Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

What Can’t Be Said: Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat (11/3/2024)

6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025 (8/14/2024)

How a Few Secret Donors Are Fueling the New Right-Wing Infrastructure (4/30/2024)

Project 2025: The Latest Plot Against America (3/13/2024)

the political vision that ties them together... gatherings in Northern California, where agri-business men team up with pastors who have direct access to the Trump White House; to North Carolina, where Christian nationalist leaders recruit clergy to their partisan activism; to Arizona, where charter school operators with sectarian agendas are indoctrinating schoolchildren on the taxpayer’s dime; and to Verona, Italy, where American representatives of what they call a “global conservative movement” gather with international far-right leaders to declare war on global liberalism. We will revisit the strategy meetings of the late 1970s in which it was decreed, several years after Roe v. Wade, that abortion would be packaged and sold as the unifying issue of the movement. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, KATHERINE STEWART

If you think our problem is simply that the Koch brothers have constructed a shadow Republican Party that plans to raise and spend $889 million or so to elect a conservative president in 2016, then you have missed the proverbial forest for a single tree. Their network of super-wealthy conservatives is underwriting efforts to remake America's state legislatures, universities, law schools, think tanks, public-television stations, and even its museums. The nearly $150 million that Sheldon Adelson spent in 2012 (according to Mayer) is chump change compared with the Kochtopus's overall expenditures." Eric Alterman

Sarah Churchwell ... in her book Behold, America (2018). The first widely disseminated use of “American dream,” ... appeared in the New York Post in 1900. It was a warning about the threat posed by super-rich tycoons to the very existence of the American system of government. “Discontented multimillionaires,” it warned, form the “greatest risk” to “every republic.” All previous republics, it noted, had been “overthrown by rich men” and this could happen too in America, where the tycoons were “deriding the constitution, unrebuked by the executive or by public opinion.” If they had their way “it would be the end of the American dream.” ...The American republic has come close to being overthrown by a discontented multimillionaire. Biden failed to say with sufficient force that America needed not to go from nightmare to dream, but to wake up to the urgent meaning of that threat.” The New York Review of Books 12/3/2020 “Democracy’s Afterlife”

Hard Right Billionaires are Spending Lavishly to Reshape State and Federal Courts (10/26/2023)

Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars (9/5/2023)

The far-right financier giving millions to the Republican party to fight ‘woke communists’ (8/4/2023)

Leonard Leo’s mysterious $200 million dark money war chest (12/7/2022) By Robert Maguire

Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics (5/30/2018)

Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media

Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy (10/15/2022)

An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives (8/22/2020)

The Other Capitol Mob: How the Billionaires funded the Insurrection (Jim Hightower 01/24/2021)

Arizona GOP Chair Urged Violence at the Capitol. The Mercers Spent $1.5 Million Supporting Her. (1/14/2021)

The scheme to capture the Court has the hallmarks of a covert intelligence operation run by a hostile country - dark money funders, anonymous advertising & enormous pay packages for its cronies. But this is a covert operation run against Americans by Americans.

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) July 28, 2021

Right now, Leonard Leo, his right-wing donors (to the tune of at least $1.6 BILLION), and their dark-money apparatus are devising the next phases of their Scheme. https://t.co/PDNqQosTxK

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) September 13, 2022

... Some of the world´s largest corporations and richest people have organized and supported front groups whose role is to slag climate science and resist regulation, just as they did in response to the science that laid the foundation for regulating lead, asbestos, smoking and other toxic substances and behaviors. They pursue this strategy because it works. Delayed regulation translates into greater profits, and no one goes to jail for lying to the American public about the risks of greenhouse gas emissions, smoking or toxic chemicals. Even if in the end there are fines to pay and reputational costs to bear, they typically amount to something more like a tax on profits rather than serious disincentives to engage in the behavior in the first place. Reason in a Dark Time, Why the Struggle against Climate Change Failed and What It Means For Our Future: Dale Jamieson

Project 2025 Bullet Points

Cruz, Bannon, Mercer, DeVos, the Conways... all of the above & more knew, they, the #CouncilForNationalPolicy & #KochNetwork all worked to "ensure" his election.

"Shadow Network" by Anne Nelson excerpt: https://t.co/HTwsz4ddIK pic.twitter.com/9zN8g6RIjN

— Helen _ 5calls.org (@Cruellaisdevine) August 21, 2020

We can if we eradicate #KochNetwork #CNP people from ALL levels of government AND break up their #ALEC groups. The healthcare issues begins & ends with the #RightWing GOP's relentless desire to kill access to healthcare.... and much more including Public ed. pic.twitter.com/LK2anrudfL

— Helen _#ElectionDefender_ 5calls.org (@Cruellaisdevine) December 28, 2020

[polluters] success has been largely the result of an unholy marriage between polluting industries and the radical right – an alliance conceived by Colorado brewer Joseph Coors. In 1976, Coors, owner of one of Colorado’s biggest polluters , founded the Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) to challenge environmental laws.... Coors also founded the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which has provided the philosophical underpinning of the anti-environmental movement. p. 25 Reagan’s victory gave the Heritage Foundation and the MSLF a national arena for their radical agenda. Heritage became known as Reagan’s “shadow government.”.... [Damage done during Reagan Administration - Coors picked head of EPA Anne Gorsuch who cut EPA budget 30% and destroyed Superfund program, and James Watt, president of MSLF, to be Secretary of Interior; growth of pseudo grassroots organizations specializing in “greenwashing ”. Anti-environmentalists hooked up with Pat Robertson ’s Christian Coalition in early 1990s. Helped Bush to victory." Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy, Robert F. Kennedy (2004)

See the clip of my speech showing how dark money front group went from Court capture to voter suppression and has set up for critical race theory — same entity behind “fictitious names.” pic.twitter.com/rJQ1sGUZt8

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) August 23, 2021

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." General Smedley Butler quoted in The Plot to Seize the White House by Jules Archer

Billionaire Lauder gives $1 million to GOP group backing state election deniers - CNBC How about a cosmetics company giving a million dollars to subjugate WOMEN? I would never buy Estrie Lauder products…. https://t.co/X7J9P7DWdG

— Politicat (@MomMomHolt) October 24, 2022

Who’s Behind the ‘Reopen’ Protests? (4/22/2020)

About Voting Machines and the American Taliban (7/2018)

It’s time we state facts: DJT is a front for a transnational criminal syndicate; it will all come out & Americans will be shocked; Trump-Epstein-Greenberg-Bear Stearns- DeutscheBank-Mossad & FSB; not to mention characters on periphery like Maxwell-Barak-Junkermann-Blatter et al

— Joanna (@JoannaCocoGrove) July 23, 2019

The Transatlantic Triumph of Trumpism: Boris Johnson – A Plan Years in the Making (6/21/2019)

You Want It Darker? (12/10/2018)

Trump's attorney, Jay Sekulow, is a member of the Council for National Policy, along w/ the Cambridge Analytica cabal (KellyAnne, Bannon, the Mercers). The families of two of the CNP's early members provided initial funding for voting machine vendor ES&S. https://t.co/0TIK1uL8Gf

— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) January 30, 2020

“I’m Tired of America Wasting Our Blood and Treasure”: The Strange Ascent of Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince (9/6/2018)

Sheldon Adelson: the casino mogul driving Trump's Middle East policy (6/8/2018)

Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America (5/30/2018)

Koch Document Reveals Laundry List of Policy Victories Extracted from the Trump Administration (2/28/2018)

UPS and Pfizer’s dirty little secret (12/6/2017)

Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media (2/26/2017)

The Hidden Government Group Linking JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra and 9/11

Pence, KA, Bannon, the Mercers, W. La Pierre, & R. DeVos are in the CNP, a networking group for the Religious Right & billionaires w/ ties to:

Voting machine vendor ES&S

Voter data leaks (via a convicted embezzler)

Cambridge Analytica

The NRA

Russiahttps://t.co/hENbXqn6pT

— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) September 26, 2019

"Our political system has been massively warped by a handful of radical extremely wealthy learning to use their wealth to influence and dominate our political system. They have created permanent institutions — Heritage, Cato, AEI, Hoover and others — designed for the specific purpose of furthering the plutocratic agenda." What's missing from our national narrative: The Republican Party is organized crime

Here is the document that @JaneMayerNYer cites in her review of Kochland by @CLeonardNews:https://t.co/UGMWugBDbK

Thanks so much for including it! https://t.co/62fPjxi5CY

— KOCHdocs (@KOCHdocs) August 13, 2019

"The most obvious criticism of the New Overclass is that their political machine is undemocratic. Using subversive techniques once aimed at communists, and with all the money they ever need to succeed, the Overclass undemocratically controls our government, our media, and even a growing part of academia. These institutions in turn allow the Overclass to control the supposedly "free" market. It doesn't win all the time, of course — witness Bill Clinton's impeachment trial — but it does score an endless string of other victories elsewhere, all to the detriment of workers, consumers, women, minorities and the poor. We need to fight it with everything we've got." Steve Kangas (an outspoken critic of Scaife, believed that Scaife-funded initiatives posed a danger to the nation, found shot dead found dead less than 60 feet (18 m) from Scaife's office.)

RFK: The "Gang of Five" foundations that are huge repositories of industrial polluter money [the John.M Olin Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Castle Rock Foundation, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, and the Bradley Foundation] have been used to create think tanks, to recruit phony scientists that we call “biostitutes” and to fund politicians in order to undermine and subvert those environmental laws that were passed after Earth Day: the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act. Industry was kind of caught off-guard by Earth Day and the legislative barrage that followed. But since then, they’ve mobilized to regain control of the public trust assets. And really, the best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets. Does it maintain the air and water under control of the people for the benefit of the public, or does it allow those assets to be privatized by politically powerful entities? from an interview with Mother Jones 10/7/2004

That’s what we know about. https://t.co/kAsXK41vUU

— Karoli (@Karoli) August 23, 2019

GOP Donor Who Reportedly Sought Clinton Emails Helped Fund Anti-Clinton Conspiracies In ’90s (6/30/2017)

Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media (2/26/2017)

New Book Exposes Koch Brothers' Guide To Infiltrating The Media (2/17/2016)

It’s the Mormons and the Kochs: The Secret Roots of White, Male Bundy Rage(1/10/2016)

How Conservative State "Think Tanks" Will Spin ALEC's 2016 Agenda (10/02/2015)

Here's How a White Supremacist Set the GOP's Immigration Policy (11/20/2014)

The Hidden Government Group Linking JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra and 9/11 (10/5/2014)

What Do the Koch Brothers Really Want?  Bernie Sanders (4/12/2014)

Koch Spends more than double the top 10 unions combined (3/7/2014)

Koch World 2014 (1/25/2014)

Koch Groups Alone Raised More In 2012 Than Candidates Spent During Entire 2000 Presidential Election (1/6/2014)

The Right Leans In (4/15/2013)

How Rev. Moon's 'Snakes' Infested US (5/1/2010)

Student Loans: The Right's Hidden Agenda (3/23/2010)

Myth: There's no right wing conspiracy.

The Powell Memo and the Teaching Machines of Right-Wing Extremists

8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last Dollar

Lets say you are listening to Rush on talk radio. Here's what you should know: Rush has a contract for hundreds of millions of dollars from Clear Channel which just about offsets the savings from Clear Channels layoffs. Clear Channel is actually losing a lot of money, but it owns hundreds of radio stations and it is a giant megaphone for Rush. Bain Capital, Mitt Romney's Company has a major ownership share of Clear Channel. The message is Republican and it is aggressive. It certainly is not in your interest unless you are in a very high income bracket...but, long-term, not even then. Have you thought of that ?

If jobs are scarce, your pension has disappeared, your healthcare insurance is unaffordable, college tuition is out of sight, your home may be foreclosed, the happy talk from broadcasters will tell you about the Republican YOYO agenda (Your On Your Own). If they can sell you that, they can privatize Social Security and that too would be a very large heist. Thanks to heavy insurance and pharma funding, they oppose any attempt to reform health care. Republicans tried many times to overturn the Affordable Care Act with no plan to replace it.

Talk radio will tell you that you better arm yourself while you can so that you can defend yourself when the time comes. It is inciting to violence against a government that it does not like. Oh...and torture is fine. They laughingly propose waterboarding select Democrats. Ha Ha. Bush is a hero.

They say history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Talk radio would rather you didn't know your history because here is what you would notice: Republicans have always been about rewarding the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us. It is the party of the oligarchy. When Republicans bring us to a gilded age and most of the people are struggling, but a very few are obscenely wealthy, then there is a financial collapse. It has happened before in the same way, but they don't want you to remember. That's why they are anti-intellectual. In order to avoid the cost of pollution, they deny global warming even though the science is settled. In order to satisfy the religious right, part of the base, they deny evolution. The Republican war on science no doubt has caused a deterioration of education in the US. They are a lot like the Taliban. Have a beer with Sarah Palin and maybe you'll forget all that.

To be sure you forget the past, broadcasters serve plenty of advertising, celebrity news, Michael Jackson, the octomom, crime programs that leave you in fear, almost no real journalism. They will tell you this is 'fair and balanced'. It's not just that broadcasters have dumbed down the culture, it is actually the largest scam ever.

So what would you expect ? We forgot the lessons of the great depression, WWII, and did away with the Glass-Steagle Act (which separated investment banking from savings banks.) If companies are too big to fail, they need oversight to protect the interest of taxpayers (who are actually getting caught with the tab.) Derivatives and other risky activities need full disclosure so that we know just how much trouble we're in. (We don't.) Yes Republicans, deregulation is a bad idea. Since the oligarchy that owns the media is powerful, it is unlikely we can get the reform we need or meet looming challenges. The financial sector needs regulation so that it cannot again spin out of control.

What you have sacrificed for is a military that is larger than the rest of the world's combined. It is defending corporate interests world wide. War is profitable. The rest of the world is not happy about it, so you are likely not safer. The definition of fascism is government controlled by corporations. Talk radio will tell you that the market is a much better way to determine policy than a democratically elected government. Republicans might then tell you they care about the Constitution, but they think the 'market' should decide...and they don't like government.

You are being had...if you believe 'conservative' talk radio.

Especially since Reagan's Presidency, organized labor has been under assault, the wealthy have gamed the system and produced a new gilded age, and the funders have taken over US government. That is a fascist coup.

The fascists don't care about the people or even the planet. We are likely doomed.

The Bush-Nazi Connection (From the NH Gazette)

There is an organizational structure to this “Christian” nationalist assault. It’s international, & includes training. The CNP is the top of the pyramid. Bannon, Mike Flynn, Ali Alexander, Charlie Kirk, Blackwell, Cleta Mitchell, KA = recent members. 1/https://t.co/uNcmPgmKMr

— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) September 5, 2021

Video

Koch Brothers Exposed (2014)

Dark Legacy - JFK and 9/11

Bibliography

Shadow Network, Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right by Anne Nelson

The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism By Katherine Stewart

Dark Money: Jane Mayer

Merchants of Doubt: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Mind____ Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America: Christopher Wylie

The Rise of the Fourth Reich, Jim Marrs

WHEN POLITICAL MEGA-DONORS JOIN FORCES Alexander Hertel-Fernandez,Theda Skocpol,Jason Sclar

Devil's Bargain, Joshua Green

Poison Tea, How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP: Jeff Nesbit

Democracy Betrayed, The Rise of the Surveillance Security State, William W. Keller

RATF**KED, The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy: David Daley

Democracy in Chains, The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan For America: Nancy MacLEAN (2017)

Dark Money: Jane Mayer

‘Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism,’ by Rachel Maddow

The Plot to Seize the White House by Jules Archer

The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right: Lee Fang

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: John Perkins

The Obama Hate Machine: Bill Press

Republican Gomorrah: Max Blumenthal (2009)

Fight Back - Kenneth Blackwell and the Council for National Policy by Bob Fitrakis

The Republican Noise Machine: David Brock

Family of Secrets,Russ Baker

Blinded By The Right: David Brock

Conservatives Without Conscience: John W. Dean

No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda: by Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado (1996)

The Coors Connection -- How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism by Russ Bellant (1991; 154 pgs; well-documented with 287 footnotes; published by South End Press

Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy by Jeffrey Feldman

Danger on the Right: The Attitudes, Personnel and Influence of the Radical Right and Extreme Conservatives. Arnold Foster and Benjamin R. Epstein.

Books on Republicans

Books on Trump

Books on Fascism

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