely on grassroots organizing" (Susan Webb, People's World, January 10, 2013)

• "Voter ID Resurfaces In State Legislatures, But ALEC Remains Incognito In Media Coverage" (Brian Powell, Media Matters, January 9, 2013)

• "Reaganomics is coming to a state near you" (Siddartha Mahanta, The Stillwater Gazette, January 9, 2013)

• "Ten Things To Put the GOP Back on Track" (Gregory Joseph, The Nation, January 8, 2013)

• "What Are the Public Switched Telephone Networks, 'PSTN' and Why You Should Care?", (Bruce Kushnik, The Huffington Post, January 7, 2013)

• "Scott Walker Vows More Moderate, Less Divisive Agenda" (Nick Wing, The Huffington Post, January 7, 2013)

• "Arizona still waiting for Fiesta Bowl fixes" (Kathleen Ingley, The Center for Public Integrity, January 6, 2013)

• "Feds approve eight state health insurance exchanges", (Kelly Kennedy, USA Today, January 3, 2013)

• "In States With ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws, Homicide on the Rise", (Ashley Lopez, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, January 4, 2013)

December 2012

• Lisa Graves Appearances on National Television

• "Connecticut massacre thrusts Michigan gun bills — and tea party — into spotlight", (Felicia Sonmez, The Washington Post, December 20, 2012)

• "ALEC Thought of Non-Profit — Then Thought Not" (Jonathan Salant, Bloomberg, December 13, 2012)

• "Michigan deals big blow to unions" (Olivia Ward, The Toronto Star, December 11, 2012)

• "Wis. lawmakers sued over emails with conservative group" (Associated Press, The Chicago Tribune, October 2, 2012)

• "Kasich signs anti-worker asbestos bill", (Plunderbund Media, December 20, 2012)

• "Senate Hearing Recounts the Many Election Season Mishaps of 2012" (Brentin Mock, Colorlines, December 20, 2012)

• "Selling Lies: The Wall Street Journal Publishes Right-Wing Propaganda and Lends Support to Legislation that Compromises the Rights of Asbestos Victims" (Fight Mesothelioma News, December 20, 2012)

• "Don’t Be Afraid of NRA Bullies" (Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig.com, December 19, 2012)

• "Turning State Legislatures into Brothels" (Bob Sloan, Voters Legislative Transparency Project, December 19, 2012)

• "New "Kochtopus" Graphic Maps the Influence of Billionaire Koch Brothers on Climate Policy" (Democracy Now!, December 18, 2012)

• "Gun-control backers see domino effect on firms after Newtown school shootings" (Dara Kam, The Palm Beach Post, December 18, 2012)

• "While You Weren’t Looking, Michigan Turned Into Texas" (Abby Rapoport, The American Prospect, December 17, 2012)

• "How Walmart Helped Make Newtown Shooter's AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America" (George Zornick, The Nation, December 17, 2012)

• "Why Do We Get Riled Up About Gun Rights, and Not Rights to Health Care and Education?" (Thom Hartmann, AlterNet, December 17, 2012)

• "How ALEC Thwarts Honest Debate About Gun Violence" (John Nichols, The Nation, December 16, 2012)

• "Climate-denying Indiana Regulator helps ALEC Coal Companies Delay EPA Climate Rules" (Connor Gibson, Pollutor Watch, December 13, 2012)

• "Schuette: Right-to-work law applies to unionized state workers" (Karen Bouffard, The Detroit News, December 13, 2012)

• "ALEC's decades of 'right-to-work' effort pay off in Michigan" (Paul Abowd, The Center for Public Integrity, December 12, 2012)

• "Editorial: Drinking the Kochs' Kool-Aid" (Detroit Free Press editorial, December 11, 2012)

• "Michigan’s right-to-work bill cribs ALEC" (Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon, December 11, 2012)

• "Alaska state lawmakers to push for voter ID laws again" (Richard Mauer, The Anchorage Daily News, December 10, 2012)

• "How the Koch Brothers Manipulate Climate Change Studies" (Joao Peixe, OilPrice.com, December 10, 2012)

• "The Doha Climate Joke" (Jen Alic, OilPrice.com, December 10, 2012)

• "Groups challenge Wyoming lawmakers' lack of transparency with ALEC" (Joan Barron, Casper Star-Tribune, December 9, 2012)

• "ALEC – Centralized Conservative Legislative Clearinghouse" (John Lawrence, San Diego Free Press, December 8, 2012)

• "There Is No Internet Freedom Without Internet and Broadband Competition" (Bruce Kushnick, The Huffington Post, December 6, 2012)

• "Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity are leading the charge for Snyder's 'right-to-work' bill" (Greg Gardner, Detroit Free Press, December 6, 2012)

• "Inside ALEC's Education Task Force: Private Players Manipulating Public Education" (Sabrina Stevens, Alternet, December 6, 2012)

• "Kansas Statehouse’s ‘Big Three’ tied to controversial council" (Scott Rothschild, Lawrence Journal-World, December 5, 2012)

• "A New Court Decision Injects Some Sanity Into America's Gun Policy" (Jonathan Lowy, The Huffington Post, December 5, 2012)

November 2012

• "Highway Robbery: How "public-private partnerships" extract private profit from public infrastrucute projects" (Darwin Bondgraham, Dollars & Sense, November/December, 2012)

• "ALEC Loses Ground in Election" (John Light, BillMoyers.com, November 30, 2012)

October 2012

• "New Constitutional Amendment Needed to Protect the Right to Vote, Advocate Claims" (Khalil Abdullah, New American Media, October 9, 2012)

• "Watch ALEC documentary: See how corporations write GOP laws" (DJ Pangburn, Death and Taxes, October 4, 2012)

• "Debate Over Won't Back Down Shines Light on City's Brewing Education Battle" (Jason Lewis, The Village Voice blog, October 4, 2012)

• "Wisconsin GOPers sued over potential ALEC ties" (Jillian Rayfield, Salon, October 2, 2012)

• "Name That Representative! Republican Study Committee Meets With ALEC" (Gabe Elsner, The Huffington Post, October 1, 2012)

September 2012

• "Is the Small Business Lobby Really All About Big Business?" (John Tozzi, Bloomberg Businessweek, September 26, 2012)

• "ALEC Finds New Friends: Republican Study Committee a Quiet New Partner", Janie Lorber, Roll Call, September 11, 2012)

• "Common Cause president promotes group's latest efforts" (Steve Terrell, Santa Fe New Mexican, September 29, 2012)

• "The Life and Death of Schools" (Richard Whittaker, The Austin Chronicle, September 28, 2012)

• "Study: Thousands of oil and gas wells not inspected" (Natasha Lennard, Salon, September 28, 2012)

• "The United States of ALEC: Bill Moyers on the Secretive Corporate-Legislative Body Writing Our Laws" (Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, September 27, 2012)

• "No, ALEC isn't for the little guy" (Rashad Robinson, San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 2012)

• "School reform's propaganda flick", (Alexander Zaitchik, Salon, September 27, 2012)

• "Anti-union movie 'Won't Back Down' is a step backward" (Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 27, 2012)

• "Wells Fargo Courts Latinos While Investing in Private Prisons That Profit From Detaining Immigrants" (Yana Kunichoff, Truthout, September 27, 2012)

• "More companies revealing donations as debate rages" (Dan Eggen, The Washington Post's "Influence Industry" blog, September 26, 2012)

• "ALEC: The Scheme to Remake America, One State House at a Time" (Bill Moyers, The Huffington Post, September 26, 2012)

• "Smart ALEC’s Comeuppance: Bill Moyers Takes On the American Legislative Exchange Council" (Joel Bleifuss, In These Times, September 26, 2012)

• "The Fight to Vote" (The Editors, The Nation, September 26, 2012)

• "There's Been a Dictatorial Coup -- Koch Bros. Have a Bunch of Czars Running Cities Across Michigan" (Jim Hightower, Alternet, September 25, 2012)

• "Seeking Allies, Teachers’ Unions Court G.O.P., Too", (Motoko Rich, The New York Times, September 24, 2012)

• "The Chick-fil-A War Is Back On", (William McGurn, The Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2012)

• "Reform Effort on a Century of For-Profit Bail Bonding," (Spike Bradford, Justice Policy Institute's Just Policy blog, September 20, 2012)

• "Voter ID laws: Voter integrity or voter suppression?," (Hispanic Link News Service, September 19, 2012)

• "Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. to leave ALEC", (Salvador Rizzo, NJ.com, September 13, 2012)

• "The Right-Wing Machine Behind ‘School Choice’", (Rachel Tabachnick, In These Times, September 13, 2012)

• "'Internet Freedom'? AT&T's Verbal Jujitsu to Close Down Telecommunications in America", (Bruce Kushnick, The Huffington Post, September 10, 2012)

• "Republican voter ID laws' threat to US civil rights", (David A. Love, The Guardian, September 7, 2012)

• "Groups protest Duke Energy's connection with the American Legislative Exchange Council", (Ivan Penn, Tampa Bay Times, September 7, 2012)

• "Your Right to Know: Lawmakers exploit loophole to hide ALEC ties", (Brendan Fischer, The Capital Times, September 7, 2012)

• "Outing ACT: Test-and-Punish Doesn't Educate, but It's Profitable for Testing Companies', (Susan Ohanian & Marion Brady, TruthOut, September 7, 2012)

• "Duke Energy CEO calls for clean energy at DNC", (Charlotte Observer, September 6, 2012)

• "Duke Energy's Jim Rogers to Address DNC, Despite Supporting ALEC's Voter Suppression", (Whit Jones, The Huffington Post, September 6, 2012)

• "A Day of Protests, Spared of Confrontations", (Viv Bernstein, The New York Times blog "The Caucus," September 5, 2012)

• "Duke CEO Rogers rides political, corporate intrigue into DNC", (Bruce Henderson, Charlotte Observer, September 5, 2012)

• "Voter ID laws wend through courts, with implications for November", (Patricia Zapor, National Catholic Reporter, September 4, 2012)

• "GOP-Backed Voter Fraud Laws Aim To Disenfranchise Students", (Jake Heller, The Daily Beast, September 3, 2012)

August 2012

• "Sprint Joins GE in Leaving Policy Group Backing Voter-ID Laws", (Jonathan D. Salant, Businessweek, August 28, 2012)

• "The Party of Lincoln and the Right to Vote", (Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic, August 28, 2012)

• "What if Gore vs. Bush becomes Obama vs. Romney?," (Michael Kirkland, United Press International, August 26, 2012)

• "Records: Ohio House office aided legislative group," (Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press, August 17, 2012)

• 'Remember When Judges Decided Elections After the Vote?," (Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic, August 16, 2012)

• "Wells Fargo, Western Union cut ties to ALEC", (Heather Draper, Denver Business Journal, August 30, 2012)

• "Voter Photo Identification Laws and ALEC", (Jerry Kremer, The Huffington Post, August 29, 2012)

• "GE Among Six New Companies Dropping ALEC", (International Business Times U.K., August 29, 2012)

• "Weingarten: ‘Won’t Back Down’ union stereotypes worse than ‘Waiting for Superman’", (Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post blog "The Answer Sheet," August 28, 2012)

• "Sunglasses are optional for Washington’s economy – but please take off your blinders", (Aaron Keating, Economic Opportunity Institute's Washington Policy Watch, August 28, 2012)

• "Third IRS Whistleblower Complaint Brought Against American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)", (Bob Sloan, Voters Legislative Transparency Project, August 28, 2012)

• "ALEC Roster Shrinks As GE, Sprint, Western Union, Symantec, Reckitt Quit", (David Zielenziger, International Business Times, August 27, 2012)

• "Corporations' ties to voter ID laws", (Andrew S. Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2012)

• "Romney Energy Plan Would Let States and His Oil Donors Drill On Public Lands" (Jessica Goad, Think Progress, August 23, 2012)

• "ALEC Policy Shop Casts Long K-12 Shadow" (Andrew Ujifusa, The Horace Mann League, August 22, 2012)

• "Connections Between Teach for America and Parent Trigger" (Shaun Johnson, The Huffington Post, August 21, 2012)

• "Flurry of Voter ID laws tied to conservative group ALEC", (Ethan Magoc, NBC News's Open Channel blog, August 21, 2012)

• "Mystery group goes after Dems in Senate races", (Rachael Marcus, The Center for Public Integrity, August 20, 2012)

• "Latino Voter Suppression and the Paul Ryan Choice", (Jim Gonzalez, The Huffington Post, August 20, 2012)

• "ALEC’s Koch Funded Cabal “Educating” our state and Federal Judges", (Bob Sloan, Voters Legislative Transparency Project, August 20, 2012)

• "Records: Ohio House office aided legislative group", (Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press, August 17, 2012)

• 'Remember When Judges Decided Elections After the Vote?", (Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic, August 16, 2012)

• "Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws", Suvan Lee, ProPublica, August 16, 2012)

• "Surprise! Election fraud is virtually nonexistent", (Editorial, Nashua Telegraph, August 16, 2012)

• "It’s time to defend our voting rights", (Benjamin Todd Jealous, New York Amsterdam News, August 16, 2012)

• "Texas Lawmakers Latest To Cut Ties With ALEC", (HuffPost Politics, The Huffington Post, August 16, 2012)

• "Partisan Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Wrongly Upheld by Court", (Ari Berman, The Nation, August 15, 2012)

• "“Rich States, Poor States”: A 110 page guide to crashing your state’s economy | Part 2," (Economic Opportunity Institute, Washington Policy Watch, August 15, 2012)

• "“Rich States, Poor States”: A 110-page guide to crashing your state’s economy | Part 1," (Economic Opportunity Institute, Washington Policy Watch, August 14, 2012)

• "Many states’ voter-ID laws, including Pennsylvania’s, appear to have tie to same U.S. group," (Ethan Magoc, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 14, 2012)

• "ALEC unite on another school 'reform' bill," (Max Brantley, Arkansas Times, August 14, 2012)

• "Voter registration reform risk enfeebling UK democracy," (Graham Allen, New Stateman, August 13, 2012)

• "Many GOP-backed bills in Michigan copied from ‘model bills’, group says," (Karen Bouffard, Detroit News, August 13, 2012)

• "Another "deregulation" scam," (Doug Porter, San Diego Free Press, August 10, 2012)

• "Promising Too Much On Public Pensions", (Hartford Courant editorial, August 10, 2012)

• "Counter ALEC with ALICE", (Jim Hightower, JimHightower.com, August 10, 2012)

• "Medicines Australia: we support plain packaging of tobacco products", (Melissa Sweet, Crikey, August 10, 2012)

• "On the Ropes: Inside ALEC's Annual Meeting", (Alexander Zaitchik, Media Matters, August 9, 2012)

• "On the News With Thom Hartmann: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Did It - Texas Executes Man Who Is Mentally Disabled, and More", (Jim Javinsky, Truth Out, August 8, 2012)

• "Energy policy: Follow the money", (Chris Nelder, Smart Planet, August 8, 2012)

• "Biotechnology Firm Amgen Becomes The 31st Company To Dump ALEC", (Ian Millhiser, Think Progress, August 7, 2012)

• "Why You Should Be Sick of Secret Health Insurer Politicking", (Jack Ucciferri, Huffinton Post, August 7, 2012)

• "Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Hits Philadelphia Blacks, Latinos Harder", (Dan Froomkin, Huffington Post, August 7, 2012)

• "George Zimmerman's Attorney To Address Gun Rights Activists At Second Amendment Foundation Conference", (Timothy Johnson, Media Matters, August 6, 2012)

• "Sierra Club: Clean energy 'under siege'", (United Press International, August 3, 2012)

• "Fox Hypes Voter ID Report From Organization That Claims To Continue ALEC's "Excellent Work", (Remington Shepard, Media Matters, August 2, 2012)

• "Why Citizens United Must Be Overturned", (RP Siegel, Triple Pundit, August 1, 2012)

July 2012

• "GM Joins Walgreen In Splitting With ‘Stand Your Ground’ Group", (Jonathan Salant, Bloomberg, July 26, 2012)

• "Partisanship Disguised as Charity", (Editorial, The New York Times, July 11, 2012)

• "CVS Caremark, John Deere latest companies to withdraw from conservative legislative group", (The Washington Post, July 10, 2012)

• "CVS, Best Buy Quit Policy Group That Drafts Voter-ID Laws", (Jonathan D. Salant, Bloomberg, July 10, 2012)

• "ALEC Lets Corporations Craft Environmental Policy", (Melanie Martin, Earth Times, July 29, 2012)

• "‘ALEC Rock’ cartoon explains corporate political influence", (Arturo Garcia, The Raw Story, July 28, 2012)

• "GM Nixes Support For Conservative Lobbying Group", (Richard Read, The Car Connection, July 27, 2012)

• "ALEC Dumped By GM, Walgreen", (Trymaine Lee, Huffington Post, July 26, 2012)

• "Conservatives talk energy at Utah ALEC convention", (Daily Herald, July 26, 2012)

• "Plaintiffs' attorneys against voter ID", (Carter Wood, Point of Law, July 26, 2012)

• "Lee Bright Family Fun", (FitNews.com, July 25, 2012)

• "Meet Mark Pocan, the Original ALEC Spy", (Molly Redden, The New Republic, July 25, 2012)

• "Lawmakers, advocates question ALEC’s role in crafting state legislation", (Free Speech Radio News, July 25, 2012)

• "The Wall Street Journal Covers Up ALEC Link to Anti-Union School Privatization Law", (Melody Johnson, Media Matters, July 24, 2012)

• "ALEC, the Koch Led CABAL & "The Amicus Project" - Fed Court Interference", (Bob Sloan, Daily Kos, July 24, 2012)

• "ALEC, Tech and the Telecom Wars: Killing America's Telecom Utilities", (Bruce Kushnick, The Huffington Post, July 24, 2012)

• "Behind ag-gag laws: Following the money trail", (Jonathan Reynolds, This Dish is Veg, July 24, 2012)

• "AT&T Should Be Begging California for Forgiveness, Not Regulatory Relief", (Bruce Kushnick, The Huffington Post Business, July 23, 2012)

• "Research Roundup: ALEC Economic Rankings Debunked, Business and the Minimum Wage, and More", (Progressive States Network, July 20, 2012)

• "NRA Back In Bed With ALEC", (Matt Gertz, Media Matters, July 19, 2012)

• "Express scripts right to end its participation in alec charade", (The Reporter, July 18, 2012)

• "FLASHBACK: Franklin Center's Full-Throated Defense Of ALEC, (Matt Gertz, Media Matters, July 12, 2012)

• "Corporate Exodus Continues From ALEC as Secretive Right-Wing Group’s Policies Come to Light", (Democracy Now! July 11 2012)

• "John Deere, CVS Caremark, HP, MillerCoors and Best Buy Drop ALEC", ( Suzanne Merkelson, Truth Out, July 11, 2012)

• "Civil Rights Advocates Assail Wal-Mart Links to ALEC", (Zenitha Prince, AFRO, July 11, 2012)

• "Complaint filed against corporate group ALEC over nonprofit status", (DJ Pangburn, Death and Taxes, July 10, 2012)

• "HP, Deere, CVS, MillerCoors, BestBuy Exit Controversial ALEC Post-Trayvon Martin Shooting", (David Zielenziger, International Business Times, July 10, 2012)

• "If Andy ran in Mayberry today: Big money could crush his hopes of being sheriff", (Kathy M. Newman, Post-Gazette, Jul 6, 2012)

• "Our Daughters, Moms, and Sisters: Republican Attacks on Women's Choice Should Also Mobilize Men", (Hans Johnson, Huffington Post, July 5, 2012)

• "ALEC Accused of Violating Its Tax-Exempt Status; Will the IRS Take Action?", (John Leopold, Truthout, July 5, 2012)

• "Vetoing Voter ID Is the (Historically) Republican Thing to Do", (John Nichols, The Nation, July 5, 2012)

• "Criminalizing Thinking" (Rodolfo Acuna, CounterPunch, July 5, 2012)

• "The British Pharmaceutical Crooks are Coming, the British Pharmaceutical Crooks are Coming", (Poptort, July 3, 2012)

• "Voting Wrongs" (Curt Guyette, Metro Times, July 3, 2012)

• "Corporate Media Untells the ALEC Story" (Peter Hart, Fair, July 3, 2012)

• "CPI: ALEC, the power behind legislation, faces tax complaint from clergy group", (John Dunbar, Center for Public Integrity, July 2, 2012)

• "Despite ‘Citizens United’, politics remains hazardous for corporations", (John Stodder, Idaho Business Review, July 2, 2012)

• Top Former Tax Code Enforcer Files Letter Asking IRS To Strip ALEC’s Non-Profit Status, (Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress, July 2, 2012)

June 2012

• "When ALEC Takes Over Your Town", (Joe Nocera, The New York Times, June 18, 2012)

• "Dell drops membership in right-wing corporate front ALEC", (DJ Pangburn, Death and Taxes, June 22, 2012)

• "Dell Latest Company To Leave Controversial ALEC After Trayvon Martin Shooting" (David Zielenziger, IBTimes, June 21, 2012)

• "J&J Ends Support For ALEC Lobby", (Steve McClellan, Media Daily News, June 19, 2012)

• "NY Times Links ALEC to Woonsocket Fiscal Crisis", (Bob Plain, RIFuture.org, June 19, 2012)

• "BREAKING: Johnson & Johnson Drops ALEC", (Annie-Rose Strasser, Think Progress, June 12, 2012)

• "ALEC Tries to Salvage Brand as Members Exit to Protect Their Own", (Ana Radelat, AdAge, June 7, 2012)

• "Walmart Withdraws from ALEC, Wallows in Bribery Scandal", (Paul Chesser, National Legal and Policy Center, June 4, 2012)

• "ALEC Resignations Grow, Pressure on Others Mounts", (Mike Hall, June 4, AFL-CIO, 2012)

• "Wal-Mart Caves to Van Jones, Drops ALEC Support", (Vision to America, June 2, 2012)

• "Medtronic Leaves ALEC, Joining 19 Other Organizations", (Zaid Jilani, Republic Report, June 1, 2012)

• "Stand with State Farm as it Stands with ALEC", (John Berlau, OpenMarket.org, June 1, 2012)

May 2012

• "Wal-Mart Pulls Out Of Group That Advocates 'Stand Your Ground' Laws", (Marl Memmott, NPR, May 31, 2012)

• "Commentary: NAACP Commends Walmart for Dropping ALEC", (Cord Jefferson, BET, May 31, 2012)

• "How Jeb Bush Stood Up To ALEC For National Education Standards", (Josh O'Connor, StateImpact, May 31, 2012)

• "Gates Foundation Pulls Funds from Conservative ALEC, Sends Half a Million to Liberal NEA", (Joy Pullman, Somewhat Reasonable, May 30, 2012)

• "How ALEC Gets Real Tax Dollars for Fake Schools", (Jason Stanford, Huffington Post, May 29, 2012)

• "Alec grows vulnerable as 11 legislators cut ties with lobbying network", (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, May 18, 2012)

• "Success! How Progressives Stalled the Deregulation Agenda of Greedy Telecoms and ALEC", (Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet, May 27, 2012)

• "NO DISCLOSURE: WSJ, Fox Defended ALEC Without Noting News Corp. Is A Member", (Matt Gertz, Media Matters, May 25, 2012)

• "Amazon Drops Out of American Legislative Exchange Council", (Democracy Now, May 25, 2012)

• "At Shareholder Meeting Amazon Drops ALEC, Dodges Tax Questions", (Dave Johnson, Huffington Post, May 24, 2012)

• "'Huge victory' - Amazon drops ALEC, will spend millions on AC", (Ashley Gross & Jake Ellison, NPR, May 24, 2012)

• "ALEC Runs from NRA's Paranoid Trayvon Martin Agenda", (Brady Campaign, Opposing Views, May 23, 2012)

• "ALEC’s New Tactic – Defunding State Budgets", (The Pop Tort, May 23, 2012)

• "ALEC Puts the Screws to Asbestos Victims", (Sylvia Hsieh, Lwayers.com, May 22, 2012)

• "BREAKING: Eleven More Lawmakers Drop ALEC", (Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress, May 18, 2012)

• "The ALEC-IRLI Anti-Immigrant Push To Redefine Citizenship", (Simon Maloy, MediaMatters, May 16, 2012)

• "Common Cause obtains ALEC Agenda Materials, Files Requests for Investigations in 29 States", (Emily L., Care2.com, May 16, 2012)

• "Confirmed! Koch Was On ALEC Crime Task Force Led By NRA", (Global Grind, May 15, 2012)

• "ALEC's Secrets Revealed; Corporations Flee", (Brendan Greeley, BloombergBusinessWeek, May 11, 2012)

• "ALEC To Formally Oppose Common Education Standards, Leaving Struggling Students Behind", (Tehodora Chang, ThinkProgress, May 10, 2012)

• "ALEC Targets Laws Holding Corporations Accountable", (David Lyle, MediaMatters, May 9, 2012)

• "ALEC exempted from lobbyist status in three separate states", (Paul Abowd, HuffingtonPost, May 8, 2012)

• "Special Rights for ALEC: Three States Exempt Stealth Corporate Lobbying Group From Lobbying Rules", (Josh Israel, ThinkProgress, May 8, 2012)

• "A Year in the Life of an ALEC Bill", (Bloomberg Business Week, May 3, 2012)

• "ALEC’s Top Five Anti-Environment ‘Model’ Laws", (Stephen Lacey, ThinkProgress, May 2, 2012)

April 2012

• "How ALEC became a political liability", (Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post, April 24, 2012)

• "Conservative Nonprofit Acts as a Stealth Business Lobbyist", (Mike McIntire, The New York Times, April 21, 2012)

• "Shutting Down ALEC", (The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2012)

• "Embarrassed by Bad Laws", (Editorial, The New York Times, April 16, 2012)

• "Trayvon Martin shooting spurs protests against companies with ties to legislative group", (Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post, April 12, 2012)

• "Coke drops membership in conservative advocacy group", (The Chicago Tribune, April 5, 2012)

• "ALEC's Comeuppance", (Jim Hightower, TruthOut, April 30, 2012)

• "ALEC fights coal ash protections on polluters' behalf", (Sue Sturgis, The Institute for Southern Studies, April 30, 2012)

• "Meet the 28 Lawmakers Who Have Quit ALEC This Month", (Zaid Jilani, The Nation, April 26, 2012)

• "A Fight Bigger Than ALEC", (Editors, The Nation, April 25, 2012)

• "In Light of Coca-Cola's Surrender Over ALEC, Shareholder Activist to Tell Coca-Cola Executives to Stand Firm Against Future Radical Left Demands", (David Almasi, National Center for Public Policy Research, April 25, 2012)

• "Why hasn’t Wal-Mart dropped ALEC, too?", (The Miami Herald, April 25, 2012)

• "Two ALEC Campaigns Exposed: One Kills Renewables, One Boosts Fracking", (Brian Merchant, TreeHugger, April 24, 2012)

• "Microsoft Identified as Supporter of ALEC, Conservative Non-Profit Accused of Abusing Tax-Exempt Status", (Nina Shapiro, The Daily Week, April 24, 2012)

• "ALEC Says It Plans To Craft Legislation To Take Down State Renewable Energy Targets", (Stephen Lacey, ThinkProgress, April 24, 2012)

• "Common Cause Files IRS Complaint Against ALEC, Seeks Audit", (Josh Israel, ThinkProgress, April 23, 2012)

• "ALEC Hit With IRS Complaint Filed By Common Cause", (Mike Baker, Huffington Post, April 23, 2012)

• "Palm oil industry, ALEC press EPA to reverse climate finding", (Ben Geman, The Hill, April 22, 2012)

• ""Companies end relationship with the controversial ALEC organization", (Michele Nash, Examiner, April 22, 2012)

• "Conservative Group With Abramoff Scandal Ties Picks Up Voter ID Issue Where ALEC Left Off", (Ryan Reilly, TPM, April 20, 2012)

• "Conservative Group's Charity Status Draws Questions", (Peter Overby, NPR, April 19, 2012)

• "GREENHUT: Attacks on ALEC hypocritical and unfair", (Watchdog Staff, Watchdog.org, April 19, 2012)

• "Lisa Graves on Hardball with Chris Matthews", (Lisa Graves, MSNBC, April 19, 2012)

• "ALEC to Right-Wing Bloggers: We Need Your Help!", (Andy Kroll, Mother Jones, April 18, 2012)

• "Corporations Donate To Groups On Both Sides Of Voter-ID", (Jonathan Salant, Bloomberg, April 19, 2012)

• "ALEC Disbands Controversial Task Force–But Continues Attack on Labor and Environment", (Lindsey Kratochwill, In These Times, April 18, 2012)

• "The Politics of Guns in America", (Diane Rhem radio program, April 18, 2012)

• "After Pounding From Progressives, ALEC Backs Off Of Social Issues", (TPM, April 17, 2012)

• ALEC Sharpens Focus on Jobs, Free Markets and Growth -- "Announces the End of the Task Force that Dealt with Non-Economic Issues", (MarketWatch, April 17, 2012)

• "ALEC Drops Push for Voter ID, Stand Your Ground Laws After Public Outcry Sparks Corporate Exodus", (Lisa Graves, Democracy Now!, April 18, 2012)

• "More companies flee association with ALEC", (Marcos Restrepo, Colorado Independent, April 12, 2012)

March 2012

• "Lobbyists, Guns and Money", (Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 25, 2012)

• "How ALEC Is Creating Florida-Style Messes in Other States", (John Nichols, The Nation, March 26, 2012)

• "Unarmed and dangerous?", (Cliff Schecter, Al Jazeera, March 26, 2012)

• "How The Right Wing 'ALEC' Teamed Up With The NRA To Get Copycat, 'Stand Your Ground' Laws In 21 States", (Bill Berkowitz, Huffington Post, March 25, 2012)

February 2012

• The Big Money Behind State Laws, (Editorial, The New York Times, February 12, 2012)

• "How Scott Walker and ALEC Plotted the Attack on Arizona's Unions", (John Nichols, The Nation, February 2, 2012)

January 2012

• "Continuing Assault on Unions", (The New York Times, January 7, 2012)

• "The hollow democracy", (Robert Koehler, The Chicago Tribune, January 5, 2012)

• Talking Points Memo on why the "Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011" looks a lot like ALEC model legislation", (Zoe Schlanger, TPM, July 21, 2011)

• "GOP Anti-Labor Zealotry", (John Nichols, The Nation, January 11, 2012)

• "Holt Baker: Collective Action Key Tool to Building King’s Dream into Reality", (Mike Hall, AFL-CIO, January 13, 2012)

• "Norquist, ALEC and the Koch brothers", (Barbara Kelly, Savannah Morning News, January 11, 2012)

• "John Nichols: Right-to-Work threatens Rev. King’s legacy", (John Nichols, The Capital Times, January 11, 2012)

• "Snark Bites: Corporate sponsorship of lawmakers on the way", (Scott McNutt, Knoxville News Sentinel, January 8, 2012)

• "Why Is Public Education Being Outsourced to Online Charter Schools?", (Rania Khalek, Alternet, January 8, 2012)

• "ALEC leads the way to corporate governance", (Nancy Lindsay, Ohio Times News Reporter, January 8, 2012)

• "Right-to-Work Laws Reduce Wages and Don't Create Jobs", (AFT, January 2012)

• "Why You Can Be Branded a Terrorist for Fighting Animal Abuse", (Rania Khalek, Alternet, January 4, 2012)

• "Has America's Stolen Election Process Finally Hit Prime Time?", (HuffingtonPost, January 4, 2012)

• "Report exposes the lies behind ‘Right to Work’", (The Bloomington Alternative, January 3, 2012)

December 2011

• "The new wave of US voter suppression", (Amy Goodman, Guardian, December 28, 2011)

• "If you can't beat 'em, enjoin them (from voting)", (Amy Goodman, Appeal Democrat, December 15, 2011)

• "Farley bill next session: The ALEC Accountability Act", (David Safier, Blog for Arizona, December 2011)

• "Indigenous Person of the Year: The Indigenous Woman", (Brenda Norrell, The NarcoSphere, December 15, 2011)

• "Corporate Education Reform and ALEC's Definition of Acceptable Risk", (Shaun Johnson, Huffington Post, December 15, 2011)

• "DOJ steps up voting rights scrutiny amidst activist groundswell", (Facing South, December 15, 2011)

• "The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the Savage Assault on Democracy", (John Nichols, Oped News, December 12, 2011)

• "Voter ID laws recall Jim Crow", (Neal Peirce, Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 11, 2011)

• "Black Group Targets Corporations Over Voting Laws", (Suzanne Gamboa, Boston.com, December 8, 2011)

• "Slavery: Alive and Well in the US, Sponsored by ALEC", (Open Salon, December 8, 2011)

• "Bill Gates Gives ALEC Big $$$ to “Reform Education”, (Kristina Chew, Care2, December 5, 2011)

• "Soros Cash, Left-Wing Talking Points Fuel ALEC attack", (Iris Somberg, Business & Media Institute, December 6, 2011)

• "Unitarian Universalists join protest at ALEC's States & Nation Policy Summit", (Steve Palm-Houser, Examiner, December 3, 2011)

• "Indigenous ALEC Protest: Border Rights and Prison Profiteers", (Brenda Norrell, The Narcosphere, December 1, 2011)

• "State Legislators Like Romney, A Lot", (Eli Lehrer, Frum Forum, December 1, 2011)

• "Pssst...Wanna Buy a Law?", (Alison Fitzgerald & Brendan Greeley, Business Week, December 1, 2011)

• "ALEC Enjoys A New Wave of Influence and Criticism", (Alan Greenblatt, Governing Magazine, December 2011)

November 2011

• "The Vacancies of Capitalism", (Counterpunch, November 30, 2011)

• "Locking up profits: Private prison companies strive to keep millions behind bars to keep their profits up, (James Ridgeway, Al Jazeera English, November 28, 2011)

• "How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools", (Lee Fang, Truthout, November 18, 2011)

• "Private Prisons Industry: Increasing Incarcerations, Maximizing Profits and Corrupting Our Democracy", (David Donnelly, Huffington Post, November 17, 2011)

• "Who Are the Koch Brothers? (Part 2: The Political Action Legacy)", (James Hamilton, All Voices, November 17, 2011)

• "Complaint against Upmeyer dismissed by House Ethics Committee", (Mike Wiser, Globe Gazette, November 16, 2011)

• "How to Make Congress More Corrupt", (Jamelle Bouie, The American Prospect, November 16, 2011)

• "Campaign and Lobbying Expenditures Promote Fracking Big Time", (Rick Cohen, The Nonprofit Quarterly, November 10, 2011)

• "Prisons of the 1%", (LubbockOnline, November 14, 2011)

• "Koch Brothers Poised to Raise Influence With Massive Conservative Database", (Patrick Glennon, In These Times, November 8, 2011)

• "Voting Limits Put Democracy in Peril", (Judith Browne Dianis, CNN, November 8, 2011)

• "Upmeyer Challenges Validity of Ethics Complaint", (John Skipper, Globe Gazette, November 7, 2011)

• "Assault on Democracy", (Judith Browne-Dianis, AFRO, November 4, 2011)

• "Introducing the Same Day Registration and Voter Access Protection Act", (The American Muslim, November 2, 2011)

• "Introducing the Same Day Registration and Voter Access Protection Act", (Keith Ellison, Huffington Post, November 2, 2011)

• "Don't Help Obamacare with State Healthcare Exchanges", (Lincoln Tribune, November 1, 2011)

October 2011

• "The Republican 'Voter Fraud' Fraud", (Diane Roberts, The Guardian, October 31, 2011)

• "Campaigning to Make it Harder to Vote", (Judith Browne-Dianis & Bob Hall, New Observer, October 2011)

• "Letter: Wants media to tell more on 'big money'", (Tom and Kay Downey, St. Augustine Record, October 31, 2011)

• "Photo IDs nothing more than vote suppression", (Hilton Head Island-Packet, October 26, 2011)

• "Letters: 'Bill mill' undermines our democratic society", (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, October 21, 2011)

• "This is what Plutocracy Looks Like", (Jim Miller, Ocean Beach Rag (CA), October 17, 2011)

• "Voting laws raise political controversy", (Charlie Kessler, Daily Illini (University of Illinois), October 13, 2011)

• "'Adviser' Adam Werritty ran charity from Liam Fox's office", (Rupert Neate, Robert Booth, Rajeev Syal and Simon Bowers, The Guardian (UK), October 6, 2011)

• "Wisconsin and Ohio: Resistance Rising", (Sara Robinson, Truthout, October 6, 2011)

• "New laws undermine core principles of U.S. democracy", (Steve & Cockie Roberts, Argus Press, October 6, 2011)

• "Requiring government-issued ID will decrease the voting populace", (Nayeli Carrillo, Daily 49er, October 3, 2011)

• "A War on Voting: Could Redistricting and Voting Law Changes Help Republicans Win in 2012?", (Democracy Now!, October 4, 2011)

• "Get Ready Not to Vote: Why 2012 Just Got More Interesting", (Charles Pierce, Esquire, October 3, 2011)

• "GOP, ALEC Could Make It Harder For 5 Million To Cast Ballots", (Adam Sewer, Mother Jones, October 3, 2011)

• "Rick Perry and ALEC", (Dennis Kaiser, OpEdNews, October 1, 2011)

September 2011

• "The truth about voter suppression", (Ed Kilgore, Salon, September 30, 2011)

• "Democracy Under Attack", (Judith Brown Dianis, The Huffington Post, September 28, 2011)

• "ALEC ‘scholarships’ raise ethics concerns", (Brendan Fischer, The Cap Times, September 28, 2011)

• "The Radical Republican Political Strategy is Failure", (The Daily Kos, September 26, 2011)

• "Rick Perry, Pay-for-Player Jailer", (William Fischer, Truthout, September 25, 2011)

• "Rick Perry’s Attack on Democracy", (John Nichols, The Nation Magazine, September 21, 2011)

• "Lead letter: Health care plan had roots in the GOP", (The Florida Times Union, September 22, 2011)

• "Targeting Immigrants", (Kade Crockford and Nancy Murray, Truthout, September 22, 2011)

• "Taking Back the Vote", (Terrance Heath, Truthout, September 21, 2011)

• "COURT CHALLENGES AWAIT GOP VOTER EXCLUSION LAW", (Dominique Paul Noth, Milwaukee Area Labor Council, September 21, 2011)

• Common Blog, "Money, Power and the American Legislative Exchange Council", (Nikki Willoughby, Common Blog, September 21, 2011)

• "Vote suppression in the US revs up", (Heather Parton, Al Jazeera English, September 19, 2011)

• "ALEC EXPOSÉ WINS SIDNEY AWARD", (Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation, September 16, 2011)

• "ALEC’s influence should be call to citizen vigilance", (Bangor Daily News, Septemeber 15, 2011)

• "Hiding the Sausage", (Billy Manes, Orlando Weekly, September 15, 2011)

• "ALEC Exposed wins Sidney Award for Excellence in Socially Conscious Journalism", (Bob Sloan, Daily Kos, September 14, 2011)

• "ALEC corporations pay big to Congress", (Yana Kunichoff, The American Independent, September 13, 2011)

• "ALEC: EXPOSED" WINS SEPTEMBER SIDNEY AWARD", (Lindsay Beyerstein, Big Think, September 13, 2011)

• "Jim Cooper and Dick Durbin Rap Voter ID and ALEC", (Jonathan Meador, Nashville Scene, September 12, 2011)

• "Corporations Represented on ALEC's Private Enterprise Board Are Big Spenders in Washington", (Brad Hooker, Open Secrets, September 12, 2011)

• "The War on Higher Education" (John McNay, George Mason University’s History News Network, September 11, 2011)

• "GOP reveal depth of its voter-exclusion plan", (Roger Bybee, In These Times, September 12, 2011)

• "Congress Investigated GOP War on Voting", (Ari Berman, Rolling Stone, September 8, 2011)

• "Inside the ALEC Dating Service", (Marc Pocan, The Progressive, September 2011)

• "LePage’s Koch Brothers connection revealed", (Colin Woodward, Portland Phoenix, September 7, 2011)

• "ANNOUNCEMENT: Looking For Feedback on Anti-ALEC/Koch Progressive led Bus Tour this Fall", (Bob Sloan, Daily Kos, September 6, 2011)

• "LePage’s Koch Brothers connection revealed", (Colin Woodard, Portland Phoenix, September 7, 2011)

• "New Evidence of ALEC Connections in All Successful Voter ID Legislation", (Campus Progress, September 8, 2011)

• "Courtesy Of The GOP, Jim Crow Is Back In A National Voter Suppression Campaign", (Shaun Mullen, The Moderate Voice, September 7, 2011)

• "Remembering the Moment Our CEO’s Dug In", (Sam Pizzigati, Truthout, September 6, 2011)

• "Taking Back Labor Day", (Amy Dean, Truthout, September 5, 2011)

• "No Jane, It’s Not Baldwin", (Neil Ferstand, CT News Junkie, September 2, 2011)

• "'ALEC', UN-Elected, Writing U.S. Legislation Under Koch-Influenced Direction In Many States Costly 'Hidden-Tunnel Operation'", (Henry Clay Ruark, Salem News, September 1, 2011)

• "AT&T bought more than 700 copies of Rick Perry’s book", (Eric Rolan, The Raw Story, September 1, 2011)

August 2011

• "Pro-Gun Group’s Call to Sell Seized Weapons Advances to States", (Alison Fitzgerald, Bloomberg, August 10, 2011)

• "Wal-Mart Joins Amazon to Pitch State Law for Tax Benefit Plan", (Alison Fitzgerald, Bloomberg, August 4, 2011)

• "Voter ID Laws 101", (Tobin Van Ostern & David Halperin, Campus Progress, August 31, 2011)

• "Lisa Graves Sheds Light on ALEC’s Fracking Agenda", (Don't Frack with NY!, August 31, 2011)

• "The GOP War on Voting", (Ari Berman, Rolling Stone, August 30, 2011)

• "Public Education and the Tentacles of Profit", (Emanuele Corso , NMPolitics, August 30, 2011)

• "Halloween Danger Comes Early: Smart ALEC’s Concept of a Nasty Trick or Treat", (The Michigan View, August 29, 2011)

• "Rep. Lewis: Voter ID ‘A Poll Tax by Another Name’", (Campus Progress, August 29, 2011)

• "‘Profiteers of Misery’ The U.S. Private Prison Industrial Complex", (Kanya D'Almeida, IPS News, August 24, 2011)

• "Thom Hartmann & State Represenative Mark Pocan: ALEC exposed in New Orleans. 5 August '11", (The Thom Hartmann Program, August 23, 2011)

• "Koch/ALEC...attacks upon public education. Looking deep into the Rabbit Hole", (Bob Sloan, Daily Kos, August 23, 2011)

• "America’s Day Of Rage Is Coming, And It’s Just The Beginning", (Dustin Slaughter, The Public Record, August 23, 2011)

• "The Lewis Powell Memo - Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy", (Charlie Cray, Greenpeace, August 23, 2011)

• "Elite Privilege and the Prison-Industrial Complex", (Forbes, August 23, 2011)

• "Voter ID Legislation Politically Motivated", (Nashua Telegraph, August 19, 2011)

• "VIDEO: Corporate Lobbyist Concedes He Does Not Always Register As A Lobbyist For ALEC Bills He Helps Write", (Lee Fang & Scott Keyes, Think Progress, August 17, 2011)

• "Corporate influence over state lawmakers and legislation undermines individual rights and voices", (Cleveland.com, August 16, 2011)

• "How the ALEC corporate bill mill works", (Brendan Fischer, Madison.com, August 16, 2011)

• "As It Stands: Meet ALEC: a wolf in sheep's clothing", (Dave Stancliff, Times Standard, August 14, 2011)

• "Politics as Usual", (The Morning Call, August 13, 2011)

• "Politicians, Corporations Turn to ALEC to Find Policy Solutions", (Ed Silverstein, TechZone360, August 10, 2011)

• "Brendan Fischer: CO2 is good for you, and other ALEC talking points", (Brendan Fischer, Capital Times, August 10, 2011)

• "ALEC Annual Meeting Censors Journalists, Lays Out Corporate Agenda", (Uprising Radio, August 8, 2011)

• "US lawmakers and corporations join in unholy alliance", (Robert Wiley, Athens News, August 2011)

• "Top Companies Claim To Fight Global Warming, But Sponsor ALEC’s Climate Denial", (Brad Johnson, Think Progress, August 8, 2011)

• "Who's behind those crazy bills?", (Cynthia Chase, Concord Monitor, August 6, 2011)

• "Journalist Kicked out of ALEC Conference, Threatened With Arrest", (Eric Carlson, PR Watch, August 5, 2011)

• "The ALEC Wars Escalate", (David Weigel, Slate, August 5, 2011)

• MSNBC asks CMD's Lisa Graves "Who's in charge of America?", (MSNBC, August 5, 2011)

• "Perry’s Legislative Agenda Bears Strong Resemblance To ALEC’s Corporate-Backed Model Bills", (Sarah Bufkin, Think Progress, August 4, 2011)

• PR Watch, "ALEC Model Bills Create Hardship for Average Americans" Eric Carlson, PRWatch, AUgust 4, 2011)

• "ALEC Watch: What I did on my Summer Vacation", (Mark Pocan, The Progressive, August 4, 2011)

• "Big Business Woos ALEC Legislators in the Big Easy", (Lisa Graves, PR Watch, August 3, 2011)

• "Profit motive underlies outbreak of immigration bills", (Brendan Fischer, Capital Times, August 2, 2011)

• "Our Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding ALEC’s Influence on Your State Laws", (Lois Beckett, ProPublica, August 1, 2011)

• "The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor", (Mike Elk & Bib Sloan, The Nation, August 1, 2011)

• "Legislating Under the Influence: Money, Power, and the American Legislative Exchange Council", (Common Cause, August, 2011)

July 2011

• "Industry gets in on writing laws", (Alison Fitzgerald, Bloomberg, July 25, 2011)

• ALEC, Koch, and Exxon, (Alison Fitzgerald, Bloomberg, July 21, 2011)

• Common Cause's call for ALEC IRS probe, (Neela Banerjee, The Los Angeles Times July 14, 2011)

• ALEC, (Neela Banerjee & Tom Hamburger, The Los Angeles Times July 13, 2011)

• Reno News & Review on ALEC scrutiny (Dennis Myers, News Review, July 28, 2011)

• "A taxpayer-supported campaign against Big Government", (Daniel Denvir, Salon, July 28, 2011)

• "Progressives target national legislative organization behind many state proposals", (Jo Mannies, St. Louis Beacon, July 27, 2011)

• "Students Take on ALEC", (Emily Wood, The Nation, July 22, 2011)

• "House Speaker Harwell stops payment for some out-of-state legislator travel", (Tom Humphrey, Knoxville News, July 14, 2011)

• "At Koch's Conference: 'The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment", (Think Progress, July 2011)

• ALEC's active pursuit of state lawmakers, (Edwin Bender, FollowTheMoney, July 20, 2011)

• ALEC and who really writes state legislation, (NPR, July 21, 2012)

• CMD's potentially "world changing" document leak, (Ruth Conniff, The Isthmus, July 21, 2011)

• The mechanics of the ALEC scholarship fund (Beau Hodai, D.B.A. Press, July 2011)

• John Nichols and Julie Underwood segment on Majority Report Radio (Majority Report Radio, July 18, 2011)

• ALEC media reports, (Scott Rothschild, LJWorld, July 18, 2012)

• Rise of ALEC reports in media, (Dominique Paul North, Milwaukee Area Labor Council, July 18, 2011)

• ALEC and the Koch brothers, (Allison Kilkenny, Truthout, July 18, 2011)

• ALEC and Milton Friedman, (Mary Bottari, Huffington Post July 18, 2011)

• on ALECexposed.org, (Death & Taxes, July 14, 2012)

• Release of ALEC documents, (Lois Beckett, ProPublica July 15, 2011)

• ALEC threat to healthcare, (Andrea Grimes, Ms. Magazine, July 15, 2011)

• Calls for an IRS investigation into ALEC, (John Nichols, The Nation July 15, 2011)

• Spotlight aimed at ALEC, (Mike Hall, AFL-CIO, July 14, 2011)

• ALEC: Match.com for industry lobbyists, (Alex Pareene, Salon, July 14, 2012)

• on ALEC Exposé, (David Dayen, Fire Dog Lake, July 13, 2011)

• ALEC's Dirty Secrets, (Kert Davies, Greenpeace, July 13, 2011)

• CMD's ALEC document bomb, (Jesse Russel, Dane 101, July 13, 2011)

• ALEC Exposed, (Ruth Conniff, The Progressive July 13, 2011)

• Getting to Know ALEC, (David Waldman, Daily Kos July 13, 2011)

• ALEC "Publicopoly", (Beau Hodai, In These Times July 11, 2011)

Reports Connecting State Legislation to ALEC Model Bills

Alabama

• "School groups want amendments to Accountability Act" (Brian Lyman, The Prattville Progress, March 5, 2013)

• "The twisted anatomy of Mary Sue McClurkin" (Courtney Haden, Weld for Birmingham, March 5, 2013)

• "Does ALEC influence politics, laws?", (Dana Beyerle, Tuscaloosa News, June 17, 2012)

• "Corrections Corporation of America Lobbyists in Alabama", (Alabama Corruption, December 5, 2011)

Alaska

• "State leaders prefer cooked map to protecting Native voters" (Shannyn Moore, Anchorage Daily News, February 25, 2013)

• "Public money for private schools? ALEC strikes again" (Shannyn Moore, Anchorage Daily News, February 9, 2013)

• "Alaska state lawmakers to push for voter ID laws again" (Richard Mauer, The Anchorage Daily News, December 10, 2012)

• "Reactions to Health Care Ruling Mixed" (Pat Forgey, Morris News Service, July 4, 2012)

• "Our view: Suite life; who pays?", (Anchorage Daily News editorial, August 22, 2011)

Arizona

• Arizona State Report

• "Supreme Court Weighs Ariz. Restrictions on Voter Registrations", (Aaron Kase, Lawyers.com, March 18, 2013)

• "Arizona cities would become gun sellers under bill to ban buybacks" (Amanda J. Crawford, Bloomberg News, February 20, 2013)

• "Arizona bill would let teachers dismiss global warming" (Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services, February 5, 2013)

• "Extremism opens divide between lawmakers, voters" (Frank Camacho, Arizona Daily Sun, October 9, 2012)

• "Clean energy showdown in Arizona" (David Roberts, Grist, October 3, 2012)

• "White Lies and Arizona’s Culture of Fear", (Rodolfo Acuna, Counterpunch, September 14, 2012)

• "Transparency Missing in Arizona's Legislature", (Kathleen Ingley, iWatch News, August 1, 2012)

• "ALEC's PR Fail", (Tucson Citizen, June 16, 2012)

• "ALEC finally under investigation", (AZCentral.com, May 30, 2012)

• "Arizona Governor Issues Surprise Veto Of ALEC-Endorsed Bill Allowing The State To ‘Take Back’ Public Lands", (Public Lands Team, ThinkProgress, May 15, 2012)

• "Top Lobbyist and ALEC Members Host Emergency Meeting with Arizona Legislators and Staff", (People for the American Way, April 26, 2012)

• "SB 1070-Backer ALEC Under Fire for its Legislative Influence", (Luke Witman, Examiner (AZ), April 22, 2012)

• "Groups Protest ALEC", (The Arizona Republic, April 12, 2012)

• "Progressives call for lawmakers to quit group", (MyFox Phenix, April 12, 2012)

• "Arizona's Largest Energy Company Will Leave ALEC", (Zaid Jilani, Republic Report, April 12, 2012)

• "ALEC in Arizona: The Voice Of Corporate Special Interests In The Halls Of Arizona’s Legislature" (PFAW/CC/CMD/PN, April 11, 2012)

• "State lawmakers push to take over millions of federal acres" (Shaun McKinnon and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Arizona Republic, March 27, 2012)

• "As Supreme Court reviews health care law, Arizona’s position is clear" (Cronkite News Service, Today's News-Herald, March 26, 2012)

• "Will Arizona Hold ALEC Accountable?", (Beau Hodai, In These Times, January 12, 2012)

• "Is Arizona, US seeing a change in politics?", (ABC 15 News, January 1, 2012)

• "Can ALEC Dim Arizona Solar on Tuesday?", (Susan Kraemer, Clean Technica, December 15, 2012)

• "Report: ALEC in Arizona influences lawmakers", (Tucson Citizen, December 12, 2011)

• "VIDEO: Arizona police pepper-spraying protesters at ALEC convention", (Tucson Citizen, December 11, 2011)

• ""Brewer: Arizona’s current personnel system problematic" (Tucson Citizen, December 11, 2011)

• "What Happened At ALEC’s Arizona Conference?", (Staff Report, Modern Times, December 9, 2011)

• "24 Arrested in Occupy ALEC in Arizona (video)", (Kristina Chew, Care2, December 4, 2011)

• "Indigenous target ALEC in Phoenix, Shell in South Africa", (Brenda Norrell, Narcosphere, November 30, 2011)

• "Anger at Corporate Legislative Meeting Boils Over - Phoenix", (Demotix, November 30, 2011)

• "Occupy ALEC in Arizona: Fight Corporate Influence In State Laws" (Kristina Chew, Care2.org, November 29, 2011)

• "Governor Jan Brewer to Speak on First Day of ALEC Convention", (Stephen Lemons, Phoenix New Times, November 28, 2011)

• "Legislative Council", (Arizona Republic, November 27, 2011)

• "Senate's Dead Tree Not Quite What Staffers Had in Mind", (Tucson Citizen, November 27, 2011)

• "ALEC IN ARIZONA: THE VOICE OF CORPORATE SPECIAL INTERESTS IN THE HALLS OF ARIZONA’S LEGISLATURE", (PFAW & Common Cause, November 2011)

• "Arizona prison businesses are big political contributors", (Bob Ortega, The Arizona Republic, September 4, 2011)

• "Arizona group will fight visit from ALEC", (AZ Central, August 16, 2011)

Arkansas

• "85,000 Arkansas Unemployed Could Soon Be Subjected to Humiliating Drug Tests (Nastacia Leshchinskaya, Policy Mic, April 9, 2013)

• "Walmart, ALEC unite on another school 'reform' bill," (Max Brantley, Arkansas Times, August 14, 2012)

• "Lawmaker aims to expose ALEC", (Max Brantley, Arkansas Blog, July 24, 2012)

• "Council’s bill-writing sway raises questions", (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, August 21, 2011)

California

• "ALEC's influence peeks through several bills filed at the Lege this session", (Andrew Oxford, Current, March 20, 2013)

• "Editorial: Don't stifle probes of animal abuse" (Editorial, Monterey County The Herald, March 18, 2013)

• "Legislators Are Swayed by the Luxurious Life Provided by Corporations" (Colette King, Highlander, March 12, 2013)

• "Highway Robbery: How "public-private partnerships" extract private profit from public infrastrucute projects" (Darwin Bondgraham, Dollars & Sense, November/December, 2012)

• "Head to Head: Should California voters have to show photo ID in order to vote?", (Pia Lopez & Ben Boychuk, The Sacramento Bee, Septmeber 6, 2012)

• "Another "deregulation" scam", (Doug Porter, San Diego Free Press, August 10, 2012)

• "AT&T should be begging California for forgiveness, not regulatory relief", (Bruce Kushnick, Nieman Watchdog, July 20, 2012)

• "Who is ALEC?", (Bill Buck, CBS Sacramento, July 5, 2012)

• "Are Community Colleges Meant Mainly to Crank Out Workers for Business?", (La Mesa Patch, November 29, 2011)

Colorado

• "ALEC’s attack on renewables arrives in Colorado," Boulder Weekly, January 2, 2014.

• "Littwin: ALEC nation" (Mike Littwin, The Colorado Independent, December 6, 2013)

• "Colorado Committee Kills Bill Giving Legal Protections To Teaching Climate Change Denial And Creationism In Schools" (Jessiva Goad, Think Progress, February 8, 2013)

• "Critics question organization's motives, (John Stroud, Glenwood Springs Post Independent, July 17, 2012)

Connecticut

• "Newtown lawmaker carried NRA's water" ("The Day editorial, January 17, 2013)

• "McLachlan criticized for paid trips", (Dick Perrefort, The News-Times, September 19, 2012)

• "Promising Too Much On Public Pensions", (Hartford Courant editorial, August 10, 2012)

• "Connecticut businesses, lawmakers, keep ties to controversial group", (Ana Radelat, The CT Mirror, July 13, 2012)

Florida

• "Florida State Report"

• "Florida House Passes ALEC-Linked Anti-Sick Leave, Anti-Living Wage Bill", (Ashley Lopez, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, April 5, 2013)

• "State House wants to block sick-time ordinances", (Billy Manes, Orlando Weekly, April 10, 2013)

• "Florida House pension limits rooted in controversial group", (John Kennedy, The Palm Beach Post, March 25, 2013)

• "Committee Gives Parent Trigger Bill First Approval" (Gina Jordan, State Impact, March 8, 2013)

• "NRA’s juice boosts gun law" (The Miami Herald editorial, March 1, 2013)

• "Florida Task Force on ‘Stand Your Ground’ Gives the Controversial Law a Vote of Confidence" (Jamilah King, ColorLines, February 27, 2013)

• "Drug-testing of welfare applicants violates Constitution" (Jay Bookman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 26, 2013)

• "Florida is Winning the Race to the Bottom", (Dennis Maley, The Bradenton Times, January 6, 2013)

• "Progressives Warn State Lawmakers About ALEC's Influence" (Ashley Lopez, WLRN, December 4, 2012)

• "Flurry of Photo ID Laws Tied to Conservative Washington Group", (Ethan Magoc, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, August 14, 2012)

• "Independent Report Finds Ron Saunders Under ALEC Influence", (Kartik Krishnaiyer, The Political Hurricane, August 8, 2012)

• "ALEC’s Influence in Florida Is Broad Among Business and with State Lawmakers", (Florida Education Association, accessed August 6, 2012)

• "Happytown", (Billy Manes, Orlando Weekly, August 2, 2012)

• "Report: American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Exerts Unprecedented Influence Over Florida", (Mel Fabrikant, The Paramus Post, July 28, 2012)

• "FL-Corporate Success Through Legislation", (WJHG.com, July 27, 2012)

• "Report: Among Florida Lawmakers, ALEC’s Influence Runs Deep", (Ashley Lopez, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, July 27, 2012)

• "Groups Claim Conservative Nonprofit Lobbies Fla. Legislators, Influences State Law", (Jessica Palombo, WFSU, July 26, 2012)

• "Report: ALEC's influence in Florida broad", (Brandon Larrabee, Napels News, July 26, 2012)

• "Groups Claim Conservative Nonprofit Lobbies Fla. Legislators, Influences State Law", (Jessica Palombo,WFSU, July 26, 2012)

• "Report Says ALEC Has Growing Influence In Florida Education Policy", (Gina Jordan, State Impact, July 26, 2012)

• "New report contends state lawmakers linked to ALEC", (James Call, The Florida Current, July 26, 2012)

• "ALEC is an enemy of liberty", (Nathan Goodman, Herando Today, July 19, 2012)

• "The politics of ‘Stand your ground’ law", (David Donnelly, The Miami Herald, July 9, 2012)

• "Space Coast Progressive Alliance To Host Stand Your Ground Forum", (Brevardtimes.com, July 8, 2012)

• "Corporations drop membership in group that promotes 'Stand Your Ground' laws" (Palm Beach Post, April 10, 2012)

• "Right-wing think tank leaks salaries of Florida public employees via new website", (Ashley Lopez, The American Independent, January 9, 2012)

• "Scott, state lawmakers make today a dark day", (James Hoffa, Tampa Bay Online, September 5, 2011)

• "Lawmakers should open up about ALEC", (Orlando Sentinel, August 14, 2011)

• "Nelson Wants Congressional Hearing on State’s New Voting Rules", (Ashley Lopez, Florida Independent, November 2, 2011)

• ALEC ‘Guide to Repealing ObamaCare’ echoes Florida legislative action", (Ashley Lopez, The Florida Independent, September 1, 2011)

• "Stealth ALEC courts Tallahassee Republican lawmakers", (Sun Sentinel, August 19, 2011)

• "Rep. Randolph seeks opinion on gift-ban exemption", (TampBay.com, August 8, 2011)

• "It's tough to sugarcoat Florida politicians' shenanigans", (Orlando Sentinel, August 6, 2011)

Georgia

• "ALEC-Backed Laws Promote Controversial Charter Schools" (Matthew Charles Cardinale, Inter Press Service, February 27, 2013)

• "ALEC guiding legislative priorities in Georgia" (Walter Jones, Athens Banner-Herald, October 7, 2012)

• "Report: Despite GOP Claims, Voter Fraud Virtually Non-Existent in U.S.", (Jackie Jones, Atlanta Black Star, August 21, 2012)

• "(IPS) Citizens Challenge Corporate Ties to ALEC, Heartland Institute", (Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News, May 23, 2012)

• "The link between Trayvon Martin and your state Capitol", (Jim Galloway, Atlanta Political Insider, April 18, 2012)

• "Georgia lawmaker quits ALEC, calls it ‘radical’ group with ‘dangerous agenda’", (David Ferguson, The Raw Story, April 17, 2012)

Idaho

• "Idaho Teacher Under Right-Wing Attack For Using the Word "Vagina" Also Under Attack For Teaching Climate Change" (Blair Koch, Policy Mic, April 8, 2013)

• "ICL Pushes Back Against Hopes for State Grab of Federal Land: 'It's Not a Piggy Bank to be Raided'" (Morgan Barnhart, Boise Weekly, February 8, 2013)

• "Idaho Health Exchange Group Hears From Prominent Foes Of The Federal Health Care Law", (Emilie Ritter Saunders, Boise State Public Radio & NPR's StateImpact Idaho, August 30, 2012)

• "Editorial: Conference an unfit use of taxpayer dollars", (The Spokesman-Review, August 1, 2012)

• "Protesters target wrong folks at ALEC meeting", (Idaho Press Tribune, July 30, 2012)

• "Eye on Boise: Lawmakers bill state for conference costs", (Betsy Russell, The Spokesman Review, July 29, 2012)

• "Idaho lawmakers in Salt Lake this week for ALEC conference, including defeated Rep. Hart", (Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman, July 24, 2012)

• "Idaho lawmakers attend ALEC conference in Utah", (My SanAntonio, July 24 2012)

• "States’ legislation packaged and promoted by big business", (Idaho Mountain Express, August 10, 2011)

Illinois

• "Durbin wants more police departments to trace guns", (Quincy Journal, Bob Gough, July 22, 2013)

• "Illinois Is National Leader In Green Initiatives, Jobs" (Ashlee Rezin, Progress Illinois, March 7, 2013)

• "EPI Blasts ALEC's Economic Recommendations Saying They Are Bad For The Public Good" (Ashlee Rezin, Progress Illinois, February 13, 2013)

• "New voter ID laws make it tough for some Americans to cast ballot" (Michelle Burroughs, Rantoul Press, September 25, 2012)

• "A Lukewarm Victory: The End of the Chicago Teachers’ Strike," (Matt Reichel, Counterpunch September 20, 2012)

• "Voting Rights Act anniversary celebrated, yet threats rising", (Chicago Sun-Times, August 7, 2012)

• "Bellock Named ALEC's 2012 Legislator of the Year, (Illinois Review, July 30, 2012)

• "Convicted felon to speak at NCSL event, as ALEC mole returns to hype his campaign", (Capitol Fax, July 26, 2012)

• "The Corporate Takeover of America—A Government of the Elites, by the Bureaucrats and for the Corporations", (John W. Whitehead, Prairie Advocate, July 9, 2012)

Indiana

• "Knocking down barriers", (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette editorial, April 10, 2013)

• "Loosened gag still too tight" (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette editorial, March 1, 2013)

• "Carlson Takes Aim at ALEC, Seeks to Rein In Undeclared Lobbyists" (David Henke, Burnsbille Patch, February 28, 2013)

• "ALEC Involved in Indiana’s “Ag-Gag” Lawmaking" (Todd Smekens, Muncie Voice, February 10, 2013)

• "Environmental protection gets cold reception in Statehouse" (Dan Carpenter, Indy Star, February 4, 2013)

• "Choking access, support" (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette editorial, January 31, 2013)

• "Anti-Common Core Legislation Coming From Indiana Lawmaker", (Andrew Ujifusa, Education Week, January 3, 2013)

• "Climate-denying Indiana Regulator helps ALEC Coal Companies Delay EPA Climate Rules" (Connor Gibson, Pollutor Watch, December 13, 2012)

• "'Right to Work' Advances in Indiana over Protests", (Theresa Moran, Labor Notes, January 10, 2012)

• "Indiana doing fine without right to work", (Indianpolis Star, December 15, 2011)

• "Ind. schools chief Bennett headlines national conservative lawmaker conference", (The Republic (Columbus, Indiana), December, 2011)

Iowa

• "Iowa View: Iowans should be concerned about ALEC's quiet role" (Matt Sinovic, Des Moines Register, March 17, 2013)

• "Liberal groups assail 'corporate bill mill' American Legislative Exchange Council" (Jason Noble, Des Moines Register, March 12, 2013)

• "Iowa View: Why not buy some renewable energy?" (Barbara Bazyn, Shreveport Times, February 5, 2013)

• "“Shoot First” ALEC Bill Comes To Iowa Legislature" (Trish Nelson, Blog for Iowa, January 25, 2013)

• "Nonprofit spends big on politics despite IRS limitation" (Michael Beckel, The Center for Public Integrity, January 28, 2013)

• "Will Legislators Represent ALEC or Iowa?" (Progress Iowa, January 14, 2013)

• "Decay of democratic process in the nation, Iowa" (Thomas Raphael-Nakos, The Bettendorf News October 4, 2012)

• "Why Are Corporate Members Of ALEC Writing Iowa’s Laws?, Trish Nelson, Blog for Iowa, July 16, 2012)

• "IOWA DEMOCRAT DROPS TIES TO ‘EXTREME’ AND ‘PARTISAN’ ALEC", (Rebecca Leber, ThinkProgress, May 16, 2012)

• "Progress Iowa continues campaign against American Legislative Exchange Council", (Iowa Politics, April 17, 2012)

Kansas

• "Francisco, others warn about attempts to change state’s renewable energy standard" (Scott Rothschild, Lawrence Journal-World, December 6, 2013)

• "ALEC sought a loyalty oath from key state lawmakers" (Barbara Shelly, The Kansas City Star, December 5, 2013)

• "How 'Stand Your Ground' came to Kanas", (The Topeka Capital-Journal, Andy Marso, July 23, 2013)

• "Hensley says Republican leaders delayed wrap-up session to attend summit" (Scott Rothschild, Lawrence Journal-World, April 8, 2013)

• "Kansas Legislators Continue to Stand Up for the Renewable Portfolio Standard", (Kimi Narita, Switchboard, March 20, 2013)

• "Kansas lawmakers reject lessening green energy rules" (John Hanna, Associated Press, February 28, 2013)

• "Tomfoolery in Topeka" (H. Edward Flentje, The Marysville Advocate, February 27, 2013)

• "Senate approves drug testing for welfare recipients" (Andy Marso, The Topeka Capital-Journal, February 27, 2013)

• "Tomfoolery in state finance" (H. Edward Flentje, The Hutchinson News, February 24, 2013)

• "Kansas Lawmaker With Ties to Oil and Gas Industry Introduces Bill Opposing Sustainable Development" (Andrew Peterson, ThinkProgress, February 20, 2013)

• "Geophysicist's bill prohibits sustainable development" (Andy Marso, The Topeka Capital-Journal, February 19, 2013)

• "Kansas Bill Would Require Teachers To Misinform Students About Climate Change" (Rebecca Leber, ThinkProgress, February 19, 2013)

• "Green Energy Standards Hitting Blockades" (Ken Silverstein, Energy Biz, February 18, 2013)

• "In Kansas, A 'Glide Path' To No Income Taxes. Will It Work?" (Frank Morris, NPR, February 15, 2013)

• "Democrats propose initiatives, criticize bills opposed by unions" (Scott Rothschild, The Lawrence Journal-World, February 11, 2013)

• "Dems decry ALEC influence on working Kansans" (Andy Marso, The Topeka Capital-Journal, February 11, 2013)

• "Speaker-elect paid himself for decade of phone, Internet" (Andy Marso, The Topeka Capital-Journal, December 6, 2012)

• "Kansas Statehouse’s ‘Big Three’ tied to controversial council" (Scott Rothschild, Lawrence Journal-World, December 5, 2012)

• "Sam Brownback Headlines GOP Fundraiser Packed With Lobbyists" (John Celock, The Huffington Post, September 26, 2012)

• "Not In Kansas Anymore: Politics Threaten State's Wind Energy Market", (Kimberly Svaty, North American Windpower, September 6, 2012)

• "Kansas legislators offer mixed reaction to Sprint exit from ALEC: ALEC confronts campaign to weaken corporate sponsorship," (Tim Carpenter, The Topeka Capital-Journal, September 1, 2012)

• "Statehouse Live: At least 8 GOP legislators registered to attend ALEC meeting", (Scott Rothschild, LJWorld.com, July 27, 2012)

• "NRA helped spread 'stand your ground' laws across nation" (Susan Ferris, Center for Public Integrity, Kansas City Star, March 27, 2012)

• "State lawmakers outsourcing duties to ALEC", (Barb Shelly, The Wichita Eagle, August 16, 2011)

• "Corporate-funded ALEC has strong ties to Kansas Legislature", (Scott Rothschild, Lawrence Journal, July 24, 2011)

Kentucky

• "Repeal Kentucky 'stand your ground' law, The Lexington Herald-Leader editorial, July 24, 2013)

• "Ky. Voices: Foes trying to block conservative advances", (Richard L. Roeding, Kentucky.com, July 23, 2012)

• "Cracks in ALEC's non-partisan facade show it's a corporate-GOP front, not a charity", (Ron Fromisano, Kentucky.com, July 9, 2012)

• "Ky. voices: ALEC helps legislators", (Mike Harmon, Kentucky.com, June 2, 2012)

• "Liberal Group Opposed to ALEC Opening Shop in Kentucky", (Kenny Colston, WKU Public Radio, May 31, 2012)

• "Battle Over ALEC Reaches Commonwealth", (Kenny Colston, KPR - Frankfort, May 2, 2012)

Louisiana

• "Behind Jindal's tax plan, an old debate that still rages", (Andrew Vanacore, New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 5, 2013)

• "Vouchers, teacher evaluations discussed by Baton Rouge education panel" (Lauren McGaughy, The Times-Picayune, February 18, 2013)

• "Gov. Bobby Jindal says tax proposal is not yet a finalized plan" (Jeff Adelson & Lauren McGaughy, The Times-Picayune, February 14, 2013)

• "Louisiana tax overhaul mirrors ALEC policies, will hurt low and middle-income households: CBPP" (Lauren McGaughy, The Times-Picayune, February 13, 2013)

• "Study ties Jindal tax plan to ALEC" (Capitol News Bureau, The Advocate, February 14, 2013)

• "Studies question wisdom of proposal to swap taxes" (Mike Hasten, The Advertiser, February 13, 2013)

• "Louisiana's voter ID compromise", (Nicholas Persac, The Advertiser, September 11, 2012)

• "La. legislators to attend nationwide conferences", (Marsha Shuler, The Advocate, July 27, 2012)

• "Speer’s ALEC public record request defense is Louisiana House of Cards", (Guest OpEd, BayouBuzz, July 19, 2012)

• "State Rep. Joe Harrison uses state stationery to solicit $1,000 contributions in order to support ALEC agenda", (Louisiana Voice, July 5, 2012)

• "Louisiana Voucher Applications Roll Forward Despite Union Lawsuits", (Kevin Mooney, The Pelican Post, July 2, 2012)

• "ALEC and school reform: La. plan mirrors think tank's blueprint", (Mary Nash-Wood, Shreveporttimes, June 3, 2012)

• "Rep. Vos heading to New Orleans for ALEC convention; local progressives call group concerning", (Stephanie Jones, Racine Journal Times, August 5, 2011)

Maine

• "Washington County residents have mixed reactions to plan to eliminate taxes (Colin Woodard, Portland Press Herald, December 5, 2013)

• Who is Writing Maine's Laws? Maine ALEC Report

• "Market-Driven Reforms Focus of Maine Gov's Education Conference", (Jay Field, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, March 22, 2013)

• "The Universal Notebook: The governor flunketh" (Edgar Allen Beem, The Forecaster, January 14, 2013)

• "The profit motive behind virtual schools in Maine", (Colin Woodard, Portland Press Herald, September 2, 2012)

• "Maine does not need a voter ID requirement", (Editorial, Portland Press Herald, August 26, 2012)

• "Voting system could use some improvements", (Editorial, Kennebec Journal, August 26, 2012)

• "Maine Lawmaker Defends ALEC as Corporate Sponsors Jump Ship", (A.J. Higgins, MPBN, June 1, 2012)

• "Who is Writing Maine's Laws?" (Maine's Majority Education Fund, March 15, 2012)

• "ALEC-Linked Group Revealed As Major Secret Donor In Referendum On Maine Voting Rights", (Scott Keyes, ThinkProgress, December 28, 2011)

• "Last-minute donations now flood Maine campaigns", (Eric Russel, Bangor Daily News, December 22, 2011)

• "Rep. Andre Cushing Billed Taxpayers $2,100 for ALEC Travel Expenses", (Maine’s Majority, September 16, 2011)

• "Same-Day Voter Advocates: Maine a Pawn in National Voting Restriction Campaign", (A.J. Higgins, The Maine Public Broadcasting Network, September 15, 2011)

• "American Legislative Exchange Council’s long arm reaching into Maine policy", (Jody Spear, Bangor Daily News, September 15, 2011)

• "Maine Governor Paul LePage's Copy-and-Paste Corporate Agenda", (Colin Woodard, Portland Phoenix, July 20, 2011)

Michigan

• "Speech Will Gives Clues To The Real Rick Snyder" (Peter Luke, Bridge Magazine, January 15, 2013)

• "Labor Voices: A new coalition to fight for Michigan" (Karla Swift, The Detroit News, December 19, 2012)

• "Elections Have Consequences" (Andy Cohen, San Diego Free Press, December 18, 2012)

• "Schuette: Right-to-work law applies to unionized state workers" (Karen Bouffard, The Detroit News, December 13, 2012)

• "ALEC's decades of 'right-to-work' effort pay off in Michigan" (Paul Abowd, The Center for Public Integrity, December 12, 2012)

• "Editorial: Drinking the Kochs' Kool-Aid" (Detroit Free Press editorial, December 11, 2012)

• "Michigan deals big blow to unions" (Olivia Ward, The Toronto Star, December 11, 2012)

• "Michigan’s right-to-work bill cribs ALEC" (Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon, December 11, 2012)

• "Michigan's new 'Right To Work' law may be the spark that ignites union support" (Willie Carlisle, The Examiner, December 9, 2012)

• "Michigan’s Right to Work Law: battle lines, strategy, tactics" (Jeff Bigelow, Liberation News, December 9, 2012)

• "Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity are leading the charge for Snyder's 'right-to-work' bill" (Greg Gardner, Detroit Free Press, December 6, 2012)

• "Hightower on ALEC in Michigan: Dictatorial Coup of Emergency Managers (PA4) (Koch, Snyder, Mackinac)" (Hector Solon, Daily Kos, September 28, 2012)

• "ALEC Power: How Corporations are Taking Over Government One Policy at a Time" (Crystal A. Proxmire, Between The Lines, August 23, 2012)

• "Not so smart, ALEC," (Curt Guyette, Detroit Metro Times, August 15, 2012)

• "Progressive groups question role of American Legislative Exchange Council in writing GOP-backed bills," (Dave Murray, Michigan Live, August 14, 2012)

• "GOP caught with voter-suppression pants down," (Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, August 14, 2012)

• "Many GOP-backed bills in Michigan copied from ‘model bills’, group says," (Karen Bouffard, Detroit News, August 13, 2012)

• "'Occupy' Movement Member Ticketed for Trespassing as Fire Alarm Is Pulled Disrupting Free-Market Conference", (Tom Gantert, Mackinac Center, July 30, 2012)

• "GM withdraws support from ALEC", (Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, July 27, 2012)

• "GM ends ties to controversial business-funded group", (David Shepardson, The Detroit News, July 26, 2012)

• "Advocacy group says GM cut ties with controversial non-profit ALEC", (David Muller, MLive, July 26, 2012)

• "U.S. economy still in doldrums", (Timothy Nash, Midland Daily News, July 8, 2012)

Minnesota

• Minnesota State Report

• "National "Stand Your Ground" debate hits home" (Jacob Wheeler, City Pages, January 30, 2013)

• "Editorial: Take school 'grades' with grain of salt" (Star Tribune editorial, January 14, 2013)

• "Conservative bullies seek more money, power at our expense", (Bill Mittlefehldt, Dulute News Tribune, January 3, 2013)

• "Minnesota House ALEC members: a look at the minority caucus committee recommendations" (Bluestem Prairie, December 6, 2012)

• "Connecting over the proposed voter ID amendment", (Bruce Johansen, Twin Cities Daily Planet, August 29, 2012)

• "Attacks on ALEC undermine efforts to reach common ground", (Peter Nelson, MinnPost, June 5, 2012)

• "ACLU Challenge to Photo ID Ballot Measure May Succeed in MN Supreme Court, Yet Fail in Court of Public Opinion", (Ernest A. Canning, The Brad Blog, July 2, 2012)

• "Minnesota campaign finance board to investigate complaint against ALEC", (Bill Salisbury, TwinCities.com, May 29, 2012)

• "Minnesota's Scantron becomes latest ed-related firm to quit ALEC", (Beth Hawkins, MinnPost, May 29, 2012)

• "Common Cause MN files complaints against ALEC", (Jake Grovum, PoliticsInMinnesota, May 15, 2012)

• "Common Cause complaint: ALEC skirting lobbying laws", (Beth Hawkins, MinnPost, May 15, 2012)

• "ALEC and corporate fingerprints are all over national push for online learning" (Beth Hawkins, MinnPost, March 26, 2012)

• "Minnesota's War on Voting", (Ari Berman, The Nation, March 26, 2012)

• "Legislating Under the Influence: How Corporations Write State Laws in Minnesota" (Common Cause)

• "Experts say ALEC should register as Minnesota lobbyist", (Jon Collins, Minnesota Independent, August 12, 2011)

• "ALEC balks after experts say it should register as Minnesota lobbyist", (Jon Collins, The American Independent, August 12, 2011)

• "ALEC may have violated Minnesota campaign finance ruling", (Jon Collins, American Independent, August 11, 2011)

• "Getting lawmakers on the record about ALEC", (Jeff Severns Guntzel, Minnesota Post, August 9, 2011)

• "Kiffmeyer: 30 Minnesota legislators are ALEC members", (Jon Collins, Minnesota Independent, August 5, 2011)

• "Whistleblower Exposes ALEC", (Bruce Fealk, The Rochester Citizen, July 14, 2011)

Mississippi

• "Mississippi charter school supporters fought against public education for years" (Joe Atkins, Facing South, February 19, 2013)

• "Mississippi Voter ID Law Poses Catch-22 For Some Voters Who Don't Have Proper Identification", (Nick Wing, The Huffington Post, July 6, 2012)

Missouri

• Missouri State Report

• "Emerson quits American Legislative Exchange Council" (Jacob Barker, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 14, 2014)

• "ALEC opens up (a bit)" (Alex Sakariassen,Missoula Independent, December 12, 2013)

• "Who’s Behind Anti-Worker Attacks in Missouri? ALEC" (Progress Missouri, [no date given])

• "Missouri may become latest Right-to-Work (for less) state" (Tony Pecinovsky, People's World, February 28, 2013)

• "Right-to-work building interest in Missouri Capitol" (Elizabeth Crisp, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 14, 2013)

• "House Committee hears voter photo ID proposal" (Mike Lear, MissouriNet, January 30, 2013)

• "Still Fired Up About ALEC", (Fired Up! Missouri, September 10, 2012)

• "Missouri Tort Reformers Flunk History Test As Court Strikes Down Damage Caps", (David Lyle, Media Matters, August 2, 2012)

• "Republican lawmakers in Utah for ALEC event", (Elizabeth Crisp, St. Louis Post Dispatch, July 27, 2012)

• "Editorial: Express Scripts right to end its participation in ALEC charade", (Editorial Board, STL Today, July 17, 2012)

• "Wal-Mart should end support of ALEC", (Bill Flethcher Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune, April 24, 2012)

• "ALEC Controversy Stirred at Missouri Capitol", (Tim Sampson, Missouri News Horizon, April 16, 2012)

• "REP. MIKE COLONA: ALEC IS "TOO EXTREME FOR ME AND THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI", (Progress Missouri, April 4, 2012)

• "Missouri's Right to Work for Less bills are functionally identical to ALEC models", (Progress Missouri, December 2011)

• "tracks ALEC model legislation as it moves through the State Capitol", (ProgressMissouri, November 2011)

• "Free-market group draws criticism for potential role in bills", (Jason Hancock, St. Louis Dispatch, August 5, 2011)

• "Corporate Interest Group Accused of Writing Missouri Laws", (Chad Garrison, River Front Times, July 27, 2011)

Montana

• "Corporate influence alarming" (Pat Bradley, The Montana Standard, March 22, 2013)

• "Say no to privatizing public ed", (State Rep. Franke Wilmer, The Montana Standard, March 20, 2013)

• "Republicans Not Doing Montanans a Favor" (Pat Bradley, Independent Record, March 12, 2013)

• "Secret organization infiltrated Montana Legislature" (Ed Blackler, Hungry Horse News, February 14, 2013)

• "Keep Montana's promise to public servants", (Eric Feaver, Billings Gazette, January 9, 2013)

• "Ballot item attacks individual health care mandate" (Hannah Stiff, The Belgrade News, October 5, 2012)

Nebraska

• "Senator touts NRA-ALEC gun legislation" (Kevin O'Hanlon, Lincoln Journal Star, February 28, 2013)

• "Lawmakers kill voter ID bill" (Paul Hammell, Omaha World-Herald, March 28, 2012)

• "on ALEC's war on voting", (Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska, March 10, 2011)

Nevada

• "2013 Legislature may set a record ... for dumb bills" (Cory Farley, Reno Gazette-Journal, February 24, 2013)

New Hampshire

• New Hampshire State Report

• "In fact, ALEC’s influence isn’t benign", (Zandra Rice Hawkins, Concord Monitor, March 22, 2013)

• "Surprise! Election fraud is virtually nonexistent," (Editorial, Nashua Telegraph, August 16, 2012)

• "ALEC no friend of New Hampshire", (Letter to the Editor, NashuaTelegraph, May 10, 2012)

• "on ALEC Right to Work model legislation in New Hampshire", (Granite State Progress, November 2011)

• "ALEC Exposed John Nichols The Nation", (John Nichols, New Hampshire AFL-CIO, September 20, 2011)

• "on ALEC bills in New Hampshire government", (New Hampshire Labor News, July 2011)

New Jersey

• New Jersey State Report

• "ALEC in New Jersey: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests in the Halls of New Jersey's Legislature" (PDF)

• "Oroho urged to pull gun bills" (Rob Jennings, New Jersey Herald, December 18, 2012)

• "New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Adopted ALEC Bills ‘Nearly Word For Word’" (Aviva Shen, Think Progress, October 1, 2012)

• "New report outlines N.J. lawmakers' use of controversial ALEC group" (Salvador Rizzo, New Jersey Stat Ledger, October 1, 2012)

• "Unions, activists push N.J. companies to abandon ALEC" (Salvador Rizzo, New Jersey Star Ledger, October 1, 2012)

• Coalition Brings 150,000 Petitions To Duke’s Doorstep Demanding Duke Energy Stop Funding ALEC & Voter Suppression", (Mel Fabrikant, The Paramus Post, September 5, 2012)

• "Johnson & Johnson right to pull out of ALEC", (Star-Ledger Editorial Board, NJ.com, June 13, 2012)

• "Johnson & Johnson becomes first N.J. company to part ways with ALEC", (Salvador Rizzo, NJ.com, June 12, 2012)

• "Watchdog group wants Attorney General to investigate ALEC's activities in N.J.", (Salvador Rizzo, NJ.com, May 3, 2012)

• "Some of Christie's biggest bills match model legislation from D.C. group called ALEC" (Salvador Rizzo, New Jersey Star-Ledger, April 1, 2012)

• Gov. Christie and Koch brothers share anti-environment agenda", (Jeff Tittel, New Jersey Newsroom, September 7, 2011)

New Mexico

• "No Time to Waste" (David A. Fryxell, Desert Exposure, March, 2013)

• "School Politics: Online-only schools are education reform’s next flashpoint" (Joey Peters, Santa Fe Reporter, September 25, 2012)

• "ALEC struggles to retain members", (Steve Terrell, The New Mexican, July 16, 2012)

• "Pulling back the curtain on ALEC in NM: A chat with the ALEC state chairman", (Progress Now New Mexico, April 28, 2012)

New York

• "Sen. Squadron urges fellow legislators to come clean on ALEC's influence," (Legislative Gazette, September 4, 2012)

• "Squadron Aims To Out ALEC In Albany", (David Freedlander, New York Observer blog "Politicker", August 28, 2012)

• "It’s time to defend our voting rights," (Benjamin Todd Jealous, New York Amsterdam News, August 16, 2012)

• "State senators question ALEC influence in NY", (The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2012)

• "Senate Dems’ ALEC hearing features uncut Grandeau", (Casey Seiler, Capitol Confidential, June 13, 2012)

• "Common Cause/NY Calls on Attorney General to Investigate ALEC Compliance with State Tax and Lobbying Laws", (ReadMedia, April 26, 2012)

• "New York Could Get Gun Law Like Florida's" (Times Herald-Record, March 28, 2012)

• "African-American State Senators Adams, Parker, Perkins To Wear Hoodies For Trayvon Martin" (Celeste Katz, New York Daily News, March 26, 2012)

North Carolina

• "Bill to repeal North Carolina's RPS passes House committee 11-10" (Solar Server, April 8, 2013)

• "Meet the ALEC-connected lawmakers behind bill to kill NC renewable energy law" (Sue Sturgis, Facing South, March 14, 2013)

• "North Carolina Leads The Way In Clean Energy Jobs. Let's Keep It That Way." (Luis Martinez, Switchboard, March 6, 2013)

• "Are NC schools teaching Art Pope's version of history?" (Chris Krom, Facing South, February 28, 2013)

• "Study details economic benefits of North Carolina's threatened clean energy program" (Sue Sturgis, Facing South, February 19, 2013)

• "In Raleigh, demonstrators protest Thom Tillis' ties to ALEC" (Jane Porter, Triangulator, January 29, 2013)

• "At the bottom of the broadband barrel" (Christopher Mitchell & Todd O'Boyle, Charlotte News & Observer, January 28, 2013)

• "Six to watch during the 2013 legislative session" (John Frank, Charlotte News & Observer, January 26, 2013)

• "Laffer lauds GOP lawmakers for tax push at Civitas lawmaker 'training'" (John Frank, Charlotte News & Observer, January 24, 2013)

• "Don’t burden middle-, low-income in tax plan" (Fannie Flono, Charlotte Observer, January 17, 2013)

• "McCrory's chief lobbyist, Fred Steen, also an ALEC bigwig" (Lisa Sorg, Indy Week's "triangulator" news blog, January 11, 2013)

• "Charlotte Observer Overlooks The ALEC Link To Green Energy Agenda In North Carolina", (Brian Powell, Media Matters, January 3, 2013)

• "The future of public education" (Bryan Perlmutter, Technician Online, September 25, 2012)

• "The BOG's shift to the right", (Stewart Boss, The Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 2012)

• "Protesters noisy but peaceful at DNC site," (Tom Williams, United Press International, September 6, 2012)

• "Duke Energy must break with council," (Tait Chandler, letter to the editor, The Daily Tarheel, September 6, 2012)

• "Protesters raise the volume, but keep the peace", (Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Meghan Cooke & Ely Portillo, Charlotte Observer, September 6, 2012)

• "Duke Energy CEO calls for clean energy at DNC", (Charlotte Observer, September 6, 2012)

• "Protesters clash with evangelists and executives in Uptown", (Ryan Pitkin, Creative Loafing Charlotte, September 6, 2012)

• "Duke CEO Rogers rides political, corporate intrigue into DNC", (Bruce Henderson, Charlotte Observer, September 5, 2012)

• "Duke Energy feels heat of protesters", (Fannie Flono, Charlotte Observer" blog "O-pinion," September 5, 2012)

• "Liberals pressure utility in Charlotte to cut ties with conservative group", (Zack Colman, The Hill, August 29, 2012)

• "ALEC Legislators, Companies Convene In Charlotte, N.C.", (ENews Park Forest, May 11, 2012)

• "ALEC comes to Charlotte to craft model legislation", (Newsobserver, May 10, 2012)

• "Dome: Common Cause asks N.C. attorney general to investigate ALEC", (Newsobserver.com, May 8, 2012)

• "Dome: N.C. Democrats will pick new leader Saturday" (David Parker, Newsobserver, February 14, 2012)

• "Tillis enjoys defending his record", (Charlotte Observer, July 12, 2011)

• "Behind the Bill: ALEC and Tort Reform", (North Carolina's WRAL TV, April 1, 2011)

North Dakota

• "There is no voter fraud, just vote suppression" (Marie Strinden, Grand Forks Herald, February 23, 2013)

• "GOP candidate’s lush life" (Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon, October 4, 2012)

Ohio

• Ohio State Report

• "Keep it clean" (The Toledo Blade editorial, April 6, 2013)

• "Ohio lawmakers take up wind, solar energy rule", (Associated Press, March 25, 2013)

• "The Columbus Dispatch's Disclosure Double Standard" (Salvatore Colleluori, Media Matters, February 28, 2013)

• "Majority Of Ohio Voters Support Renewable Energy" (Jake Richardson, CleanTechnica, February 27)

• "Studies question tax-cut link to new jobs" (Jim Siegel, The Columbus Dispatch, February 17, 2013)

• "A Buckeye Tax Reform" (The Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2013)

• "financial/2013/01/30/ohio-regulator-tied-to-group-opposing-renewables Ohio regulator tied to group opposing renewables" (Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press, January 30, 2013)

• "Ohio Newspapers Fail To Connect ALEC To New Efforts To Loosen Firearms Laws " (Brian Powell, Media Matters, December 13, 2012)

• "Wall Street Journal Misrepresents Personal Injury Law In Support Of ALEC Effort To Deny Asbestos Relief In Ohio " (Sergio Munoz, Media Matters, December 13, 2012)

• "Asbestos lawsuit bill passes in Senate; opponents say measure makes it tougher for Ohioans in court" (Jim Provance, Toledo Blade, December 6, 2012)

• "ALEC Helps Push Heavy Conservative Agenda in Ohio State Politics", (Bob Sloan, PolicyMic, August 27, 2012)

• "Voter Suppression in Ohio", (Bob Sloan, Voters Legislative Transparency Project, August 27, 2012)

• "Records: Ohio House office aided legislative group," Julie Carr Smyth, The News-Messenger, August 17, 2012

• "ALEC's Influence in Ohio Runs Deep" (CMD, PFAW, Common Cause & Progress Ohio, February 6, 2012)

• "Who Writes Ohio’s Legislation?", (Ohio Public Radio, July 27, 2011)

Oklahoma

• "Oklahoma is Ahead of Schedule in Renewable Energy Goal, Officials Say" (Paul Monies, NewsOK, March 8, 2013)

• "As Water in a Sieve: Legislators entertain profitless endeavor" (Arnold Hamilton, Urban Tulsa Weekly, February 13, 2013)

• "Bill seeks to eliminate funding for Oklahoma Arts Council" (Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2013)

• "The Oklahoman Relies On Corporate Lobbyists' PR Campaign To Promote Myth Of Lawsuit Abuse" (Lara Schwartz, Media Matters, January 15, 2013)

• "ALEC-Supported Disability Scholarship Program Challenged in Oklahoma, Threatens Public Schools and Church-State Separation", (Ameilia, People for the American Way, June 26, 2012)

• "American Legislative Exchange Council to hold spring summit in OKC", (M. Scott Carter, The Journal Record, June 25, 2012)

Oregon

• "Our Oregon Legislature is infested", (Rich Harisay, Williamettelive.com, July 27, 2012)

• "The ALEC 22 in the Oregon Lege", (Kari Chisholm, BlueOregon, June 1, 2012)

• "Oregon Politics Roundup: ALEC, natural gas, Salem's lot", (Harry Esteve, Oregon Live, May 29, 2012)

• ALEC gains foothold in Oregon, with one-fourth of legislators as members", (Michelle Cole, Oregon Live, May 26, 2012)

• "Oops! Fact that matters overlooked by ALEC", (Chuck Sheketoff, BlueOregon, April 18, 2012)

Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania State Report

• "‘State’s rights’ shouldn’t trump the individual right to vote", (Rep. Patrick Murphy, MSNBC.com, July 18, 2013)

• "Voter ID: How did we get here? Part I", (Randy LoBasso, Philadelphia Weekly, July 18, 2013)

• "GOP's unwise assault on workers' rights continues" (Robyn Blumner, Pocono Record, March 18, 2013)

• "Propelled By ALEC, ‘Right-to-Work’ Assault on Unions Reaches Pennsylvania" (Bruce Vail, Talking Union, February 4, 2013)

• "Pittsburgh movie draws teachers union ire", (Scott Tady, Beaver County Times, August 28, 2012)

• "Many states’ voter-ID laws, including Pennsylvania’s, appear to have tie to same U.S. group," (Ethan Magoc, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 14, 2012)

• "American Legislative Exchange Council endures liberal firestorm", (Brian Bumsted, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 6, 2012)

• "In PA: The Battle Against ALEC Rages On", (Patrick McAteer, PoliticsPA, May 16, 2012)

• "Common Cause Pa seeks investigation of ALEC", (Dave Davies, NewsWorks, May 3, 2012)

• "State's economic state not great, report suggests", (Reading Eagle, November 26, 2011)

• "Rep. Matthew Baker Threatens Citizen Activists for Exposing His Ties to Corporate Lobbyists", (Keystone Progress, August 10, 2011)

• "Keystone Progress vs. ALEC", (Keegan Gibson and Jared Edgerton, PoliticsPA, August, 2011)

Rhode Island

• "Grant Smith: Fossil-fuel interests unfairly trash renewable energy", (Grant Smith, Providence Journal, March 17, 2013)

• "Long: Woonsocket ‘is in a death spiral’ that’s not ALEC’s fault", (Ted Nesi, WPRI Rhode Island, June 20, 2012)

• "Lots of pushback to Joe Nocera’s ALEC-in-Woonsocket column", (Ted Nesi, WPRI Rhode Island, June 19, 2012)

• "RI Senate passed resolutions backing ALEC; now Dems scurry", (Ted Nesi, WPRI, April 25, 2012)

South Carolina

• "ALEC Alum Gov. Niki Haley Appoints fellow ALEC Alum to U.S. Senate" (Bob Sloan, Voters Legislative Transparency Project, December 17, 2012)

• "Wining And Dining In Utah", (FitNews, July 26, 2012)

• South Carolina's Anti-Municipal Broadband Bill Passes, AT&T Lobbying Blamed, (Tiffany Kaisser, Daily Tech, July 2, 2012)

• "ALEC Singled Out for Exemption from Lobbying Law in South Carolina", (ALLGov, May 9, 2012)

• "Common Cause questions ALEC’s S.C. tax status", (Robert Behre, The Post and Courier, May 9, 2012)

• "Lawmakers Exempted ALEC in S.C. Lobbying Law", (Corey Hutchins, Free Times, April 26, 2012)

• "American Legislative Exchange Council has a hand in S.C. politics" (The Post and Courier, April 23, 2012)

• "Nikki Haley “Love Nest,” Open Marriage Alleged", (Fits News, November 4, 2011)

• "S.C. Republicans Determined to Disenfranchise Black Voters", (Will Moredock, Charleston City Paper, November 2011)

South Dakota

• "Schools, not travel, deserve funding" (State Senator Larry Lucas, Argus Leader, April 8, 2013)

• "Organization under national criticism", (Jeff Bahr, Aberdeen News, January 8, 2013)

Tennessee

• "Animal cruelty bill is a subterfuge" (Editorial, The Tennessean, March 19, 2012)

• "A study suggests voter ID laws aren't addressing the real problem — unless the problem is a Democratic turnout" (Steven Hale, Nashville Scene, August 23, 2012)

• "ALEC under fire for perceived shift Members, sponsors dropping out of position change", (Tom Humphrey, Knox News, July 29, 2012)

• Lawmaker used lobbyist template", (Tom Humphrey, Knoxville News Sentinel, July 16, 2011)

• "Local Legislators in ALEC", (Knoxville Metro Post, Cari Wade Gervin, August 9, 2011)

Texas

• "Happy Holidays from ALEC" (The Austin Chronicle, December 27, 2013)

• "The Money Behind the Fight to Undermine Medicaid" (Forrest Wilder, The Texas Observer, December 5, 2013)

• Texas State Report

• "McKinney Sen. Ken Paxton's Tax-Credit Voucher Bill a Sneaky Way to Route Public Money to Private Religious Schools" (Brantley Hargrove, Dallas Observer, March 6, 2013)

• "Texas ALEC Chair Files “Preborn Pain Act,” as Promised by Rick Perry" (Andrea Grimes, Reproductive Health Reality Check, March 5, 2013)

• "Former ALEC Task Force Member Files Companion ‘Preborn Pain’ Bill In Texas Senate" (Andrea Grimes, Reproductive Health Reality Check, March 5, 2013)

• "Personal Property Tax Bill Would Hike Farmington Schools Taxes, Superintendent Says" (Joni Hubred-Golden, West Bloomfield Patch, December 11, 2012)

• "Area residents continue fight against big-money politics" (Chris Beattie, Star Local News, August 22, 2012)

• "Hightower Report: Abandoning ALEC", (Jim Hightower, The Austin Chronicle, June 15, 2012)

• "Progress Texas Releases Report on ALEC and Virtual Schools in Texas", (Phillup Martin, Progress Texas, May 22, 2012)

• "ALEC Exposed in Texas" (Progress Texas)

• "Some say the American Legislative Exchange Council influences legislation too much in Texas and U.S.", (Aman Batheia, Star-Telegram, December 3, 2011)

• "ALEC Exposed Wiki releases previously restricted documents", (Nicole, Texas Prison Bid'ness, July 14, 2011)

• "Texas tobacco tax law matches ALEC model legislation introduced in other states", (Patrick Michels, American Independent, August 5, 2011)

• "ALEC model legislation echoes TPPF, Perry-backed higher ed reforms in Texas", (Mary Tuma, American Independent, July 29, 2011)

Utah

• "Utah State Report"

• "Animals rights activists say Utah ag gag law unconstitutional", (Brooke Adams, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 22, 2013)

• "Prison-Relocation Bill Jeered at Hearing" (Eric Peterson, Salt Lake City Weekly, February 20, 2013)

• "Utah's children are not up for sale" (Kevin Nelson, Deseret News, February 5, 2013)

• "Education policy fight will define GOP" (Paul Rolly, The Salt Lake Tribune, September 29, 2012)

• "Campbell: Controversial ALEC has helped open government", (Joel Campbell, The Salt Lake Tribune, August 3, 2012)

• "Organize like ALEC", (Cindi Shields, The Salt Lake Tribune, August 1, 2012)

• "Loophole lets thousands in lobbyist expenses go unreported", (Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 30, 2012)

• "Loophole lets thousands in lobbyist expenses go unreported: Money spent feedingand entertaining lawmakers doesn’t have to be reported (Salt Lake Tribune, July 30, 2012)

• "Interest groups affecting legislation and Utah lands", (Frank Pignanelli & LaVarr Webb, Desert News, July 29, 2012)

• "Pyle: SuperPacs for better papers", (George Pyle, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 27, 2012)

• "McEntee: ALEC works in secrecy, Utah activists in public", (Peg McEntee, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 27, 2012)

• "Utah Senators say it’s time for ALEC to be more open", (Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 27, 2012)

• "A Wounded ALEC Assembles In Utah", (John Guzzon and Charles Parke, Modern Times Magazine, July 27, 2012)

• "ALEC In Utah", (The Salt Lake Tribune, July 27, 2012)

• "ALEC provides receptive crowd for Utah’s land battles", (Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 26, 2012)

• "Immigration Activists Rally Against ALEC Friday", (Eric Peterson, City Weekly, July 26, 2012)

• "Peaceful Uprising To Commemorate DeChristopher Anniversary", (Stephen Dark, City Weekly, July 26, 2012)

• "Protesters gather outside ALEC meeting in SLC", (Aaron Vaughn, Fox 13 Now Salt Lake City, July 26, 2012)

• "DeChristopher supporters stage peaceful protest at ALEC convention", (Wendy Leonard, Deseret News, July 26, 2012)

• "Protestors rally against conservative lawmaker's group; 1 arrested", (Paul Foy and Nkoyo Iyamba, KSL.com, July 26, 2012)

• "Conservative lawmakers gather in Utah", (Paul Foy, ABC 4 News Salt Lake City, July 26, 2012)

• "Utah’s Highest Court Hears Arguments in Anti-Corporate Personhood Initiative", (Jessica Gail, KCPW, July 26, 2012)

• "Anti-ALEC Protest And Rally For Public Education Thursday", (Eric Peterson, City Weekly, July 25, 2012)

• "ALEC Names Utah #1 For Economic Outlook Five Years Running", (Jessica Gail, KCPW, July 25, 2012)

• "Glen Warchol's Crawler: David calls out Goliath", (Glen Warchol, Salt Lake Magazine, July 25, 2012)

• "Common Cause criticizes American Legislative Exchange Council and its impact on public policy", (Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 25, 2012)

• "ALEC meeting sparks support from governor, protests", (Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News, July 25, 2012)

• "American Legislative Exchange Council and backers say they won’t be intimidated by threats", (Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 25, 2012)

• "Geese and Ganders", (Robert Gehrke, Salt Lake Tribune, July 25, 2012)

• "ALEC Under Fire", (Max Roth, Fox Salt Lake City, July 25, 2012)

• "ALEC Holds Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City", (People for the American Way, July 25, 2012)

• "Idaho lawmakers attend ALEC conference in Utah", (Associated Press, KIVI-TV, July 25, 2012)

• "ALEC Begins Annual Conference in Utah Protests Follow", (Inspired Actions, July 25, 2012)

• "Conservative policy group kicks off conference in SLC", (Meredith Forrest Kulwicki, July 24, 2012)

• "ALEC members gather to advance economic work in the states", (Ron Scheberle, Deseret News, July 24, 2012)

• "ALEC: Utah's Controversial "Houseguest"", (Public News Service, July 23, 2012)

• "Conservative organization to hold annual meeting in SLC", (Brittany Green-Miner and Gene Kennedy, Fox 13 Now, July 22, 2012)

• "Why are people critical of ALEC?", (Carl Wimmer, Deseret News, July 22, 2012)

• "State legislators to descend on SLC for ALEC convention", (Billy Hesterman, Daily Herald, July 22, 2012)

• "Occupy Salt Lake City calls for Protest outside annual meeting of ALEC", (Jim Cook, Irregular Times, July 22, 2012)

• "Smart about ALEC", (The Salt Lake Tribune, July 21, 2012)

• "Sutherland's Support Of ALEC Is Preachin' To The Choir", (Jerre Wroble, City Weekly, July 20, 2012)

• "Democratic Representative Withdraws Membership from ALEC", (Andrea Smardon, Kuer 90.1, July 17, 2012)

• "Blog Watch: Utah Legislators Defend ALEC", (Pulse.com, July 17, 2012)

• "Cold ALEC Welcome, Join The Anti-ALEC Conference", (Eric Peterson, City Weekly, July 19, 2012)

• "McEntee: Lawmaker quits ALEC over lack of openness", (Peg Mcentee, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 18, 2012)

• "ALEC bringing its clout, agenda and convention to Utah", (Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 14, 2012)

• "Smash ALEC Pinata Party Friday, (Eric Peterson, City Weekly, July 12, 2012)

• "ALEC Is Coming Page 1, Legislation Machine Descends Upon Utah", (Katharine Biele, City Weekly, July 11, 2012)

• "Billboards Warn Utahns "ALEC Is Coming"", (Eric Peterson, CityWeekly, June 27, 2012)

• "Group says ALEC is shutting down dissent" (Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, June 7, 2012)

• "Group Calls on State Lawmakers to Cut Ties With ALEC", (Whittney Evans, KPCW News Utah, May 28, 2012)

• "Smart ALEC Rep. Jennifer Seelig Catches Heat For Association With ALEC", (Katherine Biele, City Weekly Utah, May 23, 2012)

• "Osmond Proposing Changes to Utah's Public Ed", (Bob Bernick, Utah Pulse, November 9, 2011)

• "Utah lawmakers, lobbyists, go on the road", (Robert Gehrke, Salt Lake Tribune, August 12, 2011)

Vermont

• "S199 Defeated in Vermont Preserving Healthcare Choice Rights", (John Gilmore, Age of Autism, May 7, 2012)

• "Kentish: ALEC’s ugly duckling", (Opinion, VT Digger, Apri 19, 2012)

Virginia

• Virginia State Report

• "Spike of Virginia redistricting plans shows House speaker’s pragmatic streak" (Fredrick Kunkle & Laura Vozzella, The Washington Post, February 8, 2013)

• "Va. lawmakers' gifts last year were padded with travel" (Bill Sizemore, The Virginian-Pilot, January 29, 2013)

• "Virginia elected official attendees to the ALEC annual conference", (Brian Devine, Progress VA, August 8, 2012)

• "My Week at ALEC, Part 1: Lobbyists, Golf and Gifts, Oh My!", (Brian Devine, Progress VA, July 20, 2012)

• "Brian Moran quits his controversial day job", (Anita Kumar, Washington Post, July 5, 2012)

• "Democrats want Virginia legislators to cut ties to ALEC", (Anita Kumar, WashingtonPost, June 4, 2012)

• "ALEC is shunned by some Virginia lawmakers", (Anita Kumar, WashingtonPost, May 30, 2012)

• "Get out of ALEC, Virginia lawmakers", (Free Lance-Star, May 6, 2012)

• "Virginia House speaker William Howell said conservative group ALEC is ‘under attack’ by liberals", (Anita Kumar, Washington Post, April 12, 2012)

• "Corporate interests fuel group’s desire to shape Va. legislation, critics say", (Anita Kumar, Washington Post, December 27, 2011)

• "ALEC in Virginia", (Progress Virginia, December 2011)

Washington

• "GOP education bills provoke questioning" (John Stang, Crosscut, February 3, 2013)

• "Big corporations pull plug on conservative group", (Joel Connelly, Seattle Post Intelligencer, July 26, 2012)

• "Group challenges charity tax status of 'ALEC' organization", (Associated Press, Katu, April 23, 2012)

West Virginia

• "West Virginia Senate votes to limit landowner liability" (Associated Press, Times Leader, March 6, 2013)

• "ALEC's influence in West Virginia", (Alison Knezevich, The Charleston Gazette, July 21, 2011)

Wisconsin

• Wisconsin State Report

• "Pro-business group ALEC improves transparency, GOP leaders say" (Matthew Defour,Wisconsin State Journal, December 12, 2013)

• "Negotiations may end open records lawsuit against Leah Vukmir" (Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 4, 2013)

• "Rural Wisconsin, don’t lose the home phone", (Senator Kathleen Vinehout, La Crosse Tribune, July 22, 2013)

• "Super Scott Democrats continue to underestimate Walker, even as he radically transforms the state" (Bruce Murphy, Urban Milwaukee, February 28, 2013)

• "Issue of the Week: Walker Rewards the Rich—Again" (The Shepherd Express staff, Febuary 27, 2013)

• "Voucher plan bad deal for special needs students" (Appleton Post-Crescent editorial, February 21, 2013)

• "Right-Wing ALEC Playbook Is Crippling Wisconsin’s Economy" (Lisa Kaiser, Express Milwaukee, February 19, 2013)

• "Gold Diggers and Indians" (Joel Bleifuss, In These Times, January 2, 2013)

• "Now it's our turn to pick sides" (Pat Nash, Baraboo News Republic, October 11, 2012)

• "ALEC tie a reason to dump legislator" (Editorial, The Capital Times, October 3, 2012)

• "Groups sue for lawmakers’ emails with ALEC" (Associated Press, The La Crosse Tribune, October 2, 2012)

• "Lawsuit filed over ALEC-related messages in GOP lawmakers' personal emails" (Ed Treleven, The Wisconsin State Journal, October 2, 2012)

• "Wisconsin GOPers sued over potential ALEC ties" (Jillian Rayfield, Salon, October 2, 2012)

• "Groups sue 5 GOP lawmakers over email records" (Patrick Marley, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 1, 2012)

• "Open government groups sue five Wisconsin legislators over deleted ALEC emails" (DJ Pangburn, Death and Taxes, October 1, 2012)

• "Did Republicans Blow It?", (Bruce Murphy, Urban Milwaukee, September 17, 2012)

• "Your Right to Know: Lawmakers exploit loophole to hide ALEC ties", (Brendan Fischer, The Capital Times, September 7, 2012)

• "GAB should close ALEC loophole", (John Nichols, The Capital TImes, August 26, 2012)

• "Primary results are a major win for public education", (Larry Miller, On Milwaukee, August 15, 2012)

• "Race to the left: Pocan, Roys battle for progressives' votes", (Jack Craver, The Cap Times, July 25, 2012)

• "Pocan Presses for Greater ALEC Accountability", (The Capital Times, July 16, 2012)

• "Some Unnatural Tilts in Media Coverage From Vouchers to Cops" (Dominique Paul North, Milwaukee Labor Press, July 5, 2012)

• "Rep. Mark Pocan: Walker’s WRS plans hinge on semantics" (Mark Pocan, The Cap Times, July 3, 2012)

• "Did ALEC Give 3.4 Million for The Recall Election", (PolitiScoop, May 28, 2012)

• "People For The American Way Calls On Wisconsin Legislators, Governor To Return Funds Tied To ALEC", (ENews Park Forest, May 22, 2012)

• "Pocan has been the anti-ALEC champion", (Cap Times Editorial, The Cap Times, May 10, 2012)

• "Complaint alleges ALEC scholarships for lawmakers violate ethics law", (Leopoldo Rocha, The Badger Herald, May 2, 2012)

• "How Corporations are Controlling Wisconsin Legislators" (Lisa Kaiser, Milwaukee Shepard Express, March 28, 2012)

• "Voter ID Law Attacks Democracy", (Judith Browne Dianis and Jayme Montgomery, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 3, 2011)

• "Scott Walker, ALEC alum", (Dennis Kaiser, OpEdNews, October 2, 2011)

• "AG Van Hollen’s dereliction of his duty", (The Cap Times, September 28, 2011)

• "Scott Walker and the GOP Reveal Depth of Their Voter-Exclusion Plan", (Roger Bybee, AlterNet, September 15, 2011)

• "Right-Wing Billionaires Invest in Wisconsin's Recall Elections to Save School Privatization Agenda", (John Nichols, The Nation, August 8, 2011)

• Dane 101, "Wisconsin to NOLA: Rep. Pocan kicked out of ALEC event; reporters accosted", (Jesse Russel, ThinkProgress, August 5, 2011)

• "New ALEC Bill in committee means drastic Prevailing Wage law changes", (Bdgrdemocracy, July 18, 2011)

• ALEC in Wisconsin, (Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel July 13, 2011)

Wyoming

• "Rep. David Miller offers bill to study transfer of federal lands to Wyoming" (Gregory Nickerson, WyoFile, February 13, 2013)

• "Groups challenge Wyoming lawmakers' lack of transparency with ALEC" (Joan Barron, Casper Star-Tribune, December 9, 2012)

• "ALEC draws attention of League" (Joan Barron, Casper Star Tribune, October 7, 2012)