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Hundreds Protest Union-Busting Outside Koch Industries in Washington
Today, PFAW joined the We Are One Campaign and hundreds of workers outside of Koch Industries in Washington, DC to protest the political activities of the Koch brothers, the notorious multibillionaires...
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Pro-Corporate Groups Spend Millions To Save Walker’s Preferred Justice In...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser was supposed to win reelection in a walk, after winning a February primary with 55% of the vote. Prosser, a former Republican state assemblyman, faced...
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Walker Admits He Never Campaigned On Union-Busting
If Gov. Scott Walker wonders why there is such a negative reaction to his union-busting efforts in Wisconsin, he needn’t look very far: a poll by the non-partisan Wisconsin Policy Research Institute...
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Tea Party Bemoans “Government-Corporate Cronyism” … Really???
Tea Party groups have been busy protesting companies that support eco-friendly and other progressive policies or help Democrats… they’ve even been protesting GE, NOT because the company exploits...
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Oversight Committee to Look to Vulnerable Targets for Budget Cuts, Avoid...
The House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee is planning two hearings today, providing an interesting one-two punch against favorite Republican debt scapegoats: public workers and the poor.The...
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GOP Brings the War on Unions to the Federal Government
We’ve seen Koch-funded politicians across the country introduce bills that dismantle public-sector unions at the state level. Now it seems they’ve got their eye on a bigger prize, attempting to destroy...
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On Bus Tour, Energy Funded Group Misplaces Blame for High Gas Prices
Most companies don’t go telling consumers that their product is too expensive – but that’s exactly what the energy industry is doing. Reverse psychology is an interesting phenomenon, and most people...
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Koch-Funded Group Posts Face Eviction Notices on Houses in Michigan
So, the Koch brothers-funded astroturfing front group Americans For Prosperity's Michigan branch has been busy ... trying to scare people into opposing the construction of a local bridge the group is...
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Supreme Court's Legitimacy Rests With the Justices
As noted in a NYT editorial by Jeff Shesol, some of the justices of the Supreme Court are spending a lot of their time off the bench engaging in all sorts of extracurricular activities. Of course, they...
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Interesting...
In a bit of coincidence, the Wisconsin union busting law goes into effect on the same day (today) that, in Ohio, the petitions to overturn a similar law are submitted to the Secretary of State.UPDATE:...
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Deceitful Robocalls Added to List of Dirty Election Tricks in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin GOP has been going to great lengths to sabotage efforts to conduct fair and open recall elections in Wisconsin. Instead of honestly putting their candidates against the Democrats and...
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Another Dirty Trick in Wisconsin? AFP Sends Out Absentee Ballot Applications...
This one is particularly shameless:Americans for Prosperity is sending absentee ballots to Democrats in at least two Wisconsin state Senate recall districts with instructions to return the paperwork...
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Koch Brothers Sink to a New Low to Undermine Public Education
The Koch brothers have had a piece of the right-wing anti-public education franchise for some time, through their sponsorship of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The corporate-funded...
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‘What You Talkin’ Bout, Willard?’
If you watched TV in the 1980s, you surely remember this:The TV show Diff’rent Strokes– which featured the iconic tagline “What you talkin’ bout, Willis”? – was produced by PFAW’s founder Norman...
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Yesterday's Big Election Victories and What They Mean
What a huge day for progressive power! Yesterday, voters in nearly every region of the country turned out and resoundingly defeated right-wing attacks on:Workers’ Rights (Ohio);Choice...
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ALEC and Koch-Funded SPN in the Spotlight
Last week The Guardian began to shine some light on the shadowy right-wing group ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), exposing how the organization connecting corporations with conservative...
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