Who's Getting Ready For 2025?
Top Story: Guess Who’s Getting Ready for 2025?
ALEC!
The American Legislative Exchange Council is a right-wing bill mill that writes unpopular legislation that gets passed every year in state legislatures across the country by well-compensated legislators who work closely with the well-funded and well-organized outfit.
This week, we wanted to share with you ALEC’s extremist plans for 2025, thanks to reporting by David Armiak at the Center for Media and Democracy.
Because ALEC has outsized influence in many states, its plans are very likely to impact the people you cover.
Check out ALEC’S 2025 AGENDA
*WARNING: ALEC LIKES TO GIVE ITS MODEL BILLS MISLEADING NAMES THAT SUGGEST THE BILLS AIM TO DO THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY ACTUALLY AIM TO DO!!!
A few items on the 2025 ALEC to-do list
Discourage recycling by banning corporate mandates.
Thwart efforts to combat misinformation.
Give parents who send their kids to charter schools or voucher schools an income tax credit.
Want to learn more about ALEC?
Read this.
Watch this.
Hear what Common Cause has to say about ALEC’s alarming influence on local government.
Here’s a helpful piece in The NYT about ALEC.
Understanding ALEC’s power and explaining that to your community is crucial. It helps people advocate for state bills that help them; not ALEC friends and corporate allies.
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Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, founder of Faculty First Responders and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe distinguished professor of history and public policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Ralph Wilson, founder of the Corporate Genome Project and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
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