Bernie Sanders Launches His Presidential Campaign With A Declaration Of War On The Kochs
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially launched his presidential campaign with a vowed goal of building a movement that will take...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 28, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially launched his presidential campaign with a vowed goal of building a movement that will take...
Governor Scott Walker promised Wisconsinites that he could jump start the economy with tax cuts for big business, even though...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 28, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
It has been just about a year since Charles Koch wrote a ‘woe is me’ op-ed to combat the bad...
Unless the American people mobilize and stand up to billionaires, like the Koch brothers, no Democratic president can succeed with...
Newly-elected Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) gave the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, perhaps providing further...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 16, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
Thom Hartmann and Brendan Fischer discuss the war waged by ALEC, the Kochs, and the Waltons against the ability for...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 13, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous...
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
Politics / Richest One Percent / Wall Street
by onepercenttakers · Published December 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
If anyone in America was unsure what unmitigated greed entails, or to what extent the Koch brothers and Wall Street...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 4, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
As the Internal Revenue Service contemplates new rules to illuminate “dark money” in politics, a little-known nonprofit group is fighting...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 9, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
“The Chevrons of the world, the Koch Brothers and the others … their religion is greed … we cannot allow...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 13, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
A recent Rolling Stone article documenting Koch Industries’ “lucrative blend of pollution, speculation, law-bending and self-righteousness” over the last few...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 20, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century. Amid a violent and...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 9, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
“Lifestyles of the Rich Environmentalists,” produced by a group called the Institute for Energy Research, is a slick web video...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 7, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 5, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
In a newly released audio recording, obtained by The Undercurrent, a man identified as a top Koch strategist warned that...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 2, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
At least 72 corporate funders have cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the wake of the...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 31, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
When the political mercenaries of American oligarchy jet off to consort with their electoral paymasters, they never imagine that the...
For seven decades, Social Security has been under attack by opponents who consider government-guaranteed pensions for Americans to receive as...
Corporations / Environment / Politics
by onepercenttakers · Published July 22, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2014
Shortly after the anniversary of the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, wounded 226, and upended a large...
Fighting Back / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published July 17, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The 2014 elections are awash in dark money—and it’s only getting worse. The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity alone plans to...
by onepercenttakers · Published July 12, 2014 · Last modified August 8, 2014
Fossil fuel and utility interests, concerned about the rise of cheap clean energy, are financing attacks on pro–clean energy policies,...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published July 3, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
This is what happens when Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner and a gang of the world’s richest...
Reports that two Supreme Court Justices have attended seminars sponsored by the energy giant and conservative bank-roller Koch Industries has...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published June 23, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A Republican state legislator in Kansas is being targeted by a new Koch-funded effort to oust those who want to...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 31, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The “charitable” wing of David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity has dropped nearly $900,000 on ads to boost Wisconsin Governor Scott...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 18, 2014 · Last modified September 2, 2014
Holy axis of evil, Batman! A dramatic fossil fuel threefer is brewing in Chicago, as mountains of the carbon-saturated fuel...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 3, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The Koch-backed, right-wing lobbying group, ALEC, is planning a coordinated attack on the EPA’s plan to limit carbon emissions from...
Environment / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 22, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was “the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” Now the...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.