Koch Brothers

The Koch-Congress Is Gutting The EPA While The Media Is Silent

The Koch-Congress Is Gutting The EPA While The Media Is Silent

As the leading industrial nations in the world are working feverishly to combat climate change, Koch-Republicans work to further the…

9 years ago

Scott Walker Says Poverty Pay Is A Living Wage

It is likely that Walker's idea that poverty wages are living wages came directly from the Kochs, who see American…

9 years ago

Jeb Bush Is Promoting The Koch-Republican Job-Killing Economic Agenda

Bush, like every Republican, ignores the truth about American labor and his pathetic attempt to walk back his assault on…

9 years ago

Koch Brothers Are Ramping Up To Eliminate National Parks And Seize Federal Lands

a Koch and ExxonMobil-funded organization is calling for an end to national parks and privatization of all federally-owned land.

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Strikes The Heart Of The Koch Empire With Bill To Give Solar Energy To The Poor

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) hit the Koch brothers where it counts by proposing new legislation that make solar energy more…

9 years ago

It Is Time For Americans To Declare Their Independence From GOP Religious Oligarchy

Americans should take time today to reflect on just how far the nation has drifted from the Founders' "we the…

9 years ago

Oklahoma Supreme Court Shocker: Earthquake Lawsuit Against Oil Industry Can Proceed

It was encouraging, then, that in a Republican-controlled state virtually owned by the oil industry, a High Court issued a…

9 years ago

ALEC Plans Corporate Control and Privatization Of Every City In America

It is true the Koch's are poised to spend nearly a billion dollars to put a Koch surrogate in the…

10 years ago

Corrupt Scott Walker Gave $124 Million Of Taxpayer Money to His Corporate Donors

One of Scott Walker's creations shortly after being sworn in as Wisconsin's governor released a report that exposed yet another…

10 years ago

Gov. Sam Brownback Will Eliminate Kansas’ Judiciary If It Fails To Rule In His Favor 

Republican Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill into law that eliminates the state's entire judicial system if the Supreme…

10 years ago

Koch-Republicans Remember Soldiers’ Sacrifice With A Veterans Healthcare Coupon Scam

The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or…

10 years ago

While Shell Plans For Climate Catastrophe The Kochs Kill Renewable Energy

ere are two fronts in the dirty energy industry's war on the climate with funding and legislative support from the…

10 years ago

President Obama Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results?

If there is one thing Republicans and the Obama Administration love more than pandering to Wall Street, it is the…

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Explained Why Voters Aren’t Voting Ten Years Ago

Before perusing the one-time "world's leading democracy" and its truly pathetic voter turnout record, it is worth looking back at…

10 years ago

With Koch Funding, Kansas Republicans Pass Nation’s First Abortion Procedure Ban

Kansas' religious Republicans are so intent on proving they will go to any length to protect a fetus that they…

10 years ago

On Day One Of His Presidential Campaign, Bernie Sanders Is The Kochs Worst Nightmare

Bernie Sanders used his press conference to send the message that he is going to be the Koch brothers worst…

10 years ago

The Koch Brothers Try To Fool The American People With An Evil PR Campaign

What is missing from the long list of Koch demands to abolish virtually the entire government is exactly how it…

10 years ago

The Koch Brothers Have Picked Scott Walker To Be Their 2016 Presidential Puppet

The Koch brothers have selected Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to be their chosen 2016 Republican candidate/puppet.

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Calls For A Mobilization Of Millions Of Americans To Take Down The Kochs

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reminded MSNBC of what liberalism looks like by calling for a mobilization of millions of Americans…

10 years ago

McConnell Warns Foreign Nations That GOP Will Undermine Obama Climate Change Deals

Taking a page out of a freshman Senator Tom Cotton's playbook, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a threat to…

10 years ago

Using a Convention of States to Destroy the Federal Government for the Kochs

Republicans are supporting using Article V of the Constitution not to propose amendments to the Constitution, but to destroy the…

10 years ago

Massive School Layoffs, Healthcare, Food Stamp Cuts Populate Scott Walker’s Koch Budget

Scott Walker's budget epitomizes the Koch-Republican "vision for America" and not at all unique among states ruled by Koch-governors with…

10 years ago

Republicans Are Paying For Making a Deal With Koch Devils

Republicans were so certain that if they allowed the Koch brothers to buy them control of Congress, no matter how…

10 years ago

Three Minutes Of Terror for The Koch Brothers As Bernie Sanders Storms Sunday Show

It was a terrifying three minutes for the Koch brothers, as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took on the Kochs directly…

10 years ago

The 21st Century Koch-Christian Crusade Is Killing Thousands Of Americans

The common demand from the religious right is "show just one instance of Christians killing anyone NOW," not 1,000, 60,…

10 years ago

Koch Brothers Group Shouted Down By Irate Citizens During Montana Town Hall Meeting

The Koch Brothers probably thought opposition to Obamacare would be an easy sell in Kalispell, but their town hall meeting…

10 years ago

EPA Finding Signals The Death Knell For The KeystoneXL Pipeline

Republicans and the Koch brothers make no secret that next to taxes, there is no part of the federal government…

10 years ago

How Koch-Republican Governors Rob Pensions And Slash Wages

Since most Americans are not like the Kochs, Republicans came up with a devious plot to garner support for taking…

10 years ago

The Republican Passed Keystone Pipeline Bill Violates The Constitution

Every one of the Koch Republicans, and their oily Democratic cohorts, who voted to approve a State Department construction permit…

10 years ago

Koch Congress Still Pushing Keystone After Four Pipeline Explosions In A Month

Of all the reasons to not build the Keystone pipeline, one that is often overlooked, and ignored by the corporate…

10 years ago

Obama’s Brilliant State of the Union Wasted On Stupid Anti-Government Americans

For the past seven years President Barack Obama has delivered prescient State of the Union speeches that should appeal to…

10 years ago

Rumors Swirl: Obama To Kneecap The Koch Brothers With Citizens United Executive Order

It is being reported that one of President Obama's surprises at the State Of The Union will be an announcement…

10 years ago

A Secret Meeting Unmasks Four 2016 Republican Koch Brothers Puppets

Meet the Republican Koch puppets for 2016: Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Mike Pence. Four of…

10 years ago

Thieving Republicans Robbed Americans In Their First Week Controlling Congress

It is amazing that Republicans who could not pass any legislation last year, spent the first four days of the…

10 years ago

The First Act Of The Koch Congress Is A Vicious Attack On Social Security

On the evening before officially taking control of Congress, Republicans launched a Koch-Wall Street attack on Social Security as a…

10 years ago

Corrupt John Boehner Conspires With Foreigners Against America’s Best Interests

Boehner has enlisted a foreign corporation (TransCanada), the Canadian Prime Minister, and a foreign energy department to put pressure on…

10 years ago

The Koch Brothers Launch A Surrogate War Against Pope Francis

The Catholic Pope has garnered nothing but serious opposition and pushback from America's evangelical and Catholic Republican movement, and now…

10 years ago

2nd Court Slams Brownback For Underfunding Education To Expedite Kochs’ Tax Cuts

  Now that Republicans control both houses of Congress, Americans should brace themselves for a serious Koch-style assault on revenue…

10 years ago

New York Bans Fracking Due to Health Risks – Wisconsin Bans Fracking Regulation Due To Greed

Republicans depend on lies and deceit to convince their ignorant base to support dangerous policies, and it is why they…

10 years ago

The Koch Wall Street Crusade To Rob Pensions Is Underway

This is the class war billionaire Warren Buffet admitted his class was winning, and if any American doubted that the…

10 years ago

The House That Kochs Bought Passes Bill Muzzling EPA Scientists

To ensure that the "right kind of scientists" are doling out advice on environmental protections, Republicans in the House passed…

10 years ago

Democrats Are Fighting Back and Declaring War On The Koch Brothers

Democrats aren't taking their Election Night loss sitting down. Sen. Harry Reid, and several outside groups are doubling their efforts…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Are Desperate To Conceal Their Koch Connections

Apparently Republican corruption has reached such a level that blatant lying and obvious violation of campaign disclosure laws is part…

10 years ago

Chris Christie Advocates For Election Rigging By Republicans Controlling The “Voting Mechanism”

Christie may not have the anti-voter credentials of some of his Republican brethren, but he does not support the right…

10 years ago

Joni Ernst Promises Americans a Very Painful Lesson If Elected

Ernst's treatise on government dependency revealed that not only is she a hard line devotee of tea party orthodoxy, she…

10 years ago

Jeff Denham Is The Koch Brothers’ Favorite California Tea Partier

Jeff Denham is a typical teabagger-Republican in that his campaign rhetoric is dictated by the Koch's Americans for Prosperity and…

10 years ago

Koch Group Sends Out Wrong Registration Info To Hundreds Of North Carolina Voters and a Cat

Koch brothers front Americans For Prosperity is reaching into their bag of dirty tricks by sending hundreds of North Carolina…

10 years ago

Extremist Climate Deniers Claim Historic Climate March Was An Attack On Their Way of Life

The anti-science crowd loves science that gave them automobiles, medicine, electricity, sanitation, and ability to communicate easily with any location…

10 years ago

A Fracking Disaster: Scientists Directly Link Fracking To Earthquakes and Health Hazards

The team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists found a wealth of evidence "directly linking" an increase in Colorado and New…

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Blast The Media For Ignoring The Koch Brothers Attempt To Buy The Government

Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling out the corporate owned media for turning a blind eye to the Koch brothers attempt…

10 years ago

Cliven Bundy Republicans Campaign To Seize and Sell Off Federal Land

Now, there is a serious movement among Republicans who embrace Bundy's claim the federal government is forbidden from owning land…

10 years ago

Bill Clinton Wallops Republicans With The Truth By Calling Them Koch Brothers Clones

Former president Bill Clinton pulled no punches when talking about the Republican Party. Clinton called Mitch McConnell and the other…

10 years ago

In His First Appearance On Meet The Press Bernie Sanders Terrifies The Koch Brothers

A sign of change on Meet The Press as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made his first appearance on the show.…

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Celebrates Labor Day By Taking Down the Koch Brothers

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is celebrating Labor Day weekend by standing up for unions and taking down the Koch Brothers.

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Puts His Foot In His Mouth By Calling The Founding Fathers Radicals

McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is "an act of true radicalism," something that makes the…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Tries To Undo Everything Obama Has Done With Government Shutdown Threat

If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell's own…

10 years ago

In A Victory for Public Education Judge Says NC School Vouchers Are Unconstitutional

The judge, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood, identified the Republican legislation, "Opportunity Scholarship Program," as a scam to "siphon money…

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Sends Shudders Up Koch Spines By Explaining Why Republicans Attack The IRS

Sen Bernie Sanders exposed a dirty little secret that the Kochs and other conservative billionaires don't want you to know.…

10 years ago

The Hobby Lobby Ruling Is Trojan Horse For All Businesses and Corporations

The Trojan Horse in the Hobby Lobby ruling is a term, closely held corporation, that created an opening for nearly…

10 years ago

Republicans Threaten to Withhold Government Funding Over Obama’s New EPA Rules

Republicans in the House and Senate are so angry at the President over new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal-powered…

11 years ago

Kevin McCarthy’s Rise to Majority Leader Is Great News For The Polluting Koch Brothers

It was little surprise then, that Republicans elected Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the new House Majority Leader to use his…

11 years ago

Senate Democrats Begin Their Push To Amend The Constitution To Kill Citizens United

Senate Democrats are moving ahead with their plan to bring a resolution to the floor that amend the Constitution and…

11 years ago

Republicans Label Obama’s Plan To Combat Climate Change a Terrorist Attack

. As usual they use mendacity as a fear-mongering tool to convince their stupid supporters that President Obama's attempt to…

11 years ago

Republicans Are Suing The FEC to Give The Koch Brothers More Power To Steal Your Vote

Republicans have decided that they want to give the Koch brothers even more power, so the RNC is suing the…

11 years ago

Harry Reid Sends Republicans Reeling By Proposing a Koch Killing Constitutional Amendment

Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid announced today that Democrats are about mount an effort to amend the constitution to get…

11 years ago

Americans Are Watching and They No Longer Trust The Conservative Supreme Court

The conservatives have been so blatant in their service to special interests that Americans have taken notice, and a new…

11 years ago

The Koch Brothers Are Going to Try To Buy Congress By Spending $125 Million

The Koch brothers are going to try to buy Congress this year by outspending both the Republican and the Democratic…

11 years ago

Republicans React to Climate Change Report With Denial and Hatred

When the White House released a regularly-scheduled scientific report awash in empirical data that climate change is a real and…

11 years ago

The Koch Efforts To Privatize Schools Dealt a Blow By Record High School Graduation Rate

Republicans, privatization advocates, religious extremists, ALEC, and anti-union fascists contend that America's public schools are failures, but for the first…

11 years ago

Bernie Sanders Goes On MSNBC and Becomes The Koch Brothers Worst Nightmare

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) went on MSNBC and became the Koch brothers worst nightmare by calling them out, and explaining…

11 years ago

ALEC Spearheads Effort To Steal From Employees to Give to Corporations

There is a concerted effort to raid public sector employee pensions to give corporations and the wealthy tax breaks that…

11 years ago

The Farm Bill Makes The Koch Brothers Richer While Destroying the Clean Water Act

Washington celebrates finally getting a farm bill passed, corporate agribusiness, the insurance industry, and the Koch brothers are celebrating a…

11 years ago

Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz Openly Threaten The Country With Economic Catastrophe

Republicans are once again threatening to hold the debt limit hostage in return for a ransom payment that is, beyond…

11 years ago

One Down 49 to Go: New Mexico Progressives Kick The Koch Brothers Out of Their State

Progressives scored a big win in New Mexico as the Koch Brothers have laid off staff and closed down their…

11 years ago

If Republican Led ‘Real America’ Was a Country It Would Be the 3rd Poorest on Earth

If the entire country ever resembled the Southern United States, it would rival the poorest third world nation on the…

11 years ago

When Boehner and Cantor Say What The American People Want They Mean ALEC and the Kochs

In Republican parlance, when they say "what the people want," they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and…

11 years ago

Economists Agree With Democrats: GOP Hurting the Economy by Promoting Income Inequality

A panel of economists has joined President Obama, and struggling Americans to assert categorically that income inequality is crushing the…

11 years ago

John Boehner’s Outburst at Conservative Groups Was Completely Phony

Boehner's phony indignation targeting conservative groups he bent over backwards serving over the past three years did not have an…

11 years ago

ALEC Members Refuse to Sign a Pledge Supporting Democracy

ALEC members were recently asked to sign a pledge to support democracy, and they refused. Not only did they refuse…

11 years ago

Koch Brothers Illegally Funnel Millions Into Campaign to Eliminate Pensions and Sick Pay

The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers' wages, pensions, sick pay, workers' compensation.

11 years ago

Stop Complaining Republicans, the Minimum Wage Should be $22.62 an Hour

Republicans who are wont to claim they speak for all Americans say the people oppose higher wages, but if the…

11 years ago

Wealthy Libertarians Are Driving Poverty, Unemployment, and Anti-Government Discontent

Wealthy libertarians using austerity to create conditions driving high unemployment, poverty, anti-government discontent, and misplaced anger to further their own…

11 years ago

Koch Brothers Reach New Low With Deceptive Television Ad in Alaska

As you can see, the ad implies heavily that the woman is an actual resident of Alaska and a constituent…

11 years ago

Justices Thomas and Scalia Violate Judicial Ethics By Headlining Right Wing Fundraisers

Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia have again set themselves above ethics rules because they are, after all, Koch brother properties.

11 years ago

The Koch Brothers Have Given Millions to Anti-Choice Organizations

The Koch brothers have given millions upon millions of dollars to anti-choice organizations using what is known as pass-through groups.

11 years ago

Winners and Losers From Last Night’s Off-Off Year Elections

There were many winners and losers (and one who won and lost) in last night's elections, but the biggest winner…

11 years ago

Complaint Filed Urging the IRS to Investigate the Koch Brothers for Violating Tax Laws

CREW has filed a complaint that urges the IRS to investigate the Koch Brothers for violating numerous tax laws, while…

11 years ago

The New Paranoid Style In American Politics: Have You No Decency, Sir?

Ted and Rafael Cruz are just two more in a long line of American political paranoiacs. The list of conspiracy…

11 years ago

America Has Never Faced The Threat Posed by the Koch Brothers and Congressional Republicans

The Founding Fathers were well aware that America could not survive without revenue to fund the government, but that is…

11 years ago

Republicans Go On a Scorched Earth Crusade In Case They Lose In 2014

Republicans realize that their recent shutdown laid waste to their brand and are intent on a scorched Earth crusade in…

11 years ago

Let’s Get this Straight, the Kochs Are Menacing, Soros is Benevolent

Conservatives incessantly drone on and on about George Soros as a villain, when the Koch brothers are discussed. Who's the…

11 years ago

Ted Cruz Is Just the Figurehead of The Koch/DeMint Destroy Government Conspiracy

Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and…

11 years ago

Sen. Ted Cruz Holds Wheeler Appointment Hostage to Protect Koch Money

The Kochs' lead hostage taker in the Senate is blocking Tom Wheeler's nomination to be chairman of the FCC.

11 years ago

Republicans Have Resumed Their Koch Funded Seditious Conspiracy To Destroy Government

The seditious conspiracy in the war for America is still ongoing and the next major assault is already in the…

11 years ago

Ender’s Shame: How A Classic Sci-Fi Novel Parallels Today’s Tea Party

Orson Scott Card wrote his 1985 novel about the dangers of manipulating children. He could have easily been writing about…

11 years ago

The Koch Brothers Seditious Shutdown Conspiracy Should Get Them 20 Years in Prison

The DOJ will have an easy time prosecuting and convicting the Kochs because there are money trails leading directly to…

11 years ago

The Unusual Suspect: The Surprising Koch Fueled Return of Edwin Meese

Why was Edwin Meese hired by the Koch Brothers to be a Tea Party strategist?

11 years ago

Tell the Justice Department to Investigate the Koch Brothers’ Seditious Govt Shutdown Plot

It's time for the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the conservative plot to harm the US government…

11 years ago

Afraid of No Man or Their Money, Obama Takes Down The Koch Brothers

Charles and David Koch may own the Republican Party, but during his speech on the ACA, President Obama showed today…

11 years ago

It Looks Like The Republican Debt Ceiling Demands Came Straight From The Koch Brothers

The GOP's debt ceiling demands are a composite Ryan budget, Koch policy meeting demands,"and ALEC social policy reform package all…

11 years ago