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ALEC Leader Indicted for Campaign Finance Conspiracy Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, a state chair and national board member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, allegedly used illegal contributions to further his campaign for Congress in 2016. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Voter Suppressors Square Off in GOP Primary for Arizona Secretary of State Both leading candidates in the Republican primary for secretary of state in Arizona support voter suppression legislation, and one is an insurrectionist backed by Trump. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Leaders Boast About Anti-Abortion, Anti-Trans Bills At a Council for National Policy conference in May, top legislative members of the American Legislative Exchange Council took credit for advancing bills to severely restrict abortion access and target trans students in their states. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Claims Credit for Voter Suppression and Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws at Secret Meeting ALEC boasted about its role in promoting and passing laws making it harder to vote, barring schools from teaching about America’s racist past, and protecting employers from COVID-related lawsuits at a May meeting of the right-wing Council for National Policy. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Lied About Its Work on Election Suppression Bills ALEC claims that it “doesn’t work on voting issues,” but its CEO told a very different story to her right-wing audience at a Council for National Policy meeting in May. Read the rest of this item here. Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Controversial ALEC Voter Software The right-wing Bradley Foundation has earmarked at least $1.7M for ALEC’s distribution of sophisticated voter management software deeply tied to the Republican Party since 2017, the subject of an IRS whistleblower complaint and multiple state campaign finance complaints. Read the rest of this item here.