Companions to Democracy in Chains

by Clean Elections Minnesota | March 13, 2020 | Democracy Talks

Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, 2017.

Companion resources

See FB pageUnChainDemocracy.org for networking, slide show, etc. On Twitter follow seeshell. Request MN presentation on Democracy in Chains: FB Spotlight Team.

Center for Media and Democracy.org Browse this key site for exciting, updated, detailed research on Koch and ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council). Koch’s new i 360 data mining company: https://bit.ly/2TOYD8b. See also Koch Docs.

UnKoch My Campus.org. Examples of activism to keep Koch’s off campus. Also follow on Facebook.

Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America , Lynn Parramore, Review of Democracy in Chains bit.ly/DinCReview

Kochtopus interactive graphic, old but good: https://kochcash.org/the-kochtopus/

Koch Brothers Exposed, 2014 video by Robert Greenwald, old but good intro to Koch\s. Also good: Netflix, The Great Hack and The Family.

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Jane Mayer. Excellent best seller, intro to Koch Network.

Reviewed in Guardian, Koch’s and Right Wing Revolution. https://bit.ly/2lYdYof.

Dark Money video at PBS. Impact of Citizens United in Montana elections.

Senator Whitehouse Congressional testimony on Koch propaganda front groups, search Web of Denial (2-days of testimony, 2016 on Climate Denial) and Web of Deceit.

Related Issues:

House of Trump, House of Putin, Craig Unger

Homewreckers, Aaron Glantz, 5 Koch men created current mortgage crisis.

Suffocation of Democracy, Christopher R. Browning. Review: broad coalitions needed to stop fascism. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/

Some news sources you may not know of:

Heather Cox Richardson: calm, insightful, short daily news summary.Follow her FB or email blog, Letters from an American: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

AMJOY, MSNBC 2 hours, weekend mornings.

Thom Hartmann,950am, 11-2 weekdays Also on podcast.

Gaslit Nation podcast on authoritarianism. Sarah Kendizor/ Andrea Chalupa: Trump administration is “an international crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

Lowdown, Jim Hightower, $10 yr. to subscribe to on-line newsletter and podcasts.

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