Please read Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
From Jack Weltner about HR 1 In the past year, eight states have voted to make paper ballots illegal. In Texas’s March 3 primary, over 300 polling places were closed at the last minute, chiefly places heavily populated by the poor and immigrants. Likewise, widely reported delays, faulty machines, and long lines in Georgia’s recent June 9th […]
Continue Reading2020: Activist Groups for Fighting Back One of the major ways the Koch apparatus has operated is to suppress the vote – to make it difficult to get to the polls during elections, to gerrymander Congressional districts into becoming Republican strongholds, and to restrict voter registration wherever possible. Many groups have now been mobilized against […]
Continue ReadingIn this month’s Reader’s Guide to Democracy in Chains, Rod Kessler puzzles over how the economic and political ideas of James Buchanan could, on one hand, serve as a justification for the Koch network’s stealth assault on the institutions of American Democracy and yet, on the other hand, earn Buchanan a Nobel Prize and a […]
Continue ReadingReading We Are Indivisible by Rod Kessler After the shocking 2016 election, activist groups sprung up throughout the nation, eager to combat the Trump agenda. They were inspired by two former Congressional aides, whose how-to guide under the name Indivisible went viral. The self-styled Indivisible groups soon generated buzz of their own. What did they […]
Continue Readingfrom https://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited amount of money to influence the political process. Perhaps, the biggest winners of Citizens United are Charles and David Koch, owners of the second-largest privately run business in America Koch Industries. Among other […]
Continue ReadingFreedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose Nothin’, don’t mean nothin’ hon’ if it ain’t free FREEDOM – for you? For me? For everyone? The root of the Koch challenge is their view that freedom for us, for the 99% means less freedom for them. It means that they have to share. Why […]
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