…you learn exactly what your target audience wants and needs to hear.” David Merritt is the Managing Director for LuntzGlobal. Merritt previously worked for Newt Gingrich and for John McCain…
WAR on Voters: Big Money Streams into WI Supreme Court Race with No Disclosure
…group, Wisconsin Alliance for Reform (WAR), was registered by Lorri Pickens, a Koch network operative with ties to the largest-ever campaign finance violation in Wisconsin history. Wisconsin John Doe II…
Flint Is a Casualty in the Right Wing’s War on Local Democracy
…like Livingston County.” One of the top black elected officials in the state, U.S. Congressman John Conyers, asked the Justice Department to review the emergency manager law for violation of…
Ohio Charter School Scandal Grows as Kasich Ascends National Stage
…failing grades for some charter schools in the evaluations. Hansen’s wife, Beth Hansen, is Ohio Governor John Kasich’s former chief of staff and the manager of Kasich’s newly surging presidential…
CMD Submits Evidence of ExxonMobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to California Attorney General
…for Media and Democracy and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice under both Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Janet…
How Charles Koch Backed the John Birch Society at the Height of Its Attacks on Martin Luther King
…things in 1965, Charles Koch helped promote the John Birch Society bookstore in Wichita, which was managed by Bob Love. The bookstore peddled John Birch Society pamphlets like Earl Lively‘s…
Koch Daddy and the Nazis, a Revealing History from Jane Mayer
…three largest refineries in the Third Reich, which was used to create fuels for Hitler’s deadly attacks on peaceful nations. While Mayer does not call Fred Koch a “Nazi sympathizer”…
Right-Wing Network Puts Friedrichs v. California Teachers in Samuel Alito’s Lap
…Top four overall funders, calculated by the Center for Media and Democracy as of August 2015: Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation: $2,310,000 (1989-2014) John M. Olin Foundation: $1,965,000 (1989-2005) F.M….
Koch Self-Interest in Criminal Justice Reform, Exposed
…Judiciary Committee last month, sponsored by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), doesn’t address mass incarceration, one of the primary concerns that progressives have been raising for years. His bill would instead…
Scott Walker’s Legacy of Double-Dealing for Friends and Donors Revealed in New John Doe Emails
…John Doe I led to John Doe II. The petition states “based upon a review of information thus far gathered by prosecutors and investigators as part of a John Doe…