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NEW: The American Legislative Exchange Council held its third known voter suppression summit for state lawmakers on July 25 and 26 preceding its annual meeting in Atlanta, the Center for Media and Democracy has learned.
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ALEC invited 15 legislators to participate in the 2 day event with “policy experts” to focus on “the biggest challenges for the next electoral year,” & to equip lawmakers “with the resources to combat unfair practices," an email obtained by CMD details.
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The "Academy" culminated in an Inaugural Leadership Dinner co-hosted by its 501(c)(4) sister organization ALEC Action and the dark money voter suppression group Honest Elections Project.
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NEW: The ALEC faithful descend on Atlanta this week to take on "woke capitalism," women's right to abortion, voting rights, China, Big Tech, the administrative state, and more. Check out what's on the agenda.
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The meeting kicked off last night w/ a celebration of the SCOTUS’s recent ruling on Roe v. Wade over “late night dessert and coffee” w/the extremist anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which is now seeking a total ban on abortion in every state, w/no exceptions
ALEC members will discuss changes to its State Government Employee Retirement Protection Act. The revisions would prohibit anyone managing state, local, or university public pensions from considering the climate emergency or other social factors when investing pension funds.
NEW: ALEC has taken a clear position in favor of the #SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, & 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.
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Former WI Gov. Walker (R) joined Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, formerly known as Susan B. Anthony List, to train ALEC’s state leadership on how to talk about banning abortion in the upcoming elections, according to materials reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy
An invitation for the Zoom meeting last March obtained by CMD went out to many ALEC legislative leaders, as well as lobbyists from Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Duke Energy, UPS, and Charles Koch’s astroturf operation Americans for Prosperity.
NEW: ALEC’s “Critical Energy Theory” bills are moving in Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, all with sponsors tied to ALEC.
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CMD has learned that model bill was introduced at an ALEC EEA Task Force subcommittee meeting by Michigan Rep. Phil Green (R) on Nov. 19. I reached out to his office for comment but haven’t received a response.
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Indiana’s HB 1224, introduced on Jan. 6, has three authors, including Rep. Bob Heaton, who is a documented member of ALEC. In the bill’s first hearing, Brian Cantrell, senior VP and chief financial officer for Alliance Resource Partners testified in favor of the bill.
SCOOP: CMD has obtained information on two academies the American Legislative Exchange Council held in 2021 that it chose not to promote or list on its website as it does for its Annual Meeting or States and Nation Policy Summit.
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Sept 15-17, ALEC held a Life Sciences Academy “exclusive” for ALEC lawmakers. CMD obtained the invite & agenda. Heritage & Pacific Research Institute staff presented on drug pricing. Gene therapy, mental health, & patient access were also on the agenda.
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Oct 13-15, ALEC held an “Innovating for the Future Academy” in Silicon Valley. You can only imagine how “state policy-makers and industry experts” worked together to find “solutions to public policy issues.” CMD obtained the invite.
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BREAKING: ALEC held another two-day voter suppression “academy” with the dark money group Honest Elections Project proceeding its December 1-3 meeting, CMD has learned through obtaining an invitation.
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The invitation states, "Now, on November 29 and 30, we’ll work with you on how to put these proven methods into practice, from direct litigation strategies, to workshops with leading election experts, to messaging techniques.”
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CMD was first to report on a secret elections meeting at ALEC’s Dec 1-3 States and Nation Policy Summit, which only a handful of lawmakers attended. Now we know why.
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NEW: ALEC boasted about its role in promoting & passing laws making it harder to vote, barring schools from teaching about America's racist past, & protecting employers from COVID-related lawsuits at a May meeting of the Council for National Policy.
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CMD acquired and published two videos of the ALEC sessions at the Christian Right Council for National Policy’s May 40th Anniversary meeting that informed the piece. Here is the first:
And below is the second. Note that the video from this “action” session is incomplete due to an apparent power outage.
NEW: ALEC’s Annual Meeting Queues Up Fights Over Federal Powers, Fossil Fuels, Big Tech, Labor Rights, and the GOP’s Culture Wars
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Trump loyalists Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R), U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R), Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz, and ALEC’s favorite economists Stephen Moore and Art Laffer are all scheduled to speak.
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ALEC is extending its conference well into the evening on Friday this year to hold an “interactive academy” on rewriting the U.S. Constitution. CMD obtained the invited.
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Mike Shirkey: "very proud" & "not backing off one oz." on 39 #VoterSuppression bills on call w #ALEC front-group NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business).
|@TheCenterSquare: Michigan SOS Benson: #MIGOP voting package "un-American" thecentersquare.com/michigan/michi… #ALECexposed
|@TheCenterSquare: Michigan SOS Benson: #MIGOP voting package "un-American" thecentersquare.com/michigan/michi… #ALECexposed
The "National Federation of Independent Business" (#NFIB)👉sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nati… was OUTED as corporate/billionaire-funded "front" for #ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) NOT small business by @WashingtonPost (2014)👉 washingtonpost.com/business/on-sm… #ALECexposed #KOCHexposed 
NFIB touts itself as champion for "Small Business" community nationwide & in States, but pushes BIG BIZ, #ALEC & BILLIONAIRE issues like the "death tax" and privatization.
More on the FRAUDULENT "National Federation of Independent Business"👉prwatch.org/news/2014/08/1… #ALECexposed
More on the FRAUDULENT "National Federation of Independent Business"👉prwatch.org/news/2014/08/1… #ALECexposed
|@grist: Leaked calls show #ALEC’s secret plan to fight Biden on climate: NEW working group is promoting long-shot tactics like Nullification & a Constitutional Convention (of States or COS) grist.org/politics/alec-… #ALECexposed #ALECideas=Make ALL Federal actions "null & void"
"The call (attained by @EXPOSEDbyCMD) was 1 of 2 so far as part of #ALEC’s new "Functional Federalism Working Group", which exists separately from a longstanding ALEC task force on federalism & int'l relations."
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#CovidDenial Kill us fast.
#ClimateDenial Kills us slow.
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#CovidDenial Kill us fast.
#ClimateDenial Kills us slow.
American Legislative Exchange Council TACTIC is to make Biden Exec Orders, Fed Laws & Courts "NULL and VOID" via legislation in US (#GOP-controlled) States.
MUST READ |@APNews: Idaho panel OKs (#ALEC) plan to nullify federal actions, rulings apnews.com/article/legisl… #ALECexposed
MUST READ |@APNews: Idaho panel OKs (#ALEC) plan to nullify federal actions, rulings apnews.com/article/legisl… #ALECexposed
