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The groups below are focusing on constitutional amendments, public financing of elections, and other strong, structural steps. They have a wealth of information and expertise, many have good grassroots outreach and several have specific actions you can take. Some will... [read more]
Help spread the word about these secretive front groups. Three progressive watchdog organizations do a good job of investigating, unmasking, and monitoring the groups that are funded by corporations to push the right-wing, corporate agenda. To check out which corporations... [read more]
Right-wing groups receiving major grants from the Koch Family Foundations (Charles Koch, David Koch, and Claude Lambe Foundations)
Amounts granted from 1976 through 2007, the latest year for which data is available.
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To put an intellectual gloss on their hard-core antigovernment beliefs, the Kochs founded and funded their own think tank: the Cato Institute. Headquartered in Washington, it is home to a flock of leading right-wing thinkers who regularly churn out reports,... [read more]
The following are the 75 Democrats that voted to stand by ACORN:
Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc.
Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
Robert Brady D-Pa.
Corrine Brown, D-Fla.
G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C.
Mike Capuano, D-Mass.
Andre Carson, D-Ind.
Kathy Castor, D-Fla.
Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.
James Clyburn,... [read more]
Letter to the editor of The Texas Observer, November 13, 2009: "The Panola Watchman newspaper in Carthage recently published a full-page ad of 'Tea Partiers'--about 315 people--who signed a petition against national health care. Curiously, the chairman of the group... [read more]
SCREWBALLS CORPORATE WONDERLAND
So, corporations are now "people." While these inanimate paper constructs have no brain, heart, or soul, the five ideological screwballs on our Supreme Court say that corporations henceforth have a First Amendment right to "speak" in any election by spending... [read more]