Political Parties

Democratic

• Democratic National Committee
• Massachusetts
• Marblehead

Republican

• National
• Massachusetts
• Marblehead

Koch Network

ENLIST DONORS to amass a fortune to fund the effort:
• Institute for Free Speech  (Formerly: Center for Competitive Politics)
• Club for Growth Donors Trust
• Freedom Partners
• Koch seminar network (the semi-annual donor summit) The Seminar Network
• Philanthropy Roundtable

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 (2017 extinct)
•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 (indoctrination  attendance is mandatory at all activities
• 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 virally:
•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
•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 climate change denier
• 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 “the accountability play” of 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

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

—– Compiled by Nancy MacLean, mid-2018. Note that this is a work in progress and may not fully comprehensive (particularly of education-related efforts). Comments and suggestions welcome

Counter Koch Network

Interrelated Organizations that Counter the Koch Network (Reference Page)

NOTE: this is not a complete list, just groups we know about. Please write to us with additions or corrections.

BUILD DONOR NETWORK

• AFL-CIO, NEA, SEIU, etc?
• Democracy Alliance and Committee on States?
• Progressive foundations

DEVISE STRATEGY, POLICY, AND TACTICS for each stage of the plan:

• Center for American Progress
• Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Center for Media & Democracy
• Checks and Balances Project
• Color of Change
• Demos
• Economic Policy Institute
• Institute for New Economic Thinking
• In the Public Interest
• Institute for Policy Studies
• Institute for Women’s Policy Institute
• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• National Employment Law Project
• Political Research Associates

RECRUIT & TRAIN TALENT TO CARRY OUT AGENDA

• Roosevelt Institute
• Scholars Strategy Network
• Scholars for Social Justice
• Union Summer*
• UnKoch My Campus

ORGANIZE TO REGAIN STATE-LEVEL & LOCAL POWER & PROMOTE SELF-REINFORCING POLICY

• ALICE*
• Center for Popular Democracy
• Committee on States
• EARN
• Jobs to Move America
• Jobs with Justice
• LAANE, CCNE*, etc.
• Local Progress
• Our Revolution
• People’s Action
• State Innovation Exchange (SIX)
• State Priorities Partnership
• Unions
• Working Families Party

EXPAND THE ELECTORATE & DEFEND VOTING RIGHTS & PARTICIPATION

• AFL-CIO
• America Votes
• Brennan Center
• Campaign Legal Center
• Democracy Initiative
• Democracy North Carolina and equivalents elsewhere
• Every Voice
• Indivisible
• League of Women Voters
• MoveOn
• NAACP
• Our Revolution
• Working Families Party

DE- SACRALIZE THE RIGHT’S AGENDA by cultivating religious allies & advance a pro-public one

• Faith in Action
• Faith Partnerships*
• Interfaith Worker Justice
• National Council of Churches
• Repairers of the Breach

EXPOSE THE KOCH CONTERFEIT RIVALS OF PROGRESSIVE GROUPS to media & rally originals

• AARP
• Generation Opportunity: United States Student Association, etc.
• Independent Women’s Forum: IWPR, Ms. Foundation, NOW, NARAL, PP, etc.
• Libre: National Council of La Raza, MALDEF

USE WEDGE ISSUES TO BREAK UP THE KOCH PHALANX AND PEAL OFF THEIR SUPPORTERS

• Faith groups and leaders – enlist National Council of Churches etc. to convey the libertarian ethical agenda
• Veterans administration privatization – Concerned Veterans of America pushing for privatization of VA against all the venerable, real vet groups, including VFW and AL.
• Corporate interests and investors hurt by climate change (agriculture, green energy, insurance, tourism, etc.)
• AARP – expose stealth bid to privatize Social Security and Medicare
• Common sense gun control – organize union veterans and hunters against the NRA?
• Environment – strong majorities of Republican voters, too, still support protection of air and water quality, western lands and monuments, etc., so expose what the GOP is trying to do quietly and administratively

DOCUMENT KNOWING MISINFORMATION FOR THE KOCH AGENDA TO EDITORIAL BOARDS

• Brennan Center
• Climate Investigations
• DeSmog Blog
• Greenpeace
• Public Citizen
• Sierra Club
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• UnKoch My Campus

SUPPORT MEDIA THAT DO OR COULD EXPOSE AND COUNTER FOX, BREITBART, & THE REST

• Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
• Center for Media and Democracy
• DeSmog Blog & international contacts (e.g. on Mont Pelerin Society & Atlas Network)
• Little Sis
• Etc.

DEFEND HIGHER EDUCATION BY EXPOSING THE DONOR GAMBIT TO RUIN IT

• AAUP
• AAUW
• AFT
• NAACP youth groups
• NEA
• PIRGs
• Students against Sweatshops (United Students Against Sweatshops?)
• UnKoch My Campus
• United States Student Association (Facebook)

USE VOTER ACTION & PROGRESSIVE DONOR INFLUENCE TO KEEP DEMOCRATS HONEST AND ACCOUNTABLE TO VOTERS AND “MUST-HAVE” PRO-DEMOCRACY STRUCTURAL REFORMS

• Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
• Center for Popular Democracy
• Climate Hawks
• Indivisible
• League of Women Voters
• Our Revolution
• Working Families Party

THWART THE ARTICLE V CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION & ENGAGE PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERS AND PROGRESSIVE LAW SCHOOL FACULTY TO DEVISE LEGAL STRATEGY TO BETTER PROMOTE DEMOCRACY

• ACLU
• American Constitution Society
• Common Cause
• End Citizens United
• Equal Justice Initiative
• League of Women Voters
• Public Citizen
• Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
• [various law schools’ legal clinics]

BUILD GLOBAL INFO EXCHANGES & RELATIONSHIPS TO BLOCK “EXIT THREATS” & LIFT FLOORS

• Amnesty International
• EU folks dealing with Brexit, etc.
• Greenpeace
• International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [Panama Papers team]
• SEIU and other unions forging international partnerships
• Solidarity House
• Tax Justice Network
• Tri-continental

**** other possible state and local partners at Field Guide to the Democracy Movement: http://www.fieldguidetodemocracy.org/

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Court Watch MA is an ACLU Massachusetts project.  BMC is Boston Municipal Court. Got there at 10:30. I wrote up eight cases. Most of the cases were missed jury duty. 

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Rod Kessler and Frank Kashner

July 22, 2019

Democracy in Chains, by Nancy MaClean, examines how the Radical Right Billionaire Class threatens  American life, the environment and our children’s future.

The book explores some dark and scary corridors of U.S. political history. It was published in 2017. It is a readable and well-researched. “Democracy…” traces the origins and expansion of America’s most extreme and powerful political right. 

The author, Nancy MacLean, is an award-winning author and professor of History and Public Policy at Duke. In her book, she reveals how various political operators subvert our institutions without the public’s knowledge. Economists Milton Friedman and James McGill Buchanan are ...
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