Thanks to Citizens United, the Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Koch brothers—the Kansas-based oil executives and billionaires who spend hundreds of millions of dollars every election to elect Republicans up and down the ballot. If you have ever wondered why Republicans pretend to believe climate change isn’t real, it’s because they live in fear that the Koch brothers—who profit off opposition to climate change—will drop a million bucks on behalf of a primary opponent more willing to walk the company line. The voices of millions of voters are being drowned out by a new
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