| 2025-10-23 | White House Releases List of 37 Corporate Donors for Trump's $300M Ballroom Project
3 src Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +6 |
| reported |
| 2025-10-11 | Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Amasses $141M War Chest to Shape 2026 Elections After Defeating Sherrod Brown
3 src Coinbase · Sherrod Brown |
| reported |
| 2025-08-26 | Exxon Held Secret Negotiations With Sanctioned Russian Oil Giant Rosneft Over Sakhalin Return
2 src Rosneft · Vladimir Putin · Trump |
| reported |
| 2025-02-01 | ALEC Publishes 'Essential Policy Solutions 2025' Playbook - State-Level Corporate and Income Tax Elimination Agenda, Coordination with Federal Project 2025
54 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Lisa Nelson · Arthur Laffer · State Policy Network · +5 | | confirmed |
| 2023-05-01 | Tennessee Renews $168 Million CoreCivic Prison Contract Despite Deaths and Fines, Exposing Corporate Capture
3 src CoreCivic · Bill Lee |
| confirmed |
| 2023-02-15 | North Dakota Legislature Rejects Oil Royalty Protections, Creates Toothless Oversight Program
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2023-02-03 | East Palestine Train Derailment: Norfolk Southern Hazardous Chemical Disaster
4 src Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2019-01-01 | State Corporate Tax Rates Decline 33% Over Three Decades - ALEC's Interstate Race-to-Bottom Costs States $43-57 Billion Annually in Lost Revenue
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy |
| confirmed |
| 2017-12-22 | Trump Signs Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Corporate Rate Permanently Slashed from 35% to 21%, Pass-Through Deduction, Estate Tax Exemption Doubled, $1.9 Trillion Added to Deficit
10 src Donald Trump · Paul Ryan · Mitch McConnell · Orrin Hatch · +5 | | confirmed |
| 2017-11-20 | Nebraska PSC Approves Keystone XL Pipeline Route Despite Eminent Domain Controversy and Landowner Opposition
7 src |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-24 | Trump Reverses Dakota Access Pipeline Denial, Orders Expedited Approval
4 src Donald Trump · Energy Transfer Partners · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Standing Rock Sioux Tribe |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-03 | Standing Rock: Private Security and Police Attack Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protectors
3 src Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Energy Transfer Partners · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-18 | EPA Exposes Volkswagen Dieselgate: 11 Million Cars with Emissions Defeat Devices
4 src Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-22 | Kansas Governor Brownback Signs ALEC-Laffer Tax Plan Eliminating Pass-Through Business Income Taxes - 'Kansas Experiment' Becomes Test Case for Supply-Side Economics
4 src Arthur Laffer · American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-13 | Major Corporate Exodus from ALEC: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, McDonald's, Wendy's, Mars, and Intuit Drop Membership After Public Pressure Campaign
3 src Color of Change · American Legislative Exchange Council · Center for Media and Democracy · Common Cause |
| confirmed |
| 2011-07-01 | ALEC Achieves Systematic Legislative Capture: 200+ Corporate-Drafted Bills Enacted Annually Across States
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | ALEC Grants Corporate Lobbyists 'Equal Vote' on Model Legislation for State Legislatures
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-31 | Donors Trust Becomes Primary Climate Denial Dark Money Conduit
4 src Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · Heartland Institute · Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2009-06-26 | Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill
3 src Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | ALEC Launches 'Rich States, Poor States' Report with Arthur Laffer - Annual Corporate Tax Competition Manifesto to Drive Interstate Race-to-Bottom
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Arthur Laffer · Stephen Moore · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2003-05-28 | Bush Signs JGTRRA - Dividend and Capital Gains Rates Slashed to 15%, Massively Favoring Investment Income Over Wages
4 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Americans for Tax Reform · Grover Norquist · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC's Corporate 'Scholarship' Program Funds Legislator Trips to Luxury Resort Conferences
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · PhRMA · Eli Lilly · State Legislatures |
| confirmed |
| 2001-06-07 | Bush Signs EGTRRA Tax Cuts - Top Rate Reduced from 39.6% to 35%, Estate Tax Phased Out, Beginning $1.5 Trillion Debt Increase
4 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Dennis Hastert · Trent Lott · +3 | | confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Develops Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act - Model Bill to Restrict State Revenue and Manufacture Fiscal Crisis
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corporate funders |
| confirmed |
| 1988-11-23 | IBP Settles Record OSHA Case for Systematic Injury Underreporting at Dakota City Meatpacking Plant
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1986-10-22 | Reagan Signs Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Top Individual Rate Cut from 50% to 28%, Corporate Rate Slashed from 46% to 34%, Tax Brackets Reduced from 16 to 2
9 src Ronald Reagan · Jack Kemp · U.S. Treasury Department | | confirmed |
| 1984-05-07 | Agent Orange Settlement - Chemical Companies Pay $180 Million to Veterans Without Admitting Liability - Victims Receive Average $3,800
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1982-09-03 | Reagan Signs TEFRA Reversing Much of ERTA - Largest Peacetime Tax Increase Raises $100 Billion After Revenue Collapse
3 src Ronald Reagan · Jack Kemp · U.S. Senate Finance Committee | | confirmed |
| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) - Top Rate Slashed from 70% to 50%, Corporate Tax Cuts Total $150 Billion Over Five Years
5 src Ronald Reagan · Jack Kemp · William Roth · Heritage Foundation · +3 | | confirmed |
| 1979-01-08 | Vietnam Veterans File Agent Orange Class Action Lawsuit Against Dow Chemical and Monsanto - Corporations Deny Liability Despite Evidence
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption
3 src Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · General Dynamics · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1965-01-01 | Bell Helicopter Profits Surge from $150 Million to $2 Billion During Vietnam War - Huey Production Defines "Helicopter War"
2 src U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1934-04-12 | Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death"
3 src U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1912-11-05 | Montana Voters Pass Corrupt Practices Act Banning Corporate Political Spending
3 src Anaconda Copper Mining Company |
| confirmed |