State Policy Network

Special Report

A Reporters' Guide to the "State Policy Network" -- the Right-Wing Think Tanks Spinning Disinformation and Pushing the ALEC Agenda in the States

by Rebekah Wilce — April 4, 2013 - 7:41am
  • Topics: State Policy Network, ALEC Exposed, Right Wing, Think Tanks

    • New Resource Details "Think Tanks" Tanking Americans' Rights

    In this new online resource, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD, the publisher of the award-winning ALECexposed.org investigation) documents the more than $80 million that right-wing billionaires and corporations are spending each year to fuel Tracie Sharp's State Policy Network (SPN) and its 59 state "think tank" members, along with the controversial Heartland Institute, a SPN ally like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), that tries to change both state and federal law.

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    The Lucy Burns Institute (Publishers of Ballotpedia, Judgepedia and WikiFOIA) and Her Right-Wing Bedfellows

    by Sara Jerving — November 26, 2012 - 8:13am
  • Topics: State Policy Network, Right Wing, Internet, Media

    • The Lucy Burns Institute (LBI) is a Madison-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2006 and named after a significant leader of the women's suffrage movement. The organization sponsors three websites: Ballotpedia, which tracks elections and ballot measures at the state level; WikiFOIA, which provides Information on how to use Freedom of information laws at the state and local level; and Judgepedia, which provides information on the nation's judges and court systems.

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    Meet the Network Hiding the Koch Money: "Donors Trust" and "Donors Capital Fund"

    by PRW Staff — October 29, 2012 - 8:00am
  • Topics: State Policy Network, Right Wing, Corporations

    • - Connor Gibson, Greenpeace

    Earlier this year internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a major hub of climate change denial and right-wing extremism, were publicly leaked. The documents exposed the Heartland Institute's funders and strategies for attacking climate science, and led to a mass exodus of Heartland's corporate funders.

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    Wisconsin-Koch Connection Back in the News, AFP Rally at State Capitol Tomorrow

    by Rebekah Wilce — April 13, 2012 - 1:15pm
  • Topics: State Policy Network, Corporations, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • As major corporate funders cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the call is raised for ALEC state legislators to drop ALEC as well, not only is Koch Industries maintaining its support, but the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has stepped in to defend ALEC in its time of need.

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