Tide Turning Against Koch Front Group ALEC In The Renewable Energy Battle
Powerful interests are facing off on the future of renewable energy in North Carolina. A bill to freeze the state’s...
Powerful interests are facing off on the future of renewable energy in North Carolina. A bill to freeze the state’s...
Most people have a very well-defined threshold that no-one dares cross when it comes to accusing them of some character...
A network of Republican lawmakers and their rightwing corporate funders are battling behind closed doors to block minimum wage increases...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 16, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
Thom Hartmann and Brendan Fischer discuss the war waged by ALEC, the Kochs, and the Waltons against the ability for...
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place...
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
The battle between Democratic congressman Bruce Braley and Republican state Sen. Joni Ernst to be Iowa’s next US senator couldn’t...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 2, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
At least 72 corporate funders have cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the wake of the...
Even as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance...
After forty years of pushing corporate-friendly policy in state legislatures, this week the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is launching...
Lobbyists / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 3, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
ALEC holds its 41st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas starting on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. At this largest of its...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 2, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Newly-obtained documents show that the billionaire Koch brothers’ political giving is much more expansive than has previously been known. In...
by onepercenttakers · Published July 12, 2014 · Last modified August 8, 2014
Fossil fuel and utility interests, concerned about the rise of cheap clean energy, are financing attacks on pro–clean energy policies,...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 28, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Washington – The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a...
Corporations / Lobbyists / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 15, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 3, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The Koch-backed, right-wing lobbying group, ALEC, is planning a coordinated attack on the EPA’s plan to limit carbon emissions from...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 1, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
You’ve probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
Environment / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 22, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.