Functions of The Koch Network (organizations listed below):
ENLIST DONORS to amass $BILLIONS to fund their efforts
DEVISE STRATEGY, POLICY, AND TACTICS for each stage of the plan.
RECRUIT AND TRAIN LARGE NUMBERS OF OPERATIVES to carry out the agenda:
GET CONTROL OF A MAJORITY OF THE STATES and use that power to change the rules governing voting, education, health care …
BREAK THE POWER OF THOSE WHO MOST EFFECTIVELY OPPOSE THEIR AGENDA.
CONSTRICT THE ELECTORATE.
CREATE RIVAL IDENTITY-BASED GROUPS that exploit media “balance.”
SPREAD MISINFORMATION to advance the agenda where they are otherwise losing.
SACRALIZE THE AGENDA by cultivating religious allies.
CREATE A GRASSROOTS PROXY ARMY— for pincer action with donors pressing from above.
TRANSFORM HIGHER EDUCATION, to undermine its opposition to unfettered greed and to gain legitimacy for Libertarian ideas.
TURN GOP INTO A DISCIPLINED DELIVERY VEHICLE by using primary challenges to enforce compliance.
CHANGE THE LAW, THE JUDICIARY, AND CONSTITUTIONAL UNDERSTANDING to entrench the anti-democracy agenda.
MOVE THE AGENDA INTERNATIONALLY, FOR LASTING, GLOBAL SUCCESS
Members of the Network by function:
ENLIST DONORS to amass $billions to fund their efforts:
• Center for Competitive Politics
• Club for Growth
• Donors Trust
• Freedom Partners
• Koch seminar network (the semi-annual donor summit)
• Philanthropy Roundtable
see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Koch_brothers
DEVISE STRATEGY, POLICY, AND TACTICS for each stage of the plan:
•American Enterprise Institute
•Americans for Tax Reform
•Cato Institute
•Heritage Foundation
•Mont Pelerin Society
•National Center for Policy Analysis
•Reason Foundation
RECRUIT AND TRAIN LARGE NUMBERS OF OPERATIVES to carry out the agenda:
• Bill of Rights Institute
• Charles Koch Foundation
• Institute for Humane Studies
• Leadership Institute
• Liberty Central
• Liberty Fund
• Mercatus Center (George Mason University)
• Young Americans for Liberty
GET CONTROL OF A MAJORITY OF THE STATES and use that power to change the rules to limit voter power, curtail Democratic governors, etc:
•American Legislative Exchange Council
•Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity
•Mercatus Center’s State and Local Policy Project
•State Policy Network (153 member organizations in 49 states, Puerto Rico, & D.C.)
BREAK THE POWER OF THOSE WHO MOST EFFECTIVELY BLOCK YOUR AGENDA:
•Capital Research Center
•Center for Individual Rights
• Citizens United (the organization behind the court case)
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
•Project Veritas
CONSTRICT THE ELECTORATE:
•Project on Fair Representation
•Organizations listed in other categories also involved:
•Americans for Prosperity
•American Legislative Exchange Council – CLIMATE DENIAL!
•State Policy Network
CREATE RIVAL IDENTITY-BASED GROUPS that exploit media “balance”:
• Association of Mature Americans
• Concerned Veterans of America
• Generation Opportunity
• Independent Women’s Forum
• Libre Initiative (aimed at Latinos)
• (Also, lay groundwork among African Americans through contributions to the United Negro College Fund, Thurgood Marshall Fund, etc.)
SPREAD MISINFORMATION to advance the agenda where otherwise losing:
• Center to Protect Patient Rights
• Citizens against Government Waste
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Heartland Institute
• Independent Institute
• Judicial Watch
SACRALIZE THE AGENDA by cultivating religious allies:
• Americans United for Life
• Council for National Policy
•Concerned Women for America
•Faith and Freedom Coalition
•Focus on the Family
•National Right to Life
•Susan B. Anthony List
CREATE A GRASSROOTS PROXY ARMY— for pincer action with donors pressing from above:
> Americans for Prosperity
• Heritage Action
• i360 (data analytics company with “a database of over 250 million 18+ adults” sourced from “multiple consumer data compilers.”)
• National Taxpayers Union
• Stand Together
TRANSFORM HIGHER EDUCATION, to undermine its obstruction and gain legitimacy:
• American Council of Trustees and Alumni
• Campus Reform
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
• Turning Point USA
• Campus base camps at GMU, Florida State University, Arizona State University, and others (Charles Koch Foundation now investing on over 350 campuses)
TURN GOP INTO A DISCIPLINED DELIVERY VEHICLE by using primary challenges to enforce compliance:
• Americans for Tax Reform
• Club for Growth
• Freedom Partners
• National Taxpayers Union
CHANGE THE LAW, THE JUDICIARY, AND CONSTITUTIONAL UNDERSTANDING to entrench the agenda:
• Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies
• Cause of Action Institute
• Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
• Federalist Society
• Institute for Justice
• Judicial Crisis Network
• Judicial Watch
• Landmark Legal Foundation
• Project on Fair Representation
• Rule of Law Defense Fund
• Scalia School of Law, GMU
• Washington Legal Foundation
Judicial Watch
• Landmark Legal Foundation
• Project on Fair Representation
• Rule of Law Defense Fund
• Scalia School of Law, GMU
• Washington Legal Foundation
MOVE THE AGENDA INTERNATIONALLY, FOR LASTING, GLOBAL SUCCESS:
• Antigua Forum
• Atlas Network – 457 partner organization members operating in 95 nations
• Fund for American Studies
• Mont Pelerin Society
•Students for Liberty
—– Note that this is a work in progress and may not fully comprehensive (particularly of education-related efforts). Comments and suggestions welcome
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