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Imperatives for Democrats (The American Prospect ) Wisconsin US Senate debates: Five things to watch as Tammy Baldwin meets Leah Vukmir (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck (PR Watch) Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session (PR Watch) After Voters Passed Progressive Ballot Initiatives, GOP Legislatures Are Trying to Kill Future One's (Mother Jones ) How Tammy Baldwin, Target of $14 Million in Outside Spending, Sent the Koch Brothers and Their Minions Packing (PR Watch) AT&T Drops ALEC for Hosting Hate Speech (PR Watch) ALEC Embraces Trumpism, Climate Catastrophe, and School Privatization at Policy Summit (PR Watch) First Came a Flood of Ballot Measures From Voters. Then Politicians Pushed Back. (New York Times ) Reporters Memo: Coke and Pepsi Play Hardball in Attempt to Prevent the Spread of Soda Taxes (PR Watch ) John Nichols: Leah Vukmir is peddling Donald Trump's snake oil (The Cap Times) Can young people take back Wisconsin from Scott Walker's hard-right grip? (The Guardian) Scott Walker's War on the Public Sector Came Back to Bite Him (Slate Magazine ) Koch's New Super PAC Loses Six of Nine Incumbents in Key Targeted House Races (PR Watch ) Six takeaways from Tammy Baldwin's victory in Wisconsin US Senate race (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ) Six takeaways from Tammy Baldwin's victory in Wisconsin US Senate race (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ) How Tammy Baldwin, Target of $14 Million in Outside Spending, Sent the Koch Brothers and Their Minions Packing (PR Watch) Democracy Is on the Ballot (The American Prospect) Reporters Memo: Coke and Pepsi Play Hardball in Attempt to Prevent the Spread of Soda Taxes (PR Watch ) First Came a Flood of Ballot Measures From Voters. Then Politicians Pushed Back. (New York Times ) Medicare for All Is Officially Winningl (The Nation ) ALEC Flaunts Trump Ties While Celebrating Its 45th Anniversary at POTUS's DC Hotel (PRWatch) Leah Vukmir hits Tammy Baldwin on Tomah VA while Dems focus on Vukmir's ALEC ties (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) The 1 Percent Has a Dark Plot to Replace American Democracy With an Elite Plutocracy — And It's Working (Alternet) Verizon Leaves Right-Wing Legislative Group ALEC Over Its Invitation to Anti-Muslim activist David Horowitz (The Intercept) " House Republicans escalate crusade against environmental groups working in China (ThinkProgress) " Letter to the editor: ALEC is a 'pay-to-play' operation (La Crosse Tribune) Verizon Leaves Right-Wing Legislative Group ALEC Over Its Invitation to Anti-Muslim activist David Horowitz (The Missouri Times) ALEC 45th annual meeting August 8-10 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (The Missouri Times) How a mock convention is helping fuel a movement to change the Constitution (Center for Public Integrity) Koch-funded groups mount PR and media campaign to fight carbon pricing (Media Matters for America) ALEC scheme to have lawmakers pick their own voters exposed (People's World) Before Annual ALEC Conference, New Report Exposes Secretive Group's Political Influence in ... (Common Cause) ’’’Let people make laws, not the Legislature (Arizona Daily Star) Wisconsin GOP Just Nominated ALEC's "Iron Lady" to Take on Tammy Baldwin (ExposedByCMD) ALEC in Louisiana (Common Cause) Conservatives call for constitutional intervention last seen 230 years ago (The Guardian) Anti-Pipeline Kayaktivists Hit With Felony Charges Under Louisiana's New ALEC-Inspired Law ... (Common Dreams) Congressman Pocan vs Republican Lies on ALEC and Election Victories (Free Speech TV) Republicans Don't Just Want to Win—They Want to Rig the Game (Daily Beast) Nonpartisan ALEC Will Celebrate 45th Gala with GOP Stars and Lobbyists at Trump Hotel (PR Watch) Rep. Chris Taylor ALEC gathering gives platform to hatemonger Horowitz (Madison.com) Recent Arrests Under New Anti-Protest Law Spotlight Risks That Off-Duty Cops Pose to Pipeline ... (The Intercept) New Koch Ad Highlights Vukmir's Support For Their ALEC Agenda (Democratic Party of Wisconsin) Democrats' top 25 House pickup opportunities, plus the next 25 (NBCNews) Emery, Onder both recognized as ALEC Legislator of the Week (The Missouri Times) House passes anti-carbon tax resolution in landslide (Beaumont Enterprise) Nearly 1 in 5 NC students are opting out of traditional public schools. Does it matter? (News & Observer) The Energy 202: Oil Check (Washington Post) Daily on Energy: Oil industry slams Trump's inaction on tariff relief (Washington Examiner) ExxonMobil Departure From Climate-Denying ALEC Long Overdue (Public.) Richmond is gagging progressive local governments (Washington Post) House voting on anti-carbon-tax measure: 'Pass the popcorn' (E&E News) North Carolina School Choice Laws Lead to Massive Flight from Public Schools (MRCTV) Book Review: The Fall of Wisconsin Is an Uplifting Read (ExposedByCMD) Fossil Fuel Industries Outspend Clean Energy Advocates On Climate Lobbying By 10 To 1 (HuffPost) Is ALEC Too Extreme for Exxon? Long-Term ALEC Board Member Dumps ALEC over Climate Denial Policy​ (ExposedByCMD) Exxon Quits Koch-Backed Business Group After Climate Change Row (Bloomberg) Exxon Mobil leaves conservative advocacy group ALEC (The Hill) Exxon quits ALEC (ThinkProgress) The battle for Wisconsin (Isthmus) Arizona charter school founder makes millions building his own schools (AZCentral) Inside the Koch Family's 60-Year Anti-Union Campaign That Gave Us Janus (In These Times) Pruitt May Be Out at the EPA, but Don't Expect Him to Disappear (Slate Magazine) Report: Dakota Access Pipeline Demonstrations Inspired Legislative Crackdown (Public News Service) Industry's FAIR, FACT, and PROTECT Asbestos Victims Legislation were Written to Deny Asbestos Victims Justice (Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization) Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to Public-Sector Unions (Democracy Now!) Trump Is Following Arizona's Playbook On Immigration. We Know How To Fight Back. (HuffPost) Terrible Ten (The Wilderness Society) What's Wrong with Privatizing Public Lands (The Progressive) Vote to Authorize a Strike at UPS (ExposedByCMD) Stewart's cited ALEC study leaves out info (Freeport Journal-Standard) Deadly Asbestos Agenda Benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide (ExposedByCMD) of Anti-Protest Bills Target Social Justice Infrastructure (Citizen Truth) Years Ago Global Warming Became Front-Page News (The Conversation) Activists fight to hold energy companies accountable in age of repressive state laws (ThinkProgress) Federalism gone wild: How Republicans seized power in state capitals — and reshaped America (Salon) ALEC Joins Religious Right Activists at the Road to Majority Conference (Right Wing Watch) States claim big win in Supreme Court decision on sales tax (The Hill) Comcast Shareholders Nix Lobbying Transparency (Media Play News) Chipotle's move to Newport Beach shows that taxes matter for CEOs less than you'd think (Los Angeles Times) 'The Fall of Wisconsin' aptly conveys the GOP's impact (The Cap Times) Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent's Stealth Takeover of America (Institute for New Economic Thinking) Corporations seek to destroy public education for all but the few (Beckley Register-Herald)
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