…empathy for their workers and society as a whole. Based on the directives to state chamber lobbyists in the webinar, COSC is eager to help chambers of commerce overcome that…
Flint Is a Casualty in the Right Wing’s War on Local Democracy
…very things that make our cities, society and state good, safe, livable and lovable, while putting CPA-like EFMs in charge, you can expect that these things will suffer in order…
How Charles Koch Backed the John Birch Society at the Height of Its Attacks on Martin Luther King
…Birch Society. Charles subsequently opened a John Birch Society bookstore in Wichita with a friend of his father, Bob Love, the owner of the Love Box Company in Wichita. The…
Koch Daddy and the Nazis, a Revealing History from Jane Mayer
…enlist but was asked to help the war effort as a civilian, according to Mayer. More than a decade later, Fred Koch would help create the John Birch Society, and…
Koch Self-Interest in Criminal Justice Reform, Exposed
…the Kochs as civil rights activists, despite Charles Koch having been a member and funder of the John Birch Society through the 1960s, even running a JBS bookstore stocked with…
Richard Berman Misleads on Restaurant Opposition to Higher Wages
…known for creating front groups and attack-dog websites to bedevil industry targets including consumer groups, environmental groups, the Humane Society, and even CMD. He was dubbed “Dr. Evil” by 60…
ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia
…Bennett urged the Catholic Church to “seek out the poor, the disadvantaged…and take them in, educate them, and then ask society for fair recompense for your efforts”–vouchers. The game was…
More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda
…scare tactics and anti-liberty ideas propagated by those motivated to weaken our society.” Yet, the Americans opposing ALEC hail from working families across the country who are concerned about how…
Who Is Behind the National Right to Work Committee and its Anti-Union Crusade?
…Brothers and the John Birch Society The NRTWC has deep connections within the national right-wing network led by the Koch brothers. Reed Larson, who led the NRTW groups for over…
One of the Koch Family-Controlled Foundations Has Quietly Folded
…pushing the agenda favored by Koch. This includes millions of dollars, cumulatively, provided to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society and some state-based think…