Hard to find primary source documents on Charles Koch, Koch Industries, the Koch donor network, and more...all in one place! (Tweets by @ClimateConnor)
Welcome to Koch Docs!
Hard to find documents about Charles #Koch and his agenda, all in one place.
Start your own investigation at https://t.co/CRzXQNPUW8.
This #climate change denying stooge lives in BC, Canada, where entire communities are burning to the ground.
110+ degree (F) heat and unnaturally strong wildfires.
He’s at the #Koch-funded “CO2 Coalition,” a corporate front.
#agw#BCWildfire#LyttonBC#bcheat#lytton
For those who have not read my latest book, "Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom", please read the reviews on Goodreads here:
https://t.co/jKVoH2VFDc
"I was once a Koch lobbyist," writes Lisa Graves. "I just didn't know it." A look at just how deep and wide the libertarian billionaires' grasp have long been. https://t.co/g4Pk9osVWi
.@KochDocs now has all of the latest IRS 990s for organizations controlled by Koch Industries executives:
https://t.co/s7Jl0zl6QD
Obtained from Koch attorneys + some via IRS, @propublica & @EXPOSEDbyCMD.
Visual shows how Charles #Koch's network was structured as of Dec 2019
Ohio is about to be the 14th state to pass a law threatening fossil fuel protesters with long jail sentences and crushing fines.
The bill holds groups like churches liable for individual protesters, and could bankrupt tiny congregations in Appalachia.
https://t.co/M2efV5dhd8
...among other findings + more 2019 990s.
18 orgs, so far. Full list here, w visual showing flow of control:
https://t.co/s7Jl0zl6QD
@duboo first 2 publish CKF, CKI, AFP, AFPF, and ST *Foundation,* as credited above. (I think we put up Capitol Leaders Inst on same day) 5/5
New pile of Koch 990s!
Apparently, many stuck in gmail-outage limbo for a week. Koch lawyer called to tell me (thanks!)
All are posted here. 1/x
https://t.co/s7Jl0zl6QD
Got a few more Koch 990s from Koch Industries this AM, including a newer Koch Network org, CCKC4.
CCK = Charles Chase Koch, Charles Koch's son
C4 = 501c4 political group
Also obtained John Quincy Adams Society & Koch Cultural Trust. All here:
https://t.co/s7Jl0zCHIb
2019 Stand Together Chamber of Commerce IRS 990:
https://t.co/OZ1DkmJUw3
STCC is the top umbrella org in Charles Koch's political donor network.
It used to be "The Seminar Network," and before that, "Freedom Partners."
More 2019 990s @KochDocs:
https://t.co/s7Jl0zl6QD
Some relevant Koch Docs here, building off of the case that author Christopher Leonard just made in this week's NYT op-ed.
(Disclosure - I'm RT'ing my personal account! -Connor )
.@CLeonardNews on Charles Koch's long term attack on #SCOTUS.
FedSoc thanked both Koch Ind + Charles Koch Foundation for grants over $100k in 2019:
https://t.co/LdsArKMkYu
Charles Koch Fdn 2018 tax form lists $768,000 to FedSoc.
Data + source docs:
https://t.co/0oZHj5cgVt
@thelisagraves @PubInterest @itstruenorth@TheIHS@latimes Note correction to this Tweet at end of thread:
https://t.co/7g5GRU5Qv8
AFP opposes the *HEROES Act,* aka HR 6800.
(The CARES Act already passed, that was the first big COVID relief legislative package.)
And, Tweet was missing a word: "Today, decades *after*..."
Sorry!
@thelisagraves @PubInterest @itstruenorth@TheIHS Koch exec Richard Fink & his group Citizens for a Sound Economy helped get James C. Miller III appointed to Reagan's Office of Mgmt & Budget.
While at OMB, Miller worked w Koch's Cato Institute to attack the USPS.
From p.10 of Lisa's report:
@thelisagraves @PubInterest @itstruenorth@TheIHS@latimes Today, decades Citizens for a Sound Economy was reformed as Americans for Prosperity, AFP continues to attack the USPS.
The CARES Act could keep USPS afloat, during unprecedented stress from #COVID19.
AFP wants CARES, & USPS, to die, as for-profit corporations are bailed out.
@thelisagraves @PubInterest @itstruenorth@TheIHS Citizens for a Sound Economy did PR for Koch's unpopular ideas.
(Today, it's called "Americans for Prosperity.")
CSE had a symbiotic relationship w the Reagan admin.
Fink was appointed to Reagan's Privatization Commission, and USPS was targeted:
https://t.co/YxL60p51Md
Thread: HAWT OFF THE PRESS!
Koch Docs curator @thelisagraves is out with a report on Charles Koch's attempts to kill off the US Postal Service, since the 1970's. Published by @PubInterest @itstruenorth:
https://t.co/NBAJd8LyTY
Let's take a look at the findings.