Shell Just Broke Up With ALEC Over Climate-Change Denials

Shell has left the conservative group -- but still keeps investing in new, risky fossil fuel development.  ... Read more

Reviled Corporate Lobby Group ALEC Now Working Overtime to Push the 'Beepocalypse'

Controversial conservative group says bee deaths have been overhyped and blame poor land management: ‘We’re not in a battle against nature’.
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Planned Parenthood Attacker Greeted At ALEC Conference As Conquering Hero

The guy who released edited videos of conversations with Planned Parenthood officials was received as a conquering hero by ALEC conference participant...  Read more

Right-Wing ALEC Now Says School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia, Not the Poor

Privatizers go where the money is: the middle class.
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ALEC's Scary Corporate Agenda -- 7 of Their Most Anti-Democratic and Science-Denying Ideas

ALEC's annual gathering revealed how right-wingers will push dangerous legislation across the country.
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ALEC: Paying For Corporate Lobbying With Our Tax Dollars

"My careful and objective analysis, based on 35 years in political life, is that ALEC is one of the sleaziest organizations in modern American politica..."  Read more
https://youtu.be/w5DPy_7uNUg

The Secret Group That Wants to Take Over Your School

Their work behind the scenes is every bit as dangerous for the future of education as ALEC's.
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ALEC-Tied Politicians Push North Carolina To Gut Its Environmental Protection Act

It only took two weeks for the Republican-led House in North Carolina to introduce and pass a bill gutting the state's ... Read more

Scott Walker's Dismal Record: Let's Look at What GOP Candidates Failed to Do as Governors

They were supposed to show off the GOP's deep bench. Instead, they highlighted incompetence.
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ALEC Can't Seem To Keep Its Spats From Getting Into Public View

First, major member businesses left the organization griping about climate change. Then ALEC's spat with liberal advocacy groups became public when those groups published cease and desist letters from ALEC... Now, the progressive wireless carrier Credo Mobile is refusing to comply with Alec's most recent attempt to gag an opponent.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/credo-cease-and-desist-alec--2

Who's pushing the 'religious freedom' legislation in states?

Indiana's 'Religious Freedom Restoration Act' is kicking up a media storm over discrimination toward homosexuals. Some say Indiana's new law is the r... Read more

How ALEC helps conservatives and businesses turn state election wins into new laws

Republicans have long been viewed as more effective than Democrats in pushing their policy priorities in state legislatures. One reason why? A group c...  Read more

Scott Walker Pushes ALEC 'Right to Work' Bill, Divide and Conquer Comes Full Circle

Just weeks ago, the Washington Post described Scott Walker as the first "It" candidate of the 2016 presidential races, but after stumbling over "truth...  Read more

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: State Legislatures and ALEC (HBO)

While midterm coverage is largely focused on the parts of Congress that do very little, vital (and bizarre) midterm elections are going unexamined. State legislators pass a lot of bills, and some of that efficiency is thanks to a group called ALEC that writes legislation for them. It’s as shady as it sounds!
http://youtu.be/aIMgfBZrrZ8

Dems To Take On ALEC With Their Own State Organization

Good to see Dems are going on the offensive -- finally! I've been wondering for years why they didn't do this. I guess they had to lose first: Chaste...  Read more

Progressives Launching State-Focused Group To Combat ALEC

"Progressives are looking around to figure out where to go to push back, and there has not been a vehicle to do that at the ...  Read more

Watch: John Oliver on the Pasty Conservative Bureaucrats Destroying American Democracy

The "investigative comedian" on ALEC, the conservative "bill mill." While midterm coverage is largely focused on the parts of Congress that do very little, vital (and bizarre) midterm elections are going unexamined. State legislators pass a lot of bills, and some of that efficiency is thanks to a group called ALEC that writes legislation for them. It’s as shady as it sounds!

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http://youtu.be/aIMgfBZrrZ8

A Public Lands Controversy In The Great American West (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

If you saw Cliven Bundy and his armed supporters on horseback this spring in Nevada, you saw one face of a movement to get the federal government’s hand off of vast lands in the American West. The suit-and-tie version of that movement wants control handed over to the states. And we’re talking a lot of land. Eighty-one percent of Nevada – federal-controlled. Sixty-seven percent of Utah. Forty-eight percent of California, Wyoming. Critics say the new Sagebrush Rebellion is about oil and gas and development. Supporters say “states’ rights.” This hour On Point: Who will control all Americans’ western lands? / Tom Ashbrook

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/10/29/public-lands-sell-off-utah-montana

Washington Post Runs Pro-ALEC, Anti-Science Op-Ed From Inhofe Ally Carly Fiorina

The Washington Post claims it wants to improve the climate change dialogue. If so, it should never have published Carly ... Read more

Bob Herbert Tells Bill Moyers How Corporations and the Big Banks Have Hijacked the Country

The former New York Times columnist says we need to start voting against the excessive power of the great moneyed interests.

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