Dear John, As the summer rolls on, CMD staff is hard at work exposing ALEC’s right-wing agenda, the powerful corporate actors behind Trump’s assaults on democracy, the regressive rollback of state income taxes, voter suppression, and a lot more. Last Friday, we published our newest report jointly with Rolling Stone: even as blue states are fighting Trump in the courts, their pension funds are backing some of the companies most tightly linked with Trump's authoritarianism. And while most media attention has been focused on Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," CMD copublished an exposé with The American Prospect on the right-wing groups pushing major income tax changes in the states that favor the wealthy and big business. Please share our stories on Bluesky and Facebook, or whatever social media platform you use, to spread the work! Meanwhile, here's all the latest news from CMD: | |
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's (ALEC) annual meeting in Indianapolis this week brings together state lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, and the MAGA faithful to strategize about how to further suppress the vote, prop up the fossil fuel industry, and push Trump's priorities. Read the full story here. | |
Blue States Invest Retirees' Savings in Firms Boosting Trump's Extreme Agenda As blue states confront increasing authoritarianism, their pension funds are going to support some of the most influential companies carrying out Trump's agenda. Read the full story here. | |
Cleta Mitchell's New Dark Money Elections Group Raised $3.9 Million in Its First Full Year of Operations Insurrectionist and voter suppression advocate Cleta Mitchell’s new group has raised a significant haul of cash as she works to subvert the critical 2026 midterms Read the full story here. | |
Right-Wing State Tax "Revolution" Rolls On ALEC, Americans for Prosperity and the State Policy Network are pushing major tax cuts at the state level, even as the wealthy make out like bandits with the passage of the “big, beautiful bill.” Published jointly with The American Prospect. Read the full story here. | |
Heritage Foundation Partners with Ivermectin Group The Heritage Foundation continues to peddle junk science. Read the full story here. | |
ALEC-Backed Gig Drivers' Bill Parked on Governor Evers' Desk Republican legislators in Wisconsin seek to make app workers permanently ineligible for benefits. Read the full story here. | |
Kennedy Stacks Critical Vaccine Panel With Anti-Vaxxers RFK Jr. continues his neoliberal assault on basic science. Published jointly with the Accountability Journalism Institute Read the full story here. | |
CMD in the News - Jacobin: "The Gas Industry Is Redefining Methane as 'Clean Energy'"
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