Index of PRWatch Articles About ALEC

The Center for Media and Democracy publishes news stories about the American Legislative Exchange Council, its corporate funders and policymakers, and its allied special interest groups, like the American City County Exchange and the State Policy Network with affiliates in states across the country here on PRWatch.org. A list of CMD's reporting on ALEC is provided below.

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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)