This Week at CMD

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has a number of new stories we'd like to share with you.

We recently reported on how the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made its position on the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade clear, teaming up with anti-abortion extremists to coach ALEC members on how to campaign on the issue.

In addition, CMD published articles on the Heritage Foundation's cheerleading for an anti-LGBTQ hate group, Kochworld's spending—and a defeat—in this year's primary elections, and other topics.

We also signed on to and published a statement from over 20 news outlets calling out the corporate and legacy media for making ads for oil and gas companies as the planet increasingly suffers from climate change.

Here's the latest!

The Latest From CMD

ALEC Opposes Roe, Teams up with Anti-Abortion Extremists

The American Legislative Exchange Council has taken a clear position in favor of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and has teamed up with the political arm of the extremist anti-abortion movement to coach its legislative members on how to campaign on the issue.

Heritage Gives Award to Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group

The Heritage Foundation awarded an anti-LGBTQ hate group a major cash prize at its annual Resource Bank conference for developing a new tool that scores corporations based on their treatment of conservative Christian beliefs in their business practices, workplace, charitable giving, and political spending.

Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies

CMD joined a group of more than 20 members of the OptOut independent media network in this op-ed calling out corporate and legacy media for continuing to make ads for oil and gas companies, even now, when scientists say we’ve done irreversible damage to our planet.

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2022 Primaries

Illinois GOP Primary for Governor Shatters Spending Records

The June 28 GOP primary for Illinois governor pit candidates against each other who were bankrolled by two of the state’s wealthiest men.

Koch Political Operation Spends Big on GOP Primaries

Charles Koch’s main super PAC has already spent over $8 million to support GOP congressional candidates in this year’s elections.

South Dakota Voters Reject Attempt to Derail Medicaid Expansion

Koch’s Americans for Prosperity suffered a defeat in South Dakota this month when voters soundly rejected imposing a supermajority requirement on future ballot measures—which had been AFP’s strategy for derailing this fall’s vote on expanding Medicaid.

Meadows’ nonprofit benefited from Trump’s ‘Big Ripoff’

The former North Carolina congressman and White House chief of staff, under investigation for registering to vote in three states, Meadows promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election that President Trump used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters.

When transparency is treated with contempt

Most of the time, public officials in Wisconsin obey the state’s openness laws. Sometimes, they need a little prodding from the courts.

Reporter Alex Kotch went on WORT FM and The Thom Hartmann Program to discuss his story on the funders of white nationalist propaganda that inspired the Buffalo terrorist.

CMD's research and reporting were cited by the following publications:

Nonprofit Quarterly: Anti-Protest Bills: A Formula for Authoritarianism That We Must All Fight
Nonprofit Quarterly: The Police Groups and Fossil Fuel Corporations Lobbying to Criminalize Protest
Black Voice News: Keeping it Real: We Are Not for Sale– A Response to Wells Fargo and Other Corporate Duplicity
Global Center for Climate Justice: Voter Suppression, Climate Justice, and the Polluter Industrial Complex
Arkansas Times: Anti-boycott laws like Arkansas’s defy U.S. Constitution
Forbes: Checks & Imbalances: Trump’s Revenue Stream, Australia’s Jet-Setting Billionaire
WBEZ Chicago: What did $50 million buy Ken Griffin in Illinois’ primary? Not much.
Knock LA: Why Does ‘Democrat’ Sheriff Villanueva Have So Many Far-Right Supporters?
AlterNet: How the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council turns disinformation into law

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