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BACKGROUND

The Show-Me Institute was co-founded in 2005 by

Rex Sinquefield, a billionaire GOP donor who has bankrolled numerous campaigns and ballot initiatives to advance his extreme political agenda, and wealthy conservative Crosby Kemper III. SMI was immediately praised by like-minded ideologues, such as Ethelmae Humphreys

,Dick Armey of FreedomWorks

,disgraced former Speaker Rod Jetton

and Tracie Sharp of the State Policy Network

for providing an air of unbiased research to advance their right wing agenda. The Show-Me Institute is organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Annual receipts for the organization exceeded $1.4M in 2010 and 2011, the most recent years for which 990 tax forms are available.

THE SHOW-ME INSTITUTE IS A FRANCHISE OF THE RIGHT-WING, KOCH-FUNDED 'STATE POLICY NETWORK'

<p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From its first year of operation, the Show-Me Institute has been a formal member of the State Policy Network (SPN), a national network of like-minded 'think tanks' that promote disinformation and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) agendas in state capitols. SPN is a web of conservative think tanks across the United States, founded in 1992 by Thomas Roe (of the Roe Foundation and South Carolina Policy Council). In addition to its state think tank affiliates, many other national right-wing organizations are associate members of SPN, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute, the Franklin Center, the Heritage Foundation, the Heartland Institute, and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. SPN has played a major role in supporting ALEC, serving as a sponsor of the 2013 and 2011 ALEC Annual Conferences and acting as a voting member of several task forces. <p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since its founding, SPN has been funded by conservative organizations including the Koch-funded Donors Trust/Donors Capital Fund, the Bradley Foundation, the Roe Foundation, and the Kochs' Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation; and the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) recently revealed that SPN has been funded by such corporations as Reynolds American, Altria (formerly Philip Morris), Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Foods, Comcast, Time Warner, Facebook, the for-profit online education company K12 Inc., and the e-cigarette company NJOY (Center for Media and Democracy: EXPOSED: The State Policy Network: The Powerful Right-Wing Network That Is Trying to Hijack Our State Politics and Government, October 2013). SPN gave $87,951.49 to the Show Me Institute in 2007, according to its 2007 990 tax form. Show-Me's advocacy on issues ranging from education privatization to attacks on benefits given to public workers is similar to the advocacy of think tanks in other states that are also part of the conservative State Policy Network. For instance, in 2009, SPN 'think tanks' in Florida, Texas, Virginia

Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Louisiana, Nebraska, and Colorado released nearly the same, word-for-word, report against the Affordable Care Act. In Missouri, Show-

Me titled the report “The Prognosis for National Health Insurance: A Missouri Perspective.”

THE SHOW-ME INSITTUTE IS A KEY COG IN THE SINQUEFIELD MACHINE

Rex Sinquefield is the President of the Show-Me Institute. The "belief tank" complements his issue campaigns, his affiliated public affairs firm, Pelopidas, and affiliated advocacy organization, United for Missouri. The output of the "belief tank" supports Sinquefield's goals of enacting radical, regressive tax policy in Missouri and other states, privatizing public education and removing local control of local schools as well as statewide evaluation and hiring practices. Sinquefield's agenda is extreme and unpopular. Despite spending hundreds of thousands on political candidates, he has been mostly unsuccessful in persuading legislators to make his radical tax and education ideas law. In 2012, Sinquefield faced widespread criticism after he expressed a belief that the public school system was intentionally designed by Ku Klux Klan members to hurt black children. The Sinquefield Charitable Foundation has given $4,300,000 to SMI from its founding in 2005 through 2011, according to the foundation's public tax filings: $900,000 in 2011, $950,000 in 2010, $1,200,000 in 2009, $700,000 in 2007, and $550,000 in 2006.

THE SHOW-ME INSTITUTE IS ALSO FUNDED BY SEVERAL KOCH-CONNECTED ORGANIZATIONS

Charles and David Koch, each worth about $36 billion, could be the most influential pair of private citizens in the United States. These brothers have accumulated their fortune through Koch Industries, an oil refining, chemical, paper products and financial services company with revenues of some $100 billion per year. Together and with like-minded allies, the Koch Brothers use their billions to manipulate some in the public into voting for their right-wing agenda and to push policies that strip protections for workers and human and environmental health. While its support from Sinquefield is well known, the Show-Me Institute has also received significant funding from entities associated with the Kochs. The Koch-funded Donors Capital Fund has provided at least $567,941 to SMI since 2005. Donors Capital Fund

is a “donor-advised fund,” which means the

millionaires and billionaires who send money to Donors control where their money is spent, but DCF keeps their identities h

idden, and therefore adds another layer of secrecy behind SMI’s funding.

SMI has also received funding from other out-of-state right-wing organizations such as the Roe

Foundation (of SPN founder Thomas Roe), the State Policy Network, the Coors’ Castle Roc

k Foundation, and the Cato Institute. Documented support from national right-wing organizations includes:

Donors Funding Years

Donors Capital Fund $567,941 2005-2010 JM Foundation $20,000 2006 Jaquelin Hume Foundation $125,000 2007-2010 Roe Foundation $60,000 2007-2011 State Policy Network $87, 951 2007 Castle Rock Foundation $20,000 2008-2011 Cato Institute $50,000 2006 Source: American Bridge Conservative Transparency Project; SourceWatch SMI also participates in the Charles G. Koch Summer Fellowship Program, through which it can receive funding for summer interns. In addition, SMI research fellow and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Professor Rik Hafer received an $8,000 grant from the Charles Koch Foundation in October 2012 to fund curriculum changes in the SIUE School of Business. (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville press release, October 11, 2012.)

AN INTEGRATED AGENDA: THE SHOW-ME INSTITUTE, ALEC, & AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY

Though the Show-Me Institute promotes itself as a Missouri-focused think tank, it advocates for many of the same controversial policies as national right-wing organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and Americans for Prosperity (AFP), with which it shares common funders. Show-Me has repeatedly hosted ALEC events, collaborated with ALEC on at least two reports, and cited ALEC research in is materials. For example, in February 2012, ALEC's Jonathan Williams gave a presentation at the Show-Me Institute on pensions, taxes, and economic policy. Since then, Show-Me has pushed for the suggestions ALEC made in the presentation. The policy "solutions" include replacing pensions with defined-contribution plans and lowering corporate taxes. (Source: Show Me Institute: The Facebook page for the event can be seen here and PowerPoint presentations can be found here. Show-Me pushes for ALEC proposals that also benefit Sinquefield and other wealthy backers, including opposing minimum wage increases and backing consumption taxes or the so-

called “fair tax.”

THE SHOW-ME INSTITUTE'S 'CHIEF ECONOMIST' RECEIVED HUGE SALARIES FROM THE ORGANIZATION ON TOP OF HIS 'KEN LAY CHAIR' SALARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI. CAMPAIGN FINANCE RECORDS SHOW HE IS ALSO PAID REGULARLY TO GENERATE INDUSTRY-FRIENDLY STUDIES.

Joseph Haslag is the Show-Me Institute's "Chief Economist," and is also the Kenneth Lay Chair in Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Haslag's position at the University of Missouri was made possible by the University's most notorious alumnus, Ken Lay, and was vacant for four years before Haslag took the position. In addition to his $160,000 annual University salary, Haslag has also received significant funds from the Show-Me Institute. Haslag was paid annual salaries of $120,000, $119,500 and $90,000 by SMI from 2008-2010. Public records show these Show-Me Institute salaries were paid on top of his annual University salaries of $135,000-$160,000. Beyond his SMI and University income, Haslag has also been paid by numerous ballot committees to provide research that advances their issue campaigns. Campaign clients include the MO Petroleum Marketers + Convenience Store Association PAC and Missourians for Equal Credit Opportunity (Payday Lenders') PAC. It is noteworthy that despite his considerable income and public benefits, Haslag has advocated

against defined benefit retirement plans and against minimum wage increases.

CAMPAIGN FINANCE RECORDS SHOW SMI STAFFERS WORK DIRECTLY FOR REPUBLICAN AND IDEOLOGICAL CAMPAIGN EFFORTS.

The Show-Me Institute's Communications Director,

Rick Edlund, was a paid consultant for

Cole McNary's

unsuccessful campaign for Treasurer in 2012 and

Sarah Steelman's

failed US Senate bid. He was also paid to consult for the

House Republican Campaign Committee

in 2010, and worked for former

Senator Jim Talent's

2000 campaign. Patrick Tuohey, SMI's "Western Missouri Field Manager," was press secretary for Steelman's US Senate bid, previously served as

Director of Communications for Frank Luntz's polling firm

, and manages (or managed) the

Missourians for Responsible Government

501(c)(4) organization that has moved millions of dollars on behalf of the payday lending industry to protect the lenders' triple digit interest rates. Brenda Talent, SMI's Executive Director, is the spouse of

Jim Talent

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Colorado’s Independent Institute <a href="http://liberty.i2i.org/files/2012/04/IP_3_2012_b.pdf" target="_blank" style=" border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">strongly opposed Colorado’s Telecommunications Modernization Act in 2012</a> [18], which would eliminate subsidies to telecom corporations, expand rural broadband service,and phase out phone fees. Not surprisingly, <a href="http://newswire.telecomramblings.com/2012/03/sb-157-would-kill-hundreds-of-jobs-in-colorado-in-order-to-create-a-massive-new-government-bureaucracy-according-to-centurylink/" style=" border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ALEC member CenturyLink</a> [19] opposed the bill.

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Missouri’s Show-Me Institute has called for <a href="http://www.showmeinstitute.org/publications/commentary/privatization/301-missouri-should-open-cable-tv-market-to-competition.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">regulatory reform to allow statewide franchises</a> [20] for cable companies.

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The Georgia Public Policy Foundation <a href="http://www.georgiapolicy.org/relax-regulation-and-map-a-road-to-economic-recovery/#ff_s=r6ST" style=" border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">has supported</a> [21] rolling back several regulations on telecom corporations including eliminating utility commission jurisdiction over consumer issues and filing requirements that helps keep prices and costs fair for consumers. GPPF has also called for <a href="http://www.georgiapolicy.org/issue-analysis-analyzing-georgias-tax-reform-proposal/#ff_s=r6ST" style=" border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">removing sales taxes</a> [22] on telecom corporations’ investments.

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North Carolina’s John Locke Foundation has consistently <a href="http://www.carolinajournal.com/issues/display_story.html?id=4063" style=" border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">called for removing taxes on telecom corporations</a> [23], claiming it would lead to lower costs.

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Maryland’s Free State Foundation, an associate member of SPN, receives “nearly all of its funding from telecommunications companies and trade groups,” including AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon, according to a report by Communications Daily. The <a href="http://www.freestatefoundation.org/" style=" border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">group focuses</a> [24] on telecommunications issues, and regularly calls for the deregulation of FCC and lowering taxes on telecom corporations.

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<h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title">Meet the Right-Wing Tycoon of Missouri, One of Conservatives' Biggest Money Men</h1>

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He has a legitimate rags to riches story. However, instead of using his millions to improve the lives of the poor, and working people, our protagonist is bullying his way to political power in pursuit of an agenda that benefits the privatizers and the rich and powerful. You probably never heard of him, you wouldn’t know him if you ran into him at a St. Louis Cardinal game at Busch Stadium, or rode in the same elevator to the top of the city’s Gateway Arch. If you live in Missouri, thereby directly affected by the way he wields his wealth, and if you want to understand how one very wealthy and powerful individual goes about the business of building influence throughout the state, consider the story of Rex Sinquefield.

According to a new report by the Center for Media and Democracy, "<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/reporters_guide_to_rex_sinquefield_0.pdf" style="">A Reporter’s Guide to Rex Sinquefield and the Show-Me Institute: What Reporters, Citizens, and Policymakers Need to Know</a> [3]," since 2008, Sinquefield, a financial tycoon, “has poured tens of millions of dollars into elections and referenda to try to secure legislators and laws to advance his agenda. He has dumped millions into front groups and lobbying entities to massage politicians, spin the press, and try to soften up public opinion toward his personal wish list for changing Missouri law.”

Rex Sinquefield “is one of the top right-wing political funders in the country, and the single top political spender in Missouri," said co-author Brendan Fischer, general counsel of the Center for Media and Democracy.

A Reporter’s Guide points out that two years ago, “Sinquefield told the Wall Street Journal that what he had spent so far is ‘merely the start of what he’ll spend to promote his two main interests: rolling back taxes” and what he describes as “rescuing education from teachers unions.’ He has also invested in groups working to thwart fair wages in Missouri, and undermine other long-standing union rights.”

Greasing the skids for Missouri politics

Key findings from the report include:

<ul>

<li>“Sinquefield has disclosed spending at least at least $31.5 million on state elections since 2006.”</li>

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<li>“In 2013, Sinquefield spent at least $2.35 million over a one-week period unsuccessfully urging legislators to override Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of Sinquefield-backed tax cut legislation. In 2014, he has already given Missouri Club for Growth $973,000, which will spend some of that money to replace the 15 Republicans who sided with Nixon.”</li>

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<li>“He gave $100,000 to the Speaker of the Missouri House, Tim Jones, for his 2012 campaign—despite Jones running unopposed. Jones is a member of the ALEC Education Task Force and was previously the ALEC State Chair for Missouri.”</li>

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<li>“Other states that have cut income taxes have offset the lost revenue by taxing capital gains or hiking property taxes but Sinquefield, whose vast wealth has come from investments and who owns two of the most expensive mansions in the state, wants to instead hike the sales tax, which disproportionately affects working people.”</li>

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<li>“Sinquefield called neighboring Kansas’ steep tax cuts ‘unbelievably brilliant’ in 2012 and predicted that Missouri businesses would quickly flock across the border, but in the year following the cuts, Kansas’ economy has lagged behind most of the region, and has actually added fewer businesses than Missouri.”</li>

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<li>“Sinquefield’s Pelopidas has bankrolled ALEC, sponsoring ALEC’s 2013 Annual Meeting to the tune of six figures and also sponsoring a workshop at the meeting.”</li>

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<li>“Sinquefield has given hundreds of thousands to ALEC legislators in Missouri, who have used ALEC model bills to advance Sinquefield’s school privatization agenda.”</li>

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<li>“In 2014, Missouri Club for Growth, which is almost entirely bankrolled by Sinquefield, sent mailers in an effort to influence a referendum on school funding in tiny Nixa, prompting outrage from the community.”</li>

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Sinquefield’s contributions have not always brought successful outcomes. He backed Todd Akin’s candidacy for the Senate, even after Akin said that women who are victims of what he called "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant.

Nevertheless, Sinquefield continues to try “repeal of the progressive income tax system, thwarting efforts to secure fair wages for hardworking Missourians, and investing in legislation that weakens Missouri’s public schools.”

Rags-to-riches story yields little compassion

Unlike Charles and David Koch, <a href="http://www.rexsinquefield.org/" style="">Sinquefield </a> [4]has an actual rags-to-riches story. His father died when he was young and he was sent to live with the nuns of the Sisters of Christian Charity at the German St. Vincent Orphan Home, until he returned home to St. Louis to attend a private Roman Catholic school. He joined the Army during the Vietnam War and spent two years at Ft. Riley in Kansas.

He received an MBA from the University of Chicago, and “[while] there, he became enthralled by ‘free market’ economists, like Merton Miller and Gene Fama, who later won Nobel prizes for theories about efficient markets.”

After working for American National Bank (which ultimately became part of JPMorgan Chase & Co.), in 1981, Sinquefield, along with classmate David Booth, founded Dimensional Fund Advisors. “DFA made a fortune on ‘passive’ stock market investment in index funds rather than betting on shares of individual companies, a limited version of the efficient-market hypothesis. Basically, DFA creates mutual fund portfolios for investors, such as government pension boards that manage the defined benefit plans (DBPs) of workers or individuals with defined contribution retirement plans that lack the same financial security as DBPs.”

Building think tanks, lobbying outfit and running with ALEC

After 40 years of living outside the state, Sinquefield returned to Missouri in 2005 and since then he’s been trying to “fix” the state.

The jewel in Sinquefield’s privatization crown is Missouri’s Show-Me Institute (SMI), described by A Reporter’s Guide as “a right-wing ‘think tank’ that pushes education overhaul (and other policies), and receives just shy of $1 million every year from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.” Brenda Talent, the wife of former U.S. Senator Jim Talent, currently leads SMI.

Not surprisingly, SMI describes itself as a nonpartisan “research and educational institute dedicated to improving the quality of life for all citizens of Missouri.”

Despite its description, the report points out that the Show-Me Institute is intimately tied to the State Policy Network (SPN), “a centrally funded, nationally organized $83 million dollar operation [whose] [d]onors … include some of the biggest ideological interests of the right. SMI is also “funded by some big out-of-state interests” including the Koch-tied Donors Capital Fund which has given over $567,941 to SMI between 2005 and 2011 [and] such longtime right-wing funders like the Roe Foundation, the JM Foundation and the Castle Rock Foundation.

The report notes that “SMI is also a member of the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and helps push the ALEC cookie cutter agenda in the state of Missouri.”

According to Progress Missouri areas, SMI pushes the ALEC agenda in the following areas and more:

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<li>“protection” to make it difficult for employees to fund unions</li>

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<li>Privatizing public education through vouchers and charter schools</li>

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<li>Teacher tenure “reform”</li>

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<li>Opposing the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion</li>

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<li>Opposing the minimum wage laws/raising the minimum wage</li>

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<li>Eliminating defined benefit pensions for public employees (calling for a shift from defined-benefit plans to defined-contribution plans)</li>

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Another Sinquefield-related project is Pelopidas LLC, a sophisticated and savvy lobbying outfit. Pelopidas was “Founded in 2007 by Travis Brown, a former lobbyist for Monsanto and K12, and his wife Rachel Keller Brown, who lobbied for the education privatization group Advocates for School Choice, the firm pushes bills and ballot initiatives; lobbies legislators and helps campaigns develop ‘issue ads;’ and aims to swing both public opinion and legislative votes.”

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===<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary?id=D000037548">https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary?id=D000037548</a><div class="component-section-title" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.25rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; background-repeat: repeat; display: flex; -webkit-box-pack: start; justify-content: flex-start; width: 645.5px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h2 style="font-size: 1.29412rem; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block;">News about Show Me Institute</h2></div><div class="u-richtext u-mt2 u-mb4" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin-top: 1.17647rem !important; margin-bottom: 2.35294rem !important;">Original reporting and analysis from <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); font-weight: bold;">OpenSecrets News</a>.<h3 style="font-size: 1.23529em; line-height: 1.24; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(35, 39, 64);">Text Search:</h3><ul class="Candidate-NewsList" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.05882rem; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; overflow: hidden;"><li style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647rem; padding: 0px 0px 0.58824rem; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224);"><div class="Card" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="Card-content" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/11/big-pharma-bankrolled-conservative-groups-tax-returns-show/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); position: relative; z-index: 1;">Big Pharma bankrolled conservative groups that pushed industry message to Trump, tax returns show</a></h2>November 15, 2019</div>Some of President Donald Trump’s signature proposals to lower drug costs have come under fire from conservative groups. Many of those groups received funding from the pharmaceutical industry last year, new tax returns show.<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/11/big-pharma-bankrolled-conservative-groups-tax-returns-show/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); font-weight: bold;">Read more...</a></div></li><li style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.17647rem; padding: 0px 0px 0.58824rem; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224);"><div class="Card" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="Card-content" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/09/fossil-fuel-industry-continues-to-dwarf-environmental-interests-in-election-related-spending/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); position: relative; z-index: 1;">Fossil fuel industry continues to dwarf environmental interests in election-related spending</a></h2>September 24, 2019</div>As climate talks take place in New York this week, climate activists took it to the streets to protest against government inaction on climate change. Although they may have successfully shut down D.C.’s rush-hour traffic, environmental advocacy groups cannot shut down ⁠— or even rival ⁠— the fossil fuel industry’s multi-million-dollar spending to shape energy policies.<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/09/fossil-fuel-industry-continues-to-dwarf-environmental-interests-in-election-related-spending/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); font-weight: bold;">Read more...</a></div></li><li style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.17647rem; padding: 0px 0px 0.58824rem; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224);"><div class="Card" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="Card-content" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/10/intro-to-koch-brothers-digital/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); position: relative; z-index: 1;">An introduction to the Koch digital media network</a></h2>October 9, 2018</div>The Koch brothers are more famous for how they spend their money than for how they make it. Their political buys may hit $400 million this year. How much of that will go to digital ads?<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/10/intro-to-koch-brothers-digital/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); font-weight: bold;">Read more...</a></div></li><li style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.17647rem; padding: 0px 0px 0.58824rem; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224);"><div class="Card" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="Card-content" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/07/revolving-door-update-trump-administration/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); position: relative; z-index: 1;">Revolving Door: Former lobbyists in Trump administration</a></h2>July 16, 2018</div>Andrew Wheeler’s rise to acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency is only the latest former lobbyist through the revolving door and into an influential role within the Trump administration.<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/07/revolving-door-update-trump-administration/" style="font-size: inherit; 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box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/03/secret-contributions-to-trump-inauguration/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); position: relative; z-index: 1;">Secret contributions to Trump’s inauguration become a bonanza for event planners</a></h2>March 14, 2018</div>President Trump’s inauguration was not only a bonanza for special interests and high-dollar event planners, it was also a chance for wealthy donors and government contractors to show support for the new administration — and do so in secret, if they choose.<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/03/secret-contributions-to-trump-inauguration/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); position: relative; z-index: 1;">Web of secret money hides one mega-donor funding conservative court</a></h2>November 21, 2017</div>When a small nonprofit called the Judicial Crisis Network poured millions into a campaign to stop the Senate from confirming Barack Obama’s Supreme Court pick last year, and then spent millions more supporting President Donald Trump’s choice for the same seat, political observers assumed conservatives from around the country were showering the group with donations.<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/11/web-of-secret-money-hides-one-mega-donor-funding-conservative-court/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); position: relative; z-index: 1;">Audit shows NRA spending surged $100 million amidst pro-Trump push in 2016</a></h2>November 15, 2017</div>The National Rifle Association’s overall spending surged by more than $100 million in 2016, surpassing any previous annual NRA spending…<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/11/audit-shows-nra-spending-surged-100-million-amidst-pro-trump-push-in-2016/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; 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When meat’s in trouble, lobbying expands</a></h2>March 30, 2017</div>Americans cut their beef consumption by 19 percent between 2005 and 2014, according to a new study by the National…<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/wheres-the-beef-meat-lobby/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); font-weight: bold;">Read more...</a></div></li><li style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.17647rem; padding: 0px 0px 0.58824rem; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224);"><div class="Card" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="Card-content" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/10/dark-money-ads-plunged-when-reporting-requirement-kicked-in/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); position: relative; z-index: 1;">Dark money ads plunged when reporting requirement kicked in</a></h2>October 19, 2016</div>    One Nation, a group run by a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, spent more…<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/10/dark-money-ads-plunged-when-reporting-requirement-kicked-in/" style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; color: rgb(61, 113, 183); font-weight: bold;">Read more...</a></div></li></ul></div>---700x<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/search/?q=Show+Me+Institute&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11">https://www.opensecrets.org/search/?q=Show+Me+Institute&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11</a>Show Me Institute Profile: Summary • OpenSecretshttps://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary?id=D000037548
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