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12 Jan, 6 tweets, 4 min read
1. Last year, 111 companies declared they opposed state laws restricting voting & were “willing and ready to unite in the fight to protect our democracy”

So do they support Biden's push to reform the filibuster and protect voting rights?

We asked.

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2. Only two companies, @patagonia and @richer_poorer, told us they supported reforming the filibuster to protect voting rights.

A few told us they supported voting rights generally.

Most have gone completely silent.

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@patagonia @richer_poorer 3. Why does this matter? Corporations have historically played an important role in overcoming Republican opposition to voting rights.

In 2006, @Walmart, @Disney and other companies helped convince President Bush to extend the Voting Rights Act

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4. Republican Senators (save one) will not allow a debate on protecting voting rights. The only meaningful way to support voting rights is to also support filibuster reform.

Absent filibuster reform, support for voting rights is just talk.

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5. Signing onto a statement saying your company is ready to fight for voting rights and then staying silent when it actually matters is an extremely cynical strategy based on the idea that people will forget what you've said previously.

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6. Popular Information is a newsletter dedicated to holding corporations and other powerful entities accountable.

We keep track of all the things.

This info becomes more powerful when more people read it.

Stay in the loop by signing up (free) ➡️ popular.info/subscribe

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11 Jan
1. The author of an anti-CRT bill in Indiana told a high school history teacher that he should remain "impartial" on Nazism.

This got a fair bit of attention but I want to highlight one way this bill is at the vanguard on the anti-CRT movement

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2. The bill, authored by Scott Baldwin, requires "educators to separately post all classroom curricula online for parents — including lesson plans, worksheets, presentations and other materials."

This is presented as an effort to provide "transparency"

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3. But it is also following the playbook of @realchrisrufo, who created much of the anti-CRT hysteria.

Rufo is encouraging state lawmakers to push for "transparency" so he can weaponize decontextualized snippets of curriculum

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11 Jan
1. One common reaction to our investigation into @redlobster is that it's "not just Red Lobster" that doesn't provide paid sick leave to employees.

This is correct but it also misses the point.

Follow along if interested.

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@redlobster 2. While the lack of paid sick leave in the service industry is a SYSTEMIC problem, @redlobster is among the very worst actors

50% of service workers report paid sick leave

30% of casual restaurant workers

12% of Red Lobster workers

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3. Keep in mind, providing paid sick leave is MANDATORY in 14 states and many cities. So the very low rate suggests that @redlobster workers have difficulty accessing paid leave even when required by law.

This is backed up by our reporting

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10 Jan
1. As the pandemic rages on, tens of thousands of @redlobster workers lack paid sick leave

A popular.info investigation finds many @redlobster workers are being FORCED TO WORK SICK — either from financial necessity or pressure from management

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@redlobster 2. According to previously unreleased survey data from @shift_hks, a project based at Harvard's Kennedy School TWO-THIRDS of @redlobster workers who were sick in the Fall of 2021 reported WORKING SICK

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3. "We do not get sick pay. If we don’t work we don't get paid. I worry that co-workers who have been in contact with a confirmed COVID-19 family member would still come to work. We live paycheck to paycheck. We can't sit at home without pay"

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7 Jan
Headlines like this are true, as I've documented after every FEC filing.

But the overall impression of this piece and others — that corporate PAC giving has "returned to normal" — is inaccurate

Many companies kept their pledges and corporate PAC money to objectors is way down
Here is one way to look at it. Many companies released statements. But many of them were just pablum

We documented 57 companies that actually pledged to cut off donations to the 147 GOP objectors

Since 1/6, FOUR have donated directly to objectors

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Another 16 of those 57 donated to the @NRCC and @NRSC, which supports the entire GOP caucus. In so doing, they violated the spirit, if not the letter of the pledge.

But that still leave 37 corporations that have kept their word with no caveats

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6 Jan
1. One year later, corporate lobbyists are warning their clients that they need to start donating to the Republicans who voted to overturn the election IMMEDIATELY

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2. The fact that many companies continue to withhold donations from GOP objectors is a big problem for corporate lobbyists, who are used to directing cash to politicians as a way of buying goodwill and access

But would it actually benefit the companies?

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3. Beyond the obvious public relations problems (ask @Toyota how well it worked out) there is little evidence that corporations spending money on politics improves corporate performance

The opposite is true

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5 Jan
1. @thehill continues to launder spin from corporate lobbyists as "reporting"

Corporate lobbyists are eager to resume donations to Republican objectors because that's how they buy access
@thehill 2. But the idea that corporations themselves are trying to "rebuild bridges with GOP objectors" is based entirely on spin from corporate lobbyists
@thehill 3. Previously, @thehill reported that the corporate funding freeze on GOP objectors had "largely ended" even though corporate PAC donations to GOP objectors are down by 2/3rds and 79 major corporations have maintained a total freeze
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