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1/"According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the CNP mixes 'ostensibly mainstream conservatives with far-right and extremist ideologues,' including hate groups like the League of the South."
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2/"Many Koch network figures have been active members and officers in the Council for National Policy, several of whom served on CNP's Board of Governors alongside the League of the South’s Michael Peroutka (such as Americans for Prosperity president Tim Phillips..."
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3/"From the top-down, Koch’s political operation is full of ties to white supremacy and hate groups. As evidenced by Marshall DeRosa, these ties also exist from the bottom-up."
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4/"We believe that understanding the Charles Koch Foundation’s material support for, and ideological confluence with, a network of Neo-Confederate and white nationalist scholars is integral to understanding the Koch-network’s past and present efforts..."
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5/"...to resegregate our nation’s schools, dismantle voting rights, and expand the prison industrial complex -- all at the expense of people of color."

6/"Marshall DeRosa’s Inmate Civics program at Florida Atlantic University, funded by the Charles Koch Foundation and (private prison) GEO Group, aims to 'change the culture within the prison and prepare inmates for their return into society.'"
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7/"The League of the South (LOS) identifies as a “Southern Nationalist organization” that openly advocates for the secession of southern states and “seeks the survival, well being, and independence of the Southern people.”
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8/"In 2000, the SPLC designated the League of the South a white nationalist hate group. In 2004, it was found that Florida’s LOS branch had ties to known Aryan terrorists."
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9/"The director of this program [LOS] is FAU political science professor, Marshall DeRosa..."
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10/"He [DeRosa] is also on the research advisory council of Florida’s premier Koch-funded think tank, the James Madison Institute and a scholar at the nation’s premier neo-confederate think tank, the Ludwig von Mises Institute."
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11/"DeRosa’s 2017 report report on his extremist “civics” program suggests how “conservatives” might gain political ground while appearing to support restoration of voting rights, proposing a “practical” approach that would:"
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12/"restore rights to those who have completed civics programming while incarcerated, the results would be to expose thousands of new voters to the very constitutional principles which conservatives hold dear. (DeRosa, 2017)"
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13/"At least thirteen Mises Institute scholars are active members of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE), Koch’s free-market academic association."
See Table here: ia601504.us.archive.org/18/items/Mises…
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14/"Examining the academic programs closest to Koch, we continue to find ties to the League of the South and Mises Institute. This includes academic organizations most directly run by Charles Koch Foundation officials and Charles Koch himself,..."
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15/"...specifically the programs anchored at George Mason University: the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Mercatus Center."
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16/"The Mercatus Center is an aggressive free-market think tank co-founded by Charles Koch, who remains a board member and central funder to this day."
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17/"The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) is different. Charles Koch has served as IHS’s board chair for thirty-eight years. IHS is the driving engine behind Koch’s “talent pipeline,” training students and faculty, and providing careers in Koch’s “Liberty Movement.”
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18/"IHS explicitly teaches Koch’s “Structure of Social Change” as part of a “Careers in Public Policy” framework. Along with Mercatus, IHS is a constant feature of Koch’s secretive donor summits."
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19/"As recently as Spring 2017, the founder of the League of the South Institute and its successor the Abbeville Institute, Donald Livingston, lectured in George Mason University’s economics department as part of an IHS sponsored 'Invisible Hand Seminar.'"
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20/"The LOS became increasingly militant between being founded in 1994 and being listed as a hate-group in 2000. Livingston served on the IHS Academic Review Committee for a period including 1996-1999."
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21/"This committee reviews applicants for “Humane Studies” Fellowships, which were originally “Claude R. Lambe Fellowships,” because they were founded and funded by the (Koch family operated) Claude R. Lambe Foundation."
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22/"LOS and Mises Institute co-founder, Joseph Stromberg, served many years as an associate editor of the IHS publication, Literature of Liberty.
Thomas DiLorenzo, was an affiliated scholar at the League of the South Institute, is currently affiliated with their spin-off..."
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23/"...organization, the Abbeville Institute, and is Mises Institute “faculty.” DiLorenzo was also a professor in George Mason University’s economics department, and did policy work for Charles Koch’s Cato Institute."
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24/"During the time that the LOS was founded, DiLorenzo was active in the “Cash for Comments” network of tobacco-funded economists operating out of George Mason University and think tanks like the Independent Institute."
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25/"DiLorenzo and GMU professor James Bennett were paid at least $150,000 by the tobacco industry for their book, CancerScam: The Diversion of Federal Cancer Funds to Politics (Tobacco Legacy Archives, 1995). James Bennet was an early Mises faculty member..."
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26/"Mises Institute
While many of these connections were years ago, the connection between the Mises Institute and George Mason is alive and well-funded by Charles Koch."
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27/"At the Mercatus Center, the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics is led by GMU economists Peter Boettke and Christopher Coyne. Both are contributors to Mises Institute publications."
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28/"As recently as 2007, Boettke has expressed explicit support for the Mises Institute on his blog, explaining why he “'hink[s] the Mises Institute is so vitally important to the Austrian/libertarian movement.'"
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29/"As recently as 2016, Mises Institute faculty Robert Higgs was hired as a Mercatus F.A. Hayek Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Higgs has also done policy work in 2009 as part of Mercatus’s Global Prosperity Initiative."
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30/"Bruce Yandle, a Mises contributor, is a Mercatus Distinguished adjunct professor of economics, and his quarterly report Economic Situation is distributed by Mercatus. Yandle is a past president of APEE, and was the Dean of Clemson University’s College of Business..."
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31/"...who oversaw $1,943,198 of Koch foundation funding to the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism, between 2007 and 2016. Yandle is now an affiliated faculty member of the Koch center, the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism (CISC)."
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32/"In March of 2018, the Koch-funded youth organization, Students for Liberty, held its annual conference of the Washington D.C. It was co-funded by the Charle Koch Institute, IHS, Mercatus, and the Mises Institute (and Facebook, among other sponsors)."
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33/"On a panel entitled “Is University Even Worth It Anymore?” Mises Institute President Jeff Deist was joined by GMU professor and Mercatus fellow, Bryan Caplan. Bryan Caplan is a contributor to the Mises publications."
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34/"At that same 2018 conference, the Mises Institute sponsored a panel entitled “The Next Generation of Austrian Economists, moderated by the Mises Institute’s Tho Bishop. The panel featured Chris Calton from the Institute for Humane Studies and two GMU graduate students..."#CNP

35/"The 2018 Students for Liberty conference featured a session on how 'the history of the women and minorities who helped found this nation throws real wrench in [progressive] propaganda works,'..."
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36/"...whose message 'depends on citizens believing America was founded on racism and misogyny.'

Immediately following this panel is League of the South co-founder and longtime VP of the Mises Institute, Jeffrey A. Tucker, spoke."
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37/"He is now the Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research, a free-market think tank. Tucker, a notable figure in the youth-oriented “Liberty Movement,” can be seen in a 2013 video for IHS’s LearnLiberty project..."
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/38"Tucker is widely acknowledged to have been involved in the racist Ron Paul newsletters during the 1990s while he was working alongside LOS/Mises co-founders Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard..."
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“When Steve Baldwin, the executive director of...the Council for National Policy, boasts that “we control everything in the world,” he is only half-kidding..." -@abcnews via retired Episcopal (Anglican) priest, Roger Butts
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"The idea for CNP gestated since the late 1960s, when the American Right, aiming for more cake, desired a vigorous voice to influence policy and elite opinion at the margins..."
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"CNP was conceived in 1981 by at least five fathers, including the Rev. Tim LaHaye, an evangelical preacher who was then the head of the Moral Majority...."
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"While the relatively few mainstream media and alternative media covers of the CNP have typically described the group as merely “conservative,” that hardly sums things up..."
…fromanopenrectorywindow.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/the…
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"Over the years, these would-be masters of the world have included a number of leaders from the Christian Reconstructionism movement, a fundamentalist Calvinist theconomic group, founded by Rousas John Rushdoony..."
…fromanopenrectorywindow.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/the…

"...that has had an important influence on the Christian Right in the United States. Christian Reconstructionists advocate the imposition of strict biblical law including..."
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"Christian Reconstuctionists advocate the imposition of strict biblical law including execution for adultery, blasphemy, homosexuality, and witchcraft (and a much longer list of offenses)."
…fromanopenrectorywindow.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/the…
#CNP #LGBTQ #Hate #Dominionists

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