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Follow the Koch money funding the Freedom Caucus that has taken America hotage

Follow the Koch money funding the Freedom Caucus that’s taken America hostage

A few extremist Republicans in the Freedom Caucus block the government and hold America hostage. Who is in the caucus? Where do they get their funding? What is their funder’s agenda? What does this have to do with packing the Supreme Court with extreme partisans? How does Republican gerrymandering lead to political extremism? Follow the …

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Fossil fuel profiteers deny climate change

Leave a Comment / Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Floods. Droughts. Wildfires while Republican Senators deny climate change and pack the Supreme Court to cripple the EPA. What gives? Follow the money. How does the Koch empire prevent the EPA from regulating its pollution that causes climate change? Why are GOP Senators so adamantly opposed to fighting climate change while their voters have their …

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How the GOP packed Supreme Court crippled the EPA making the Climate Crisis even worse

GOP-packed Supreme Court cripples EPA putting your life in danger

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Technology, Software, and Apps / By Deepak Puri

GOP-packed Supreme Court cripples the EPA to stop it regulating oil polluting tycoons funding Republicans. Follow the money. Oil tycoons fund the GOP to pack the Supreme Court with justices. They cripple the EPA so tycoons can pollute even more. Republicans rewarded with more donations. The public suffers from pollution, wildfires and droughts from the …

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Koch Rigged Supreme Court Rules For Oil Companies

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Messaging, Power mapping, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

Follow the money to see how oil tycoons rig the courts to get the laws they want. Millions in dark money to get ultra-right wing lawyers appointed to federal courts. Millions more donated to Republicans to push their nominations. What’s the payback? Rulings to let oil firms make more money by ignoring pollution and global …

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Republicans criminalize abortion: mapping the forces at work

Leave a Comment / Campaign Financing, Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Power mapping, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

Texas Woman, 26, Charged With Murder After Alleged ‘Self-Induced Abortion’ The extreme move comes after Texas passed a draconian anti-abortion law last year that has forced thousands of women to seek care out of state. Denying women their rights. Suppressing voters. Dark money corrupting politics. A Mitch McConnell packed conservative Supreme Court. Use this Relationship …

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Stand your ground has deadly consequences

Stand Your Ground bill has deadly consequences

Leave a Comment / Messaging / By Deepak Puri

Adil Dghoughi was killed in his car outside a house in Martindale, Texas. The case against the killer could be hindered by Texas’ “Stand Your Ground” law. – NPR The American Bar Association (ABA) has described Stand Your Ground a ‘low cost license to kill’. How has the bill become legislation in so many states? …

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How billionaires get richer by strangling democracy

How billionaires strangle democracy to get richer

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

There is something very wrong when billionaires do not pay taxes, deny their workers a living wage and use political donations to prevent people from voting. This relationship map shows how corporate donations are funneled to Republicans who cut unemployment insurance, block a living wage and push for voter suppression. The map can be freely …

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