In a new interview with The Hill, Steve Bannon has inserted himself into some of the biggest controversies and conflicts facing the Republican Party as it heads into the midterm elections. And with his track record of stirring up the pot, it is certain that Bannon will continue to disrupt the status quo while also…
President Donald Trump went on Twitter Tuesday morning and angrily attacked the Koch Brothers, who have long been two of the biggest donors to the Republican Party. Trump’s attacks were a response to reports on Monday that the Kochs have become very critical of the president and they have started to withhold donations from pro-Trump…
Senior officials and donors from the groups affiliated with billionaire conservative businessman Charles Koch expressed great displeasure with President Donald Trump and his Republican enablers in the U.S. Congress at the group’s biannual seminar in Colorado Springs this weekend. “Trump tariffs assailed at Koch network gathering” Trump tariffs assailed at Koch network gathering https://t.co/FeFtFKrgXg —…
The Koch Brothers political network has announced it will not support the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, in another indication of the group’s growing independence from the GOP. Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the political arm of the Koch network, will not endorse either party’s candidate or contribute money to either side in the…
Charles and David Koch have been the largest and most powerful financial backers of Republican candidates, but they will no longer support any candidate who supports President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs. If the Koch network pulls its financial support from Republicans and starts giving money to Democrats it could have a major impact on future…
Is it possible that Democrats may take back control of the U.S. Senate with the help of the Koch Brothers? As improbable as that sounds, it could actually happen. Americans for Prosperity, a member of the powerful Koch network supported by conservative billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, has launched a digital advertising campaign supporting…
Because just 39 percent of poll respondents had a favorable view of the Trump/Republican tax cut bill in an April Gallup poll, the GOP’s biggest billionaire mega-donors are spending $20 million in a new effort to convince more people that they should like the tax law change which gives unneeded tax breaks to billionaires while exploding the…
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the Koch Brothers are funding a right-wing network that is behind a new secret initiative attempting to discredit teacher walkouts while harming teachers’ unions. There is a nationwide network of right-wing thinktanks that has begun a public relations offensive to counter the positive press being received by the teachers’…
This deal was between the Koch brothers and their fossil fuel industry cronies and the Republicans in Congress who routinely forsake the values of the country they swore an oath to uphold to do these billionaire brothers’ bidding.
“Republican lawmakers rushed the voter ID law without the usual committee analysis and debate… to provide an Anglo partisan advantage.”
“Keystone XL is not an economic benefit to Americans who will see higher gas prices and bear all the risks. The pipeline is being built through America, but not for Americans.”
“Was Rex Tillerson that worried about climate risks for Exxon? Or was he more worried about the risk of revealing them to his shareholders and to the public? Or was it both?”
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* One of the downsides of investigating, observing, and opining on the state of American politics is the relatively rare case of uncontrollable rage; not at what’s happening, but that it is happening precisely as no small number of opinion columnists and commentators warned incessantly it would….
“Because of new and legally inventive strategies, Mr. Obama… may well have built firewalls around environmental policies that could hold off his successor.”
No matter what Ivanka says, daddy Don’s W.H. “is shaping up to be a bleak wasteland of climate denial and Koch-funded fossil fuel cronyism.”
Lewandowski repeated a Trump campaign lie and said: “Donald Trump won the election campaign by the largest majority since Ronald Reagan in 1984.”
Trump’s plan calls for huge tax credits: billions of dollars in checks written to private companies that invest in ‘approved’ projects which they would end up owning.
DeVos has the potential to undermine progress by diverting resources and failing to uphold government’s responsibility to protect the needs of students.
“The question for us is will Trump as president use the power he has to interfere — given that he has a financial interest in the outcome of these matters.”
Instead of a White House firewall to stop the Koch GOP Congress’ disasters, the Kochs and evangelicals have a fascist with a rubber stamp.
“If the party doesn’t learn lessons and change based on what’s gone on for the last year and a half, I think it’s going to be just catastroph[ic].”
To avoid climate-ending global temperature rise, it is critical for the world to transition off fossil fuels and embrace renewable, clean energy sources.
The federal government’s landholdings and control of water could be better used for ranching, mining or forestry through private ownership.
ExxonMobil promotes a carbon tax while contributing to Republicans who block all efforts to combat climate change with a tax on carbon.
AARP should be more sensitive to its retired members who are vulnerable to ALEC-supported legislative efforts to eliminate Social Security.
“The first thing I want to do is correct a rumor that the media keeps stimulating, and that is that I’m probably going to support Hillary. That is a blood libel.”
“We conclude that that SB 14 has a discriminatory effect on minorities’ voting rights in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.”
Kansas GOP calls public schools government schools to imply they indoctrinate children and interfere with individual’s free choice.
The Park Service is set to receive a 87,500 acre donation of pristine land in the Maine Woods from a non-profit organization. Republicans say NO!
Americans face greater threats of extreme weather, seal level rise, water scarcity, heat waves, and wildfires, and biological systems disturbance.
Governor Rauner’s tax cuts amounted to a 25 percent reduction and ended efforts to preserve education, road repair, and social services’ funding.
“Relaxing the rules governing ‘corporate partnerships’ will ensure parks become commercialized” and “dependent on corporations to operate.”
The Koch brothers are no fans of Donald Trump, but there has been no bigger defender of their dark money corruption than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which is why the Kochs are dumping their cash into Senate races.
This Circuit Court ruling will help ensure that the worst industrial polluters are on the hook for cleaning up their own contamination.
House Republicans have followed orders given to them by the Koch brothers and advanced a bill that would keep Koch political contributions a secret.
Republicans use subpoenas to terrorize climate scientists, but it is an infringement of their rights if the tables are turned.
Today on the Senate floor Reid accused Republicans of bowing to the Koch brothers with their SCOTUS blockade against Judge Merrick Garland.
Bernie Sanders celebrated his two big caucus victories in Washington and Alaska by destroying Gov. Scott Walker and the Koch brothers during a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.
Trump embraced an organization as bigoted and racist as he is and authorized them to stack the Court with equally bigoted justices.
To protect the environment and national security, President Obama heeded the Pentagon and banned Atlantic drilling.
Rauner has chosen to plunder the state for his own private interest and those of his cronies.
A new nationwide poll shows the American people overwhelmingly agree that public education should not exist to enrich and profit the charter school privatization movement and they are demanding strong regulatory laws to “rein in documented fiscal malfeasance by private charter schools.”
The Koch brothers, the most powerful conservative mega donors in the United States, will not use their $400 million political arsenal to try to block Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s path to the presidential nomination, a spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday.
Mormon Rob Bishop (R-UT) wants to deliver America’s public lands, national parks, forests, and wilderness areas to Koch Industries’ control
The mainstream media must identify the real American government and Supreme Court “hostage takers;” the Koch brothers
The fossil fuel industry said no more regulations and the conservative justices obediently complied
There have been a few articles lately that began appearing last October making a compelling case that while the 2016 Presidential race might look promising for Democrats and it appears that Republicans are in disarray, Democrats, liberals, or progressives, take your pick, are actually in deep trouble everywhere else. There is no doubt that the…
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both ripped into the Koch brothers for forming a front group that is trying to privatize or abolish the VA and take health care away from veterans.
If Donald Trump wins Iowa and New Hampshire, the Koch brothers are set to mobilize their money and grassroots network to prevent Trump from becoming the Republican nominee.
It is nearly impossible to list everything Republicans have already indicated they will take from Americans given the opportunity
Obama is about to issue an executive order requiring companies doing business with the federal government to disclose political contributions
Snyder was well aware of the lead-tainted water before long before he claims he learned he was poisoning children.
Michele Fiore (R-Clark County) wants other Republicans to join the armed insurgents in the Koch-Mormon war against our federal government
Adelson bought a paper expecting to solidify his position in Las Vegas. What he didn’t expect was that its journalists would find out
No wonder Republicans were praising themselves; just one unrelated-to-spending rider in a spending bill gave the Kochs tens-of-billions annually and endangered Americans lives and well-being; it is what Koch Republicans regard as a win-win.
Republicans are inserting a rider in the omnibus spending bill eliminating the ban on oil exports developed to protect American consumers
ExxonMobil is the second leading oil corporation to publicly admit that climate change is real, following Shell Oil’s admission in March
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is proposing a new plan that would deliver a devastating blow to the Koch brothers and the Republicans they own.
When NOAA published research using empirical data to refute GOP climate-change denial, Lamar Smith (R-TX) subpoenaed to the scientists
The Kochs want to pollute with impunity by simply claiming they were unaware that it was a federal violation to poison the air and water
Every Republican at every level of government spouts the same lie, the same twisted logic, to harm American workers
Republicans want a government like that of the 1920s when the rich were given free rein to economically rape the American people
The school is not paying Duke Energy for the electricity being generated by that clean source of electrical power, the Sun
The Kochs want to convince Americans that they really love America. They just hate that America has a government they do not yet control
Bernie Sanders stopped the Koch propaganda tour dead in its tracks by delivering the facts about the Koch brothers agenda on MSNBC.
TransCanada claims they need more time to work with American officials but the real reason is to avoid a losing battle with President Obama
The Koch brothers are doing everything in their power to restrict Americans from tapping into the free energy from sunlight.
The crux of the case against the Kochs, Bush, and Scott is that they conspired to build what appears to be “an illegally-approved pipeline”
The Koch brothers have no right to complain about the tone of Republican politics because it is exactly what they paid for and wanted
William M. Daly mistakenly claims the GOP’s “insanity” began when Senator John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate in 2008
A new study finds that expectant mothers living in active fracking areas are 40 percent more likely to give birth prematurely
Armed with “suspicious subpoena power,” the House Science Committee is using its authority to conduct a witch hunt against NOAA scientists for doing the job they are paid to do; study the oceans and atmosphere and publish the results.
Now that the Kochs own Congress and were able to install a willing anti-government Republican as Chairman of the House Natural Resources committee, they were thrilled to learn they succeeded in killing the LWCF in yet another step toward turning over government to corporate control.
Killing off the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) will mean that America’s most iconic landscapes will be exploited by industry
A liberal hurricane swept ashore today as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took out both Jeb Bush and the Koch brothers on CBS’s Face The Nation.
There must be ten or twenty immediate reasons a person can give for opposing a foreign corporation, TransCanada’s crusade to build a dangerous tar sand pipeline across America’s heartland, and they are all valid. However, the overriding, and immediate, cause for alarm should be the devastation tar sand development, production, and transport will have on…
The Koch brothers are executing a well-planned assault on the Pope by portraying him as a Pagan and his followers as un-American
The chosen candidate of the Koch brothers, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), has fallen to dead last at less than 1% support in a new Republican poll.
With his poll numbers in free fall, Walker has decided to step up his war on American workers.
Under Republican control, Congress has not laid any taxes to provide for anything, much less for the general welfare of the people,
The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled, in a very one-sided decision of 6 – 3 that charter schools are unconstitutional
Obama defends workers’ right to earn the federal minimum wage and overtime protections; something Republicans believe is an abomination
The Koch brothers should be terrified by the Bernie Sanders surge in Iowa because it demonstrates that the movement is growing to take the country back from the billionaire class.
The Bridge Project released a report documenting the Kochs’ role in compounding the impact of Katrina, while profiting from the storm.
Charles Koch could not believe the President would do something that “flabbergasted” the dirty billionaire like telling the truth
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called on unions to rise up and join his political revolution to defeat the Koch brothers during a speech in Nevada.
Bruce Bartlett says policies don’t matter for the GOP, only attitude. “And Trump has exactly the right ‘chip on your shoulder’ attitude”
Instead of noting how inept the Bush response to help tens-of-thousands of Americans was, or mourning the loss of 1,800 lives, this sick psychotic conservative hoped that an equally-catastrophic disaster would strike the city of Chicago.
Republicans are guilty of inciting insurrection against the authority of the United States by supporting armed, anti-government militias
The record breaking crowds are becoming part of the routine for the Bernie Sanders campaign, but it is the message that people are turning out by the tens of thousands to hear that is a warning to oligarchic billionaires like the Koch brothers.
Most Americans are unaware, tragically, that America is dangerously close to becoming a fully-fledged plutocracy run by the Koch brothers
The mainstream media is finally reporting that the Koch’s legislative arm ALEC is moving into the open to prevent action on climate change
The only regard Charles or David Koch have for the poor is keeping them in poverty and subjugated to the rich at any cost
Bernie Sanders went where the media won’t while supporting President Obama’s climate change initiative. Sanders bluntly called out the Republican Party for being owned by the Koch brothers, and the oil companies.
Ted Cruz is spending this weekend with the Kochs, and what is going on in that ocean-side retreat has nothing to do with family values
The Appellate Court ruled that the ban on federal campaign contributions by individuals who contract with the government is constitutional. The takeaway from the ruling, besides putting a damper on McConnell’s political life, is that regardless the push by the Koch-Republicans and two horrendous rulings by Koch acolytes on the Supreme Court, 11 appellate judges firmly believe there is too much money in politics and that more “can be a very bad thing.”
Several of the leading GOP candidates are planning to attend a Koch-sponsored event in Southern California to court billionaire donors.
Thousands of House parties will be held in all fifty states on Wednesday as Sen. Bernie Sanders will tell supporters that the most important goal of his presidential campaign is the creation of a movement to take down the billionaires and give government back to the people.
Jeb Bush told an audience at a Koch brothers’ sponsored Americans for Prosperity event in New Hampshire, that we need to phase out Medicare.
As long as the Kochs own Congress, Republicans will propose robbing the elderly to pay for projects that benefit the rich and corporations