…to provide Foley mill workers with severance pay and insurance, which the company was already doing. The closing and the governor’s response to it came before the Koch network—specifically, Americans…
Charles Koch’s “Stand Together” Donor Conduits Move $176 Million into his Network, Higher Education, and Right-Wing Policy, Advocacy, Litigation, and Media Groups in 2022
…astroturf operation Americans for Prosperity (AFP) received the largest grant — $60 million — followed by its associated super PAC, Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), which received a grant…
Bradley Funneled $86 Million to Right-Wing Litigation, Policy, Media, Youth Groups, and Higher Education in 2022
…$887,175 to further its efforts as one of the most aggressive anti-union groups working to get Americans to leave their unions. It once operated only in a couple of western…
Constitution in the Crosshairs: The Far Right’s Plan for a New Confederacy
…based not on population but on one vote per state in order to grossly underrepresent the majority of Americans. In audio obtained by CMD, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, Republican…
ALEC Policy Summit Features Push to Legally Force a Constitutional Convention
…create an extensive amount of additional work for state agencies and state legislatures, many of which operate part-time, and put health, environmental, workplace, and other regulations that keep Americans safe…
Dispatches from the COP28 Climate Talks in Dubai
…about rational thinking. It’s also about imagining. Practicing and participating in nature’s phenomena. It’s something that you can’t explain with words. You can only learn through feeling. A: If Americans…
Koch’s Super PAC Endorses and Will Canvass For Nikki Haley
Americans for Prosperity Action PAC (AFP Action), an outside super PAC largely bankrolled by industrialist Charles Koch and a handful of wealthy donors, has spent $972,000 to date running digital…
DonorsTrust Funneled $134 Million to Right-Wing Groups in 2022
…groups focused on training and mobilizing youth for right-wing purposes. The Young Americans for Liberty Foundation received half of that — $3.3 million — for university campus-focused recruiting efforts. Turning…
New Report Reveals Big Oil’s Playbook to Silence Climate Protests
…Andres Chang, one of the authors and editors of the report. “Why? Because a supermajority of Americans support climate action, and our ability to voice our dissent is essential to…
Koch Industries Forced to Pay $1.2 Million for its Latest Lies
…1980s, Koch lied to the government by falsifying records on how much oil it collected from oil wells on land owned by Native Americans. The company falsified receipts to indicate…