Koch Shadow Network Funding Dangerous Candidates - H.Nations - 2016

Paul Weyrich, "father" of the right-wing movement and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, 
Moral Majority and various other groups (1980)

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With that preamble I'll dive right into this short video of Farron Cousins interviewing attorney Howard Nations.  Below the fold I have notes from the talk along with additional reading sources that offer further support of the claims being made, along with offering important background.  

The Koch Shadow Network Is Funding 
Dangerous Candidates All Over The Country - 

The Ring of Fire  -  Jul 7, 2016  |  14:10 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEqMjFgRhk

The Koch brothers announced months ago that they were going to spend close to one billion dollars in this year’s elections.  We know that they aren’t giving this money to Donald Trump, so where is it going?  

http://www.TROFIRE.com

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00:53 -   ... Rove and Edelson were tweeted to death by donald trump.  But the Koch

 brothers are still very much alive and well and working their magic.  The Koch brothers are omnipresent but they’re under the radar.  

When you see that do-nothing House of Representatives that's the Koch brothers.  When you see legislative races, State Attorney General races, Congressional races, that's the Koch brothers.  They are still the most powerful single force in the Republican Party. and they manage that as well as anything else through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which carries out the Koch brothers legislative agenda. 

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WHO IS ALEC?

https://www.alecexposed.org

¶ What voters need to know - David Cay Johnston - 2018

Time to turn away from Americans for Prosperity for a moment and think about ourselves and what to do with such information.  Where can concerned progressives and enlightened individuals go from here?  {One suggestion: Durango's www.indivisible.org - check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Indivisible-Durango-127909224381637/}  David Cay Johnston gives a good talk about confronting the radical libertarian take over, and I had no idea what I was getting myself into this afternoon when I started listening to his video.

See, I’m a self taught kinda guy, and thanks to the internet age, I’ve come quite a ways since the days when helpful Research Librarians were amongst my favorite patron saints.  These days thanks to the internet, I can sit in our cabin, listen to a talk, be it science, or history, or politics and when something catches my curiosity, I stop the show.  Open up a new window and go off to do some judicious cyber-surfing for further information.

In this talk, David refers to many things worth understanding in more detail, those folds within folds of cumulative complexity.  That’s why as I was listening and taking notes, I found myself going off many times to see what I could find regarding the rest of the story.  

Considering this isn’t about me, it’s about sharing as much important information as I can and hoping others will find it and digest it for themselves.  Perhaps in emulation of those wonderfully helpful Reference Librarians back in my younger days, I decided to keep track of my various excursions with links to the best of those articles (some 35 in all) along with many highlights of David Johnston's interesting talk itself.

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Politics and Prose  |  Published on Jan 27, 2018  |  48:17 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y70q0mjujWk

David Cay Johnston discusses his book, "It's Even Worse Than You Think  - What the Trump Administration is doing to America” at Politics and Prose on 1/24/18.