ALEC

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

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."

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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.

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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.

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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."

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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.

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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.

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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.

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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.

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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.

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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.

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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.…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

ALEC Teeters as Boycott Success Forces Members to Flee

The successful boycott of ALEC is the sending the organization into a PR tailspin, and forcing members to flee and…

12 years ago

Amazon Arrogantly Ignores ALEC Boycott While Funding Voter Suppression

ColorofChange has called on Amazon.com to join 13 other companies in dumping ALEC, but so far the Internet giant has…

12 years ago

Procter & Gamble Goes From Taunting Boycotters to Dumping ALEC

A few weeks ago Procter & Gamble taunted the boycotters of ALEC today they that they are leaving the American…

12 years ago

A Panicked and Desperate ALEC Admits that They Are Being Defeated

ALEC’s assault on democracy, though successful up until now, is over and it is entirely due to activist organizations and…

12 years ago

Finger Lickin’ Good: Owner of Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell Dumps ALEC

Yum! Brands, the owner of Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell has yielded to the ColorofChange boycott and became the…

12 years ago

People Power Scores a Victory, But the Pressure On ALEC Must Continue

For now, ALEC's announcement is cause for celebration and an indication that the people wield more power than corporations if…

12 years ago

Zimmerman Arrested, Now What?

It’s not enough to vote for the President and leave the trench work unattended. You have the power to change…

12 years ago

Stand Your Ground’s Hideous Double Standard of Prosecuting African-Americans

When an African-American makes the mistake of defending their property against a white man, as was the case in Georgia,…

12 years ago

ALEC Whines As People Power Makes Them Pay

While ALEC whines the people have realized they control corporate wealth, and with this knowledge comes the power to bring…

12 years ago

The People Vs ALEC: Fighting Back Against the Corporate Takeover of Democracy

ALEC has no idea of the destructive wave coming at them when the occupy movement and working Americans exert real…

12 years ago

Bill Gates Gives ALEC the Blue Screen of Death

Another display of grassroots muscle caused the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to drop their financial support for ALEC.

12 years ago

America the Beautiful Gets Tarnished Thanks To the Radical Right

The Republicans and their far-right religious sycophants have all but rendered the government ineffective through grid-locking strategies the prevent any…

12 years ago

Have a Coke and A Boycott: ColorOfChange Gets Coca-Cola to Dump ALEC

In an incredible display of the power of boycotts, it only took 5 hours for ColorofChange to get Coca-Cola to…

12 years ago

ALEC’s Stand Your Ground Gives Racists Everywhere The Right To Kill

There is no reason for ALEC to promote the Castle Doctrine in 24 states except to allow racists to kill…

12 years ago

Stand Your Ground Was ALEC’s Vision, Not the Founding Fathers

It is not a stretch to imagine that ALEC has deliberately sought to arm as many disgruntled Americans as possible…

12 years ago

Meet the ALEC Lobbyists Behind Mitt Romney and Find Out What They Want From You

Remember the dark days of Dick Cheney's secretive Enron meetings? Well, they're coming for you again only this time, they're…

12 years ago

Profiting from Punishment: The Dangers of Privatizing Imprisonment

Corporations are taking over the incarceration of prisoners to make billions of dollars in profit while lobbying against much needed…

12 years ago

How To Use A Freedom Of Information Request To Expose ALEC

Here is a how to use a Freedom Of Information request to turn up the pressure on ALEC.

12 years ago

Warning! Watching Twilight Invites Demonic Possession And ALEC

Pat Robertson warned viewers today that watching Twilight invites the Demonic in. Funny though, ALEC shares many of the characteristics…

12 years ago

You May Elect Them, But It Is ALEC Who Is Really Running Your State

The next time you go to the polls, know that you’re not voting for Joe or Judy or Alan. You’re…

12 years ago