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Which Side Are You On? Miami Teachers Will Choose Between Their Union and a New One Bankrolled by a National Anti-Union Group Starting today, public school teachers in one of the country’s largest school districts are voting on whether to keep their current union — a longstanding local affiliate of a national teachers union — or join a newly formed employee organization that has the financial backing of a notorious anti-union advocacy group. Read the full story here. | |
Election Deniers Dominate Wisconsin’s GOP Congressional Primary When Wisconsin voters go to the polls today, Republican candidates who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results or spread claims of widespread voter fraud will be on the ballot in six of eight GOP primary contests for the House, along with the race to take on two-term Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin. Read the full story here. | |
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Private Equity Giants Pump More Than $200 Million in Federal Races Eleven of the top 50 individual contributors to political campaigns this election cycle work in the finance industry — specifically in private equity — and are betting big on congressional and presidential candidates who will protect one very special federal tax break worth billions of dollars to them: the carried interest loophole. Read the full story here. | |
ALEC Pushes Partisan and Corporate Agenda at 51st Annual Meeting ALEC state lawmakers, right-wing operatives, and corporate lobbyists descended on Denver at the end of July to hear presentations and vote on model policies and resolutions that impact the environment, education, elections, fundamental human rights, and more. Read the full story here. | |
Corporate Billionaires and Dark Money Funds Give $85 Million to Groups Behind State Anti-ESG Laws For the past four years, a handful of think tanks and advocacy groups have supported dozens of new state laws punishing financial institutions that limit their investments in risky industries like fossil fuels and firearms. These policy influence groups have combined forces with lobbyists from oil, gas, coal mining, gun manufacturing and agribusiness and coordinated a legislative assault on ESG investing principles. Read the full story here. | |
Our research has recently been cited by or featured in the following publications: - The Lever: “Are White Nationalists Behind the GOP’s Worker Surveillance Push?”
- Energy and Policy Institute: “Fueling the Opposition: How Fossil Fuel Interests Are Fighting to Kill Wind and Solar Farms Before They Are Built”
- The Cap Times: “Opinion | Liars Now Have Complete Control of the GOP”
- Scioto Valley Guardian: “Ohio Supreme Court to Review Public Records Dispute in Case Against Attorney General Dave Yost”
- Forbes: “Business Leaders Must Defend Our Legal Frameworks And Institutions”
- Iron Mountain Daily News: “Mackinac Center Asks for Name to Be Pulled From Project 2025”
- The Commons: “An Unusual Candidate Upends the Windham-1 Democratic Primary”
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