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'Koch brothers'

Kochs buying influence in higher education. UA on recipient list.

An examination of tax records shows the billionaire Koch brothers are investing more in higher education, typically in ways to enhance their ideological aims. The University of Arkansas ,familiar with getting money for programs admired by rich people, is on the Koch list of beneficiaries.
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The Kochs have liberals under surveillance; see Pryor v. Cotton

Politico reports on an intelligence-gathering operation of the Koch billionaires, hard at taking over the U.S. political system from the courthouse to the White House with paid operatives.
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Young Republicans table same-sex marriage resolution. Jason Rapert flames, as usual.

Arkansas Young Republicans tabled a resolution to encourage removal of opposition to same-sex marriage from the Arkansas Republican Party platform. That led to an interesting social media exchange by the anti-gay Sen. Jason Rapert and a Republican who works in the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity conservative political organization.

The Koch Bros. charm offensive: Know them by their works

The New York Times reports on a public relations campaign by the former secretive Koch Brothers to brush up their image as they prepare to sink as much as a billion into electing their kind of politicians in 2016. The record in Arkansas tells you all you need to know. Lipstick on pigs.
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Koch-backed advocacy groups will pressure lawmakers not to restore subsidies if King plaintiffs win

Big-money right-wing advocacy groups are prepping for a verdict in King v. Burwell, ready to fight any extension of subsidies in state legislatures, Congress, and in the national presidential campaign.

Keystone pipeline clears court hurdle; Koch propaganda gushing

The Nebraska Supreme Court today, by default, let stand a law meant to clear a route for the Keystone XL pipeline across the state and an underlying major aquifer.
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The Koch Party: Inside the oligarchs' political machine

Politico delves deeply into the political machine begin built with the Koch brothers' fortune — a data-driven colossus for voter identification and turnout that has eclipsed Republican Party machinery to the extent that people like Tom Cotton used it over party tools.

"Dear Voter, You're being studied for scientific research during the upcoming general election!" Sincerely, AFP.

This is the first line in the latest mailer popping up locally from Americans for Prosperity, the conservative political nonprofit founded by the Koch brothers. Not at all weird.
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Koch mailer: We know who you are, we know if you vote

Still more complaints rolling in — including from Republicans — about the mail campaign of the Koch-brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity to scare people into voting.

AFP says the faulty voter registration mailers it distributed in North Carolina originated in Arkansas

Remember the bad voter registration information sent to hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians by Americans for Prosperity? Apparently, the mailers drew information from a similar effort by AFP's affiliate here, which sent information to "potential new voters in Arkansas." AFP says the bad information in NC was just a mix-up, and apologizes, but that leaves a larger question: What exactly is AFP sending to those likely new voters in Arkansas, and why?
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Americans for Prosperity sends out hundreds of thousands of mailers with fake voter registration information in North Carolina

North Carolina's ABC affiliate reports on hundreds of thousands of mailers with false information about voter registration sent by Americans for Prosperity, the right-wing advocacy group backed by the Koch brothers. The official-looking mailers gave the wrong deadline for voter registration and told people to sign up with the wrong state agency. The mailers also gave the wrong office for questions regarding voter registration, the wrong zip code for turning in a voter registration form, and inaccurate information about how people would be notified of their precinct.

The Kochs, Tom Cotton and their dislike of helping farmers

The Koch political lobby is trying mightily to pretend it supports American farmers and that Tom Cotton's vote against the farm bill isn't a measure of farm support. A new report from a Democratic organization blows that dishonest messaging out of the water.
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