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Charles Koch's Fortune Subsidized Buckley Case and Other Attacks on Clean Election Laws

New documents show that, despite Charles Koch's claims he only recently got involved in politics, he bundled election campaign donations and his money was used to undermine election laws starting more than 40 years ago.

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Introducing the Koch Network Database

DeSmog, a key partner of KochDocs, has created a new database for information about the network of groups and people funded by Charles Koch and his allied billionaires. You can search there for groups and individuals, in addition to searching on KochDocs for documents and analysis.

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Mike Pomeo, Embroiled in the Trump Ukraine Scandal, Got His Start with Koch Money

By Lisa Graves for Koch Docs

Mike Pompeo was staked in business and politics with Koch cash. As Koch Industries promotes its Venture Capital operations in the media this week, here is a quick snapshot of one of the men Koch VC invested in and the Koch's political operation pushed into power.

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Documents Shine New Light on Koch Brothers’ Early Efforts to Abolish the Department of Energy

By Sharon Kelly from DeSmog

A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid — and in the process laid the groundwork for Charles and David Koch's powerful network of influence — as documents from a newly published archive show.

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Announcing Koch Docs, Exposing the Koch Empire and Its Agenda

By Lisa Graves and Connor Gibson

Charles Koch has bent America's political system, the policies, and the courts to his will in ways that will reverberate long after his time. One purpose of the Koch Docs project is to help tell the story of how we got here and the destructive course charted by Koch's selfish agenda. In the coming weeks and months, this site will be unveiling a series of documents and more...

New Documents Show Charles Koch’s Fortune Subsidizing Attacks on Election Laws Since 1970s

Analysis, Cato Institute, Charles Koch, Featured, Koch Industries, Libertarian Party, Primary Documents, The Koch Network, Top Documents

Newly uncovered archive documents show that Charles Koch’s fortune helped subsidize the litigation that secured the controversial Buckley v. Valeo decision, which created loopholes in the Federal Election Campaign Act that was signed into law on February 7, 1971. These…

1992 ALEC Annual Report w membership roster – Koch Industries

ALEC, Featured, Koch Industries, The Koch Network

This document from the Truth Tobacco Industry Archives at UC San Francisco is the 1992 annual report for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It is perhaps the earliest known document listing Koch Industries as a member of ALEC, “as…

David Koch Was One of America’s Most Powerful Politicians, though Voters Never Elected Him to Anything

Analysis, Featured, Koch Industries, The Koch Network

By Lisa Graves David Koch was more than a billionaire or a son of a Bircher. He was one of the most powerful politicians in modern American history–even though he was never elected to anything. Make no mistake, despite some…

Resources for Writing about David Koch (1940-2019), including Photos

ALEC, Americans for Prosperity, Featured, Koch Industries, The Koch Network

KochDocs has secured original documents about David Koch from research across the country as part of our effort to create a resource putting hard to find original material and analysis about David, Charles, and the Koch empire in one place….

1980 Report Showing that David Koch Spent $2,086,000 on the Clark-Koch Presidential Campaign

Featured, Koch Industries, Libertarian Party, The Koch Network

This document is a report on the 1980 Libertarian Presidential Campaign of Ed Clark and David Koch. The authors of the report are Charles Koch’s operatives Ed Crane, Communications Director, and Christopher Hocker, National Coordinator, of the Libertarian Party. Excerpts…