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Opinion: That Moment When a Federal District Court Rules Texas Election Law Is Racist
“Republican lawmakers rushed the voter ID law without the usual committee analysis and debate… to provide an Anglo partisan advantage.”
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Opinion: Iowa GOP Reverses Existing Minimum Wage Hikes and Ban Future Increases
“It’s the first time a state nullified local wage ordinances already in effect and forced [local] jurisdictions to [immediately] reduce minimum wages that were previously raised.”
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Trump’s Illegal Voting Lie Is Part of Larger Republican Attack On Democracy
There was a good reason Trump admitted being 3-million votes less “popular” than Hillary Clinton; it fostered his other dangerous lie to kill democracy.
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Super PAC Connected To Paul Ryan Used Russian Material Against Dem. House Candidates
Speaker Ryan’s spokeswoman never disputed that the material used against Democratic candidates was “stolen as an act of Russian espionage
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North Carolina Republicans Sued For Rigging the Election For Trump
The voter suppression tactic is right out of the GOP [election rigging] playbook to suppress the Black vote in North Carolina.”
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Republican Election Officials Fight Trump’s “Dangerous” Rigged Election Rhetoric
“It’s going to create a disturbance and, played out in polling places across the country, it has the potential to destabilize the election which is very, very dangerous.”
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With Trump Leading the GOP Today is Republicans’ “Anti-labor Day”
“Only a fool harbors the ugly thought of breaking unions or tries to deprive working people of the right to join the union of their choice.”
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Koch-Republicans Want the National Park Service’s 100th Anniversary to Be Its Last
The federal government’s landholdings and control of water could be better used for ranching, mining or forestry through private ownership.
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ExxonMobil Lies – They Still Oppose Any Climate Change Remedies
ExxonMobil promotes a carbon tax while contributing to Republicans who block all efforts to combat climate change with a tax on carbon.
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Stunning Hypocrisy – AARP Supports the Anti-Social Security Lobby ALEC
AARP should be more sensitive to its retired members who are vulnerable to ALEC-supported legislative efforts to eliminate Social Security.
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Targeted By Police For Being Black Registered Voters In a GOP State
“People just do not understand why a sheriff is coming to their house to bring them a subpoena if they haven’t committed any crime.”
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Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Vote Suppression Law
“North Carolina’s provisions deliberately target African Americans with…surgical precision…to depress Black turnout at the polls.”
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Federal Courts Strike Down Texas and Wisconsin Vote Suppression Laws
“We conclude that that SB 14 has a discriminatory effect on minorities’ voting rights in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.”
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Another Koch Acolyte Is Responsible for Illinois Economic Disaster
Governor Rauner’s tax cuts amounted to a 25 percent reduction and ended efforts to preserve education, road repair, and social services’ funding.
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Republican Governor Vetoes Clean Energy Bill Killing Thousands of Jobs and Billions in Growth
“This veto puts thousands of solar jobs at risk, endangers the livelihood of thousands and will stall billions in economic activity.”
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Barely Alive, Kansas Public Schools On the Verge Of Brownback’s Death Blow
The Kansas bill creates private school savings and funding programs by diverting public education funding to private and religious schools
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Mormon Republicans Continue Bundy’s War On Americans’ Public Lands
Mormon Rob Bishop (R-UT) wants to deliver America’s public lands, national parks, forests, and wilderness areas to Koch Industries’ control
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Complacency and EmoProgs Aided Conservatives’ Drive To Rewrite the Constitution
There have been a few articles lately that began appearing last October making a compelling case that while the 2016 Presidential race might look promising for Democrats and it appears that Republicans are in disarray, Democrats, liberals, or progressives, take your pick, are actually in deep trouble everywhere else. There is no doubt that the…
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Resignation? Jail Gov. Rick Snyder, Make Corporations Pay For Poisoning 25,000 Children
Snyder was well aware of the lead-tainted water before long before he claims he learned he was poisoning children.
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Poisons Flint Kids And Then Declares An Emergency
This all began when one of Snyder’s emergency dictators decided safe drinking water from Lake Huron didn’t fit the corporate financial model
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Koch’s Justice Reform Proposal Restricts Prosecution For Environmental Violations
The Kochs want to pollute with impunity by simply claiming they were unaware that it was a federal violation to poison the air and water
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Kochs Secretly Fund the NRA, Chamber of Commerce, Religious Right and Club For Growth
Every Republican at every level of government spouts the same lie, the same twisted logic, to harm American workers
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ALEC and Duke Energy Going After A Small N.C. Non-Profit And Church For Going Solar
The school is not paying Duke Energy for the electricity being generated by that clean source of electrical power, the Sun
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The Kochs Keep America Behind The Developed World In Using Free Energy
The Koch brothers are doing everything in their power to restrict Americans from tapping into the free energy from sunlight.
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Victory For Education: State Supreme Court Rules Charter Schools Unconstitutional
The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled, in a very one-sided decision of 6 – 3 that charter schools are unconstitutional
Conservative Prays For Katrina-Like Disaster In Chicago To Give Corporations Government Control
Instead of noting how inept the Bush response to help tens-of-thousands of Americans was, or mourning the loss of 1,800 lives, this sick psychotic conservative hoped that an equally-catastrophic disaster would strike the city of Chicago.
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ALEC Plans Corporate Control and Privatization Of Every City In America
It is true the Koch’s are poised to spend nearly a billion dollars to put a Koch surrogate in the White House, and to completely take over the entire nation they are paying an American Legislative Exchange Council subsidiary to impose their corporate agenda on every town, village, city, and county in America.
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Koch-Republican Austerity Is Killing Michigan Democracy And Poisoning Residents
Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life many Michigan citizens have learned the hard way; by being poisoned.
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Scott Walker And ALEC Allow High School Dropouts To Teach High School
Of course, anything ‘stupid’ Republicans conceive of is always at the behest of their funding machine the Koch brothers and their legislative arm the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): the latest Wisconsin stupidity is no exception.
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While Shell Plans For Climate Catastrophe The Kochs Kill Renewable Energy
ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry’s war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the Koch brothers on renewable energy and regulations to reduce carbon emissions. ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry’s war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the Koch brothers on renewable energy and regulations to reduce carbon emissions.
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President Obama Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results?
If there is one thing Republicans and the Obama Administration love more than pandering to Wall Street, it is the abject 20-year failure of the charter school industry
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Bernie Sanders Explained Why Voters Aren’t Voting Ten Years Ago
Before perusing the one-time “world’s leading democracy” and its truly pathetic voter turnout record, it is worth looking back at comments from Senator Bernie Sanders that he recorded for posterity nearly ten years ago.
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The Koch Brothers Try To Fool The American People With An Evil PR Campaign
What is missing from the long list of Koch demands to abolish virtually the entire government is exactly how it will help Americans.
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Koch-Funded Professor Publicly Calls For Less Democracy
A university professor heavily funded by the Koch brothers has very publicly and openly called for less democracy to reduce the power of the majority.
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The Koch Wall Street Crusade To Rob Pensions Is Underway
This is the class war billionaire Warren Buffet admitted his class was winning, and if any American doubted that the Kochs or Wall Street would stop at robbing retired people’s incomes to satisfy their absolute greed, they are fools
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AOL Joins Microsoft, Google, and Facebook in Becoming The Latest Company To Dump ALEC
AOL has become the latest corporate giant to dump the Koch brothers by cutting ties with ALEC.
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Chris Christie Advocates For Election Rigging By Republicans Controlling The “Voting Mechanism”
Christie may not have the anti-voter credentials of some of his Republican brethren, but he does not support the right to vote for all Americans.
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Republicans Faithfully Follow ALEC’s Refusal to Support Democracy
Over the past six years, at least, there has been a steady assault on democracy from state level Republicans with valuable assistance from ALEC that led one to wonder whether the Koch brothers had directed the Republican legislative arm (ALEC) to disavow and destroy American democracy one state at a time.
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Human Rights Watchdog Demands End to America’s Racial Discrimination
After a thorough examination of America’s pathetic record of disparate treatment of minorities, a United Nations watchdog reported what people of color, particularly African Americans, have known first hand and all too well for decades. “Racial and ethnic discrimination remains a serious and persistent problem in all areas of life from de facto school segregation, access to health care, and housing.”
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Gov. Rick Snyder’s Emergency Manager Is Denying Poor People Running Water In Detroit
A coalition working with organizations and activists the world over to promote water as a basic human right filed a report with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights on behalf of tens-of-thousands of poor Detroit residents who are being denied access to running water.
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Republicans Label Obama’s Plan To Combat Climate Change a Terrorist Attack
. As usual they use mendacity as a fear-mongering tool to convince their stupid supporters that President Obama’s attempt to assuage the health and economic devastation of climate change is a deliberate job-killing, economy-devastating, terrorist assault on Americans.
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The Koch Efforts To Privatize Schools Dealt a Blow By Record High School Graduation Rate
Republicans, privatization advocates, religious extremists, ALEC, and anti-union fascists contend that America’s public schools are failures, but for the first time in American history the national high school graduation rate surpassed 80% in 2012 and is projected to reach 90% by 2020.
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Michael Dunn’s Racism Couldn’t Be Hidden Behind Stand Your Ground
Although it is tragic that racial animus is not a prosecutable crime, there are instances when the result of racism can be prosecuted. Yesterday a Florida jury convicted a man for expressing racial animus with a firearm.
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When Boehner and Cantor Say What The American People Want They Mean ALEC and the Kochs
In Republican parlance, when they say “what the people want,” they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and Wall Street who are the “American people” to Republicans.
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ALEC Members Refuse to Sign a Pledge Supporting Democracy
ALEC members were recently asked to sign a pledge to support democracy, and they refused. Not only did they refuse to sign the pledge, but the corporate media didn’t report on it.
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Koch Brothers Illegally Funnel Millions Into Campaign to Eliminate Pensions and Sick Pay
The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers’ wages, pensions, sick pay, workers’ compensation.
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The Republican War on the ACA Is An Attack On Women
The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC’s assistance to continue.
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ALEC Continues to Push Failed Market-Based Educational Reforms
Market-based educational reform is an utter failure, and yet we still can’t shake the nasty remnants of its bad policy influence
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The Real Winners Of the Zimmerman Trial Were the NRA and ALEC
Truth be told, the real trial and victor in the Trayvon Martin killing was not George Zimmerman, but the NRA authored and ALEC legislated the “Castle Doctrine Act” that has been acquitted.
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Republicans Pledge To the Kochs That They Will Oppose Any Climate Change Bill
Republicans are signing on to a new pledge to Charles and David Koch to oppose any legislation relating to climate change unless it is accompanied by an offsetting amount of tax cuts.
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To Stop The Press From Reporting on Them ALEC Has Created an Enemies List
On the same day that ALEC claimed that they support the First Amendment, they circulated a secret enemies list in order to prevent the press from covering their activities.
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The Koch Brothers War On Renewable Energy Is Killing Jobs and Destroying Our Air
With ALEC supplying Republicans Koch legislation to end renewable energy standards, Americans will lose jobs, clean air, inexpensive electricity, and increased business investments.
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The Kochs and Their Corporate Arm ALEC Are Out to Destroy the Healthcare System
There is no doubt the Kochs and their corporate arm ALEC are out to end the healthcare system starting with Medicare and Medicaid.
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The Koch Brothers Are Spending Millions to Deny Poor Americans Healthcare
Charles and David Koch are spending money to deny poor Americans healthcare for no readily apparent reason except the Kochs are genuinely evil, immoral men
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Racism Reaches the Levels of Government via Scalia’s Voting Rights Comments
One never imagined Scalia would openly declare his racism and disdain for the most basic of rights in an open and free democracy, but then again it is Antonin Scalia.
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GOP Gov Appoints Obama Conspiracy Theorist to Georgia Public Broadcasting
Chip Rogers, the disgraced former Georgia Senate Majority Leader and former treasurer of ALEC, is now a highly paid employee of Georgia Public Broadcasting.
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How Wealthy Libertarians and the NRA Joined Forces to Enrich the Firearms Industry
There is a contingent of wealthy libertarians who are actively promoting gun proliferation to transform America into a nation where domestic tranquility is figment of one’s imagination.
Eric Cantor’s letter spells out the continuing ALEC/Koch right-wing agenda
Eric Cantor has gotten his orders from Koch/ALEC headquarters, and there is no mistaking their intent; continue to make life hell for the President and Democratic House members.
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The vicious red states are engaging in an attack on the public school system
South Carolina is a prime example of right-wing attempts to destroy the public school system and replace it with private school profiteers
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The Koch Puppet Governors Continue to Dance for Their Masters as Rome Burns
A carefully planned, long term campaign to subvert democracy is the sole intention of GOP governors, ALEC, and their puppet masters Charles and David Koch.
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Thanks to ALEC, Arizona High School Students Treated Like Convicts In Prison Style Lockdown
Due to the influence of ALEC, Arizona, public school students who were treated like convicts in a lock down maneuver during regular instructional hours.
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Man Who Killed Florida Teen Over Loud Music Alters His Story to Fit Stand Your Ground
The Florida man who shot a teenager because he felt threatened by the teen’s play of loud music is changing his story so that it will fit a stand your ground defense.
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Grover Norquist Faces a Full-Out Republican Revenue Insurrection
Apparently, to Grover Norquist an agreement with him is as legally binding as a mortgage, at least in his own self-important, inflated head.
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Republicans Turn Charter School Officials Into the New Robber Barons
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
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Jon Husted Hatches a Plan to Make Sure Democrats Never Win Ohio Again
Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted wants to dramatically change electoral votes to favor Republicans, and make it nearly impossible for Democrats to win Ohio.
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Judge Blocks Pennsylvania Voter Suppression Law
A judge ruled that Pennsylvania’s voter suppression law not be enforced this election, that those without photo IDs must be allowed to vote
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Boycott Victory: GE, Western Union, and Sprint All Dump ALEC
The eve of the Republican convention was a bad day for ALEC as five more national and global corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council have cut ties with the group.
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The Choice Between Rugged Individualism and Senseless Violence
This article is not a call to disarm; it is a call to sanity and reason, because without discourse on the conditions driving people to support the proliferation of guns, there will be more massacres.
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From Paraguay to the U.S.: Learning from Gradual Corporate Coups
We as Americans should learn from the dramatic lessons of Paraguay just how powerful the unchecked hand of corporations can be.
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Public Schools Face a New Nemesis in Parent Trigger Laws
Parent trigger laws are being pushed by ALEC and other right wing groups to allow parents to essentially ‘fire’ a public school, with the potential to make them into private, charter schools.
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Will Nikki Haley be Mitt Romney’s VP Mystery Date?
Surely, there’s sufficient sleaze to qualify Nikki Haley to be Mitt Romney’s Vice President/bookkeeper.
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Right Wing Values: Poisoning our Air to Fill Their Pockets
Right wing values are all about profit values –and nothing more. Whether poisoning our water, triggering a war or making us pay the receipt for their economic stupidity.
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Before the Supreme Court Rules on Obamacare, a Warning from George Washington
As Americans await the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, we should keep in mind a warning from George Washington about the threat of obstructionist minorities.
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Unions Score a Major Victory as Judge Blocks Michigan Paycheck Law
A federal Judge blocks Michigan’s controversial law prohibiting school districts from collecting union dues via payroll deductions.
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Dirty Little Red State Secret: ALEC is Behind the GOP’s Voter Purge
The recent voter purge in Florida and Texas are the result of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) fascist voter ID laws.
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Wal-Mart Dumps ALEC and Outs Them as Un-American
Wal-Mart has kicked ALEC to the curb and gave the reason as ALEC’s departure from Jeffersonian free market principles, a.k.a. Wal-Mart hinted ALEC has become un-American.
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New Strategies Required to Respond to Republican Voter Suppression Tactics
Without the time to change new Republican laws suppressing voting rights before the election, advocates will need to utilize new Get Out the Vote strategies.
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Citizen Shooting Galleries Trump Law Enforcement in South Carolina
Two young me were gunned down in cold blood in South Carolina as the resident of an apartment drove up on them attempting to break into his residence. He was under no threat and could have driven away and called police. Instead he left his car and shot them both in the head, execution-style.
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ALEC Teeters as Boycott Success Forces Members to Flee
The successful boycott of ALEC is the sending the organization into a PR tailspin, and forcing members to flee and rebuke the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Amazon Arrogantly Ignores ALEC Boycott While Funding Voter Suppression
ColorofChange has called on Amazon.com to join 13 other companies in dumping ALEC, but so far the Internet giant has ignored the boycott and continued to fund voter suppression.
Procter & Gamble Goes From Taunting Boycotters to Dumping ALEC
A few weeks ago Procter & Gamble taunted the boycotters of ALEC today they that they are leaving the American Legislative Exchange Council.
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A Panicked and Desperate ALEC Admits that They Are Being Defeated
ALEC’s assault on democracy, though successful up until now, is over and it is entirely due to activist organizations and social media.
Finger Lickin’ Good: Owner of Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell Dumps ALEC
Yum! Brands, the owner of Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell has yielded to the ColorofChange boycott and became the 12th company to dump ALEC.
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People Power Scores a Victory, But the Pressure On ALEC Must Continue
For now, ALEC’s announcement is cause for celebration and an indication that the people wield more power than corporations if they are driven, well-informed, and organized.
Zimmerman Arrested, Now What?
It’s not enough to vote for the President and leave the trench work unattended. You have the power to change to change the Castle Doctrine. Do something. Now.
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Stand Your Ground’s Hideous Double Standard of Prosecuting African-Americans
When an African-American makes the mistake of defending their property against a white man, as was the case in Georgia, courts have found that Stand Your Ground does not apply.
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ALEC Whines As People Power Makes Them Pay
While ALEC whines the people have realized they control corporate wealth, and with this knowledge comes the power to bring about real change.
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The People Vs ALEC: Fighting Back Against the Corporate Takeover of Democracy
ALEC has no idea of the destructive wave coming at them when the occupy movement and working Americans exert real and sustained pressure that would make Jefferson proud.
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Bill Gates Gives ALEC the Blue Screen of Death
Another display of grassroots muscle caused the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to drop their financial support for ALEC.
America the Beautiful Gets Tarnished Thanks To the Radical Right
The Republicans and their far-right religious sycophants have all but rendered the government ineffective through grid-locking strategies the prevent any meaningful initiatives from being passed.
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Have a Coke and A Boycott: ColorOfChange Gets Coca-Cola to Dump ALEC
In an incredible display of the power of boycotts, it only took 5 hours for ColorofChange to get Coca-Cola to stop supporting ALEC.
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ALEC’s Stand Your Ground Gives Racists Everywhere The Right To Kill
There is no reason for ALEC to promote the Castle Doctrine in 24 states except to allow racists to kill people of color.
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Stand Your Ground Was ALEC’s Vision, Not the Founding Fathers
It is not a stretch to imagine that ALEC has deliberately sought to arm as many disgruntled Americans as possible and given them legal cover to “defend their liberty” from the overreaching government.
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Meet the ALEC Lobbyists Behind Mitt Romney and Find Out What They Want From You
Remember the dark days of Dick Cheney’s secretive Enron meetings? Well, they’re coming for you again only this time, they’re wearing a Mitt mask.
Profiting from Punishment: The Dangers of Privatizing Imprisonment
Corporations are taking over the incarceration of prisoners to make billions of dollars in profit while lobbying against much needed reforms.
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How To Use A Freedom Of Information Request To Expose ALEC
Here is a how to use a Freedom Of Information request to turn up the pressure on ALEC.
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Warning! Watching Twilight Invites Demonic Possession And ALEC
Pat Robertson warned viewers today that watching Twilight invites the Demonic in. Funny though, ALEC shares many of the characteristics of Robertson’s Twilight demons.
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You May Elect Them, But It Is ALEC Who Is Really Running Your State
The next time you go to the polls, know that you’re not voting for Joe or Judy or Alan. You’re voting for ALEC. That’s who runs your state.