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ALEC Gives Lawmakers Free Data Program Run by Republican Operatives The tax-exempt corporate bill mill’s gift of sophisticated voter software to its almost exclusively Republican legislative members may run afoul of federal and state laws. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC’s Numerous Ties to the Capitol Insurrection and “Big Lie” ALEC’s leaders, legislative members, and alumni played a major role in promoting Trump’s stolen-election disinformation campaign, attempting to overturn the election, and inciting the resulting violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Will its corporate backers hold it accountable? Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Honoree Backed Effort to Overturn Presidential Election, Compared Penn. Gov. to Nazis ALEC’s 2020 Legislator of the Year, Pennsylvania Sen. Chris Dush, signed a Jan. 5 letter asking Vice President Pence to stop certification of the presidential election results, just one day before the violent Capitol insurrection, and compared Gov. Wolf’s administration to the Nazi Party. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Lawmakers Traveled to D.C. For Rally and March That Led to Fatal Insurrection Two current and two recent members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, including one state chair, spent weeks lying about voter fraud and then participated in the events directly preceding the bloody coup attempt. Read the rest of this item here.