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![Nikki Haley makes a "shh" gesture by placing her index finger against her lips while speaking into a microphone at a rally](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_1206-nikki-haley-400x300.jpg)
Eagerness to Cut Social Security and Medicare Wins Haley Wealthy Donors
Coming out strong on this issue tells the billionaires everything they need to know about who Nikki Haley really serves.
![Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was at the Bohemian Grove, a secretive all-men’s retreat in Northern California, with billionaire industrialist David Koch, right, and Ken Burns, whose films Koch has financially supported.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/09/20230819-Thomas-Koch-Lead_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true-400x300.jpg)
Clarence Thomas Failed to Disclose Participation in Koch Network Donor Summit
The Supreme Court justice has served as a fundraising draw for the organization that has brought cases before the court.
![Illustration of white cut-out figure obscuring several company logos, including Starbucks, Americans for Prosperity, Philip Morris, and more](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/04/2023_0407-astroturf-lobbying-b-400x300.jpg)
Longtime Astroturf Firm Obscures Funders as It Targets Starbucks Union
The firm operates behind a maze of opaque nonprofits to hide the names of companies that pay to wage attacks on unions.
![Leonard Leo illustration in side view overlayed on libary book shelves](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/2022_1228-leonard-leo-b-400x300.jpg)
Tax Docs Link Right-Wing “Parents Group” to Leonard Leo’s Dark Money Network
“Parents Defending Education” is overwhelmingly funded by big donors’ dark money rather than by “concerned parents.”
![Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, gestures as he speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7, 2022, in Miami, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/2022_1103-peter-thiel-400x300.jpg)
465 Billionaires Have Pumped an Eye-Popping $881 Million Into the Midterms
This is a whopping 27 times more than what billionaires contributed to elections before “Citizens United.”
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Wealthy Donors Bankroll Christian Nationalists to Sustain Unregulated Capitalism
Funded by a 1 percent of megadonors and corporations, the religious right has grown to a grotesque size.
![A mix of proponents and opponents to teaching Critical Race Theory are in attendance as the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board discusses a proposed resolution to ban it from being taught in schools in Yorba Linda, California, on November 16, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/2021_1120-critical-race-theory-school-board-400x300.jpg)
Dark Money Is Driving Today’s “Concerned Moms” Attacking Anti-Racism in Schools
Right-wing women’s groups are raking in donations from organizations spawned by Charles Koch and other billionaires.
![Charles Koch, head of Koch Industries, speaks in a file photo from February 26, 2007.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/2021_1108-charles-koch-400x300.jpg)
Koch Funding for Campuses Comes With Dangerous Strings Attached
The funding is a blatant effort to steer curricula and hiring to funnel students into careers with conservative groups.
![Sen. Joe Manchin talks to reporters as he leaves after a meeting with members of Texas House Democratic Caucus at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0716-joe-manchin-400x300.jpg)
Fox News and Rupert Murdoch Funded PAC Backs Joe Manchin With Political Donation
The donation is another in a string of ties that the lawmaker seems to have with right-wing interests.
![Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) attends a news conference at the Marriott Hotel at Waterfront Place June 3, 2021 in Morgantown, West Virginia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/06/2021_0608-manchin-at-news-conference-400x300.jpg)
The Dark Money Influencing Senator Manchin’s Right-Wing Agenda
Koch advocacy group Americans for Prosperity is urging its followers to send Manchin messages to uphold GOP priorities.