Mike Pompeo and His Deep Koch Ties
Mike Pompeo, Trump’s Secretary of State, is embroiled in the controversy over his role of the quid pro quo between Trump releasing congressionally approved aid to Ukraine and securing promises to investigate Trump political rival, Joe Biden. The U.S. House…
Koch-Funded Libertarian Party Agenda from 1979: Domestic Issues
This document is one of the many versions of the Libertarian Party’s political platform circa 1979, as it was being fueled by infusions of cash from the Koch family fortune. This six-page version of the platform contains seeds of major…
Koch-Funded Opposition to Environmental Laws, Licensing, and Poverty Programs
This document is the question and answer for an interview with Playgirl magazine with Ed Clark, the running mate of David Koch for the Libertarian Party in 1980, when that presidential campaign was being infused with cash from the Koch…
2013 ALEC Bylaws
This document was first published by the Center for Media and Democracy. Compared to ALEC’s 2007 bylaws, a provision was removed from the responsibilities of ALEC State Chairs. Specifically, ALEC no longer spells out that its State Chairs must be…
2007 ALEC Bylaws
This document was first published by the Center for Media and Democracy in 2011, as part of the launch of ALECExposed.org. ALEC’s bylaws were updated in 2013, including removing the provision of these 2007 bylaws that ALEC State Chairs are…
2018 ALEC Energy, Environment & Agriculture task force roster
See the Documented website for a clean and searchable version of this database. This December 2018 membership roster for ALEC’s Energy task force was obtained and published by Documented in September, 2019. It includes rare confirmations of corporate lobbyists who…
1980 Libertarian Party White Paper on Foreign and Military Policy Calls for Withdrawal from NATO and More
This white paper was issued by the Libertarian Party in 1980 as part of the Ed Clark for President campaign. David Koch was underwriting that presidential campaign as Clark’s running mate. The paper was written and edited by men with…
Koch Industries and ALEC: a History of Documents
By Connor Gibson, with research by Lisa Graves. Updated May 21, 2021 to include 2019 Koch foundation payments to ALEC. Updated Oct. 16, 2019 to include ALEC State Chair information from Documented. The American Legislative Exchange Council is a one-stop…
2013 ALEC Board Meeting Documents
This document, published by The Guardian US in December 2013, includes a full overview of ALEC’s internal finances, its legislator membership statistics, companies that left ALEC, companies ALEC hoped to recruit, and a public relations update on public outcry over…
1996 ALEC Spring Joint Board of Directors Meeting, May 30
This document from the Truth Tobacco Industry Archives at UC San Francisco contains rosters for ALEC’s board of directors and meeting minutes from its May 30, 1996 meeting. Koch Industries lobbyist Mike Morgan is listed, perhaps the earliest record of…
Other Revealing Materials
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1980 Clark-Koch Oil and Gas Journal Ad Promising to “Abolish the Department of Energy”June 7, 2019/0 Comments -
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1980 David Koch: “Free Up the Energy System”June 7, 2019/ -
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