https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q6cMN4C7IiE
Showing posts with label Koch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Koch. Show all posts
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
New Civil Liberties Alliance says president's invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs is unlawful…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-tariffs-lawsuit
Friday, February 14, 2025
Musk’s ‘efficiency’ agency site adds data from controversial rightwing thinktank
The thinktank has extensive ties to the far-right network formed by the fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother David. In 2020, the network provided some $900,000 to CEI, public records show – a number that is likely an underestimate, as it does not include "dark money" contributions which need not be disclosed. CEI also accepted more than $640,000 from the Koch network between 1997 and 2015.
Its other donors have included the nation's top oil and gas lobbying group, American Petroleum Institute, and the fossil fuel giant Exxon. The thinktank is also an associate member of ultraconservative State Policy Network, which has also received funding from Koch-linked groups and whose members have fought to pass punitive anti-pipeline protest laws.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
John Birch Society x Today’s GOP (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom.
But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society’s extremism remade American conservatism. Most Birchers were white professionals who were radicalized as growing calls for racial and gender equality appeared to upend American life. Conservative leaders recognized that these affluent voters were needed to win elections, and for decades the GOP courted Birchers and their extremist successors.
The far right steadily gained power, finally toppling the Republican establishment and electing Donald Trump.
Interview:
Monday, February 5, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
PR giant Edelman worked with Koch network, despite climate pledges
Edelman has long promoted planet-heating projects. The PR giant and its subsidiaries have worked on initiatives aimed at blocking climate legislation, and in 2014 the firm came under fire for creating a faux grassroots group to support the highly polluting Keystone XL pipeline. It has also signed significant contracts with major oil producers, includingthe United Arab Emirates, which hosted last year's international climate negotiations...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Influential Koch network backs Nikki Haley for president in 2024 GOP primary : NPR
Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, says it believes nearly three-quarters of Republican voters are ready to move on from Trump. That's despite the former president leading among Republicans by a wide margin in national and key primary-state polls.
Friday, October 27, 2023
‘Get the right cases to the supreme court’: inside Charles Koch’s network
Billionaire's web of rightwing groups works to bring cases to court that could undermine core functionings of the US government…
Friday, October 6, 2023
Why Clarence Thomas’ Trip to the Koch Summit Undermines His Defense — ProPublica
Even by Thomas' own permissive interpretation, the justice's recently revealed travel to Palm Springs and the Bohemian Grove appear to violate the disclosure law, experts explained.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Friday, June 30, 2023
Koch Network Raises Over $70 Million for Push to Sink Trump - The New York Times
The Koch network's goal in the 2024 presidential primaries, which has been described only indirectly in written internal communications, is to stop Mr. Trump from winning the Republican nomination. In February, a top political official in the network, Emily Seidel, wrote a memo to donors and activists saying it was time to "have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter."…
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Koch Network Spending Big to Torpedo Big Tech Anti-Trust Reforms
Those bipartisan efforts were stymied thanks to intense lobbying from libertarian-leaning tech companies, think tanks, and advocates, with Big Money funding from the donor network of libertarian oil billionaire Charles Koch, whose influence over antitrust legislation goes back decades. As the new GOP-helmed Congress contemplates reforms, it's already clear that party leaders like Jim Jordan (R-OH) and libertarian Thomas Massie (R-KY) — who are recipients of Koch cash themselves — are planning to do Big Tech's bidding and delay or kill regulation and let the companies continue accumulating market power...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Preventing the Latest Texas Two-Step by Koch Industries on Cancer Liability
Koch Industries was the first conglomerate to use the bankruptcy maneuver—known as "the Texas two-step"—in 2017. It involves a "divisive merger," allowed under Texas law, in which a company splits in two in order to transfer all of its liability claims to a subsidiary that then declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy while the parent company retains all corporate assets and profits…
Sunday, March 26, 2023
In Blow to Koch and Exxon, Federal Judges Say Minnesota Climate Suit Belongs in State Court
"Big Oil companies have fought relentlessly to avoid facing the evidence of their climate fraud in state court, but once again judges have unanimously rejected their arguments," said Wiles. "After years of Big Oil's delay tactics, it's time for the people of Minnesota to have their day in court."…
Friday, March 24, 2023
Minnesota Wins Key Ruling Against Big Oil in Climate Lawsuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit today handed Minnesota a major victory in its climate fraud lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute. In a unanimous ruling, the federal appeals court agreed with a lower court that the state's lawsuit — which seeks to hold the companies accountable for lying to consumers about their role in the climate crisis — can proceed in state court, where it was filed…
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Koch brothers’ advocacy group courts far-right Republicans it vowed to thwart
Americans for Prosperity Action recently invited two politicians who tried vigorously to overturn the 2020 presidential election…
Monday, October 31, 2022
Laboratories of Autocracy – David Pepper – It’s the States, Stupid! (Al Franken podcast)
The Former Ohio Dem State Chair on How State Legislatures are Dismantling Democracy
Interview:
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Inside Steve Bannon’s ‘disturbing’ quest to radically rewrite the US constitution
"People should know that when they go to vote in November – this could fundamentally undermine their rights in a way that is both disturbing and permanent."
And now we can see why the Mercers demanded Trump put Steve Bannon on his team in exchange for their financial backing.
Other players: Leonard Leo, Rick Santorum, Charles Koch, ALEC, the Tea Party/Freedom Caucus, Mark Levin
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Citizens United, Part 2 (Opening Arguments podcast OA638)
Make sure you listened to part 1, episode 636 before you proceed! It’s part 2 of the long-awaited Citizens United deep-dive. In this one, we finally get to… Citizens United…
Interview:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Click Older Posts above to see more.