February 11, 2021 - 9:50am
At 85, the most influential Republican political donor in modern U.S. history says he has some regrets. According to soft-ball corporate media interviews and a new book he s written, billionaire industrialist Charles Koch wishes that his more than five decades of organizing and funding far-right, partisan politicians, advocacy groups, and academia had slightly less partisan results.
Koch s latest media makeover strains credulity. The man spent his entire adult life, while helming one of the largest and dirtiest private companies in the nation, working to fundamentally alter society and move it towards his ideal: a libertarian utopia with low taxes, no unions, weak regulations, and unlimited corporate political spending.
January 16, 2020 - 6:41pm
Known as a right-wing radio host on 500 stations, Dennis Prager also founded and is president of the Prager University Foundation, which churns out dozens of videos a year on right-wing topics. According to new filings reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), Prager University saw its revenue more than triple in the aftermath of Trump s election as president, increasing from $5.42 million in 2016 to $18.6 million in 2018.
The group s stated mission is to promote the Judeo-Christian values on which America is founded: free speech, free enterprise, a moral foreign policy, and the rational case for God s existence, and counter what it sees as the Leftist indoctrination imposed by schools and universities.