Portal:State Policy Network/SPN in the News


 * Mother Jones, Meet the New Kochs: The DeVos Clan's Plan to Defund the Left, January/February 2014 issue.
 * Media Matters, New Hampshire Newspapers Create Faux Legitimacy For ALEC-Connected Group, January 6, 2014.
 * Lincoln Journal Star, Report criticizes conservative Nebraska think tank, January 2, 2014.
 * Truthout, As It Turns Out, There Still Is a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - The Many Friends of ALEC, December 12, 2013.
 * Media Matters, A Media Guide To The Right-Wing Agenda Of North Carolina's Civitas Institute, December 12, 2013.
 * DeSmog Blog, Stink Tanks: Historical Records Reveal State Policy Network Was Created by ALEC, December 9, 2013.
 * The Guardian, State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax, December 5, 2013.
 * Portland Press Herald, "Washington County residents have mixed reactions to plan to eliminate taxes," December 5, 2013.
 * The Texas Observer, "The Money Behind the Fight to Undermine Medicaid," December 5, 2013.
 * Media Matters, North Carolina Newspapers Largely Ignore Conservative Funding Of Sham Think Tanks, December 3, 2013.
 * Shepherd Express, Masters of Manipulation: Right-wing Billionaires, Corporations and the Bradley Foundation Pay for Junk Studies that Prop up Their Agenda, November 27, 2013.
 * "Moyers & Company," How a Shadowy Network of Corporate Front Groups Distorts the Marketplace of Ideas, November 19, 2013.
 * MSNBC "Rachel Maddow Show," November 18, 2013.
 * Free Speech TV "Ring of Fire," Facebook, Microsoft, AT&T and Others Supporting Right Wing Propaganda Machine, November 18, 2013.
 * Topeka Capital-Journal, Trabert dismisses report tying KPI to Koch agenda, November 16, 2013.
 * The New Yorker (Jane Mayer), Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?, November 15, 2013.
 * Salon, Ted Cruz and Koch brothers embroiled in shadowy Tea Party scheme, November 15, 2013.
 * St. Louis Business Journal, Beyond Sinquefield: Who else is funding the Show-Me Institute?, November 15, 2013.
 * The Guardian, Facebook and Microsoft help fund rightwing lobby network, report finds, November 14, 2013.
 * Huffington Post, Meet The Little-Known Network Pushing Ideas For Kochs, ALEC, November 14, 2013.
 * CBS St. Louis, Show-Me Institute’s Ties Questioned in New Report, November 14, 2013.
 * Talking Points Memo, Florida Conservative Group Helping Muck Up Obamacare In Alaska, November 14, 2013.
 * Mint Press News, Reports Reveal SPN’s Secret Corporate Agenda Through Use ‘Expert’ Testimony, November 14, 2013.
 * Media Matters, Shadowy Right-Wing Group Generates Media Coverage For Conservative Policy From Coast To Coast, November 14, 2013.
 * The Institute for Southern Studies, Are conservative think tanks breaking lobbying laws?, November 14, 2013.
 * Nonprofit Quarterly, Corporate Money in Network of Right-Wing State Policy Think Tanks, November 14, 2013.
 * The Progressive, Right-Wing Think Tanks Push Privatization in the States, November 13, 2013.
 * Politico, Report: Think tanks tied to Kochs, November 13, 2013.
 * Lawrence Journal-World, Reports released by progressive groups are critical of Kansas Policy Institute, November 13, 2013.
 * Maine Insights, Report: Maine Heritage Policy Center’s funding connection to Koch Brothers, November 13, 2013.
 * The Florida Current, Liberal groups bemoan lobbying by conservative think tanks, November 13, 2013.
 * The Oregonian, Cascade Policy Institute benefits from secretive donor group but says it operates independently, November 13, 2013.
 * Muncie Voice, Pence and Right-Wing Are Taking Over Public Education, November 13, 2013.
 * The Spokesman-Review, Shawn Vestal: Idaho Freedom Foundation pushes limits of word ‘charity’, November 2, 2013.
 * AZ Central, When this ‘watchdog’ pitches, taxpayers strike out, October 12, 2013.
 * IndyStar, Daniels says speech to partisan group was a mistake, October 10, 2013.
 * Muncie Voice, Indiana Policy Review: Not an Independent News Source, October 2, 2013.
 * The Spokesman-Review, Idaho Freedom Foundation's charitable status scrutinized, September 15, 2013.
 * CounterSpin, Lee Fang on 'The Right Leans In', April 5, 2013.
 * FireDogLake, State Policy Network, an umbrella coordinating ALEC, Heritage, Heartland and others, April 4, 2013.
 * PRWatch, A Reporters' Guide to the "State Policy Network" -- the Right-Wing Think Tanks Spinning Disinformation and Pushing the ALEC Agenda in the States, April 4, 2013.
 * Thom Hartmann with Lee Fang on MSNBC, The conservative State Policy Network is sneaking into your state & will change America, March 29, 2013.
 * Current TV "War Room", Lee Fang discussing the State Policy Network, March 28, 2013.
 * The Nation, The Right Leans In, March 26, 2013.
 * Democracy Now, Donors Trust: Little-Known Group Helps Wealthy Backers Fund Right-Wing Agenda in Secret, February 19, 2013.
 * PRWatch, ALEC and Heartland Aim to Crush Renewable Energy Standards in the States, November 27, 2012.
 * PRWatch, Meet the Network Hiding the Koch Money: "Donors Trust" and "Donors Capital Fund", October 29, 2012.
 * Wall Street Journal, Meet One of the Super-PAC Men, October 26, 2012.
 * New York Times, Missouri Political Donor Thrives With No Limits, October 19, 2012.