Republican State Legislators Rush to Limit Their Own Regulators

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/us/politics/states-deregulation.html

#CharlesKoch’s network launches $20m campaign backing Trump #tax breaks
Revealed: #fossilfuel #billionaire’s #AmericansForProsperity vows ‘herculean undertaking’ to renew and deepen tax cuts
The donor appeal calls for even bolder tax cuts for corporations that would directly benefit #KochIndustries, the energy and chemicals giant from which most of #AFP’s funding derives.
It is estimated that the #Kochs have benefited by more than $1bn a year from Trump’s tax cuts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/koch-americans-for-prosperity-trump-tax-breaks
Charles Koch’s network launches $20m campaign backing Trump tax breaks

Revealed: fossil fuel billionaire’s Americans for Prosperity vows ‘herculean undertaking’ to renew and deepen tax cuts

The Guardian

Charles Koch: Americans for Prosperity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity

* libertarian conservative political advocacy group
* Koch family's primary political advocacy grp
* hugely influential American conservative organization

Koch Super PAC Shatters Election Spending Record
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/11/05/koch-super-pac-shatters-its-election-spending-record

#billionaires #CharlesKoch #AFP #AmericansForProsperity #libertarianism #capitalism #WealthTax
#oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy #fascism #conservatism #FarRight #fascism #ElectoralFraud #disinformation

Americans for Prosperity - Wikipedia

Koch-funded veterans group backed closing Chillicothe VA; working to elect Bernie Moreno
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/09/09/koch-funded-veterans-group-that-backed-closing-chillicothe-va-working-to-elect-bernie-moreno

Sherrod Brown (D-OH): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherrod_Brown
Bernie Moreno (R-OH): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Moreno

* privatization of health care
* Concerned Veterans for America: subgroup of Koch political nonprofit Americans for Prosperity

#billionaires #CharlesKoch #AFP #AmericansForProsperity #libertarianism #GOP #Trump2 #PublicHealth #privitization #MedicalIndustrialComplex #VeteransAdministration

Koch-funded veterans group that backed closing Chillicothe VA working to elect Bernie Moreno • Ohio Capital Journal

A Koch-funded veterans group backed a plan that would've closed the Chillicothe VA, but U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown was part of a bipartisan group of Senators that scrapped the effort. Now, that veterans group is working to elect Brown's opponent Republican Bernie Moreno to the U.S. Senate.

Ohio Capital Journal

Koch network’s flagship super PAC pours big money into 2024 elections
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/koch-network-flagship-super-pac-pours-big-money-into-2024-elections

* Koch network flagship group
* 2 decades financially influencing U.S. elections
* AFP super PAC ranks 3rd in outside spending in 2024 cycle
* Americans for Prosperity Action, hybrid PAC affiliated w. AFP, spent $257+ million since 2004
* supports conservative congressional/presidential candidates

#Koch #evil #AmericansForProsperity #billionaires #ElectoralFraud #libertarianism #fascism #superPAC #GOP

Koch network’s flagship super PAC pours big money into 2024 elections  - OpenSecrets News

The Koch network’s flagship group, Americans for Prosperity, has spent two decades pouring money into influencing U.S. elections. 

OpenSecrets News
Koch network’s flagship super PAC pours big money into 2024 elections  - OpenSecrets News

The Koch network’s flagship group, Americans for Prosperity, has spent two decades pouring money into influencing U.S. elections. 

OpenSecrets News

For those interested in dark money funding and influence, this is an excellent forensic analysis of Charles Koch and his conservative, neoliberal organizations and spending.

Assets of Koch-Controlled Organizations Soar to Over $8.1 Billion
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/05/08/assets-of-koch-controlled-organizations-soar-to-over-8-1-billion/

#DAF #DonorAdvisedFunds #DarkMoney #neoliberalism #liberalism #CharlesKoch #Koch #AmericansForProsperity #ALEC #ModelActs #capitalism #ChaseKoch #ExposedByCMD #CMD #WatchdogJournalism

Assets of Koch-Controlled Organizations Soar to Over $8.1 Billion - EXPOSEDbyCMD

The Koch fleet’s combined net revenue skyrocketed in 2022, up to $4.8 billion.

EXPOSEDbyCMD

Bosses always keen to “reduce the cost of labour.”

Most exploiters go for #automation, but some profiteers take teens from schools into factories. #CEOs on #recordsalaries, – and their #minions – keep wages low #byanymeansnecessary.

This “perfectly legal” #child labour is pushed by groups such as #AmericansforProsperity, various #chambersofcommerce, and #restaurantassociations

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/27/us-legislators-child-labor-corporate-profits

A meat processer killed a 16-year-old. Yet US lawmakers want more child labor

Adult workers are demanding a fairer slice of corporate profits – so child labor is a way to increase and undercut the labor pool

The Guardian

Dark money: $2 million pours into Virginia
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/09/dark-money-pours-into-historic-virginia-campaigns

* GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin
* public funding of private education; 15 wk abortion ban
* Americans for Prosperity: Charles Koch
* cut taxes; block action on climate change; reduce gov. funding for social welfare

https://persagen.com >> search: "Americans for Prosperity"
"glenn youngkin"
"glenn youngkin" AND koch

#Virginia #GlennYounkin #GOP #DarkMoney #CharlesKoch #neoliberalism #AmericansforProsperity #CimateChange #GOPmenace

Nearly $2 million in 'dark money' pours into historic Virginia campaigns - OpenSecrets News

Dark money groups and wealthy donors poured about $1.7 million into outside groups spending on Virginia candidates this election cycle, sparking transparency concerns in the hotly contested General Assembly battle.

OpenSecrets News
Koch network raises more than $70 million, launches new anti-Trump ads in early voting states

The influential network associated with conservative billionaire Charles Koch has collected more than $70 million for political races, the group announced Thursday, as it gears up to help shape the outcome of next year’s contests up and down the ballot and encourage Republican voters to bypass former President Donald Trump in the White House nomination fight.

CNN