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About ALEC
- Brendan Fischer, "Rep. Tim Scott, an ALEC Alum, Nominated to U.S. Senate" (December 18, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Backgrounder: The History of the NRA/ALEC Gun Agenda" (December 15, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Running Scared: ALEC Anticipating an IRS Audit?" (December 14, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "After a Controversial Year, ALEC Convenes in Washington with Damage Control at Top of Agenda" (November 29, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Tobacco Can Cure Smoking and Other Highlights of ALEC's Annual Meeting in Salt Lake" (July 26, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Protestors Greet ALEC as 39th Annual Meeting Gets Underway in Utah Today" (July 25, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "ALEC Politician Claims ALEC Meetings Are "Open to the Public." Really?," (January 12, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "CMD Condemns Continued Corporate Voting on Model Bills at Arizona Meeting," (November 30, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Paul Weyrich's Troika Reunited: ALEC Partners With Republican Study Committee at Heritage Foundation" (September 12, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin Lawmakers Exploit Loophole to Hide ALEC Ties" (September 5, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Mixed Messages at the ALEC Annual Meeting," (August 22, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC: Facilitating Corporate Influence Behind Closed Doors," (August 15, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Nonpartisan “Truthtelling” at ALEC," (August 11, 2011)
- Eric Carlson, "ALEC Model Bills Create Hardship for Average Americans," (August 4, 2011)
- Lisa Graves, "Big Business Woos ALEC Legislators in the Big Easy," (August 3, 2011)
- Eric Carlson, "3 Tips on Exposing ALEC's Influence in Your State," (July 29, 2011)
- Lisa Graves, "About ALEC Exposed," (July 13, 2011)
- Lisa Graves, "A CMD Special Report on ALEC's Funding and Spending," (July 13, 2011)
- Lisa Graves, "A Comparison of ALEC and NCSL," (July 13, 2011)
Corporate Agenda
- Don Wiener, "Novartis and Cohen: Two of a Kind" (May 14, 2018)
- Don Wiener, "Take the Money and Run: Trump Tax Cuts Boost Earnings of ALEC Corps Which Promptly Layoff Workers" (May 7, 2018)
- Don Wiener, "ALEC Payday Loan Company Gets Reprieve Under Trump Administration" (May 2, 2018)
- David Armiak, "Donors Trust, the Right-Wing Secret Money Machine, Doled Out $66.7 Million in 2016" (March 22, 2018)
- Don Wiener, "Why Are Railroads Funding ALEC?" (January 23, 2018)
- Don Wiener, "ALEC Corporate Members Lay Off Over 12,000 Workers in 2017" (November 20, 2017)
- Don Wiener, "ALEC's Corporate Sponsors Top Nation's Lawbreaker List" (October 24, 2017)
- Nick Surgey, "CMD Submits Evidence of Exxon Mobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to New York Attorney General" (November 17, 2015)
- Nick Surgey, "Ford Revealed as Funder of Climate Denial Group ALEC" (November 6, 2015)
- PR Watch Admin, "Groups Add to Evidence in "Whistleblower" Tax Fraud Claim Against ALEC" (May 12, 2015)
- PR Watch Admin, "CREDO Rejects ALEC's Cease and Desist Letter on Municipal Broadband" (April 15, 2015)
- Jessica Mason, "ACCE Wants Your Town to Subsidize ALEC-Style Corporate Lobbying" (February 17, 2015)
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC Corporate Board Chair Quits Over Climate Change, Renewables and Voting Rights" (November 6, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Google Refuses to Respond to Letter Questioning ALEC Ties" (September 16, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "Utility Trade Group Funds ALEC Attack on Americans Using Solar" (July 30, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Struggles in Kansas City" (May 6, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari, "Corporate Interests Calling the Shots at ALEC Kansas City Meeting" (May 1, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari, "Corporate Interests Calling the Shots at ALEC Kansas City Meeting" (May 1, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "Peabody Energy Lobbyist Schools Legislators on Getting More ALEC Travel Perks" (February 13, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "How ALEC Helps Big Telecom Change State Laws for Corporate Gain" (February 13, 2014)
- Mary Bottari, "MacIver Institute Ideologues Manage to Turn Lemonade Into Lemons" (April 18, 2013)
- Press Release, "ALEC Corporate Bill Mill Posts (Some) Model Bills Online for First Time; Watchdogs Say Move Falls Far Short on Transparency" (March 15, 2013)
- Harriet Rowan, "James O’Keefe Pays $100K Settlement after Deceiving Public about ACORN (and ALEC Helped Take Down ACORN)" (March 14, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "From Tabloids to Tablets: News Corp Spends Big on LA School Board Race, Sets Sights on Public Education "Market"" (March 11, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Community-Owned Internet, Long Targeted by ALEC and Big Telecom, Under Fire in Georgia" (March 7, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Four States Introduce Keystone XL Resolutions, Lifting Language from ALEC and TransCanada Itself" (February 15, 2013)
- Lisa Graves, "What Is Visa Hiding? Major Shareholders Thwart Effort to Require More Disclosure of Money Spent on ALEC" (January 31, 2013)
- Connor Gibson, Greenpeace, "Duke Energy Flip-Flop; ALEC Leads Attack on North Carolina Clean Energy with Duke Funding" (January 16, 2013)
- Jill Richardson, "King Coal Gets a Boost through ALEC" (January 1, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Why is State Farm Involved in Education Policy? Conservative Think Tank Exposes ALEC as Exchange of Dollars rather than Ideas" (November 30, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Member American Chemistry Council Drops $649K on Wisconsin Senate Race" (September 6, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Amazon's Membership Demonstrates Corporate Control of ALEC Agenda," (April 23, 2012)
- Jonathan Rosenblum, "State Farm Insurance Claims "No Fault" in Bankrolling ALEC," (April 16, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC and Coca-Cola: A "Classic" Collaboration," (October 12, 2011)
- Anne Landman, "ALEC and the Tobacco Industry," (July 15, 2011)
ALEC's Agenda in States
- Mary Bottari, "Wisconsin GOP Just Nominated ALEC's "Iron Lady" to Take on Tammy Baldwin” August 15, 2018
- Scott Zimmerman and Arn Pearson, "Common Cause Exposes ALEC Influence in Louisiana” August 8, 2018
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC Sets the Table for Gerrymandering, Union Busting, Protecting Fossil Fuels, and Privatizing Schools” (August 7, 2018)
- Don Wiener, "ALEC Legislator of the Week: Homosexuals and Psychopathic Killers “It’s a Behavior Thing” (April 9, 2018)
- David Armiak, "ALEC Legislator Fast Tracks a Bill to Block Local Campaign Finance Ordinances in Arizona" (April 3, 2018)
- Mary Bottari, "Bills to Ban Local Soda Taxes Are Moving In the States, Coke and Pepsi Borrow from the Tobacco Playbook" (April 3, 2018)
- Don Wiener, "Campaign Finance in Illinois: One Record Set, Another Record on the Way" (March 26, 2018)
- Mary Bottari, "Weaponized Philanthropy: Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation's Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide" (May 7, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Front Groups of Discredited PR Spin Doctor Richard Berman" (May 9, 2017)
- PRWatch Editors, "Constitution Interrupted" (March 24, 2017)
- Jessica Mason, "ALEC 2016 Agenda Boosts Charters, Coal, and Other Corporate Funders" (July 26, 2015)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC Invites Politicians to "Plan Your 2016 Agenda" at ALEC Confab in Scottsdale" (November 30, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "How SPN "Think Tanks" Will Spin ALEC's 2016 Agenda" (September 30, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Republicans Call for Imposing ALEC Zones on Poorest Neighborhoods of Milwaukee" (February 2, 2015)
- Jonas Persson, "Billionaires Push ALEC Agenda in Minneapolis School Board Election" (November 18, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "An Embattled ALEC, Buoyed by Election Results, Lays Blueprint for 2015" (November 17, 2014)
- Jessica Mason, "WI Attorney General's Latest Attack on Transparency Reeks of Partisanship" (October 11, 2014)
- Jessica Mason, "ALEC Annual Conference: New Bills, New Spin-Offs, Same Corporate Backers" (August 8, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Offshoot Takes Aim at Local Government" (July 31, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC Agenda: Gutting Medicaid, Privatizing Schools, LNG Exports" (July 28, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Politicians Caught Plagiarizing ALEC Bill, Drafting Error and All" (July 7, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "The ALEC Angle in Scott Walker's "Toxic Strain of Racial Politics"" (June 17, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Federal Court Strikes Down WI's "Discriminatory" Voter ID as Unconstitutional" (April 30, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Rep. Grijalva Demands Federal Investigation into ALEC's Role in Neo-Sagebrush Rebellion" (April 16, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Oil Industry Conjures Illusion of Public Support for KXL Using ALEC Politicians" (March 12, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "WI GOP Marches in Lockstep with ALEC Agenda, Voting Records Show" (March 10, 2014)
- Mary Bottari, "WI ALEC Leader in Hot Water over Allegations of Sexual Harassment" (March 3, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin Moving to Advance ALEC Constitutional Convention Scheme" (February 10, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "The State Policy Network's Cozy Relationship with Big Tobacco" (December 16, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Did ALEC Found SPN? 1991 Report Suggests So, Exposes SPN Agenda" (December 12, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "SPN: Right-Wing Stink Tanks Pushing the ALEC Agenda in the States" (November 22, 2013)
- Nick Surgey, "Walker's Dismal Jobs Agenda Gets a Gold Star in ALEC's "Rich States, Poor States" Report" (May 30, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Scott Walker, GOP Slip ALEC Education Agenda Into Wisconsin Budget" (May 23, 2013)
- Beau Hodai, "Dissent or Terror: How Arizona's Counter Terrorism Apparatus, in Partnership with Corporate Interests, Turned on Occupy Phoenix" (May 20, 2013)
- PRWatch Editors, "New Report Exposes ALEC's Influence In Nevada" (May 10, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, ""Issue Ad" Charade by American Federation for Children Uncovered in Wisconsin" (May 8, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin Ethics Board Fails to Curb ALEC Shell Game" (April 17, 2013)
- Nick Surgey, "New Report Exposes Extreme ALEC Agenda in Arizona" (April 4, 2013)
- PRWatch Editors, "New Report: ALEC Exposed in Iowa" (March 12, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "After Attacking Kwanzaa, WI Senator Moves on Attacking Renewable Energy-- with Help from ALEC" (February 25, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Ending Wisconsin's Election Day Registration Costs $14M, but GOP Assembly Leader Rejects Cost Estimates" (February 20, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Four States Introduce Keystone XL Resolutions, Lifting Language from ALEC and TransCanada Itself" (February 15, 2013)
- Mary Bottari, "Scott Walker Dropped the Bomb Two Years Ago Today and Wisconsin's Economy is Still Shattered" (February 11, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Rig the Vote: Wisconsin Has Best Election Practices in the U.S., So Why Are They Under Attack?" (February 7, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Sprucing Up Suppression: Pennsylvania GOP Proposes New Election-Rigging Scheme" (February 6, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin's 'Shameful' Gerrymander of 2012" (February 4, 2013)
- Lisa Graves, "Press Advisory: Exposing ALEC's Economic Agenda in the States" (February 1, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC-Inspired "Right to Work" Bill Back Again in Pennsylvania" (January 31, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "FreedomWorks Puttiing Its War Chest to Work for ALEC's Anti-Union Agenda in the States" (January 14, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "What Will Scott Walker Lift from the ALEC Agenda in 2013?" (January 9, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Gov. Walker Trusts Teachers with Guns, But Not with Collective Bargaining" (December 21, 2012)
- Connor Gibson, Greenpeace. "At ALEC Meeting, Indiana Regulator Advises Coal Companies on EPA Climate Rules" (December 13, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "From Capitol Hill, Rep. Hank Johnson Highlights ALEC Connection to MI Right to Work Law" (December 13, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Michigan Passes 'Right to Work' Containing Verbatim Language from ALEC Model Bill" (December 11, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "ALEC's So-Called 'Right to Work' Bill as Political Revenge in Michigan" (December 11, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Will Wisconsin Follow Minnesota's Lead and Ban ALEC 'Scholarships?'" (December 7, 2012)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC-Inspired Union-Busting Narrowly Passes in Michigan as Koch Group Cheers" (December 6, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "With Courts Standing in the Way of Voter Suppression, Wisconsin's ALEC Chair Seeks to Amend Constitution to Require ID at Polls" (December 6, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "WI Legislators Receive $24K in Campaign Contributions After Pushing ALEC Predatory Lending Bill" (November 16, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Will GOP Governors Really Try 'Nullifying' Obamacare?" (November 14, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "WI Republican Insists Romney Would Have Won if Voter ID Law Was in Place, but Admits 'Not Dealing With the Real Reality"(November 14, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Direct Democracy: Results of Ballot Propositions Across the Country" (November 7, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Controversial Billboards, Treading onto Controversial New Ground" (November 2, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Walker Wins Paul Weyrich Award" (October 22, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin Lawmakers Exploit Loophole to Hide ALEC Ties" (September 5, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Group That Sustains ALEC's Voter Suppression Agenda Releases Sham 'Study,' to Acclaim From Right-Wing Media" (August 6, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Second Judge Finds WI's Voter ID Law Unconstitutional" (July 18, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "WI Elections Board, Racine DA Slap Down GOP Claims of 'Voter Fraud'" (July 17, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Scott Walker and Ted Kaczynski in the Heartland," (June 11, 2012)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC in Wisconsin: The Hijacking of a State," (May 21, 2012)
- Harriet Rowan, "CMD asks Wisconsin Candidates: What Would You Do About ALEC?," (March 20, 2012)
- Emily Osborne, ""ALEC Accountability Act" Introduced in Wisconsin ," (February 10, 2012)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC Sparks Uprisings in Wisconsin and Ohio," (December 5, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "New Report Details ALEC Influence in Arizona," (November 30, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Arizonans Speak Out Against ALEC," (November 30, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin Legislators Override Non-Partisan Election Board," (November 18, 2011)
- Ben Tobias, "Arizona Senator Recalled over ALEC Immigration Bill," (November 9, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin GOP Uses Parliamentary Trick to Protect Secret Corporate Spending," (September 14, 2011)
ALEC and Democracy
- David Armiak and Arn Pearson, "Nonpartisan” ALEC Will Celebrate 45th Gala with GOP Stars and Lobbyists at Trump Hotel" (August 20, 2018)
- Rep. Chris Taylor, "ALEC in Disarray" (August 13, 2018)
- David Armiak, "ALEC Drafts Model Resolution to Pat Itself on the Back" (August 8, 2018)
- David Armiak, "ALEC Task Forces Gather in Grand Rapids to Draft Bills for Its Corporate Sponsors" (April 24, 2018)
- Don Wiener, "The ALEC Emperor's New Clothes" (January 29, 2018)
- David Armiak, "‘Influence Watch’ Website Launched: Berman, ALEC, Heartland Copy CMD’s Sourcewatch.org Site" (November 16, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC May Want to Reconsider This "Legislator of the Week" Award" (November 16, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "This Group Helps Lobbyists Influence Public Officials. The Trump Hotel Is Hosting Its 2018 Gala." (October 12, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "Voter ID Suppressed the Vote Exactly as Wisconsin Republicans Predicted" (September 26, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "Bradley Foundation Funnels Millions to State Policy Network Groups" (September 5, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "Infighting, Legal Questions Slow ALEC Push for Second Constitutional Convention" (July 31, 2017)
- Mary Bottari and David Armiak, "Trump Team, ALEC, Koch Industries Debate Gerrymandering the U.S. Senate in Denver" (July 17, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Front Groups of Discredited PR Spin Doctor Richard Berman" (May 9, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Attacks on Unions" (May 8, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC Embraces Trumpism" (February 14, 2017)
- Rep. Chris Taylor, "Hypocrisy and Trumpism on the Agenda as ALEC Meets in Washington, D.C." (November 30, 2016)
- Rep. Chris Taylor, "Anti-Transparency Agenda Hailed Inside ALEC" (August 10, 2016)
- David Armiak, "Voter Suppression Measures on Trial in Walker's Wisconsin" (May 17, 2016)
- Lisa Graves, "ALEC's 2016 Agenda Moving in the States: A Snapshot" (May 5, 2016)
- Jessica Mason, "U.S. Chamber Works Behind the Scenes to Gut Whistleblower Protections" (April 29, 2016)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC Spring Task Force Summit Agenda in Pittsburgh 2016" (April 25, 2016)
- Jessica Mason, "ALEC Touted "Transparency" in Pushing for the Panama Free Trade Agreement" (April 11, 2016)
- Brendan Fischer, "CMD Calls on ALEC to Disclose Information during Sunshine Week" (March 16, 2016)
- Brendan Fischer, "Corporate Interests Take Aim at Local Democracy" (February 3, 2016)
- Arn Pearson, "ALEC's "Rich States, Poor States" Paints a Happy Face on Failing State Policies" (January 21, 2016)
- Mary Bottari, "Right-Wing Network Puts Friedrichs v. California Teachers in Samuel Alito’s Lap" (January 8, 2016)
- PR Watch Admin, "ALEC and ACCE Pay-to-Play Meeting: in the Belly of the Beast in Scottsdale" (December 14, 2015)
- Zachary Peters, "Amid Controversy, Ben Carson Named ALEC Event Speaker" (November 9, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Hypocrisy Alert: Speaker Vos and Rep. Craig Use Private Email, Too" (October 21, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Scott Walker: Back in the Saddle, Back to His Old ALEC Tricks" (September 26, 2015)
- PRWatch Editors, "Showdown in the "Show-Me State" (September 11, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Scott Walker's Day One Plan to "Wreak Havoc" Lifted from ALEC" (September 10, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Not Just Trump and Walker: ALEC Called for Ending Birthright Citizenship Too" (August 20, 2015)
- PR Watch Editors, "Blowing the Whistle on ALEC's Little Brother ACCE (Parts 1-6)" (July 30, 2015)
- PR Watch Admin, "The Attack on Planned Parenthood, a View from Inside ALEC" (July 29, 2015)
- PR Watch Admin, "Scott Walker Is the Belle of the ALEC Ball" (July 24, 2015)
- PR Watch Admin, "Under a Shroud of Secrecy and Security, ALEC Conference Gets Underway" (July 24, 2015)
- Mary Bottari, "Meet ALEC's Little Brother ACCE" (July 23, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "How San Diego Is a Petri Dish for the ALEC Agenda" (July 20, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "As Walker Announces, WI GOP Moves to Gut Open Records Law" (July 2, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Scott Walker: The First ALEC President?" (June 3, 2015)
- PR Watch Admin, "Reporters' Guide to ALEC’s "Rich States, Poor States" Report" (April 7, 2015)
- Mary Bottari, "The ALEC-Backed War on Local Democracy" (March 31, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Voter ID Will Take Effect in Wisconsin--Here's What that Means" (March 23, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "5 Years after Citizens United, Democracy Is for Sale" (January 21, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Fumes: Transparency Threatens Corporate Free Speech!" (December 5, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC Pols Moving Up in 2014 Midterms" (November 5, 2014)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC Tampers with Wisconsin Constitution" (October 30, 2014)
- Mary Bottari, "U.S. Supreme Court Puts ALEC-Inspired Voter ID on Hold in Wisconsin" (October 10, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Tens of Thousands of WI Students Face New Voting Hurdles" (September 19, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Don’t Believe the Spin from ALEC" (December 3, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC’s Extreme Legislative Agenda for 2014" (December 2, 2013)
- Press Release, "The Googlization of the Far Right: Why is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?" (November 27, 2013)
- Press Release, "Meet George Zoley, America’s Highest Paid “Corrections Officer”" (November 26, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC's "Nuclear Option" to Kill the Affordable Care Act" (November 22, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "WI Club for Growth, Target of Walker Recall Probe, at Center of Dark Money Web" (November 18, 2013)
- Harriet Rowan, "ALEC in Chicago: 10 Photographs that Tell the Story" (August 21, 2013)
- Jessica Mason, "ALEC's Jeffersonian Project Pushes to Amend Constitution" (July 31, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Documents from Open Records Lawsuit Further Undermine Claims that ALEC Is Legislator-Driven?" (April 7, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "Do ALEC Denials of Bill Tracking Signal an IRS Examination?" (January 27, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "ALEC Posts Legislative Agendas while Hiding Its Very Special Interests" (November 3, 2013)
- Lisa Graves, "ALECexposed: ALEC PR Creates Tempest in a Teapot for Senate Hearing" (October 28, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Officials in Arizona and Kansas Rig Ballots to Implement ALEC Voter Suppression Scheme" (October 10, 2013)
- Mary Bottari, "Dear WWII Vets, Forget About the Monument, They Are Gunning for Your Social Security" (October 9, 2013)
- Press Release, "CMD Pushes Back Against Attorney General’s Attack on Open Records in ALEC Lawsuit" (October 2, 2013)
- Press Release, "Texas Attorney General Rebuffs ALEC's Effort to Declare Itself Immune from Open Records Law" (September 30, 2013)
- PRWatch Editors, "Wisconsin Media Defends State Open Records Law" (September 20, 2013)
- PRWatch Editors, "CMD Responds to Senator Vukmir's Claim about Open Records" (September 18, 2013)
- PRWatch Editors, "Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Vitiate Open Records Law to Protect ALEC’s National Treasurer" (September 13, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "NC Passes Voter Suppression Measures as DOJ Moves to Protect Voting Rights in TX" (July 26, 2013)
- Harriet Rowan, "As ALEC Celebrates its 40th Birthday in Chicago, Protesters Prepare to Blow Out the Candles" (July 26, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "With Voting Rights Act in Shambles, North Carolina Kicks Voter Suppression into High Gear" (July 24, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Justice Denied: 71 ALEC Bills in 2013 Make It Harder to Hold Corporations Accountable for Causing Injury or Death" (July 10, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Gov. Walker Vetoes Bail Bonds, Attack on Investigative Journalism" (July 1, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "For Bradley Foundation, Challenging Affirmative Action & Voting Rights Is Part of Long-Term Crusade" (June 27, 2013)
- PRWatch Editors, "Bill Moyers: United States of ALEC — A Viewers Guide" (June 24, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Another ALEC Voting Bill" (June 17, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin GOP Sneaks ALEC-Supported For-Profit Bail Bonding Into Budget Bill" (June 10, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "CMD Files Open Records Suit Against ALEC Board Member Sen. Leah Vukmir" (June 7, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "WI Appellate Judge Upholds WI Voter ID, But Indicates Another Challenge Could be Successful" (May 30, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC's Latest "Transparency" Move: Asserting Immunity From Freedom of Information Laws" (May 7, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Assembles "Most Wanted" List, and Oklahomans Say "ALEC Is Not OK"" (May 6, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Covering Tracks in Advance of Oklahoma Meeting" (May 1, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Did Backlash Against GOP Voter Suppression Increase Black Voter Turnout?" (April 30, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Creatures of the Dark: Wisconsin GOP Caught Deleting Records, Again" (April 23, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "As Supreme Court Hears Challenge to ALEC Voting Bill, Two More States Introduce It" (March 25, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "U.S. Supreme Court Considers ALEC Voting Bill; Could Have Broader Implications for Voting Rights" (March 17, 2013)
- PRWatch Editors, "Center for Media and Democracy Wins Open Government Award" (March 7, 2013)
- Meher Ahmad, "Walker Walks Away from "John Doe" Investigation, Pushes Budget Deal Only ALEC Could Love" (March 4, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, ""Racial Entitlements?" Long-Term Effort to End Voting Rights Act and Affirmative Action May Finally Pay Off" (March 1, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Ending Wisconsin's Election Day Registration Costs $14M, but GOP Assembly Leader Rejects Cost Estimates" (February 20, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "We Can Fix This? In SOTU, Obama Shoves Voting Reform into 'Sock Drawer,' Leaving Many Disappointed"(February 13, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Rig the Vote: Wisconsin Has Best Election Practices in the U.S., So Why Are They Under Attack?" (February 7, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Sprucing Up Suppression: Pennsylvania GOP Proposes New Election-Rigging Scheme" (February 6, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin's 'Shameful' Gerrymander of 2012" (February 4, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Has Opposed 'Popular Vote' Efforts Which Would Protect Against Partisan Rigging of Electoral College" (January 25, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "The Latest Effort to Fix Election Results: Right the Electoral College" (December 31, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "With Courts Standing in the Way of Voter Suppression, Wisconsin's ALEC Chair Seeks to Amend Constitution to Require ID at Polls" (December 6, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "On NFIB Conference Call, Romney Urges Employers to Tell Employees How to Vote, Just Like the Kochs" (October 18, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "WI Republican Insists Romney Would Have Won if Voter ID Law Was in Place, but Admits 'Not Dealing With the Real Reality" (November 14, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Controversial Billboards, Treading onto Controversial New Ground" (November 2, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Control of U.S. Senate May Depend on Close Wisconsin Race" (November 1, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Member American Chemistry Council Drops $649K on Wisconsin Senate Race" (September 6, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Pennsylvania Voter ID Ruling May Lead to Confusion at the Polls" (October 1, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Will Pennsylvania Follow Wisconsin's Lead on Voter ID?" (September 18, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Member Glenn Grothman: Voter ID Needed Because 'People Who Cheat' Vote Democratic" (July 25, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Second Judge Finds WI's Voter ID Law Unconstitutional" (July 18, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Partisan Motivation Behind Voter ID Laid Bare," (June 28, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Right-Wing Operatives Take Up ALEC's Voter Suppression Agenda," (April 19, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Santorum: Voters Without ID Want to Perpetrate Fraud," (April 3, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Why Are State Newspapers Silent When It Comes to ALEC Ties to Voter ID?," (March 22, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Second Judge Strikes Down WI's ALEC-Inspired Voter ID Law," (March 13, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "WI Judge Halts "Extremely Broad and Largely Needless" Voter ID Law," (March 7, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "S.C. Considers Second ALEC Voting Bill," (January 30, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, ""Shameful" WI Redistricting Awaits Final Ruling," (February 29, 2012)
- PR Watcher, "ALEC-Linked Group Revealed As Major Secret Donor In Referendum On Maine Voting Rights," (December 30, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "DOJ Rejects ALEC-Inspired Voter ID Bill in South Carolina," (December 23, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "NAACP Denounces Role of ALEC in "Jim Crow, Esquire" Voting Laws," (December 9, 2011)
- Lisa Graves, "How the Koch-Funded ALEC Works to Deny Voting Rights; Brave New Film Highlights Voter Suppression," (November 8, 2011)
- Sara Jerving, "New Investigative Report Highlights Koch Brothers' Reach in Influencing Democracy," (November 7, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin GOP Stumbles in Effort to Rig Recalls," (November 2, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin Voter ID Law Challenged by League of Women Voters," (October 21, 2011)
- Mary Bottari, "Wisconsin Worker Fired for Email on Free Voter IDs," (September 9, 2011)
- Jennifer Page, "Voter Suppression Bills Sweep the Country," (May 10, 2011)
ALEC and "Tort Reform"
- Lisa Graves, "Echoing ALEC's Playbook, the Real Story of Walker's Tort 'Reform'" (September 4, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "ALEC Politicians Spin Special "Interest" Bill to Protect Corporate Wrongdoers as "Job Creation"," (October 13, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin GOP Pushes ALEC Anti-Consumer Bill to Protect Drug Makers," (October 12, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC and 'Tort Reform'" (July 13, 2011)
Dumping ALEC
- David Armiak, "Is ALEC Too Extreme for Exxon? Long-Term ALEC Board Member Dumps ALEC over Climate Denial Policy" (July 12, 2018)
- David Armiak, "Credo Delivers Petition to UPS Demanding that It Drop ALEC" (December 6, 2017)
- David Armiak, "Expedia Latest to Exit ALEC" (August 10, 2016)
- Mary Bottari, "Adelante! El Dia Sin Latinos en Wisconsin" (February 18, 2016)
- Nick Surgey, "Ford Becomes Latest Major Corporation to Dump ALEC" (February 17, 2015)
- PRWatch Editors, "Shell Parts Ways with ALEC over Climate Change, Exodus at 106" (August 7, 2015)
- Mary Bottari, "BP Dumps ALEC; Tally at 102" (March 23, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Fond du Lac Nuns Get Northrop Grumman to Dump ALEC" (January 28, 2015)
- Nick Surgey, "eBay Becomes 100th Company to Cut Ties to "Controversial"" (December 19, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "Emerson Electric Latest to Confirm ALEC Exit" (November 14, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "AOL, Owner of Huffington Post, Quits ALEC" (November 11, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Google Says ALEC Is Literally Lying about Climate Change, Ends Membership" (September 22, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Microsoft and More Leave ALEC, 80 Corporations Out" (August 21, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Xcel Energy and Endo Health Cut Ties to ALEC, Making 72 Corporations Out" (January 13, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "After Student Protests, Sallie Mae Becomes 50th Corporation to Dump ALEC" (September 9, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Shareholders Push Firms to Cut Ties to ALEC; 49 Corporations Now Out" (June 25, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Darden Restaurants Dumps ALEC in Favor of ALEC-Affiliated Group" (April 15, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "WellPoint and Bristol-Myers Squibb Cut Ties to ALEC, Making 44 Corporations Out" (March 18, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Nationwide Presses for Distance from ALEC, although its Lobbyist won Big ALEC Award when its Old Top Lobbyist Led ALEC in 2008" (October 10, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Cuts Ties to ALEC" (December 3, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Bank of America Cuts Ties to ALEC" (November 29, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "117 ALEC Members Voted Out in 2012" (November 20, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Nationwide Presses for Distance from ALEC, although its Lobbyist Won Big ALEC Award when its Old Top Lobbyist Led ALEC in 2008" (October 10, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Sanofi Dumps ALEC, Making 41 Corporations Out" (October 2, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Merck and Wells Fargo Dump ALEC, while Duke Energy Holds Out" (September 14, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Six More Corporations Dump ALEC; 38 Companies Have Now Cut Ties with Corporate Bill Mill" (August 27, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "A Lot of White Space: Firms Drop Off ALEC's Meeting Brochure" (July 30, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Amgen Drops ALEC (Number 32) as eBay Comes under Fire" (August 8, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC Down 30 Corporations: General Motors and Walgreens Cut Ties" (July 26, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "EnergySolutions and Connections Education are 27th and 28th Corporations to Leave ALEC" (July 20, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Express-Scripts is Twenty-Sixth Corporation to Dump ALEC" (July 13, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Five More Corporations Dump ALEC; 25 Companies Have Now Cut Ties With Right-Wing Bill Mill," (July 10, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Dude, You're Getting Dumped: Dell Computers is 20th Corporation to Dump ALEC," (June 21, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Johnson And Johnson 19th Company, 23rd Private Sector Member, to Cut Ties with ALEC," (June 12, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Wal-Mart Does Good by Leaving ALEC," (May 31, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Wal-Mart 18th Corporation to Dump ALEC, Becomes 22nd Private Sector Member to Leave," (May 31, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Medtronic is 17th Corporation to Dump ALEC," (May 29, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Amazon.com 16th Corporation to Dump ALEC," (May 24, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Scantron 15th Corporation to Dump ALEC," (May 22, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Cuts Ties to ALEC," (May 1, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Breaking Up with ALEC Is Hard to Do for Johnson And Johnson," (April 24, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Procter And Gamble 13th Firm to Dump ALEC," (April 24, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "For-Profit Education Firm Kaplan Is 14th Company to Dump ALEC," (April 27, 2012)
- Harriet Rowan, "PCCC Pressures Democratic Members to Drop ALEC," (April 23, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Former ALEC Supporters Now Find Connection Toxic," (April 20, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Disbands Task Force Responsible for Stand Your Ground, Voter ID, Prison Privatization, AZ's SB 1070," (April 17, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Reed Elsevier Joins Mass Exodus From ALEC," (April 13, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Ticketmaster Hot and Bothered About ALEC," (April 13, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Mars and Arizona Public Service Dump ALEC," (April 12, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Wendy's is the 6th Firm to Say It is No Longer a Member of ALEC," (April 11, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "McDonald's is Fifth Corporation to Drop ALEC Membership in a Week," (April 10, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "BREAKING: Intuit Out of ALEC; Coke, Kraft, Pepsi, too, while Koch Stands Ground," (April 6, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Breaking News: Coca-Cola Dumps ALEC," (April 5, 2012)
- Beau Hodai, "Inside ALEC: Naked Contempt for the Press and Public in Scottsdale," (January 11, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Color of Change Targets ALEC Corporations," (December 15, 2011)
ALEC, Guns, and "Stand Your Ground"
- Brendan Fischer, "Verdict in Jordan Davis Case Highlights Continuing Injustice of "Stand Your Ground"" (February 17, 2014)
- Lisa Graves, "ALECexposed: George Zimmerman's Criminal History Includes Alleged Violence and Temper (Audio and New Documents)" (September 10, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "At March on Washington, ALEC Is Exposed" (August 26, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Dick Durbin to Hold Senate Hearings on ALEC, the NRA, and "Stand Your Ground"" (July 19, 2013)
- Lisa Graves, "After Zimmerman, Let’s End Stand Your Ground" (July 17, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Time to Repeal ALEC/NRA Stand Your Ground Laws" (July 15, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Seven Faces of NRA/ALEC-Approved "Stand Your Ground" Law" (June 26, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Machine Guns on the Vegas Strip? In Nevada, ALEC/NRA Bill Introduced to Stop Cities from Banning Machine Guns" (March 22, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "On Anniversary of Trayvon Martin's Death, ALEC-Backed Stand Your Ground Laws Remain on Books" (February 26, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Five Days Before Latest College Shooting, TX Legislator Introduced ALEC/NRA Bill to Allow Guns on Campus" (January 23, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "The NRA and Koch-Backed ALEC Have Fought Gun Buyback Programs Across Country" (January 15, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "The NRA'S Deadly Spin: 'Arm the Good Guys'" (December 26, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Gov. Walker Trusts Teachers with Guns, But Not with Collective Bargaining" (December 21, 2012)
- Mary Bottari, "To Turn the Tide Against the NRA, Leadership Needed at the Top" (December 19, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Backgrounder: The History of the NRA/ALEC Gun Agenda" (December 15, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "After a Controversial Year, ALEC Convenes in Washington with Damage Control at Top of Agenda" (November 29, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "NRA Up to Old Tricks at ALEC, but 'Docs and Glocks' Bill Halted" (August 9, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "The Trap Shoot Must Go On: Guess Who'll Be Shootin' with ALEC Members in Salt Lake? (The NRA and a Machine Gun Corp)" (July 19, 2012)
- Harriet Rowan, "Studies Show More People Shot to Death with ALEC/NRA “Stand Your Ground” Laws," (July 10, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC/NRA Castle Doctrine Almost Applied in Another Wisconsin Killing," (June 12, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "CMD Special Report: ALEC's Gun Agenda Flourished with Koch Industries on Board, as with other Koch-Funded Groups (Part Two)," (May 16, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "CMD Special Report: New Documents Confirm Koch Was on ALEC Crime Task Force Led by NRA (Part One)," (May 14, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "NRA Awards Scott Walker for Pushing Concealed Guns and the ALEC-related "Castle Doctrine" (Shoot First) Laws," (April 15, 2012)
- PR Watcher \ Brian Austin "A Police Officer Speaks on ALEC and "Stand Your Ground"," (April 12, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Bloomberg Denounces NRA/ALEC "Shoot First" Laws," (April 12, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Not Just the NRA: Former ALEC Leader, the Head of Gun Owners of America, Sides With Shooter of Trayvon Martin," (April 9, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Hundreds Converge on ALEC Headquarters Demanding Justice for Trayvon Martin," (March 30, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Resources for Investigating ALEC/NRA Gun Bills," (March 30, 2012)
- PR Watcher, "Groups Attempt to Deliver Letter to ALEC re: ALEC/NRA "Kill at Will" Law," (March 29, 2012)
- PR Watcher, "Rally for Trayvon Martin in Front of ALEC Headquarters," (March 28, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "The Corporations Bankrolling ALEC, which Has Promoted the "Stand Your Ground" Gun Law as a "Model" Bill," (March 27, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Groups Write to ALEC's Corporate Board Regarding Trayvon Martin," (March 26, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Ratified the NRA-Conceived Law That May Protect Trayvon Martin's Killer," (March 21, 2012)
ALEC and the Kochs
- Don Wiener, "Koch Troops Queasy About Killing State and Local Tax Deduction to Fund Tax Breaks for the Rich" (November 2, 2017)
- Arn Pearson, "Koch Convention to Rewrite Constitution Runs Into Roadblocks" (June 12th, 2017)
- PRWatch Editors, "Koch Brothers' Fingerprints Can Be Found All Over GOP Convention" (July 21, 2016)
- PRWatch Editors, "Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Special Report on Reentry and Following the Money" (June 16, 2016)
- Mary Bottari, "The Kochs Make News as Voters in Primaries Threaten to Turn Races Upside Down" (April 5, 2016)
- PRWatch Editors, "Koch-Fueled Playbook against Working Families Exposed by CMD" (February 1, 2016)
- PRWatch Editors, "Reporters Guide on the Koch Right to Work Playbook" (February 1, 2016)
- PRWatch Editors, "CMD Submits Testimony to U.S. Senate on Koch Self-Interest in Criminal Justice Reform" (January 20, 2016)
- Lisa Graves, "Koch Daddy and the Nazis, a Revealing History from Jane Mayer" (January 12, 2016)
- Brendan Fischer, "Koch Self-Interest in Criminal Justice Reform, Exposed" (December 16, 2015)
- Jamie Cory, "Koch-Funded Special Interest Groups and Utilities Bankrolling ALEC Meeting" (December 4, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Koch Spy Agency Led by Voter Fraud Huckster" (November 19, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Kochs' Freedom Partners Spent $129M in 2014, Invested Massively in Voter Data Lists" (November 18, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "The Kochs Want to End WI's Era of Clean Government" (October 19, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "No, the Kochs' Political Spending Is Not "Reported" (October 12, 2015)
- Jessica Mason, "Koch Draws on Big Tobacco for New PR Hires" (August 24, 2015)
- Mary Bottari, "Scott Walker Wins Koch Straw Poll, $900 Million in the Offing" (August 6, 2015)
- Mary Bottari, "Koch-Funded Allies Descend on Wisconsin to Push Right to Work" (February 24, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Koch Party Delivers SOTU Response" (January 19, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union Busting Bill in Wisconsin" (December 3, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Koch Party Wins Big, Planet in Peril" (November 10, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Spending for ALEC Member Tillis Breaks All Records in NC Senate Race" (October 21, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Koch-Backed Small Business Front Group Added to ALEC Board" (August 1, 2014)
- Mary Bottari, "Shocker! Koch Youth Group Backs Koch Politician Signing Koch-Approved ALEC Bill" (July 24, 2014)
- Mary Bottari, "Walker’s "State of the State" Will Make the Koch Brothers Smile" (January 22, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "SPN: Right-Wing Stink Tanks Pushing the ALEC Agenda in the States" (November 22, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "WI Club for Growth, Target of Walker Recall Probe, at Center of Dark Money Web" (November 18, 2013)
- Mary Bottari, "Koch Bros Retainer to PRWatch: “Bring It!”" (September 30, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas Files Brief in Opposition to ALEC's Effort to Evade Open Records Law" (September 4, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin Prepares to Hand Half-Million in Taxpayer Funds to Koch-Tied GOP Lobby Shop" (August 28, 2013)
- Mary Bottari, "Scott Walker Dropped the Bomb Two Years Ago Today and Wisconsin's Economy is Still Shattered" (February 11, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "What Will Scott Walker Lift from the ALEC Agenda in 2013?" (January 9, 2013)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC-Inspired Union-Busting Narrowly Passes in Michigan as Koch Group Cheers" (December 6, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "On NFIB Conference Call, Romney Urges Employers to Tell Employees How to Vote, Just Like the Kochs" (October 18, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Koch Social Media Policy May Be Unlawful; Employers Still Have Broad Leeway to Limit Employee Speech" (October 16, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Gets Support From Koch-Funded Americans for Prosperity," (April 18, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Koch Industries Exposed for Bribery, Secret Iran Sales and More," (October 5, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Koch Lobbyist is ALEC State Co-Chair for Wisconsin; Scholarships Raise Ethics Concerns," (September 21, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wealthy Wisconsin Heir Speaks at Koch Brothers Meeting," (September 8, 2011)
- Lisa Graves, "ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection," (July 20, 2011)
ALEC and Worker Rights
- Don Wiener, "Teamsters Vote to Authorize a Strike at UPS" (June 10, 2018)
- Mary Bottari, "The Two Faces of Janus: The Billionaires Behind the Supreme Court Case Poised to Dismantle Public Sector Unions" (February 24, 2018)
- PRWatch Editors, "Election Losses Don’t Stop Corporate Efforts to Block Voter-Approved Minimum Wage Hikes" (December 23, 2016)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC "Right to Work" Law Tossed Out in Wisconsin" (April 8, 2016)
- PRWatch Editors, "Koch-ALEC Right to Work Power Play Exposed in a Small Illinois Village" (March 4, 2016)
- Brendan Fischer, "Divide-and-Conquer Walker Thinks Equal Pay Is Divisive" (June 25, 2015)
- Jody Knauss, "Walker's Wisconsin, a "Laboratory for Oligarchs"" (March 24, 2015)
- Jody Knauss, "Wage Crushers' Prevailing Wage Claims Are Nonsense" (March 24, 2015)
- Jody Knauss, "ALEC, NFIB Push Prevailing Wage Repeal" (March 24, 2015)
- Jody Knauss, "Shooting the Messenger: ALEC Allies Attack Academic Studies on Right to Work" (March 4, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "CMD Submits Testimony on Right to Work" (March 2, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Surprise! ALEC Scholar Says ALEC Right to Work Will Boost WI Economy" (February 26, 2015)
- Mary Bottari, "Grim-Faced Union Leaders Ready for the Fight Over Right to Work" (February 24, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "“Death by a Thousand Cuts” and ALEC’s Local Strategy for Attacking Unions" (February 23, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Wisconsin Introduces Word-for-Word ALEC Right to Work Bill" (February 20, 2015)
- Jody Knauss, "Bruce Rauner Inaugurates War on Working Families" (February 13, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Fat on Restaurant Cash, Democratic Lawmakers Float Minimum Wage Preemption in IL" (November 18, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "MO ALEC Leader Says Right to Work Is Solution to Ferguson" (October 16, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "In Paid Sick Days Fight, Open Records Dropbox Dodge Reemerges in Florida" (October 8, 2014)
- Jonas Persson, "Paid Sick Days for Six Million Californians to Become Law" (September 4, 2014)
- Mary Bottari, "Paid Sick Day Campaigns Gain Traction as ALEC Allies Push Back" (July 30, 2014)
- Mary Bottari, "Nightmare on Main Street: ALEC Policies Harm Working Americans" (October 31, 2013)
- Mary Bottari and Rebekah Wilce, "Just How Low Can Your Salary Go? 117 ALEC Bills in 2013 Fuel Race to the Bottom in Wages and Worker Rights" (July 23, 2013)
- Nick Surgey, "Walker's Dismal Jobs Agenda Gets a Gold Star in ALEC's "Rich States, Poor States" Report" (May 30, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "On Paid Sick Days, Will Gov. Rick Scott Side with Moms or Mickey Mouse?" (May 16, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Paid Sick Days Defeat in Philadelphia Followed Familiar Script" (April 17, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Comcast Looms Large in Paid Sick Days Fight in Philly" (April 10, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Efforts to Deliver "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC" (April 3, 2013)
- PRWatch Editors, "New Study by National Employment Law Project Documents ALEC’s Attack on Wages" (March 5, 2013)
- Dave Saldana, "ALEC's Plan to Kill Union Jobs Everywhere, Even Outside the U.S." (February 28, 2013)
- Mary Bottari, "Scott Walker Dropped the Bomb Two Years Ago Today and Wisconsin's Economy is Still Shattered" (February 11, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC-Inspired "Right to Work" Bill Back Again in Pennsylvania" (January 31, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "What Will Scott Walker Lift from the ALEC Agenda in 2013?" (January 9, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "From Capitol Hill, Rep. Hank Johnson Highlights ALEC Connection to MI Right to Work Law" (December 13, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Michigan Passes 'Right to Work' Containing Verbatim Language from ALEC Model Bill" (December 11, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "ALEC's So-Called 'Right to Work' Bill as Political Revenge in Michigan" (December 11, 2012)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC-Inspired Union-Busting Narrowly Passes in Michigan as Koch Group Cheers" (December 6, 2012)
- Mary Bottari, "Battle for Worker Rights Moves from WI to CA, Prop. 32 Spun as Campaign Finance Reform" (October 4, 2012)
- Mary Bottari, "Is "Right to Work" Next on Walker's Agenda?," (May 29, 2012)
- Mary Bottari, "Hang onto that Paycheck! ALEC "Sharpens Focus on Jobs"," (April 19, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Bosma and Daniels Push "Right to Work" Amid Controversies over Financial Backers," (January 10, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Indiana Workers Stand against the ALEC Agenda and the Anti-Labor Bill Called the "Right to Work" (for Less)," (January 5, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Flu with that Burger? ALEC Wants Sick People Serving You Food," (October 19, 2011)
ALEC and Education
- Mary Bottari, "Arizona “Ground Zero” for Koch Attack on Public Education" (February 8, 2018)
- Mary Bottari, "Koch Latino Front Group Instructs Arizona Moms About School Vouchers" (November 27, 2017)
- Mary Bottari, "John Humphries: Schooled by Team Walker, Betsy DeVos and ALEC" (February 17, 2017)
- Dustin Beilke, "A Reality Check for "Charter School Week"" (May 5, 2016)
- PRWatch Editors, "ALEC Exposed: Corporate Polluters Undermining Clean Power in Virginia" (March 24, 2016)
- Brendan Fischer, "Cashing in on Kids: 172 ALEC Education Bills Push Privatization in 2015" (March 8, 2016)
- Dustin Beilke, "K12 Inc. Tries to Pivot from Virtual School Failures to Profit from "Non-Managed" Schools" (January 7, 2016)
- PR Watch Admin, "Back to ALEC, Back to (Private) School" (August 31, 2015)
- Jonas Persson, "ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia" (July 22, 2015)
- Jonas Persson, "ALEC Wants to Educate High Schoolers on Balanced Budgets and Austerity" (May 28, 2015)
- Jonas Persson, "Good Money after Bad, WI GOP Demands More For-Profit Schools" (January 16, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Former Indiana Superintendent, Lauded by ALEC and Education Privatizers, Cheats on School Grading Formula for Top Donor" (July 30, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Cashing in on Kids: 139 ALEC Bills in 2013 Promote a Private, For-Profit Education Model" (July 16, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Why is State Farm Involved in Education Policy? Conservative Think Tank Exposes ALEC as Exchange of Dollars rather than Ideas" (November 30, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Taxpayer-Enriched Companies Back Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education, its Buddy ALEC, and Their 'Reforms'" (November 28, 2012)
- Mary Bottari and Sara Jerving, "'Won't Back Down' Film Pushes ALEC Parent Trigger Proposal" (September 19, 2012)
- Will Dooling, "What Really Happens When Parents Pull the "Parent Trigger?"," (July 5, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Cuts Ties to ALEC," (May 1, 2012)
- Dustin Beilke, "Wisconsin Education Reform Only ALEC Could Love," (March 1, 2012)
- Dustin Beilke, "ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resort," (February 2, 2012)
- Steve Horn, "ALEC Model Bill Behind Push To Require Climate Denial Instruction In Schools," (January 26, 2012)
ALEC and Economic Policy
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC's Economic Policies Do More Harm Than Good, New Report Shows" (November 28, 2012)
- Beau Hodai, "Publicopoly: ALEC and the Bid to Make Private All That is Public," (August 22, 2011)
ALEC, Immigration, and Prisons
- Beau Hodai, "Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students" (November 27, 2012)
- Beau Hodai, "Marco Rubio, Geo Group, and a Legacy of Corruption" (August 29, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Second ALEC-Approved Law Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court," (June 29, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Parts of ALEC Immigration Law," (June 25, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "U.S. Supreme Court Considers ALEC Immigration Bill," (April 25, 2012)
- Ben Tobias, "Arizona Senator Recalled over ALEC Immigration Bill," (November 9, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "Profit Motive Underlies Outbreak of Immigration Bills," (August 24, 2011)
- Beau Hodai, "Brownskins and Greenbacks: ALEC, the For-Profit Prison Industry and Arizona’s SB 1070," (August 22, 2011)
ALEC and Health Care
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Helps Philip Morris Block Plain Packaging Tobacco Rules" (November 13, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Fueled Supreme Court Challenge to Obama Health Law" (November 13, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Will GOP Governors Really Try 'Nullifying' Obamacare?" (November 14, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer & Laura Stiegerwald, "Americans for Prosperity Rally Calls for "Nullifying" Health Care Law (with Help from ALEC)," (July 2, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Who is Bankrolling NFIB's Fight Against the ACA?," (June 27, 2012)
- Emily Osborne "Obamacare on Trial: Wendell Potter's Tips for Courtwatchers," (June 27, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Why Did PhRMA Spend $356K on ALEC in Wisconsin?," (March 12, 2012)
- Wendell Potter, "ALEC Exposed: Sabotaging Healthcare," (July 14, 2011)
ALEC and the Environment
- Lee Fang and Nick Surgey, "Scott Pruitt Has Spent a Total of $4.6 Million on Security, New Disclosures Show — Including $1,500 on "Tactical Pants"" (June 22, 2018)
- Don Wiener, "ALEC's Deadly Asbestos Agenda Benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide" (June 19, 2018)
- David Armiak, "ALEC Backs Extreme Climate Denial, Constitutional Rewrite, Corporate Wish List at Nashville Summit" (December 6, 2017)
- Lisa Graves, "Exxon Illegally Funded ALEC Under Tillerson's Tenure, CMD Tells Committee" (January 11, 2017)
- Calvin Sloan, "Fracking Special Interests Spent Big in 2016 Elections" (November 21, 2016)
- PR Watch Admin, "Exxon and ALEC Running Illegal Lobbying Scheme, Watchdog Groups Charge in IRS Complaint" (October 6, 2016)
- Nick Surgey, "ExxonMobil Top Sponsor at ALEC Annual Meeting" (July 27, 2016)
- Nick Surgey, "Peabody Coal Bankruptcy Reveals Climate Denial Network Funding" (June 13, 2016)
- Jamie Corey, "ALEC Appoints New Chair To Climate Denial Task Force" (May 6, 2016)
- Nick Surgey, "DCI Group Subpoenaed in Expanding Exxon Climate Denial Investigation" (April 20, 2016)
- Jessica Mason, "Barring Plastic Bag Bans, another ALEC Law Takes Aim at Local Democracy" (March 16, 2016)
- Jessica Mason, "The Kochs Go After Electric Car Subsidies" (February 26, 2016)
- Nick Surgey, "Bankruptcy Filing Shows Arch Coal Funding for Climate Denial Legal Group" (February 24, 2016)
- PRWatch Editors, "CMD Submits Evidence of ExxonMobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to California Attorney General" (January 21, 2016)
- Nick Surgey, "Major Electric Utility Dumps ALEC over Clean Power Plan" (December 8, 2015)
- PR Watch Admin, "ALEC CEO Lisa Nelson has a Climate Science Problem (VIDEO)" (December 7, 2015)
- Mary Bottari, "ALEC Works to Scuttle Global Climate Agreement" (December 2, 2015)
- Nick Surgey, "ALEC Conference Funding Dominated by Big Polluters" (July 23, 2015)
- Brendan Fischer, "Hot Topics at ALEC's 2015 Meeting in San Diego" (July 20, 2015)
- PRWatch Editors, "Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Your State This Year" (July 7, 2015)
- Jamie Corey, "Senator Whitehouse Exposes ALEC Climate Change Denial" (March 13, 2015)
- PRWatch Editors, "ALEC Sharpens Attack on Environmental Safeguards" (December 29, 2014)
- Jessica Mason, "ALEC and Big Oil Work to Overturn Denton Fracking Ban" (November 14, 2014)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Toronto Star Details ALEC Efforts to Derail Climate Change Policy" (August 26, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "Dark Money Casts Shadow over Push to Tax the Sun" (August 18, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "Edelman Makes a Climate Change Pledge, But Forgets About ALEC" (August 14, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "Coal and Oil Polluters Dominate ALEC Conference" (July 31, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "Oregon's GMO Sellout" (May 21, 2014)
- Nick Surgey, "Revealed: ALEC’s 2014 Attacks on the Environment" (April 23, 2014)
- Brendan Fischer, "Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda" (August 1, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "CMD Calls for Nebraska Ethics Investigation over ALEC Keystone “Academy” Junket" (July 3, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Keystone Academy: Where Legislators Learn the Etiquette of Serving Special Interests" (July 1, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC Tours Tar Sands, Works with Industry Groups to Block Low-Carbon Fuel Standards" (June 17, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Republican Governor Deals Blow to "Constitutionally Suspect" Tennessee "Ag Gag" Bill" (May 14, 2013)
- Nick Surgey, ""Business Climate" Rankings Bogus Says New Report" (May 2, 2013)
- Nick Surgey, "Art Pope Groups Push Extreme ALEC Tax Agenda in North Carolina" (April 29, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Big Defeat for ALEC's Effort to Repeal Renewable Energy Standards in North Carolina" (April 24, 2013)
- Nick Surgey, "On Earth Day, ALEC Bemoans “Somber” Environmentalists" (April 22, 2013)
- Nick Surgey, "Seven State Keystone XL Resolutions -- Where Are the Environmentalists?" (April 8, 2013)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Wave of "Ag Gag" Bills Threaten Food Safety and Freedom of the Press" (March 13, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "After Attacking Kwanzaa, WI Senator Moves on Attacking Renewable Energy-- with Help from ALEC" (February 25, 2013)
- Brendan Fischer, "Four States Introduce Keystone XL Resolutions, Lifting Language from ALEC and TransCanada Itself" (February 15, 2013)
- Connor Gibson, Greenpeace, "Duke Energy Flip-Flop; ALEC Leads Attack on North Carolina Clean Energy with Duke Funding" (January 16, 2013)
- Jill Richardson, "King Coal Gets a Boost through ALEC" (January 1, 2013)
- Connor Gibson, Greenpeace. "At ALEC Meeting, Indiana Regulator Advises Coal Companies on EPA Climate Rules" (December 13, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Cuts Ties to ALEC" (December 3, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "ALEC and Heartland Aim to Crush Renewable Energy Standards in the States" (November 27, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "CMD Special Report: ALEC's (Corporate) Love Affair with Fracking" (September 27, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Member American Chemistry Council Drops $649K on Wisconsin Senate Race" (September 6, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "ALEC’s Vision of Pre-Empting EPA Coal Ash Regs Passes the House," (April 23, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Atrazine and the Roots of ALEC's State Data Quality Act," (March 9, 2012)
- Steve Horn, "ALEC Model Bill Behind Push To Require Climate Denial Instruction In Schools," (January 26, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Kids Eating Rat Poison Is an "Acceptable Risk" for ALEC," (December 6, 2011)
- Anne Landman, "Koch-Funded Climate Skeptic Admits Global Warming is Real," (October 31, 2011)
- Rebekah Wilce, "U.S. House Passes ALEC-Inspired TRAIN Act," (October 5, 2011)
- Jill Richardson, "ALEC Exposed: Protecting Factory Farms and Sewage Sludge?," (August 4, 2011)
- Jill Richardson, "ALEC Exposed: Warming Up to Climate Change," (July 27, 2011)
ALEC's Tax Status and "Scholarships"
- Brendan Fischer, "Will Wisconsin Follow Minnesota's Lead and Ban ALEC 'Scholarships?'" (December 7, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "'Buying Influence,' a Special Report Released; ALEC Corporate Slush Fund Pays for State Lawmakers' Junkets" (October 26, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "WI Ethics Board Should Bar ALEC Corporate Gifts" (August 23, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Legislators Solicit Corporate Cash to Attend ALEC Utah Meeting" (July 24, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Criminal Tax Penalties for ALEC? CMD's Investigation Provides Facts for Powerful New Complaint by Former IRS Official," (July 9, 2012)
- Beau Hodai, "Quid pro Status Quo: ALEC and State-Sanctioned Corruption in Ohio," (May 10, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "A CMD Special Report: ALEC's "Scholarship" Scheme Helps Corporations Fund Legislator Trips," (May 7, 2012)
- Will Dooling, "ALEC: Desperate for Dough?," (April 13, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "CMD Documents ALEC’s Contradictory Claims to Wisconsin Ethics Board," (April 12, 2012)
- Harriet Rowan, "WI Rep. Mark Pocan Questions ALEC’s Non Profit Status," (April 23, 2012)
- DBA Press and CMD, "Rep. Farley Proposes Some Strong Arizona Sunshine on ALEC "Scholarships," (January 12, 2012)
- Beau Hodai, "“Legislative Laundry” -- Investigative Report on the Mechanics of the ALEC Scholarship Fund," (August 22, 2011)
ALEC and the Media
- PRWatch Editors, "New Video! ALEC Responds to NBC Investigation" (June 10, 2015)
- PRWatch Editors, "So a Lobbyist and an ALEC Legislator Walk into a Bar...Caught on Tape by NBC" (May 21, 2015)
- Jonas Persson, "Phony Front Group, Center for Union Facts, to Run Super Bowl Ad" (January 31, 2015)
- Sara Jerving, "The Lucy Burns Institute (Publishers of Ballotpedia, Judgepedia and WikiFOIA) and Her Right-Wing Bedfellows" (November 26, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "ALEC Goes After the Center for Media and Democracy" (August 29, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, "Group That Sustains ALEC's Voter Suppression Agenda Releases Sham 'Study,' to Acclaim From Right-Wing Media" (August 6, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Special Report from Salt Lake: ALEC Exposed, ALEC Diminished" (July 27, 2012)
- Emily Osborne, "NPR, NBC Use One Guy for Small Biz Opposition to ACA and Fail to Disclose his NFIB Ties," (July 6, 2012)
- Lisa Graves, "Trained on Koch: Daily Caller Claims Fake Rebuttal of CMD on ALEC Role Promoting "Stand Your Ground" Laws," (June 18, 2012)
- Brendan Fischer, ""I Stand With ALEC" Website Stumbles from the Start," (June 14, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Is an ALEC Member," (May 25, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC Sends Out an SOS to Breitbart Bloggers," (April 18, 2012)
- Harriet Rowan, "Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch Defends ALEC on FOX," (April 16, 2012)
- Will Dooling, "Fox's Bill O'Reilly Defends ALEC Against Supposed "Fascism"," (April 13, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Fox's Michelle Malkin Goes to Bat for ALEC," (April 12, 2012)
- Beau Hodai, "Inside ALEC: Naked Contempt for the Press and Public in Scottsdale," (January 11, 2012)
- Anonymous, "ALEC and Westin/Starwood: Who is Your Hotel in Bed With While You're in Bed at Your Hotel?," (January 11, 2012)
- Eric Carlson, "Journalist Kicked out of ALEC Conference, Threatened With Arrest," (August 5, 2011)
- Anne Landman, "What is ALEC Hiding? CMD Reporter Kicked Out of ALEC Hotel," (August 3, 2011)
ALEC Nationally
- Brendan Fischer, "Paul Weyrich's Troika Reunited: ALEC Partners With Republican Study Committee at Heritage Foundation" (September 12, 2012)
- Sara Jerving, "Rep. Hank Johnson Calls Out ALEC on the House Floor," (April 30, 2012)
- Rebekah Wilce, "ALEC Corporations Spend Big in Washington," (September 13, 2011)
- Rebekah Wilce "Cantor Introduces ALEC's Agenda to the House," (September 8, 2011)
ALEC Internationally
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Ties Bring Down British Defense Secretary, Threaten Prime Minister David Cameron," (October 18, 2011)
- Brendan Fischer, "ALEC Tied to British Political Scandal," (October 12, 2011)