ULINE CEO Funnels $4.7 Million into His Restoration PAC Prior to 2024 Elections
ULINE CEO and Republican megadonor Richard Uihlein gave $4.7 million to his Restoration PAC in the second half of 2023, leaving it with $4.1 million to spend on far-right campaigns in this year’s...
View ArticleGearing Up for 2024 Elections, Big Tobacco Leads Top Donors to Republican AG...
The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) raised $6.3 million in the second half of 2023, with big tobacco leading all contributors, as revealed by a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)...
View ArticleKoch’s Purchase of Fertilizer Plant Prompts Antitrust Concerns
In December, the Dutch chemical company OCI Global announced plans to sell its nitrogen fertilizer operation in Wever, Iowa to Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, for $3.6...
View ArticleKoch Injected Nearly $500 Million into Hundreds of Colleges and Universities...
Nonprofits controlled by Charles Koch funneled $458.7 million to 338 higher education beneficiaries between 2018 and 2022, according to a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) analysis of IRS filings by...
View ArticleRestrictions on ESG Investments Emerge as a Campaign Issue in Missouri’s...
Last year, when the Missouri General Assembly failed to pass legislation to discourage investments in companies, funds, and banks that promote environmental, social, or governance (ESG) goals,...
View ArticleKoch Still Funding Last Stand Against Medicaid Expansion
The state of Kansas remains one of only 10 states that have refused to expand access to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), due in large part to resistance from state Senate President Ty...
View ArticleALEC Legislator Proposes Law to Take Away Voters’ Ability to Choose...
A legislator affiliated with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) who served as a fake elector from Arizona during the 2020 presidential election is proposing legislation that state...
View ArticleKoch Network Bets Big on Candidates with Military Experience
After spending more than $31 million on Nikki Haley’s unsuccessful bid for the GOP presidential nomination, billionaire industrialist Charles Koch’s super PAC is now backing 26 Republican candidates...
View ArticleFor-Profit Bail Industry Teams Up with ALEC to Target Charitable Bail Funds
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is helping the for-profit bail industry push legislation in four states to restrict or outright eliminate charitable bail funds, which provide those...
View ArticleALEC Pushes Anti-Union Playbook
State lawmakers seeking to dismantle unions and implement anti-worker laws have just been handed a new state-by-state roadmap by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate-funded...
View ArticleU.S. House Anti-Woke Caucus Targets Programs Benefiting Minorities
In March 2023, a group of House Republicans launched a new Anti-Woke Caucus to “root out all far-left political programs from the federal government” — including those focused on ensuring diversity,...
View ArticleGOP Megadonor Richard Uihlein’s PAC Brings in $3.1 Million in First Quarter
GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein provided his Restoration PAC with $3.1 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2024, according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing released today. The owner...
View ArticleLeonard Leo’s Concord Fund Top Funder of Republican AGs Group in 2024
The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) brought in $5.3 million in contributions in the first three months of 2024, as its latest Federal Elections Commission (FEC) disclosure examined by...
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Wisconsin Right-Wing Litigation Center Grooms School Board Members
On April 12, the right-wing Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) hosted a School Board Summit outside of Milwaukee for the state’s school board members and candidates. The Noah Webster...
View ArticleCovid Contrarian Doctor Scores Big With Far-Right Funding
One of the largest right-wing foundations in the U.S. is planning to award a significant sum of money to a prominent opponent of public health efforts to combat the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 novel...
View ArticleRailroad Owned by RFK Jr.’s Megadonor Repeatedly Violated Environmental and...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may claim he will be “the best environmental president in American history,” but the Republican industrialist bankrolling the super PAC behind his longshot bid for the White House...
View ArticleIn Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the...
This story is co-published with Drilled. As soon as a single Palestinian activist showed up at an anti-Dakota Access Pipeline camp on the edge of the Standing Rock reservation in 2016, intelligence...
View ArticleRights Clash in Wisconsin Records Dispute
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will soon hear a case involving records related to the voting rights of mentally incompetent people. No matter which side wins, the public has in some ways already lost....
View ArticleAssets of Koch-Controlled Organizations Soar to Over $8.1 Billion
The Koch fleet’s combined net revenue skyrocketed in 2022, up to $4.8 billion. This is largely due to a $4.3 billion injection into a 501(c)(4) called Believe in People, Inc, which almost doubled the...
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The Big Money Behind Chris Rufo’s Right-Wing Agitating
This piece was produced in partnership with Important Context. Chris Rufo has been racking up wins lately. Fresh off of tanking the tenure of Harvard’s first Black—and first Black woman—president,...
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