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Amazon.com Becomes The Eighteenth Group To Drop ALEC

According to an email ThinkProgress received from the Center for Media and Democracy, one of the leaders of a progressive campaign to push corporations and other funders to break with the American Legislative Exchange Council, online retail giant Amazon.com just announced that it will part ways with ALEC. In the wake of this campaign, ALEC [...]
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ALEC to 'sharpen focus' on economic issues, end work on voter suppression, gun rights

US Politics / Liberal : Daily Kos (last year)

The bright light shone on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) by The Center for Media and Democracy's ALEC Exposed efforts, as well as those by Color of Change and allied progressive groups, has paid off. Today ALEC ann... Read Post

Progressive Groups Ask ALEC Funders to Drop Out in Wake of Martin Death and 'Shoot First' Laws

US Politics / Liberal : Crooks and Liars (last year)

Seeing a connection between the so-called "Shoot First" laws passed with the support of the American Legislative Exchange Council and the National Rifle Association, a group of progressive organizations is calling upon ALEC's funder... Read Post

Seventeenth Group Drops ALEC

US Politics / Liberal : Think Progress (12 months ago)

Scantron today became the seventeenth group to drop ALEC. The test-grading and online tutoring company told the Center for Media and Democracy that they cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council — a conservative group ... Read Post


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