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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/01/22/alecs-new-union-busting-toolkit/ ALEC’s New Union-Busting Toolkit Illustrates the Goal Is to Bankrupt Unions Not Protect Workers]</h3>
ALEC’s post-Janus toolkit inadvertently sheds light on the real aims of the group’s union-busting activities.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/01/22/alecs-new-union-busting-toolkit/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/01/15/gop-strips-rep-king-posts-alec-keeps-white-supremacist-state-chair/ Broad Coalition Calls on Corporations to Drop Funding for ALEC Over Horowitz Speeches]</h3>
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea keeps his leadership post in ALEC despite circulating a white nationalist manifesto calling for a violent Christian holy war. 
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/01/15/gop-strips-rep-king-posts-alec-keeps-white-supremacist-state-chair/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/12/15/alec-union-busting-proposal-defeated-in-michigan-lame-duck/ ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck]</h3>
Bill’s author never met the threshold for election that he is demanding for union recertification.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/12/15/alec-union-busting-proposal-defeated-in-michigan-lame-duck/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/12/12/michigan-gop-defies-voters-rams-alec-koch-priorities-lame-duck-session/ Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session]</h3>
Unconstitutional voter restrictions, lower wages, less health care, donor secrecy, and union-busting add up to an agenda only the Koch brothers would love.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/12/12/michigan-gop-defies-voters-rams-alec-koch-priorities-lame-duck-session/ here].


<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/11/29/att-drops-alec-hosting-hate-speech/ AT&T Drops ALEC for Hosting Hate Speech]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/11/29/att-drops-alec-hosting-hate-speech/ AT&T Drops ALEC for Hosting Hate Speech]</h3>
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Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/09/17/verizon-dumps-alec-denounces-speaker-racist/ here].
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/09/17/verizon-dumps-alec-denounces-speaker-racist/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/27/broad-coalition-calls-corporations-drop-funding-alec-horowitz-speeches/ Broad Coalition Calls on Corporations to Drop Funding for ALEC Over Horowitz Speeches]</h3>
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has joined a coalition of 78 government reform, civil rights, labor, environmental, and advocacy organizations urging 20 of the largest corporate funders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to cut ties with the corporate bill mill. 
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/27/broad-coalition-calls-corporations-drop-funding-alec-horowitz-speeches/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/17/nonpartisan-alec-will-celebrate-45th-gala-gop-stars-lobbyists-trump-hotel/ “Nonpartisan” ALEC Will Celebrate 45th Gala with GOP Stars and Lobbyists at Trump Hotel]</h3>
Invitations have gone out for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)’s 45th Gala on September 26, 2018 at the Trump International Hotel, just blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., and the event chairs and committee members are a who’s who of prominent Republicans, big polluters, lobbyists, and union busters.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/08/common-cause-exposes-alec-influence-louisiana/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/15/wisconsin-gop-nominated-alec-iron-lady-take-tammy-baldwin/ Wisconsin GOP Just Nominated ALEC’s “Iron Lady” to Take on Tammy Baldwin]</h3>
Koch loyalist and Wisconsin State Senator Leah Vukmir won the Wisconsin GOP primary for U.S. Senate by a whopping 50-42 percent, beating veteran, “Send in a Marine,” Kevin Nicholson who vastly outspent her. Vukmir will be taking on the Kochs’ top target, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, in the fall.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/15/wisconsin-gop-nominated-alec-iron-lady-take-tammy-baldwin/ here].


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More ALEC News

ALEC’s New Union-Busting Toolkit Illustrates the Goal Is to Bankrupt Unions Not Protect Workers

ALEC’s post-Janus toolkit inadvertently sheds light on the real aims of the group’s union-busting activities.

Read the rest of this item here.


Broad Coalition Calls on Corporations to Drop Funding for ALEC Over Horowitz Speeches

Washington State Rep. Matt Shea keeps his leadership post in ALEC despite circulating a white nationalist manifesto calling for a violent Christian holy war.

Read the rest of this item here.


ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck

Bill’s author never met the threshold for election that he is demanding for union recertification.

Read the rest of this item here.


Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session

Unconstitutional voter restrictions, lower wages, less health care, donor secrecy, and union-busting add up to an agenda only the Koch brothers would love.

Read the rest of this item here.

AT&T Drops ALEC for Hosting Hate Speech

AT&T joins Verizon in rush to the exit after ALEC featured a far-right speaker at its annual meeting.

Read the rest of this item here.


ALEC Embraces Trumpism, Climate Catastrophe, and School Privatization at Policy Summit

ALEC state legislators, lobbyists, and Koch operatives return to Washington, D.C. for ALEC’s States & Nation Policy Summit to promote an agenda only fossil fuel companies could love.

Read the rest of this item here.


Verizon Dumps ALEC, Denounces Speaker as Racist

Verizon has decided to quit the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) following a public outcry over the corporate lobby group’s hosting of David Horowitz as a prominent speaker at its annual meeting in New Orleans in August.

Read the rest of this item here.