Salon: Taking it to the states: Anti-Trump resistance goes granular with Our States, a map-based organizing project
This kind of networked state-level organizing is long overdue. Conservative state-level organizing networks have around for decades. Best known of those is the American Legislative Exchange Council (or ALEC), which is primarily a business-backed, economic conservative organization that kept a low profile for decades before gaining wide exposure during the 2011 battles about public-sector labor rights in Wisconsin. Subsequently ALEC worked to pass the “stand your ground” laws favored by pro-gun organizations. Less well-known are two networks of state-level think tanks, which were described at length by researcher Frederick Clarkson in a 2013 article.