ALEC-Led Effort to Preserve Conservative Majority on Supreme Court Gains Steam in the States
Faced with the potential expansion of the Supreme Court, the political Right wants to amend the Constitution to limit the Court to nine justices.
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The Pro-LGBTQ Companies That Helped Elect Arkansas Anti-Trans Bill Sponsors
A number of Fortune 500 companies and major trade associations have bankrolled the political careers of state legislators who promoted bills banning gender-affirming health care for minors and transgender women and girls in sports.
The Right’s “Dark Money ATM” Launches Funding Stream to Exploit Pandemic for Movement Goals
DonorsTrust, the preferred donor conduit of the Koch political network, has launched a new funding stream to resist public health measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and use the crisis to further its broader policy goals.
Right-Wing Groups Unite in Campaign Against Bill to Improve U.S. Democracy
GOP-aligned groups are using ads, activist tool kits, social media posts, statements, and letters to Congress to attack the For the People Act, sometimes with falsehoods about its contents.
Right-Wing Groups Rally Around Anti-Union Case Argued in Supreme Court Today
The Cedar Point Nursery case could have sweeping implications for business property rights, which explains why the right-wing Pacific Legal Foundation has taken the case and numerous other legal centers and think tanks financed by many of the same pro-corporate billionaires have weighed in.
The Right's Campaign to Erase America's Racist Roots
While Trump and other Republicans attacked the 1619 Project in 2020 campaigns, right-wing think tanks and policy groups backed them up. Now GOP state lawmakers want to ban schools from teaching it.
Alaska Senator Mum on Haaland Vote, Has Financial Conflict of Interest
GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan has up to $5 million invested in a family business that makes petroleum-derived products, some of which it sells to the fossil fuels industry.
CMD President Lisa Graves to Testify Before Senate Judiciary on the Right’s Dark Money Campaign to Capture U.S. Courts
The Center for Media and Democracy's president, Lisa Graves, will testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary's Subcommittee on Federal Courts at 3:00 p.m. ET on March 10, 2021 in a hearing titled, "What's Wrong with the Supreme Court: The Big-Money Assault on Our Judiciary."
Right-Wing Network Opposes Initiative to Increase Charitable Giving During Pandemic
A coalition of conservative groups funded by private foundations and donor-advised funds is denouncing a plan to make those foundations and funds pay out more of their endowments to charity.
Right Promotes "Big Lie" of Widespread Voter Fraud at CPAC Conference
Members of the influential Council for National Policy and the American Legislative Exchange Council's secretive elections working group doubled down on the same voter fraud fabrications that inspired the deadly Capitol insurrection.
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