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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/07/12/alec-extreme-exxon-long-term-alec-board-member-dumps-alec-climate-denial-policy%e2%80%8b/ Is ALEC Too Extreme for Exxon?]</h3>
[[Image:ALEC-ExxonMobile-270px.jpg|270 px|center]]ExxonMobil, the largest oil and gas company in the world, will not renew its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) after a split within the corporate lobbying group over how to address climate change, Bloomberg [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-12/exxon-quits-koch-backed-business-group-after-climate-change-row reported].


Exxon's exit follows a disagreement [https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/heartland-institute-statement-on-alec-endangerment-finding-resolution over a resolution] introduced in December by the Heartland Institute, that would have asked the federal government to reconsider its findings that greenhouse gasses are harmful to human health.
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/18/who-funds-alec/ Who Funds ALEC?]</h3>
[[Image: Alec25.jpeg |270 px|center]] ALEC’s largest identifiable funder is the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation, which funneled $3.6 million into its coffers between 2019 and 2024. Some of the funds were used to bankroll ALEC CARE, the pay-to-play group’s controversial voter management campaign software.


Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/07/12/alec-extreme-exxon-long-term-alec-board-member-dumps-alec-climate-denial-policy%e2%80%8b/ here].
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/18/who-funds-alec/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/06/19/alec-deadly-asbestos-agenda-benefits-koch-industries/ ALEC's Deadly Asbestos Agenda Benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/17/alec-brings-voter-suppression-activities-out-of-the-dark-and-coddles-fossil-fuel-industry-at-this-weeks-annual-meeting/ ALEC Brings Voter Suppression Activities Out of the Dark and Coddles Fossil Fuel Industry at This Week’s Annual Meeting]</h3>
[[Image:Lungs-xray-ALEC-asbestos-270px.jpg|270 px|center]]ALEC [https://www.alec.org/article/legislator-of-the-week-missouri-representative-bruce-degroot/ named] Missouri Republican state Rep. Bruce DeGroot as a "Legislator of the Week" in June.
[[Image: Alec1.jpeg |270 px|center]] The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is bringing together state lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, MAGA followers, and right-wing operatives and funders at the four-star JW Marriott Indianapolis this week for its annual meeting, where once again it will strategize about how to further suppress the vote, prop up the fossil fuel industry, push Trump’s priorities, and more.


Why is ALEC so fond of DeGroot? Because he has cheerfully championed ALEC legislation to restrict the right of terminally ill, asbestos victims to sue over mesothelioma. In doing so, DeGroot is helping the many U.S. companies, including ALEC funders Koch Industries and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, that have asbestos-related liability.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/17/alec-brings-voter-suppression-activities-out-of-the-dark-and-coddles-fossil-fuel-industry-at-this-weeks-annual-meeting/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/03/14/alec-legislators-dominate-leadership-positions-in-republican-states/ ALEC Legislators Dominate Leadership Positions in Republican States]</h3>
[[Image: ALEC-Panel-Annual-Meeting-2024-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] For more than 50 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council has moved a right-wing and pro-corporate Republican agenda of legislation in states across the country — all while posing as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt charity.


Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/06/19/alec-deadly-asbestos-agenda-benefits-koch-industries/ here].
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/03/14/alec-legislators-dominate-leadership-positions-in-republican-states/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/05/22/epic-fail-supreme-court-strips-non-union-workers-power/ EPIC Fail: Supreme Court Turns Back the Clock to Strip Workers of Power]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/25/alec-pushes-state-anti-labor-agenda-for-2025/ ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025]</h3>
[[Image:EPIC-red-sign270px.jpg|270 px|center]]When unemployment drops and labor markets tighten, wages are expected to rise, but few workers are seeing more money in their paychecks since unemployment dipped below 4 percent this month.
[[Image: IStock-1501973077-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill-mill, has laid out its priorities for this year’s state legislative sessions.


Economists agree that a key variable in the wage stagnation is the inability of the vast majority of American workers to join together to demand higher wages.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/25/alec-pushes-state-anti-labor-agenda-for-2025/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/10/alec-publishes-its-own-project-2025-for-the-states/ ALEC Publishes Its Own Project 2025 — for the States]</h3>
[[Image: 50yearsofharm-rally-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] “Now, more than ever, is the time for states to lead.” This assertion by leaders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) opens the organization’s Essential Policy Solutions playbook for 2025.


The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in ''Epic Systems Corporation v. Lewis'' that businesses can prohibit their workers from banding together to battle their employers in court in disputes over pay and workplace conditions.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/10/alec-publishes-its-own-project-2025-for-the-states/ here].
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ALEC News

Who Funds ALEC?

ALEC’s largest identifiable funder is the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation, which funneled $3.6 million into its coffers between 2019 and 2024. Some of the funds were used to bankroll ALEC CARE, the pay-to-play group’s controversial voter management campaign software.

Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC Brings Voter Suppression Activities Out of the Dark and Coddles Fossil Fuel Industry at This Week’s Annual Meeting

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is bringing together state lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, MAGA followers, and right-wing operatives and funders at the four-star JW Marriott Indianapolis this week for its annual meeting, where once again it will strategize about how to further suppress the vote, prop up the fossil fuel industry, push Trump’s priorities, and more.

Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC Legislators Dominate Leadership Positions in Republican States

For more than 50 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council has moved a right-wing and pro-corporate Republican agenda of legislation in states across the country — all while posing as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt charity.

Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill-mill, has laid out its priorities for this year’s state legislative sessions.

Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC Publishes Its Own Project 2025 — for the States

“Now, more than ever, is the time for states to lead.” This assertion by leaders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) opens the organization’s Essential Policy Solutions playbook for 2025.

Read the rest of this item here.

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