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• Right-Wing Business Billionaires Launch Attack on Bernie Sanders

  By Alex Kotch | January 28th, 2020 at 8:22 AM (CST)

  Yesterday, the billionaire-funded Club for Growth Action released an ad criticizing Sanders’s health care and climate change policies.

• Ohio’s Right-Wing Buckeye Institute Goes National

  By Don Wiener and Arn Pearson | January 27th, 2020 at 12:01 PM (CST)

  The Ohio-based Buckeye Institute has nearly doubled its revenues in recent years and is increasingly taking its pro-corporate fights to other states.

• Ex-Pharma Lobbyist Embedded in White House Tanked Drug Pricing Bill, While His Former Employer Helped From the Outside

  By Alex Kotch | January 13th, 2020 at 8:30 AM (CST)

  Former Gilead Sciences lobbyist Joe Grogan pushed Trump to ditch his support for a House bill to lower drug prices while Gilead-linked groups advertised and lobbied against it.

• DonorsTrust Pumped $142 Million into Right-Wing Causes in 2018

  By David Armiak | December 23rd, 2019 at 5:14 PM (CST)

  The preferred piggy bank for Koch network megadonors bankrolled key players in the Right’s growing state infrastructure, legal advocacy, and media operations, in addition to funding climate denial, union busting, and gerrymandering.

• “This is Extortion”: Koch Industries Gets Another Tax Break

  By Don Wiener | November 14th, 2019 at 1:24 PM (CST)

  The Toledo, Oregon City Council voted on November 6 to give Georgia-Pacific a 15-year property tax exemption in return for investment in an existing plant there.