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related: Koch Network - Charles Koch Americans for Prosperity Stand Together Koch - Koch Industries
Who They Are
The Koch network. A redirect node for lowercase “Koch network” wikilink references. The Koch political network is the most sophisticated donor operation in American politics — a $500M+ per cycle operation that includes Americans for Prosperity (grassroots), Stand Together (umbrella organization), Koch Industries (corporate funding), i360 (voter data), and dozens of allied think tanks, university programs, and judicial organizations.
See Koch Network - Charles Koch for the complete donor node, and Koch - Koch Industries for the corporate entity analysis.
Money
The Koch network’s political infrastructure is more extensive than either party’s: it includes voter data (i360), grassroots organizing (AFP), policy development (Cato, Mercatus, Heritage Action), judicial pipeline (Federalist Society funding), and candidate training. The network functions as a shadow political party whose agenda — deregulation, anti-union, anti-tax, fossil fuel protection — is implemented through the Republican Party but is not controlled by Republican leadership. The Koch network funds Republicans to achieve Koch objectives; the party is the vehicle, not the driver.
Sources
- OpenSecrets: Koch network spending (Tier 1)
- Ballotpedia: Koch network (Tier 3)
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