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An All-Out Assault: GOP-Aligned Groups Attack Voting Rights From All Angles By Alex Kotch | September 16th, 2020 at 1:33 PM (CDT) The Republican Party and numerous allied groups are taking an “all-of-the-above” approach to restrict voting as much as they possibly can in this year’s November elections
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House Testimony: Postmaster Louis DeJoy Should Be Fired or Resign By ExposedByCMD Editors | September 16th, 2020 at 1:32 PM (CDT) Lisa Graves, board president of CMD, called for DeJoy’s removal due to his conflicts of interest and alleged campaign finance violations at a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on Monday
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Koch Group Americans for Prosperity Action Spends $6.5 Million on Door-to-Door Canvassing By David Armiak | September 22nd, 2020 at 3:32 PM (CDT) AFP Action is canvassing for GOP candidates in six key U.S. Senate races, making it one of the few political outfits going door-to-door during the COVD-19 pandemic
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More Than 100 Funders of State Policy Network Revealed By Don Wiener | September 21st, 2020 at 10:24 AM (CDT) Five right-wing funders provided 83 percent of the traceable cash between 2014-2019 for the group’s efforts to crush public employee unions, question climate science, undermine the Affordable Care Act, and privatize schools
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Right-Wing Groups Oppose Historic Illinois Progressive Income Tax Ballot Measure By Don Wiener | September 4th, 2020 at 1:13 PM (CDT) Koch-funded groups are fighting against a state constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would make Illinois the 33rd state to have a graduated income tax.
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Corporate Lobby Group Attacks Teachers’ Unions in Call for Schools to Reopen Despite COVID-19 Risk By Alex Kotch | September 1st, 2020 at 10:54 AM (CDT) Bankrolled by anti-labor billionaires, the Job Creators Network is using its push for schools to reopen quickly as a wedge issue to attack teachers unions.
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Conservative Plutocrats Pour Enormous Sums of Money into GOP Super PACs By Alex Kotch | August 17th, 2020 at 3:22 PM (CDT) A CMD analysis of campaign finance data has found that just 44 individuals, couples, families, or corporations have poured more than $230 million into conservative super PACs in the 2020 cycle, nearly 60 percent of the total amount they raised.
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Watchdog Groups Call for Ethics Investigation of Senator Ron Johnson’s Misuse of Committee to Promote Political Disinformation By ExposedByCMD Editors | August 13th, 2020 at 2:20 PM (CDT) Nonprofit ethics watchdogs American Oversight and the Center for Media and Democracy today submitted a complaint to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics calling for an investigation into Senator Ron Johnson’s abuse of his official position as chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
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Facing Increased Scrutiny, TikTok Gave Money to State Attorneys General Groups By Alex Kotch | August 7th, 2020 at 4:15 PM (CDT) The Chinese-owned company made its first-ever political donation on June 30 to the Republican Attorneys General Association, followed by a donation to the group’s Democratic counterpart.
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ALEC and GOP Push Corporate Immunity From COVID-19 Workplace Illnesses and Deaths By Don Wiener | August 6th, 2020 at 3:59 PM (CDT) ALEC joins with other business lobbyists and Senate Republicans to back sweeping immunity for corporations that negligently spread coronavirus to their workers or customers.
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Trump Megadonor in Charge of U.S. Postal Service Poses Grave Threat to U.S. Elections By Alex Kotch | August 6th, 2020 at 8:40 AM (CDT) As President Trump makes false claims about mail-in ballot fraud, one of his campaign’s megadonors has been installed at the helm of a financially ravaged Postal Service that will make or break the 2020 general elections.
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