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The '''American Legislative Exchange Council''' (ALEC), founded 1973 by Paul Weyrich and others, is a corporate-funded organization that drafts model legislation for state legislatures — a "bill mill" pairing corporate donors with conservative lawmakers behind closed doors.
The '''American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)''' is a corporate bill-mill for state legislatures.


== Operation ==
==Related discussion==
* Corporate members sit on task forces with state legislators and vote jointly on model bills; drafts then circulate in statehouses nationwide (Stand Your Ground laws, voter ID, anti-union "right to work," tax caps, school privatization).
Haz's analysis of how the right actually exercises power runs through the [[DeSantis]]/Florida discussion: [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/3210a2c9-0c8c-406c-b838-1f5873805d71/ MAJOR VICTORY | COOKING GROYPERS stream] ("anti-woke plus neoconservatism... bourgeois retirees").
* Exposed by reporting (e.g., 2011-2013 campaigns after the Trayvon Martin shooting tied ALEC to Stand Your Ground); over 100 corporations quit under pressure, but the apparatus persists.


== Significance ==
The state-legislative machine ALEC supplies is the infrastructure layer under such brands.
ALEC is the paradigm of right-wing long-march institutional strategy: policy produced centrally, laundered through federalism, invisible to the public — the mirror image of what the left has failed to build. Infrared cites it when discussing how the right actually exercises power versus the left's protest-entrepreneurship.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[New Deal]]
* [[New Deal]]
* [[MAGA Communism]]


== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 00:27, 26 August 2026

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a corporate bill-mill for state legislatures.

Haz's analysis of how the right actually exercises power runs through the DeSantis/Florida discussion: MAJOR VICTORY | COOKING GROYPERS stream ("anti-woke plus neoconservatism... bourgeois retirees").

The state-legislative machine ALEC supplies is the infrastructure layer under such brands.

See also

References

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