Tag: ALEC

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Opinion: That Moment When a Federal District Court Rules Texas Election Law Is Racist

“Republican lawmakers rushed the voter ID law without the usual committee analysis and debate… to provide an Anglo partisan advantage.”

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Opinion: Iowa GOP Reverses Existing Minimum Wage Hikes and Ban Future Increases

“It’s the first time a state nullified local wage ordinances already in effect and forced [local] jurisdictions to [immediately] reduce minimum wages that were previously raised.”

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Trump’s Illegal Voting Lie Is Part of Larger Republican Attack On Democracy

There was a good reason Trump admitted being 3-million votes less “popular” than Hillary Clinton; it fostered his other dangerous lie to kill democracy.

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Super PAC Connected To Paul Ryan Used Russian Material Against Dem. House Candidates

Speaker Ryan’s spokeswoman never disputed that the material used against Democratic candidates was “stolen as an act of Russian espionage

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North Carolina Republicans Sued For Rigging the Election For Trump

The voter suppression tactic is right out of the GOP [election rigging] playbook to suppress the Black vote in North Carolina.”

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Republican Election Officials Fight Trump’s “Dangerous” Rigged Election Rhetoric

“It’s going to create a disturbance and, played out in polling places across the country, it has the potential to destabilize the election which is very, very dangerous.”

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With Trump Leading the GOP Today is Republicans’ “Anti-labor Day”

“Only a fool harbors the ugly thought of breaking unions or tries to deprive working people of the right to join the union of their choice.”

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Koch-Republicans Want the National Park Service’s 100th Anniversary to Be Its Last

The federal government’s landholdings and control of water could be better used for ranching, mining or forestry through private ownership.

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ExxonMobil Lies – They Still Oppose Any Climate Change Remedies

ExxonMobil promotes a carbon tax while contributing to Republicans who block all efforts to combat climate change with a tax on carbon.

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Stunning Hypocrisy – AARP Supports the Anti-Social Security Lobby ALEC

AARP should be more sensitive to its retired members who are vulnerable to ALEC-supported legislative efforts to eliminate Social Security.

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Targeted By Police For Being Black Registered Voters In a GOP State

“People just do not understand why a sheriff is coming to their house to bring them a subpoena if they haven’t committed any crime.”

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Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Vote Suppression Law

“North Carolina’s provisions deliberately target African Americans with…surgical precision…to depress Black turnout at the polls.”

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Federal Courts Strike Down Texas and Wisconsin Vote Suppression Laws

“We conclude that that SB 14 has a discriminatory effect on minorities’ voting rights in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.”

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Another Koch Acolyte Is Responsible for Illinois Economic Disaster

Governor Rauner’s tax cuts amounted to a 25 percent reduction and ended efforts to preserve education, road repair, and social services’ funding.

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Republican Governor Vetoes Clean Energy Bill Killing Thousands of Jobs and Billions in Growth

“This veto puts thousands of solar jobs at risk, endangers the livelihood of thousands and will stall billions in economic activity.”

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Barely Alive, Kansas Public Schools On the Verge Of Brownback’s Death Blow

The Kansas bill creates private school savings and funding programs by diverting public education funding to private and religious schools

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Mormon Republicans Continue Bundy’s War On Americans’ Public Lands

Mormon Rob Bishop (R-UT) wants to deliver America’s public lands, national parks, forests, and wilderness areas to Koch Industries’ control

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Complacency and EmoProgs Aided Conservatives’ Drive To Rewrite the Constitution

There have been a few articles lately that began appearing last October making a compelling case that while the 2016 Presidential race might look promising for Democrats and it appears that Republicans are in disarray, Democrats, liberals, or progressives, take your pick, are actually in deep trouble everywhere else. There is no doubt that the…

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Resignation? Jail Gov. Rick Snyder, Make Corporations Pay For Poisoning 25,000 Children

Snyder was well aware of the lead-tainted water before long before he claims he learned he was poisoning children.

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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Poisons Flint Kids And Then Declares An Emergency

This all began when one of Snyder’s emergency dictators decided safe drinking water from Lake Huron didn’t fit the corporate financial model

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Koch’s Justice Reform Proposal Restricts Prosecution For Environmental Violations

The Kochs want to pollute with impunity by simply claiming they were unaware that it was a federal violation to poison the air and water

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Kochs Secretly Fund the NRA, Chamber of Commerce, Religious Right and Club For Growth

Every Republican at every level of government spouts the same lie, the same twisted logic, to harm American workers

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ALEC and Duke Energy Going After A Small N.C. Non-Profit And Church For Going Solar

The school is not paying Duke Energy for the electricity being generated by that clean source of electrical power, the Sun

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The Kochs Keep America Behind The Developed World In Using Free Energy

The Koch brothers are doing everything in their power to restrict Americans from tapping into the free energy from sunlight.

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Victory For Education: State Supreme Court Rules Charter Schools Unconstitutional

The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled, in a very one-sided decision of 6 – 3 that charter schools are unconstitutional

Conservative Prays For Katrina-Like Disaster In Chicago To Give Corporations Government Control

Instead of noting how inept the Bush response to help tens-of-thousands of Americans was, or mourning the loss of 1,800 lives, this sick psychotic conservative hoped that an equally-catastrophic disaster would strike the city of Chicago.

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ALEC Plans Corporate Control and Privatization Of Every City In America

It is true the Koch’s are poised to spend nearly a billion dollars to put a Koch surrogate in the White House, and to completely take over the entire nation they are paying an American Legislative Exchange Council subsidiary to impose their corporate agenda on every town, village, city, and county in America.

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Koch-Republican Austerity Is Killing Michigan Democracy And Poisoning Residents

Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life many Michigan citizens have learned the hard way; by being poisoned.

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Scott Walker And ALEC Allow High School Dropouts To Teach High School

Of course, anything ‘stupid’ Republicans conceive of is always at the behest of their funding machine the Koch brothers and their legislative arm the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): the latest Wisconsin stupidity is no exception.

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While Shell Plans For Climate Catastrophe The Kochs Kill Renewable Energy

ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry’s war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the Koch brothers on renewable energy and regulations to reduce carbon emissions. ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry’s war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the Koch brothers on renewable energy and regulations to reduce carbon emissions.

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President Obama Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results?

If there is one thing Republicans and the Obama Administration love more than pandering to Wall Street, it is the abject 20-year failure of the charter school industry

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Bernie Sanders Explained Why Voters Aren’t Voting Ten Years Ago

Before perusing the one-time “world’s leading democracy” and its truly pathetic voter turnout record, it is worth looking back at comments from Senator Bernie Sanders that he recorded for posterity nearly ten years ago.

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The Koch Brothers Try To Fool The American People With An Evil PR Campaign

What is missing from the long list of Koch demands to abolish virtually the entire government is exactly how it will help Americans.

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Koch-Funded Professor Publicly Calls For Less Democracy

A university professor heavily funded by the Koch brothers has very publicly and openly called for less democracy to reduce the power of the majority.

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The Koch Wall Street Crusade To Rob Pensions Is Underway

This is the class war billionaire Warren Buffet admitted his class was winning, and if any American doubted that the Kochs or Wall Street would stop at robbing retired people’s incomes to satisfy their absolute greed, they are fools

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AOL Joins Microsoft, Google, and Facebook in Becoming The Latest Company To Dump ALEC

AOL has become the latest corporate giant to dump the Koch brothers by cutting ties with ALEC.

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Chris Christie Advocates For Election Rigging By Republicans Controlling The “Voting Mechanism”

Christie may not have the anti-voter credentials of some of his Republican brethren, but he does not support the right to vote for all Americans.

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Republicans Faithfully Follow ALEC’s Refusal to Support Democracy

Over the past six years, at least, there has been a steady assault on democracy from state level Republicans with valuable assistance from ALEC that led one to wonder whether the Koch brothers had directed the Republican legislative arm (ALEC) to disavow and destroy American democracy one state at a time.

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Human Rights Watchdog Demands End to America’s Racial Discrimination

After a thorough examination of America’s pathetic record of disparate treatment of minorities, a United Nations watchdog reported what people of color, particularly African Americans, have known first hand and all too well for decades. “Racial and ethnic discrimination remains a serious and persistent problem in all areas of life from de facto school segregation, access to health care, and housing.”

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Gov. Rick Snyder’s Emergency Manager Is Denying Poor People Running Water In Detroit

A coalition working with organizations and activists the world over to promote water as a basic human right filed a report with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights on behalf of tens-of-thousands of poor Detroit residents who are being denied access to running water.

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Republicans Label Obama’s Plan To Combat Climate Change a Terrorist Attack

. As usual they use mendacity as a fear-mongering tool to convince their stupid supporters that President Obama’s attempt to assuage the health and economic devastation of climate change is a deliberate job-killing, economy-devastating, terrorist assault on Americans.

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The Koch Efforts To Privatize Schools Dealt a Blow By Record High School Graduation Rate

Republicans, privatization advocates, religious extremists, ALEC, and anti-union fascists contend that America’s public schools are failures, but for the first time in American history the national high school graduation rate surpassed 80% in 2012 and is projected to reach 90% by 2020.

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Michael Dunn’s Racism Couldn’t Be Hidden Behind Stand Your Ground

Although it is tragic that racial animus is not a prosecutable crime, there are instances when the result of racism can be prosecuted. Yesterday a Florida jury convicted a man for expressing racial animus with a firearm.

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When Boehner and Cantor Say What The American People Want They Mean ALEC and the Kochs

In Republican parlance, when they say “what the people want,” they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and Wall Street who are the “American people” to Republicans.

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ALEC Members Refuse to Sign a Pledge Supporting Democracy

ALEC members were recently asked to sign a pledge to support democracy, and they refused. Not only did they refuse to sign the pledge, but the corporate media didn’t report on it.

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Koch Brothers Illegally Funnel Millions Into Campaign to Eliminate Pensions and Sick Pay

The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers’ wages, pensions, sick pay, workers’ compensation.

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The Republican War on the ACA Is An Attack On Women

The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC’s assistance to continue.

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ALEC Continues to Push Failed Market-Based Educational Reforms

Market-based educational reform is an utter failure, and yet we still can’t shake the nasty remnants of its bad policy influence

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The Real Winners Of the Zimmerman Trial Were the NRA and ALEC

Truth be told, the real trial and victor in the Trayvon Martin killing was not George Zimmerman, but the NRA authored and ALEC legislated the “Castle Doctrine Act” that has been acquitted.

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Republicans Pledge To the Kochs That They Will Oppose Any Climate Change Bill

Republicans are signing on to a new pledge to Charles and David Koch to oppose any legislation relating to climate change unless it is accompanied by an offsetting amount of tax cuts.

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To Stop The Press From Reporting on Them ALEC Has Created an Enemies List

On the same day that ALEC claimed that they support the First Amendment, they circulated a secret enemies list in order to prevent the press from covering their activities.

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The Koch Brothers War On Renewable Energy Is Killing Jobs and Destroying Our Air

With ALEC supplying Republicans Koch legislation to end renewable energy standards, Americans will lose jobs, clean air, inexpensive electricity, and increased business investments.

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The Kochs and Their Corporate Arm ALEC Are Out to Destroy the Healthcare System

There is no doubt the Kochs and their corporate arm ALEC are out to end the healthcare system starting with Medicare and Medicaid.

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The Koch Brothers Are Spending Millions to Deny Poor Americans Healthcare

Charles and David Koch are spending money to deny poor Americans healthcare for no readily apparent reason except the Kochs are genuinely evil, immoral men

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Racism Reaches the Levels of Government via Scalia’s Voting Rights Comments

One never imagined Scalia would openly declare his racism and disdain for the most basic of rights in an open and free democracy, but then again it is Antonin Scalia.

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GOP Gov Appoints Obama Conspiracy Theorist to Georgia Public Broadcasting

Chip Rogers, the disgraced former Georgia Senate Majority Leader and former treasurer of ALEC, is now a highly paid employee of Georgia Public Broadcasting.

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How Wealthy Libertarians and the NRA Joined Forces to Enrich the Firearms Industry

There is a contingent of wealthy libertarians who are actively promoting gun proliferation to transform America into a nation where domestic tranquility is figment of one’s imagination.

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Eric Cantor’s letter spells out the continuing ALEC/Koch right-wing agenda

Eric Cantor has gotten his orders from Koch/ALEC headquarters, and there is no mistaking their intent; continue to make life hell for the President and Democratic House members.

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The vicious red states are engaging in an attack on the public school system

South Carolina is a prime example of right-wing attempts to destroy the public school system and replace it with private school profiteers

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The Koch Puppet Governors Continue to Dance for Their Masters as Rome Burns

A carefully planned, long term campaign to subvert democracy is the sole intention of GOP governors, ALEC, and their puppet masters Charles and David Koch.

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Thanks to ALEC, Arizona High School Students Treated Like Convicts In Prison Style Lockdown

Due to the influence of ALEC, Arizona, public school students who were treated like convicts in a lock down maneuver during regular instructional hours.

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Man Who Killed Florida Teen Over Loud Music Alters His Story to Fit Stand Your Ground

The Florida man who shot a teenager because he felt threatened by the teen’s play of loud music is changing his story so that it will fit a stand your ground defense.

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Grover Norquist Faces a Full-Out Republican Revenue Insurrection

Apparently, to Grover Norquist an agreement with him is as legally binding as a mortgage, at least in his own self-important, inflated head.

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Republicans Turn Charter School Officials Into the New Robber Barons

School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.

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Jon Husted Hatches a Plan to Make Sure Democrats Never Win Ohio Again

Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted wants to dramatically change electoral votes to favor Republicans, and make it nearly impossible for Democrats to win Ohio.

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Judge Blocks Pennsylvania Voter Suppression Law

A judge ruled that Pennsylvania’s voter suppression law not be enforced this election, that those without photo IDs must be allowed to vote

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Boycott Victory: GE, Western Union, and Sprint All Dump ALEC

The eve of the Republican convention was a bad day for ALEC as five more national and global corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council have cut ties with the group.

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The Choice Between Rugged Individualism and Senseless Violence

This article is not a call to disarm; it is a call to sanity and reason, because without discourse on the conditions driving people to support the proliferation of guns, there will be more massacres.

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From Paraguay to the U.S.: Learning from Gradual Corporate Coups

We as Americans should learn from the dramatic lessons of Paraguay just how powerful the unchecked hand of corporations can be.

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Public Schools Face a New Nemesis in Parent Trigger Laws

Parent trigger laws are being pushed by ALEC and other right wing groups to allow parents to essentially ‘fire’ a public school, with the potential to make them into private, charter schools.

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Will Nikki Haley be Mitt Romney’s VP Mystery Date?

Surely, there’s sufficient sleaze to qualify Nikki Haley to be Mitt Romney’s Vice President/bookkeeper.

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Right Wing Values: Poisoning our Air to Fill Their Pockets

Right wing values are all about profit values –and nothing more. Whether poisoning our water, triggering a war or making us pay the receipt for their economic stupidity.

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Before the Supreme Court Rules on Obamacare, a Warning from George Washington

As Americans await the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, we should keep in mind a warning from George Washington about the threat of obstructionist minorities.

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Unions Score a Major Victory as Judge Blocks Michigan Paycheck Law

A federal Judge blocks Michigan’s controversial law prohibiting school districts from collecting union dues via payroll deductions.

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Dirty Little Red State Secret: ALEC is Behind the GOP’s Voter Purge

The recent voter purge in Florida and Texas are the result of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) fascist voter ID laws.

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Wal-Mart Dumps ALEC and Outs Them as Un-American

Wal-Mart has kicked ALEC to the curb and gave the reason as ALEC’s departure from Jeffersonian free market principles, a.k.a. Wal-Mart hinted ALEC has become un-American.

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New Strategies Required to Respond to Republican Voter Suppression Tactics

Without the time to change new Republican laws suppressing voting rights before the election, advocates will need to utilize new Get Out the Vote strategies.

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Citizen Shooting Galleries Trump Law Enforcement in South Carolina

Two young me were gunned down in cold blood in South Carolina as the resident of an apartment drove up on them attempting to break into his residence. He was under no threat and could have driven away and called police. Instead he left his car and shot them both in the head, execution-style.

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