Capture lane

Democratic Erosion

The Democratic Erosion capture lane traces 522 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

522 events From Jan 1, 1142 To Jun 18, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1142–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-01-13Bannon Vows to Destroy 'Truly Evil' Elon Musk, Declares MAGA Civil War 3 src
Steve Bannon · Elon Musk · Donald Trump
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2025-01-10Trump Receives Unconditional Discharge for 34 Felony Convictions, Zero Penalties 5 src
Donald Trump · Juan Merchan
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2025-01-01Systematic assault on judicial independence begins 4 src
Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary
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2024-12-22Trump Declares Greenland 'Absolute Necessity' and Names PayPal Co-Founder as Denmark Ambassador 2 src
Donald Trump · Mette Frederiksen
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2024-12-18California Governor Newsom Declares State of Emergency Over H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak 3 src
Gavin Newsom
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2024-12-03South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol Declares Martial Law, Triggering Democratic Crisis 3 src
Democratic Party
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2024-12-03South Korean Democratic Resistance Against Presidential Martial Law 3 src confirmed
2024-11-06Private Prison Stocks Soar After Trump's 2024 Victory: CoreCivic Up 29%, GEO Group Up 42% in Single Session 4 src
Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Tom Homan · +1
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2024-09-30Guidance to Georgia officials on mass voter challenges 3 src
Campaign Legal Center · Brennan Center for Justice · Brad Raffensperger
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2024-08-13JD Vance Writes Foreword for Project 2025 Architect's Book 3 src
J.D. Vance · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans
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2024-07-01Paul Dans Departs Project 2025, Kevin Roberts Takes Leadership 3 src
Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Donald Trump · Susie Wiles
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2024-07-01Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers 15 src
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9
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2024-06-27SCOTUS limits SEC use of in-house tribunals for civil penalties (SEC v. Jarkesy) 3 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Securities and Exchange Commission · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · +3
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2024-06-18Boris Epshteyn Pleads Not Guilty to Nine Felony Counts in Arizona Fake Elector Case — Active Indictment Persists Through 2026 3 src
Kris Mayes · Rudy Giuliani · Donald Trump
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2024-06-15Academic Evidence Reveals Systematic Corruption in Hurricane Katrina Education Privatization 3 src confirmed
2024-03-01Tunisia Dissolves Democratic Municipal Councils Under Authoritarian Consolidation 3 src confirmed
2024-02-08Michael Mann Wins Defamation Lawsuit After 12-Year Battle Against Climate Deniers 4 src
Michael Mann · Competitive Enterprise Institute
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2023-12-11Vance Endorses Claremont Institute's 'Up from Conservatism' at Capitol Hill Event 4 src
J.D. Vance · Claremont Institute
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2023-12-01Vance Endorses Claremont Institute Authoritarian Policy Document 4 src
J.D. Vance · Claremont Institute
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2023-06-30Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis 9 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · +8
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2023-04-06Tennessee House Expels Two Black Lawmakers in Racist Suppression of Gun Control Protest 13 src
Bill Lee
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2023-03-01Project 2025 Presidential Personnel Database launches — Heritage Foundation 'conservative LinkedIn' with ideological screening for 20,000 vetted candidates 3 src
Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans
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2023-02-01Project 2025 launches Presidential Administration Academy — Heritage Foundation training pipeline for future conservative political appointees 2 src
Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans · Roger Severino
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2022-12-15Global Indigenous Democracy and Governance Summit 3 src confirmed
2022-11-15Global Civil Society Develops Standardized Resistance Documentation Protocol 3 src
Human Rights Watch · Amnesty International
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2022-08-16Trump-Backed Harriet Hageman Defeats Liz Cheney in Wyoming GOP Primary by 37-Point Landslide 3 src
Liz Cheney · Donald Trump
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2022-06-06Milo Yiannopoulos Becomes Unpaid Intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene After Connecting Her to White Nationalists 4 src
Milo Yiannopoulos · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Nick Fuentes
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2022-05-19First CPAC Outside the US Convenes in Budapest: Hungary-Paradigm Becomes Operational US-Right Infrastructure 13 src
Viktor Orbán · Steve Bannon · Tucker Carlson · Donald Trump · +2
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2022-04-01Heritage Foundation Launches 2 Million Project 2025 Initiative 3 src
Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans
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2022-03-12Free State Project Libertarians Slash Croydon, New Hampshire School Budget by Half in Coordinated Takeover 4 srcconfirmed
2021-11-23Apple Sues NSO Group Over FORCEDENTRY Exploit and Pegasus Spyware Targeting 3 src
Apple · NSO Group · Citizen Lab
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2021-10-18NPR Documents How Hedge Fund Newspaper Ownership Creates News Deserts and Undermines Democracy - Over 2,500 Newspapers Closed Since 2005 5 src confirmed
2021-07-01Vance Announces Ohio Senate Campaign 3 src
J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Rob Portman · Peter Thiel
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2021-03-25Georgia SB 202 Enacts Comprehensive Voter Suppression with Multiple ALEC Provisions 3 src
Brian Kemp · American Legislative Exchange Council
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2021-01-26Biden Signs Executive Order 14006 to End Federal Private Prison Contracts, But Excludes Immigration Detention 4 src
Joe Biden · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · U.S. Marshals Service · +3
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2021-01-07Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook
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2021-01-01440 Voter Restriction Bills Introduced in 49 States - ALEC's Largest Suppression Wave 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · Republican state legislators · +1
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2020-10-21Trump Issues Original Schedule F Executive Order: Civil Service Protection Elimination 3 src
Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · +1
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2020-10-15YouTube Bans QAnon Content Only After Years of Algorithmic Amplification 4 src
YouTube · Google · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2020-08-21Tennessee Enacts Felony Camping Law to Suppress Black Lives Matter Protests and Strip Voting Rights 14 src
Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly
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2020-06-30Espinoza v. Montana - Supreme Court Strikes Down State Bans on Religious School Funding 3 src
John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · Institute for Justice
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2020-06-06Boogaloo Movement Kills Two Law Enforcement Officers: Chan Meme Culture Produces Armed Paramilitary Network 3 src confirmed
2020-04-01CNP Coordinates National COVID-19 Anti-Lockdown Protest Movement 2 src
Council for National Policy · CNP Action · Stephen Moore · Heritage Foundation · +3
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2020-02-28First AFPAC Conference Launches as White Nationalist Alternative to CPAC 3 src
Nick Fuentes
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2020-01-07Rep. Pramila Jayapal Launches Congressional Inquiry Into McKinsey's ICE Contracts and Detention Recommendations 2 src
Pramila Jayapal · McKinsey & Company · Kevin Sneader · House Judiciary Committee · +1
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2019-12-03ProPublica Exposes McKinsey's ICE Work Through FOIA Lawsuit: 1,500 Pages Reveal Detention Cost-Cutting Proposals 7 src
ProPublica · New York Times · McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2019-10-29WhatsApp Sues NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware Attack on 1,400 Users 3 src
WhatsApp · Meta · NSO Group
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2019-10-01Zuckerberg Holds Secret White House Dinners with Trump, Kushner, and Thiel to Negotiate Content Moderation 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Peter Thiel · +2
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2019-09-24Trump Freezes Ukraine Military Aid Demanding Biden Investigation 5 src
Donald Trump · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Rudy Giuliani · William Barr · +4
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2019-05-13Nielsen and Vitiello Block White House Plan to Arrest ~10,000 Migrant Parents and Children Across 10 Cities 3 src
Kirstjen Nielsen · Stephen Miller · Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2019-03-15Christchurch Mosque Massacre: 8chan-Radicalized Terrorist Kills 51, Live-Streams Attack 3 srcconfirmed
2019-01-01NBER Study: Private Equity-Owned Nursing Homes Have 10% Higher Death Rates Due to Cost-Cutting 3 src
Private equity firms
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2018-11-28KESMA: Orbán Issues Decree Creating Single Foundation Absorbing 476 Hungarian Media Outlets by Sovereign Exemption from Competition Review 13 src
Viktor Orbán
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2018-06-27Janus v. AFSCME - Supreme Court Strikes Down Public Sector Union Fees, Targeting Teachers' Unions 6 src
Samuel Alito · Neil Gorsuch · State Policy Network · Bradley Foundation · +3
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2018-06-26New York Times Discloses McKinsey's $20 Million ICE Contract: Employee Outrage and Internal Crisis 2 src
McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kevin Sneader
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2018-05-08Armenian Parliament Confirms Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister, Completing Velvet Revolution 3 src confirmed
2018-05-08Armenian Velvet Revolution Succeeds: Anti-Corruption Movement Achieves Peaceful Transition 3 src confirmed
2017-10-28First QAnon Post on 4chan's /pol/: Chan Culture's Conspiracy Architecture Produces a Mass Political Movement 3 src confirmed
2017-10-01ICE Credits McKinsey with 'Quantifiable Benefits': Increased Deportations and Reduced Detention Time 5 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2017-07-31V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors 5 src confirmed
2017-05-02Ed Feulner Returns as Heritage Foundation Interim President After DeMint Ousted for Management Failures 4 src
Edwin Feulner · Jim DeMint · Heritage Foundation · Kay Coles James · +1
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2017-05-01McKinsey Ghostwrites Its Own $2.2 Million ICE Contract Extension: Consulting Firm Defines Its Own Scope of Work 5 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2017-03-30McKinsey Proposes 'Detention Savings Opportunities': Cuts to Food, Medical Care, and Guard Supervision for Migrants 5 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2017-03-01Peter Thiel Hires Vance at Mithril Capital 3 src
Peter Thiel · J.D. Vance
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2017-02-21Attorney General Jeff Sessions Rescinds Obama-Era Private Prison Phase-Out, Citing 'Future Needs of Federal Corrections System' 3 src
Jeff Sessions · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · CoreCivic · +2
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2017-02-01McKinsey Redirected from Obama-Era ICE Reform to Trump Immigration Crackdown Consulting 6 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2017-01-20McKinsey's ICE Contract Redirected Toward Trump's Immigration Crackdown and Detention Cost-Cutting 18 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump
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2016-11-19Richard Spencer's NPI Conference: "Hail Trump, Hail Our People" — The Alt-Right Goes Public 2 src confirmed
2016-11-09Private Prison Stocks Surge After Trump Election Victory, CoreCivic Up 43% and GEO Group Up 21% in Single Day 3 src
Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group
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2016-10-28Corrections Corporation of America Rebrands as CoreCivic After DOJ Phase-Out Announcement and Undercover Exposé 3 src
Corrections Corporation of America · CoreCivic
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2016-10-07Republicans Withdraw Support for Trump After Access Hollywood Tape 4 src
Paul Ryan · John McCain · Republican Party
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2016-10-07Washington Post Releases Access Hollywood Tape 4 src
Donald Trump · Washington Post
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2016-08-18Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates Issues Memo to Phase Out Federal Private Prisons, Citing Safety Problems and High Costs 3 src
Sally Yates · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · CoreCivic · +1
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2016-06-28Hillbilly Elegy Published - Vance as Trump Critic 4 src
J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · ABC News
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2016-03-29Seventeen State Attorneys General Announce ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Investigations 4 src
Eric Schneiderman · ExxonMobil · New York Attorney General
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2016-01-01YouTube Algorithm Optimizes for Watch Time, Systematically Amplifies Extremism 4 src
YouTube · Google
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2015-09-16InsideClimate News Launches 4 src
ExxonMobil
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2015-06-25Supreme Court Rejects King v. Burwell Challenge to ACA Subsidies in Federal Exchanges 4 src
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Antonin Scalia
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2015-06-09Maine Governor LePage Threatens to Withhold School Funding to Block Political Opponent's Hiring 7 srcconfirmed
2014-12-16Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Amendment Triggers ACA Insurance Market Destabilization 4 src
Marco Rubio · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2014-07-26Orbán Names the Project: 'The New State We Are Building in Hungary Is an Illiberal State' 10 src
Viktor Orbán
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2014-07-04Richard Mellon Scaife Dies After Investing $620 Million in Conservative Movement Infrastructure 4 src
Richard Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Federalist Society · State Policy Network · +2
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2014-03-18Annexation of Crimea: Putin's Strategic Asset Seizure 4 src
Vladimir Putin
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2013-06-25ALEC States Immediately Implement Voter Restrictions After Shelby County Decision 3 src
North Carolina Legislature · American Legislative Exchange Council · U.S. Supreme Court
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2013-06-25Shelby County Decision Guts Voting Rights Act Preclearance 5 src
Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · John Roberts
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2013-05-21Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate 4 src
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Carl Levin · John McCain · Google · +1
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2012-10-22Climate Scientist Michael Mann Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Climate Denial Writers 4 src
Michael Mann · Competitive Enterprise Institute
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2012-06-28Supreme Court Makes ACA Medicaid Expansion Optional, Enabling State Obstruction 5 src
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican Governors
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2012-06-0738 Studios Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After $75 Million Rhode Island Loan Guarantee, Leaving Taxpayers with $38.6 Million Loss 4 src
Wells Fargo · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2012-03-02Iowa Governor Branstad Signs Nation's First Modern Ag-Gag Law Criminalizing Undercover Documentation of Agricultural Facility Abuses, Using ALEC Model Legislation to Shield Corporate Factory Farms from Whistleblower Investigations 4 src
American Legislative Exchange Council
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2012-02-27WikiLeaks Publishes 5 Million Stratfor Emails Revealing Private Intelligence Firm's Surveillance of Activists and Corporate Espionage 4 src
WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Anonymous · Lockheed Martin · +4
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2011-01-0134 States Introduce ALEC Voter ID Bills in Coordinated Suppression Campaign 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Republican state legislators · Heritage Foundation · State Policy Network
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2010-06-24DISCLOSE Act Passes House But GOP Blocks Senate Vote on Citizens United Response 4 src
Chuck Schumer · Chris Van Hollen · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama · +2
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2010-05-28Anastasio Hernandez Rojas Beaten and Tasered to Death by Border Patrol at San Ysidro; CIT Cover-Up Begins Same Day 8 src
Rodney Scott
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2010-01-27Obama Criticizes Citizens United at State of Union, Alito Responds 'Not True' 4 src
Barack Obama · Samuel Alito · John Roberts · Ruth Bader Ginsburg · +3
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2009-09-129/12 Taxpayer March on Washington Demonstrates Koch Network Mobilization Power 3 src
FreedomWorks · Americans for Prosperity · Dick Armey · David Koch · +4
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2009-07-17ALEC Creates Model Voter ID Legislation Following Obama Election 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation
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2009-02-19Rick Santelli CNBC Rant Triggers Immediate Koch Network Tea Party Response 3 src
David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks · +1
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2008-09-11Kids for Cash Scandal Exposed: Pennsylvania Judges Accepted $2.8 Million in Kickbacks to Fill Private Juvenile Detention Centers 4 src confirmed
2004-07-22Koch Network Restructures: CSE Splits into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity 3 src
David Koch · Charles Koch · Dick Armey · FreedomWorks · +1
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