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Open Government Groups Call on Biden to Make Transparency a Top Priority
By PRWatch Editors, February 22, 2021

CMD joins 42 other organizations in a letter calling on President Biden to strengthen FOIA, preserve key Trump administration documents, and stop the over-classification of government information.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Gave $119,000 to Congress Members Who Voted to Overturn the Presidential Election
By Don Wiener, February 18, 2021

So far, SpaceX has not joined other major aerospace and technology companies in suspending its political contributions to Members of Congress who voted against certifying the presidential election results.

Parler Is Now in the Hands of a Right-Wing Activist Seeking a Radical Rewrite of the Constitution
By Alex Kotch, February 15, 2021

Mark Meckler, an ally of the Mercer family who co-founded the Tea Party Patriots and runs Convention of States Action, is one of two people currently in charge of the far-right social media app Parler.

New Right-Wing Litigation Center Working to Upend COVID-19 Public Health Restrictions, Fight Unions
By David Armiak, February 15, 2021

American Juris Link, a new right-wing legal center with close ties to the State Policy Network, is actively working to track and support right-wing legal challenges to upend COVID-19 health restrictions, fight workers’ rights to unionize, and coordinate legal strategies and amici.

Charles Koch's "Uniter" Rebrand Strains Credulity After Funding Congressional Coup Supporters
By Alex Kotch, February 11, 2021

The billionaire fossil fuel executive and GOP megadonor has spent his entire adult life financing partisan politics, right-wing think tanks, and ideological education programs. At 85, that's unlikely to change.

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Open Government Groups Call on Biden to Make Transparency a Top Priority
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New Right-Wing Litigation Center Working to Upend COVID-19 Public Health Restrictions, Fight Unions
Charles Koch's "Uniter" Rebrand Strains Credulity After Funding Congressional Coup Supporters
RAGA Raised $1.6 Million as Republican AGs Challenged Election Results
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Despite Pandemic, Union Membership Rose in 22 States, Including Many Right-to-Work States
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There is a "sucker punch" aspect of this entire episode, that has been used in the past, that makes it doubly despicable. The now dead open records issue was so completely outrageous and unexpected that it served its intended purpose – to draw attention away from the many other very contentious and controversial aspects of this budget. And that was exactly what Walker and the majority Republicans wanted to happen.

--Jay Heck, Common Cause in Wisconsin

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