“It's the first time a state nullified local wage ordinances already in effect and forced [local] jurisdictions to [immediately] reduce…
AARP should be more sensitive to its retired members who are vulnerable to ALEC-supported legislative efforts to eliminate Social Security.
"North Carolina’s provisions deliberately target African Americans with...surgical precision...to depress Black turnout at the polls."
"We conclude that that SB 14 has a discriminatory effect on minorities' voting rights in violation of Section 2 of…
Governor Rauner's tax cuts amounted to a 25 percent reduction and ended efforts to preserve education, road repair, and social…
"This veto puts thousands of solar jobs at risk, endangers the livelihood of thousands and will stall billions in economic…
The Kansas bill creates private school savings and funding programs by diverting public education funding to private and religious schools
Mormon Rob Bishop (R-UT) wants to deliver America’s public lands, national parks, forests, and wilderness areas to Koch Industries’ control
There have been a few articles lately that began appearing last October making a compelling case that while the 2016…
This all began when one of Snyder's emergency dictators decided safe drinking water from Lake Huron didn't fit the corporate…
Every Republican at every level of government spouts the same lie, the same twisted logic, to harm American workers
The school is not paying Duke Energy for the electricity being generated by that clean source of electrical power, the…
The mainstream media is finally reporting that the Koch's legislative arm ALEC is moving into the open to prevent action…
It is true the Koch's are poised to spend nearly a billion dollars to put a Koch surrogate in the…
Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life…
Of course, anything 'stupid' Republicans conceive of is always at the behest of their funding machine the Koch brothers and…
ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry's war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the…
Now it appears that Ohio Republicans are on the verge of enacting an voter ID law that requires Ohio residents…
Kansas has received its share of attention for its epic trickle down failure typical of conservative economics, and it is…
If there is one thing Republicans and the Obama Administration love more than pandering to Wall Street, it is the…
Before perusing the one-time "world's leading democracy" and its truly pathetic voter turnout record, it is worth looking back at…
What is missing from the long list of Koch demands to abolish virtually the entire government is exactly how it…
Southern Republican candidates have nothing to fear from the Southern Democratic electorate if my recent, highly distasteful experience, is a…
Interestingly, the Koch-backed anti-environmental group is threatening to file suit against progressive and liberal groups for accusing ALEC of lying…
Democrats expected Walker to eliminate the state's 'prevailing wage' law requiring workers on public projects to be paid the established…
A university professor heavily funded by the Koch brothers has very publicly and openly called for less democracy to reduce…
Since most Americans are not like the Kochs, Republicans came up with a devious plot to garner support for taking…
This is the class war billionaire Warren Buffet admitted his class was winning, and if any American doubted that the…
With George Pataki marking Upstate South Carolina as a must stop, it is a virtual guarantee that he will join…
Paul Ryan is quietly working behind the scenes to make sure the next head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO),…
Some view South Carolina as the reddest state in the nation. After November 4th, it just might be.
Although Republicans detest democracy, they certainly understand the principle behind it and instead of swearing an oath to support a…
This will be my last mid-term general election contribution. At least in my state of South Carolina, it ain't pretty.
What makes newspapers actions more despicable is that they are not owned by the Kochs, but they are using so-called…
For the first time in this mid-term election cycle, South Carolina politics suddenly got interesting. The state's just been politically…
Christie may not have the anti-voter credentials of some of his Republican brethren, but he does not support the right…
Amidst the bad progressive karma, some good news. No matter how horrific the party policies, the Republican stranglehold on South…
I recently assessed the governor's race and the statewide races, all squarely in the Republican column unless all that voter…
It is a different story, though, when a white Republican is kicked of voter rolls in Arkansas that not only…
The Supreme Court's anti-democracy wing; Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy issued an announcement that their decision was not on…
Crucial to their success is Republicans' heavy dependence on one of the Koch brothers' legislative arms, the American Legislative Exchange…
Over the past six years, at least, there has been a steady assault on democracy from state level Republicans with…
Doubling down on right-wing extremism, the fed-hating, red state, Wackadoodle Express, is pulling into the station of national consciousness once…
The most power-mad of the power-mad, the American Legislative Exchange Council, relies on easily compromised spear-carriers to dominate state legislatures…
Word has it that a California Republican Representative named McCarthy is in line to take over Eric Cantor's post as…
Another day, another school shooting in America. On Tuesday morning, news hit that a gunman entered a school in Troutdale,…
. As usual they use mendacity as a fear-mongering tool to convince their stupid supporters that President Obama's attempt to…
The four most despicable and repugnant Americans are Charles and David Koch, Karl Rove and the occupying army of corporate…
Republicans and their conservative donors are staunch defenders of free market capitalism; that is until they see a viable competitor.
As you're doubtless aware, assorted misdeeds and lawbreaking will land you in jail and prison for varying quantities of essentially…
There is a concerted effort to raid public sector employee pensions to give corporations and the wealthy tax breaks that…
Many Americans missed a Republican proposal to destroy the public school system because they were awaiting President Obama's State of…
As long as the wealthy continue benefitting from the President's economic recovery, Republicans will stay the austerity course that continues…
Republicans have created a new conservative super PAC to support Republican secretaries of state that will pursue restrictive voter laws,…
If the entire country ever resembled the Southern United States, it would rival the poorest third world nation on the…
The real tragedy is that as stupid Southern voters do the Kochs' bidding by keeping Republicans in power, at least…
After decades of declining incomes an overwhelming majority of Americans finally realize their government exists to favor the rich, and…
ALEC members were recently asked to sign a pledge to support democracy, and they refused. Not only did they refuse…
The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers' wages, pensions, sick pay, workers' compensation.
One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln's Great Task remains uncompleted.
A number of right-wing states are leaving needy citizens without Medicaid coverage because their legislatures are rejecting expansion.
Since 2011,Republican governors have taken their country back with the systematic demolition of the public education system and for Texas…
The level of political corruption in Republican and conservative ranks has gotten so blatant that they are finally being targeted…
ALEC is being targeted for an investigation for illegally financing extravagant trips for state legislators and misleading the Internal Revenue…
Market-based educational reform is an utter failure, and yet we still can't shake the nasty remnants of its bad policy…
Republicans are on a tear to disable the federal government's ability to serve the people much like Republican-controlled states like…
Republicans will spend three weeks promoting the policies that drove 4 out of 5 Americans into unemployment, near or at…
Fast food giant McDonalds teamed with Visa to provide them with a budget plan Republicans celebrated as justification for their…
The Zimmerman trial is a microcosm of the pathetic state of this nation and demonstrates that conservatives, ALEC, and the…
Republicans are signing on to a new pledge to Charles and David Koch to oppose any legislation relating to climate…
The trend to label ordinary American activists as domestic terrorists is alarming, bringing to new reasons to revisit the PATRIOT…
The Koch brothers' American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) wants to send taxpayer dollars earmarked for public schools to corporate-owned private…
What the conservative court accomplished besides handing ALEC the right to restrict minority voters in the South is effectively abolishing…
Instead of protecting the Second Amendment, the NRA has actively promoted assault-style weapon ownership and spent no small sum of…
As economic stewards, Republicans have shown themselves to be abject failures on every front whether it is driving millions of…
On the same day that ALEC claimed that they support the First Amendment, they circulated a secret enemies list in…
The idea of using violent force to prevent a democratically elected government from operating began when the Koch brothers' funded…
Recent events revealed that according to the NRA, there are no Americans who should be restricted from owning guns and…
Today was a shameful day for America because 8% of the population, Ted Nugent and Wayne La Pierre, ALEC, and…
With ALEC supplying Republicans Koch legislation to end renewable energy standards, Americans will lose jobs, clean air, inexpensive electricity, and…
Charles and David Koch are spending money to deny poor Americans healthcare for no readily apparent reason except the Kochs…
There is a group of Americans attempting to force a segment of the population to give up their constitutional rights…
One never imagined Scalia would openly declare his racism and disdain for the most basic of rights in an open…
The new front in the Republicans class war is just getting underway as governors are proposing new tax schemes that…
Like every dirty trick Republicans use to steal elections, the American Legislative Exchange Council is behind Electoral College rigging efforts…
A carefully planned, long term campaign to subvert democracy is the sole intention of GOP governors, ALEC, and their puppet…
The Florida man who shot a teenager because he felt threatened by the teen's play of loud music is changing…
In America, the prospect of free and fair elections is being threatened by an avalanche of reports of voter suppression…
It is time to call these harsh voter ID laws and fraudulent voter registration efforts more than voter suppression; they…
The eve of the Republican convention was a bad day for ALEC as five more national and global corporate members…
The successful boycott of ALEC is the sending the organization into a PR tailspin, and forcing members to flee and…
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