KOCHdocs

Hard to find primary source documents on Charles Koch, Koch Industries, the Koch donor network, and more...all in one place! (Tweets by @ClimateConnor)

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

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.

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

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

[Patrick Moore @EcoSenseNow]

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

[Common Dreams @commondreams]

"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

[Giblets @ClimateConnor]

.@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

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

Source documents for this article live here:
https://t.co/TRYzGVuVhk

And here:
https://t.co/WWmXcT7gNC

-Connor (I run the KochDocs Twitter account!)

[Giblets @ClimateConnor]

John Stossel’s company, JFS Productions, got $1.5 million from contracts w Charles Koch Institute, 2017-2019.

https://t.co/dLp44SkrIz

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

Documents here, from @JamieMCorey @ItsDocumented!

https://t.co/NFgSZ4hjTc

[Alexander C. Kaufman @AlexCKaufman]

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

[Giblets @ClimateConnor]

...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

[Giblets @ClimateConnor]

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

[Giblets @ClimateConnor]

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

[Giblets @ClimateConnor]

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

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

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 )

[Giblets @ClimateConnor]

.@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

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

@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!

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

@thelisagraves @PubInterest @itstruenorth @TheIHS @latimes @iamjohnoliver @LastWeekTonight @brittanyagibson @TheProspect DERP. CORRECTION:

I meant the *HEROES Act* the pending Congressional bill that includes relief for Postal Service, during the COVID-19 & related economic crisis:
https://t.co/gaSdA5n7Al

The tweet w AFP letter was about HEROES Act.

Not the CARES Act.

My error!
-Connor

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

@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:

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

@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.

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

@thelisagraves @PubInterest @itstruenorth @TheIHS @latimes @iamjohnoliver @LastWeekTonight @brittanyagibson @TheProspect DERP. CORRECTION:

I meant the *HEROES Act* the pending Congressional bill that includes relief for Postal Service, during the COVID-19 & related economic crisis:
https://t.co/gaSdA5n7Al

The tweet w AFP letter was about HEROES Act.

Not the CARES Act.

My error!
-Connor

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

@thelisagraves @PubInterest @itstruenorth @TheIHS @latimes @iamjohnoliver @LastWeekTonight Finally, check out the first article to break this report on Koch vs. USPS, from reporter @brittanyagibson @theprospect:

https://t.co/ctgpT5ewHW

PS: Did you know the term "privatization" hails from Nazi Germany...?

Yikes, but...of course it does.

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

@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

[KOCHdocs @KOCHdocs]

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.