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| <h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/11/11/progressive-policies-win-ballot-box/ Progressive Policies Win at the Ballot Box]</h3> | | <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:Man-on-roof-vote-no-on-1 0.jpg|270 px|center]]Ballot measures across the country passed on November 8th highlighting the fact that progressive values still resonate with the U.S. electorate. Gains were made even in the face of industry deception and big dollar ad campaigns. | | [[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. |
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| In a victory for climate activists and solar energy, Floridians voted down Amendment 1, a constitutional amendment which would have made it hard for people with solar panels to sell energy back to the grid.
| | 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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| Leaked audio, obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Energy and Policy Institute two weeks before the election, showed that Florida utilities and their allies sought to deceive the public into believing that Amendment 1 was pro-solar. The tapes made front page news across the state and Florida editorial boards weighed in, but as the amendment was very deceptively worded environmentalists were worried. In the end, voters rejected the amendment 50.8 to 49.2, a big defeat since the threshold to amend the constitution is 60 percent. Floridians for Solar Choice worked hard to expose the deception and turn out voters in opposition. Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/11/11/progressive-policies-win-ballot-box/ here].
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| <h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/10/31/kochs-battle-dark-money-disclosure-south-dakota/ Kochs Battle Dark Money Disclosure in South Dakota]</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:Vote-for-me-paid-by-taxpayers-900x500.jpg|270 px|center]]he Koch network has mobilized in South Dakota to defeat the “South Dakota Accountability and Anti-Corruption Act,” a state-wide initiative on the ballot November 8. | | [[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. |
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| The anti-corruption measure, Initiated Measure 22 or IM-22, was launched by a bipartisan group called the South Dakotans for Integrity and put on the ballot with signatures from over 20,000 state residents.
| | 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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| IM-22 cracks down on dark money and phony industry front groups by barring candidate coordination with outside groups and regulating independent expenditures. It cracks down on sham “issue ads,” which are really the functional equivalent of express advocacy, by requiring them to be reported electronically within 48 hours, requiring donor disclosure and requiring the top five donors to be disclosed on air. The initiative also provides a small dollar public financing mechanism, sets rules for lobbyists and gifts and creates an ethics commission to investigate violations of ethics and campaign finance rules. Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/10/31/kochs-battle-dark-money-disclosure-south-dakota/ here].
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| <h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/10/13/voter-id-wisconsin-slow-motion-train-wreck/ Voter ID in Wisconsin, a Slow-Motion Train Wreck]</h3> | | <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:Vote-here-id-required270px.jpg|270 px|center]]MADISON — A federal judge held a hearing Wednesday to determine if procedures put in place by Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to implement the state’s new voter ID law were sufficient to protect the right to vote. | | [[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. |
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| The advocacy organization One Wisconsin Now was asking the judge to suspend the state’s voter ID law for the November election or at a minimum force the state to fix demonstrated problems with the voter ID petition process (IDPP), which is designed to help people who don’t have their birth certificates or other forms of ID acceptable under the state’s strict version of the American Legislative Exchange Council's "model" law. Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/10/13/voter-id-wisconsin-slow-motion-train-wreck/ here].
| | 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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| <h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/10/06/exxon-alec-running-illegal-lobbying-scheme-irs-complaint/ Exxon and ALEC Running Illegal Lobbying Scheme, Watchdog Groups Charge in IRS Complaint]</h3> | | <h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/01/31/alec-member-strikes-a-blow-against-rule-requiring-union-labor-on-federal-construction-projects/ ALEC Member Strikes a Blow Against Rule Requiring Union Labor on Federal Construction Projects]</h3> |
| [[Image:Exxon-knew-ALEC-too270px.jpg|270 px|center]]'''Center for Media and Democracy and Common Cause File Extensive New Evidence in Whistleblower Tax Fraud Case Against ALEC''' | | [[Image: Grand-Coulee-Dam-workers-Library-of-Congress-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] Contractors engaged in large federal construction projects can’t be required to enter collective bargaining agreements with building trade unions, a federal claims court ruled last week. |
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| ExxonMobil and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are running an illegal scheme to promote the oil giant’s climate denial policies and legislative agenda in violation of U.S. tax law governing charitable organizations, the Center for Media Democracy (CMD) and Common Cause charged Thursday.
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| In a new filing to the IRS – adding to an active investigation prompted by a 2012 complaint that ALEC is operating as a corporate lobbying group while registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity – the watchdog organizations detail for the first time how Exxon has used ALEC as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block legislation to reduce emissions. While ALEC purports to spend zero dollars on lobbying, Exxon has deliberately used ALEC for the past two decades to advance its legislative goals concerning cap-and-trade policies, fracking, the Keystone Pipeline and the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/10/06/exxon-alec-running-illegal-lobbying-scheme-irs-complaint/ here].
| | Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/01/31/alec-member-strikes-a-blow-against-rule-requiring-union-labor-on-federal-construction-projects/ here]. |
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| <h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/independent-womens-voice-known-donors-men/ The Independent "Women's" Voice? Most Known Donors Are Men]</h3>
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| [[Image:Indepenent-womens-voice-donors-men-270px.jpg|270 px|center]]The Independent Women's Voice touts its "independent" brand in reaching potential voters.
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| But is it even women's voices it is throwing? Let alone independent women?
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| The reported data from the Federal Election Commission data says no. New research shows that the overwhelming majority of its known donors are men.
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| Very rich men. Yes, men have provided most of the disclosed donations to fund election-related expenditures under the name of the "Independent Women's Voice." Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/independent-womens-voice-known-donors-men/ here].
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