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Occupy Wall Street: American as Apple Pie

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.11.2012 | Politics
Joseph A. Palermo

In 1776, had the American revolutionaries tried the Barack Obama approach of "reaching out" in a spirit of "cooperation" with the Tories and the British Crown there never would have been a United States of America in the first place.

Cain's Other Scandal

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 01.11.2012 | Politics
Heather Taylor-Miesle

Mark Block, Herman Cain's chief of staff, has been implicated in a host of campaign financing improprieties. And as researchers pore over financial documents, they have found substantial links between Cain, Block, and the Koch Brothers.

The Koch Brothers Lost in North Carolina

Max Stanley | Posted 01.11.2012 | Politics
Max Stanley

Ohio, Mississippi and Maine got a lot of the headlines, but North Carolina voters also struck a heroic blow against the Koch brothers in elections Tuesday night.

OWS Versus the Tea Party Is Comparing Apples to Koch

Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.09.2012 | Politics
Kevin Grandia

The very fact that OWS has no unifying message tells me that there is no hidden organizing body equivalent to Americans for Prosperity or David Koch behind their activities.

Relations Between Police, OccupyDC Protesters Strained

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.07.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Occupy DC protesters gathered at two intersections near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Monday where including one where f...

Koch Brother Walks Through Protest Unnoticed (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 01.07.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- According to the American Spectator, something funny happened during the Defending the American Dream Summit's "Tribute to Ronald Reagan...

Rudy Giuliani Hammers Obama and Occupy Wall Street Movement

Dan Collins | Posted 01.07.2012 | New York
Dan Collins

The GOP presidential flop bemoans Occupy Wall Street as "class warfare." Didn't this guy used to be the federal prosecutor who had a weeping Wall Street trader dragged across the trading floor in handcuffs?

Protesters March on Koch-Affiliated Event (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.04.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Protesters marched on the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Friday evening where Americans for Prosperity, a conservative organi...

Occupy the Kochs, and Stop the Corporatization of America

Ethan Rome | Posted 01.04.2012 | Politics
Ethan Rome

The Kochs and their front groups are trying to steal our democracy. They and their cronies have purchased the Republican Party to serve their agenda of destroying America's middle class, including crushing workers and their unions.

Occupy The Koch Brothers Guerilla Parking Lot Drive-In Planned

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.02.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Americans for Prosperity, a group funded in part by the Koch brothers, is hosting a Tribute to Ronald Reagan dinner at the Walter E. Was...

Recall Walker Gains Momentum

Jim Worth | Posted 01.03.2012 | Politics
Jim Worth

In October paperwork was filed with the Government Accountability Board to gather signatures to recall Governor Scott Walker after just one year in office.

Best Koch Brothers TV Expose Yet: Al Jazeera -- People and Power (VIDEO)

Kert Davies | Posted 01.01.2012 | Green
Kert Davies

"People and Power" on Al Jazeera has been working for months on the Koch Brothers expose. It premiered last night and is the best TV story of the Kochs thus far.

Blowback: The Failure of Cain Cool

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 12.25.2011 | Politics
Shawn Lawrence Otto

Herman Cain's new ad is all the talk today. Mark Block, fresh from the Wisconson branch of the Koch-family-funded Americans for Prosperity Tea Party astroturfer, makes smoking into an anti-government act of defiance.

What Distinguishes Occupy Wall Street From the Tea Party? Follow the Money

Asher Smith | Posted 12.24.2011 | Politics
Asher Smith

Similarities between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street certainly exist on a micro level -- but they are hardly big-picture.

Stopping Obama From Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America

John Hawkins | Posted 12.20.2011 | Politics
John Hawkins

Phil Kerpen is the vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity. This week, I had an opportunity to do a short interview with Phil about his ...

Herman Cain Has Extensive Ties To Powerful Koch Group

AP | RYAN J. FOLEY | Posted 12.16.2011 | Politics

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who...

Tea Party Groups Cash In Big Time

Politico | Kenneth P. Vogel | Posted 12.03.2011 | Politics

If you've got fundraising muscle, it pays to be tea party. That's the takeaway from recently released financial reports for five of the biggest con...

Stunning Koch Hypocrisy Exposed

The Nation | Yasha Levine and Mark Ames | Posted 11.29.2011 | Politics

There's right-wing hypocrisy, and then there's this: Charles Koch, billionaire patron of free-market libertarianism, privately championed the benefits...

A Grass Root's Win in Wisconsin

Jim Worth | Posted 10.19.2011 | Politics
Jim Worth

The recall elections, though described as a waste of time by Governor Scott Walker, was democracy in action, exactly the political battles our founder's envisioned.

Why Didn't Americans for Prosperity Love Our Video?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.16.2011 | Politics
Robert Greenwald

The Koch brothers -- founders of the Tea Party group Americans for Prosperity -- were the subject of our latest investigative video, "Why Do the Koch ...

Why Was Obama Missing-in-Action in Wisconsin?

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.11.2011 | Politics
Peter Dreier

Had Obama gone to Wisconsin and campaigned, or even made a few public statements endorsing the Democrats seeking to unseat six of Walker's right-wing allies, the liberal Democrats might have turned a narrow defeat into a spectacular unprecedented victory.

Republican Rift: Big Business vs. Tea Party

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.09.2011 | Politics
Peter Dreier

The tension between the two wings of the GOP rose to the surface during the recent battle over the debt ceiling, which then exploded into a war of words between former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and Grover Norquist, head of the right-wing outfit, Americans for Tax Reform.

Paige Lavender

Watch: Progressive Groups Run New Ads In Wisconsin Recall Elections

HuffingtonPost.com | Paige Lavender | Posted 10.04.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Three progressive groups are set to launch a six-figure television ad buy in the days leading up to the eight remaining Wisconsin state ...

Paige Lavender

Koch-Backed Group Accused Of Voter Suppression In Wisconsin Recall Elections

HuffingtonPost.com | Paige Lavender | Posted 10.03.2011 | Politics

Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has been accused of attempting to suppress De...

Teen Intern Takes Aim At Koch Brothers, Citizens United Case

Buffalo Grove, IL Patch | Steve Sadin | Email the Author | June 21, 2011 | Posted 08.22.2011 | Chicago

When a member of Rep. Robert Dold's (R-Kenilworth) staff asked for "two more questions" toward the end of an Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Town Hall ...