Oil and Gas Companies Get Enormous Welfare, Still Lay Off Workers and Enrich Executives
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) denounced fossil fuel companies for exploiting taxpayers and refusing to testify before her congressional subcommittee.
U.S. Government
Koch's Americans for Prosperity Launches Nationwide Campaign to Oppose Biden's Infrastructure Plan
AFP is targeting Democrats in swing districts, foreshadowing attack ads its super PAC will likely run next year.
CMD Presents Reporting at UnKoch Press Conference
At an UnKoch My Campus press conference, CMD's Alex Kotch presented his reporting on how Charles Koch and Koch Industries aided the careers of the Republicans who spread lies about voter fraud and voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Rand Paul Is Working with ALEC to Suppress the Vote
In a video with the right-wing Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Kentucky senator made it clear that he’s teaming up with the American Legislative Exchange Council to back Trumpian voter suppression efforts this year.
Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis
With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there is no more room for error.
Right-Wing Groups Unite in Campaign Against Bill to Improve U.S. Democracy
GOP-aligned groups are using ads, activist tool kits, social media posts, statements, and letters to Congress to attack the For the People Act, sometimes with falsehoods about its contents.
Right-Wing Groups Rally Around Anti-Union Case Argued in Supreme Court Today
The Cedar Point Nursery case could have sweeping implications for business property rights, which explains why the right-wing Pacific Legal Foundation has taken the case and numerous other legal centers and think tanks financed by many of the same pro-corporate billionaires have weighed in.
The Right's Campaign to Erase America's Racist Roots
While Trump and other Republicans attacked the 1619 Project in 2020 campaigns, right-wing think tanks and policy groups backed them up. Now GOP state lawmakers want to ban schools from teaching it.
Alaska Senator Mum on Haaland Vote, Has Financial Conflict of Interest
GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan has up to $5 million invested in a family business that makes petroleum-derived products, some of which it sells to the fossil fuels industry.
CMD President Lisa Graves to Testify Before Senate Judiciary on the Right’s Dark Money Campaign to Capture U.S. Courts
The Center for Media and Democracy's president, Lisa Graves, will testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary's Subcommittee on Federal Courts at 3:00 p.m. ET on March 10, 2021 in a hearing titled, "What's Wrong with the Supreme Court: The Big-Money Assault on Our Judiciary."
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