…important gains last year. (A PDF of that report can be downloaded below.) Winning in the Face of a Tidal Wave of Big Money Record-breaking spending by a handful of…
Koch-Fueled Playbook against Working Families Exposed by CMD
…growth,” Vernuccio said in a memo sent to a West Virginia lawmaker, “Right-to-work is really about one thing: freedom.” Sure. Freedom. Freedom for corporations to pay hard-working Americans less. Also…
How Charles Koch Backed the John Birch Society at the Height of Its Attacks on Martin Luther King
…of literacy, in fact, than at least four-fifths of the earth’s population of all races combined.” “The average American Negro has complete freedom of religion, freedom of movement, and freedom…
Koch Daddy and the Nazis, a Revealing History from Jane Mayer
…U.S. press. 1935 Fred Koch continues to aid the Hitler regime by completing the German petroleum cracking complex with a capacity to process more than 1,000 tons of crude a…
Right-Wing Network Puts Friedrichs v. California Teachers in Samuel Alito’s Lap
…(DT/DCF, Bradley) Freedom Foundation (formerly Evergreen Freedom Foundation) (Bradley, SPN) “State Public Policy Research Organizations” — this is a cluster of mostly SPN groups, including Beacon Center of Tennessee, Freedom…
Koch Self-Interest in Criminal Justice Reform, Exposed
…part of their multi-billion-dollar business comes from oil speculation. The Kochs have long been deeply involved in global financial markets, especially energy and commodity trading. The Kochs are credited with…
The Market Has Spoken: Funders Flee “Free-Market” Climate Denial Group
(PARIS) Funding for climate change denial is drying up. The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a US climate change denial group that espouses the “free-market,” has lost more than…
Koch-Funded Special Interest Groups and Utilities Bankrolling ALEC Meeting
…First Solar is focusing on large- or utility-scale solar farms and it has attacked its competition by attacking incentives for home- or rooftop-solar—and so has ALEC, which has peddled rhetoric…
ALEC Invites Politicians to “Plan Your 2016 Agenda” at ALEC Confab in Scottsdale
…workers that lose a compensation claim would be required to pay their employers legal fees. ALEC Commerce Task Force Celebrates the “Gig” Economy ALEC’s Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Task…
Koch Group Dumps Half Million Dollars in Florida Anti-Solar Campaign
…for Smart Solar, providing nearly $1.9 million since July from Duke Energy, Florida Power and Light Company, Gulf Power Company, Tampa Electric Company, and Powersouth Energy Cooperative. The 60 Plus…