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  1. The ultra-right "State Freedom Caucus Network" (SFCN)
    now has at least 15 state affiliates,
    with new caucuses announced last month in Minnesotaand West Virginia.

    The first action taken by the Minnesota Freedom Caucus was to
    💥file articles of #impeachment against two state Democratic officeholders, Attorney General Keith #Ellison and Governor Tim #Walz.

    “Minnesota Republicans could have filed impeachment articles at any time. The numbers were there,” wrote SFCN President Andrew Roth in a recent letter to supporters.
    “What was missing was organization and discipline. It took a Minnesota Freedom Caucus to turn talk into action.”

    The SFCN umbrella group gives the new affiliates in Minnesota and West Virginia,
    along with other state freedom caucuses
    — in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming
    — a policy playbook
    with directives and support staff to help move their extreme right-wing agenda forward.

    Mississippi and Nevada were publicly part of the network in the past, but are no longer listed on the SFCN site.

    At least 167 lawmakers are members in the 15 states, according to a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) review.
    “Total representation may not be shown as some members are #anonymous,” SFCN notes on its website.

    The network’s extreme right-wing agenda includes
    🔸keeping undocumented residents from using state social services,
    🔸enforcing strict rules on voting that constitute voter suppression,
    🔸preventing public schools from teaching the history of slavery, systemic racism, and social justice or what the Right labels critical race theory (CRT),
    and 🔸preventing state pensions from investing in funds that promote environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

    exposedbycmd.org/2026/03/05/ex

  2. The ultra-right "State Freedom Caucus Network" (SFCN)
    now has at least 15 state affiliates,
    with new caucuses announced last month in Minnesotaand West Virginia.

    The first action taken by the Minnesota Freedom Caucus was to
    💥file articles of #impeachment against two state Democratic officeholders, Attorney General Keith #Ellison and Governor Tim #Walz.

    “Minnesota Republicans could have filed impeachment articles at any time. The numbers were there,” wrote SFCN President Andrew Roth in a recent letter to supporters.
    “What was missing was organization and discipline. It took a Minnesota Freedom Caucus to turn talk into action.”

    The SFCN umbrella group gives the new affiliates in Minnesota and West Virginia,
    along with other state freedom caucuses
    — in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming
    — a policy playbook
    with directives and support staff to help move their extreme right-wing agenda forward.

    Mississippi and Nevada were publicly part of the network in the past, but are no longer listed on the SFCN site.

    At least 167 lawmakers are members in the 15 states, according to a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) review.
    “Total representation may not be shown as some members are #anonymous,” SFCN notes on its website.

    The network’s extreme right-wing agenda includes
    🔸keeping undocumented residents from using state social services,
    🔸enforcing strict rules on voting that constitute voter suppression,
    🔸preventing public schools from teaching the history of slavery, systemic racism, and social justice or what the Right labels critical race theory (CRT),
    and 🔸preventing state pensions from investing in funds that promote environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

    exposedbycmd.org/2026/03/05/ex

  3. The ultra-right "State Freedom Caucus Network" (SFCN)
    now has at least 15 state affiliates,
    with new caucuses announced last month in Minnesotaand West Virginia.

    The first action taken by the Minnesota Freedom Caucus was to
    💥file articles of #impeachment against two state Democratic officeholders, Attorney General Keith #Ellison and Governor Tim #Walz.

    “Minnesota Republicans could have filed impeachment articles at any time. The numbers were there,” wrote SFCN President Andrew Roth in a recent letter to supporters.
    “What was missing was organization and discipline. It took a Minnesota Freedom Caucus to turn talk into action.”

    The SFCN umbrella group gives the new affiliates in Minnesota and West Virginia,
    along with other state freedom caucuses
    — in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming
    — a policy playbook
    with directives and support staff to help move their extreme right-wing agenda forward.

    Mississippi and Nevada were publicly part of the network in the past, but are no longer listed on the SFCN site.

    At least 167 lawmakers are members in the 15 states, according to a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) review.
    “Total representation may not be shown as some members are #anonymous,” SFCN notes on its website.

    The network’s extreme right-wing agenda includes
    🔸keeping undocumented residents from using state social services,
    🔸enforcing strict rules on voting that constitute voter suppression,
    🔸preventing public schools from teaching the history of slavery, systemic racism, and social justice or what the Right labels critical race theory (CRT),
    and 🔸preventing state pensions from investing in funds that promote environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

    exposedbycmd.org/2026/03/05/ex

  4. #Leonard #Leo, the conservative activist with an estimated
    💥 $1 billion at his disposal,
    is threatening to withhold money from the dozens of groups he supports 👉 unless they develop plans to "weaponize" their ideas.

    Why it matters:

    Leo's call for conservative groups to get #more #aggressive will send shockwaves through the right-wing ecosystem he helped create.

    Leo wants less conversation and more action
    — fewer seminars and more campaigns
    — as part of a plan to
    ♦️"crush liberal dominance at the choke points of influence and power in our society,"
    he told the groups in a letter obtained by Axios.

    The goal should be to direct "funding🔸 to operationalize or weaponize the conservative vision," Leo wrote.

    Zoom in:

    Leo, 59, is telling organizations backed by his #85Fund that he's undertaking a
    "comprehensive review" of his grant-making process.

    His letter doesn't mention any specific groups by name, but they know who they are.

    Groups such as Teneo,
    Honest Elections Project,
    Consumers's Research and
    Do No Harm
    are examples of organizations that have adopted
    the kind of #aggressive #tactics Leo encourages, according to a source close to the 85 Fund.

    Those groups have run campaigns that have achieved measurable results, such as
    Consumers' Research's work on ESG investing,
    which has been featured in congressional hearings.

    Decisions about future funding will be shared with the groups by the end of November, Leo's letter said.

    Zoom out:

    Leo helped build the #Federalist #Society, an organization for conservative law students,
    into an incubator for lawyers and judges that reshape the federal judiciary and American society.

    He helped former President Trump select three conservative jurists for the Supreme Court
    — Neil #Gorsuch, Brett #Kavanaugh and Amy Coney #Barrett.
    They've transformed federal law on issues ranging from #abortion #rights (overturning Roe v. Wade) to #federal #rule-#making.

    In 2022, the New York Times revealedhow a nonprofit Leo controls,
    the #Marble #Freedom #Trust, received a ⭐️$1.6 billion contribution from a conservative donor, #Barre #Seid,
    who gifted the shares of the company he founded before they were sold.

    Leo has an estimated
    ⭐️$1 billion left to spend,
    according to the Financial Times.

    Leo, who is credited with the initial $1.6 billion windfall to Marble Freedom Trust, has been responsible for raising donations and support for the 85 Fund.

    Between the lines:

    Behind Leo's new push is his admiration for what he views as successes of progressive nonprofit groups
    such as The #Wyss #Foundation and the
    #Berger #Action #Fund,
    supported by #Hansjörg #Wyss.

    Leo is also convinced that liberal organizations and ideas have captured most influential institutions in government,
    media, entertainment and academia.

    "They invested in talent pipelines to populate the power centers inside government,
    where policy would be implemented,"
    Leo writes.

    "They incubated litigation as a means of leveraging the law to produce change."

    The other side:

    As Leo's prominence and influence have increased,
    his methods and his conservative network have drawn scrutiny
    — and provoked outrage
    — in progressive circles.

    axios.com/2024/09/12/leonard-l

  5. Wie wichtig ist Ihren jungen Kunden Nachhaltigkeit – sogar auf Kosten der Rendite?

    Eine forsa-Studie für BarmeniaGothaer zeigt: 67 % der Unter-30-Jährigen messen nachhaltigen Kriterien hohe Bedeutung bei, 65 % wären bereit, dafür Rendite zu opfern. Ältere legen deutlich weniger Wert darauf.

    Mehr dazu auf experten.de.

    #nachhaltigkeit #esg #geldanlage #kapitalmarkt #versicherungen

    experten.de/id/4949553/Fuer-Na

  6. Wie wichtig ist Ihren jungen Kunden Nachhaltigkeit – sogar auf Kosten der Rendite?

    Eine forsa-Studie für BarmeniaGothaer zeigt: 67 % der Unter-30-Jährigen messen nachhaltigen Kriterien hohe Bedeutung bei, 65 % wären bereit, dafür Rendite zu opfern. Ältere legen deutlich weniger Wert darauf.

    Mehr dazu auf experten.de.

    #nachhaltigkeit #esg #geldanlage #kapitalmarkt #versicherungen

    experten.de/id/4949553/Fuer-Na

  7. Wie wichtig ist Ihren jungen Kunden Nachhaltigkeit – sogar auf Kosten der Rendite?

    Eine forsa-Studie für BarmeniaGothaer zeigt: 67 % der Unter-30-Jährigen messen nachhaltigen Kriterien hohe Bedeutung bei, 65 % wären bereit, dafür Rendite zu opfern. Ältere legen deutlich weniger Wert darauf.

    Mehr dazu auf experten.de.

    #nachhaltigkeit #esg #geldanlage #kapitalmarkt #versicherungen

    experten.de/id/4949553/Fuer-Na

  8. Wie wichtig ist Ihren jungen Kunden Nachhaltigkeit – sogar auf Kosten der Rendite?

    Eine forsa-Studie für BarmeniaGothaer zeigt: 67 % der Unter-30-Jährigen messen nachhaltigen Kriterien hohe Bedeutung bei, 65 % wären bereit, dafür Rendite zu opfern. Ältere legen deutlich weniger Wert darauf.

    Mehr dazu auf experten.de.

    #nachhaltigkeit #esg #geldanlage #kapitalmarkt #versicherungen

    experten.de/id/4949553/Fuer-Na

  9. 11/12/25 20h Cinema dijous projectarà A dos velas. Dir. Agustín Toranzo, VO (2025) Cinefòrum a La Cinètika

    La Cinètika, dijous, 11 de desembre, a les 20:00 CET

    El dijous 11 de desembre a les 20h, a Cinema dijous projectem el documental A dos velas, dirigida per Agustín Toranzo i produïda per Intemedia producciones, de 60 minuts de durada, VO (2025). Comptarem amb streaming amb el director de la pel·lícula.

    Sinopsi:
    L’estiu de 2022, el més calorós del segle, l’empresa elèctrica Endesa va maltractar a les barriades populars sevillanes amb talls de llum indiscriminats, acusant el veïnat de robar l’electricitat. D’aquesta manera Endesa tapava la seva falta d’inversió criminalitzant als barris obrers. Desesperada per la calor i els talls de llum que ja duraven anys, el veïnatge actiu accions col·lectives, plantejant un pols a Endesa i a les institucions. Així superen l’aïllament i sofriment en solitari i creen un potent moviment social entorn de la lluita per la llum. En aquest documental podrem veure que aquesta dinàmica de talls de llum és global i classista. Coneixerem com lluiten en la serra de Cadis, a Kurdistan, Califòrnia, el Senegal i Puerto Rico pel dret a l’electricitat. També aportarem valuoses reflexions sobre com es relaciona la devastadora implantació de renovables a gran escala amb l’esgotament dels combustibles fòssils. Sense ni un xavo acompanya als seus protagonistes en la lluita contra les empreses elèctriques que els neguen el dret bàsic a la llum.

    Més informació al bloc de La Cinètika: https://blogs.sindominio.net/lacinetika/2025/12/08/11-12-25-20h-cinema-dijous-projectara-a-dos-velas-dir-agustin-toranzo-vo-2025-cineforum/

    bcn.convoca.la/event/111225-20

  10. On December 5, right-wing culture warriors instructed lawmakers attending the
    American Legislative Exchange Council’s ( #ALEC )
    "States and Nation Policy Summit"
    in Washington, D.C.,
    on the steps their states can take to upend policies and practices
    designed to help address the unfolding climate emergency and diversify workforces.

    CRC Advisors Senior Vice President 💥#Mike #Thompson 💥led the workshop
    “Battles Won, War Continues:
    The Left, ESG and State Policy,”
    according to materials obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

    In 2020, #Greg #Mueller and #Leonard #Leo, who played an integral role in Trump’s effort to pack the federal judiciary with right-wing judges,
    founded CRC Advisors
    — the group Thompson represents
    — to “funnel big money and expertise across the conservative movement.”

    Although not as well known as Leo,
    Thompson, a member of ALEC’s private sector advisory board,
    is an important Christian Right operative
    who plays multiple leadership roles in campaigns and communications.

    Thompson’s public relations skills were on full display in his remarks
    demonizing the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ),
    “a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy”
    in order to preserve the planet from further destruction.

    Thompson argued that large asset managers and banks that participate in GFANZ
    — including BlackRock, State Street, Wells Fargo, City Bank, Morgan Stanley, Chase, and Bank of America
    — are breaking antitrust law by utilizing sustainable investment strategies.

    Thompson provided an example of a lawsuit against BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard
    filed last month by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and 10 other Republican attorneys general
    — all active members of the fossil-fuel backed "Republican Attorneys General Association" ( #RAGA )
    — alleging that the three companies violated antitrust law in colluding to raise electricity prices through their investments.

    “The states have filed an antitrust lawsuit and they detail in it all of the evidence where those three companies were colluding to keep coal in the ground and from coming to market,
    thus, driving up the price and violating antitrust law,”
    Thompson told workshop participants.

    The PR professional neglected to mention that CRC Advisors is a paid consultant of RAGA
    or that his boss Leo’s "Concord Fund" has funneled $3.5 million to the pay-to-play group this year
    and $20.3 million since the organization was founded in 2014, according to CMD’s analysis of its tax filings.

    #Sal #Nuzzo, the first workshop presenter, is executive director of
    "Consumers Defense",
    the sister organization of Consumers’ Research,
    which is a vice-chairman sponsor of ALEC’s summit and a driver of the right-wing’s manufactured crisis around “woke” capitalism.

    Nuzzo argued that reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 through renewable energy production would force Americans to cede
    “two-thirds of [the] U.S. electricity generation supply chain to the Communist Party of China.”

    He didn’t cite a source for this claim, nor does the group’s website provide any research substantiating it.

    Nuzzo also attempted to raise the alarm with lawmakers from states that depend on agriculture
    by claiming that the Left has “shifted their attacks and tactics into the agriculture space”
    in response to anti-ESG legislation passed over the last three legislative cycles
    and has moved to prevent farmers from getting access to loans.

    “The [Left’s] coordinated attacks on agriculture are occurring at all levels.
    They’re at the producer level.
    They’re at the distributor level.
    They’re at the consumption and sales level,”
    Nuzzo claimed.

    “If farming interests cannot get financing, [farmers] cannot operate.”

    #Paul #Watkins, founder of "Fusion Law" and both a senior legal fellow at "Consumers’ Research"
    and a special counsel with "Heritage Action", made a number of claims in his presentation
    based on his belief that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are discriminatory,
    and therefore illegal.

    As a member of ALEC’s "Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force", he is involved in drafting and voting on most of the group’s pro-fossil fuel policies alongside lawmakers and polluting industry lobbyists.
    exposedbycmd.org/2024/12/07/to

  11. For decades, as a leading figure in the Federalist Society and other conservative legal groups,
    #Leonard #Leo identified and promoted the careers of lawyers and law clerks who shared his regressive views of the constitution.
    He supported the confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito.
    Now, having done so much to influence American jurisprudence, Leo has set his sights on reshaping American culture.
    His plans involve the #Teneo #Network, which describes itself as a "talent pipeline" for the conservative movement,
    with ambitions to influence Hollywood, Silicon Valley and other cultural power centers that he and fellow conservatives see as dominated by liberals.

    The proposed technique is similar to Leo's network of judicial nominees:
    raising money from conservative donors to help identify, connect and promote the careers of like-minded people.

    In the language of Teneo's one-page website, the group exists "to Recruit, Connect, and Deploy talented conservatives who lead opinion and shape the industries that shape society"
    npr.org/2024/11/24/nx-s1-51990

    Inskeep: Do you see this as a multi-decade project, rather like the project for the judiciary has been?

    Leo: Well, I think these kinds of changes do take time, although I have to say I am impressed by how quickly the Teneo Network has been able to build pipelines of talent in these places.

    And I am also very impressed with how quickly you're seeing efforts, for example, in the journalism and entertainment spaces, the standing up of new production studios and news platforms.

    Very impressed with the speed with which the debate about ESG [environmental, social and governance] has kind of flipped and changed.

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