Joe Heck’s Senate campaign has received an unprecedented level of support from the Koch brothers’ political machine, including over $7 million in negative advertising from Freedom Partners Action Fund and the first instance of the Kochs’ LIBRE Initiative “explicitly backing” a candidate. In return, Heck has been a loyal puppet, consistently supporting the Kochs’ interests at the expense of environmental protections and the development of clean energy jobs in Nevada. While preaching steadfast opposition to “crony capitalism,” the Kochs have an interest in preserving tax breaks for big oil, an interest unsurprisingly protected by Heck.

Joe Heck, fearing backlash from his wealthy patrons, has taken every available opportunity to undermine clean energy in Nevada–arguing that the government should “get out of the business” of investing in renewables–while protecting government subsidies for fossil fuels. There’s no question that Heck would continue his fight against renewable energy in the United States Senate.

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Koch front-group, Concerned Veterans for America, is pushing new outreach efforts to Native American communities. But the Concerned Veterans are apparently unconcerned with how the Koch brothers have hurt and exploited Native Americans for years.

Not only has CVA lobbied for privatization of veterans’ healthcare and other policies that are bad for vets, but with nearly all of their funding coming from the Kochs, it’s their interests they are focused on first and foremost. Those interests have regularly abused the Native American commuity.

According to Indian Country Today:

Some of the Koch fortune (Forbes puts Charles and David Koch’s net worth at about $40 billion each) that makes possible the brothers’ hefty contributions to conservative causes came fromcheating American Indian tribes out of oil royalties 30 years ago. An investigation begun in 1988 by a select committee of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs comprised of Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Dennis […]

Mike Pence made sure to show off the Trump ticket’s extreme positions at last night’s vice presidential debate and it received high praise from leaders of the Kochs’ astro-turf front groups. AFP President Tom Phillips said that Pence, a long time Koch favorite, was a “spokesman for his values.” LIBRE’s operations coordinator Gabe Villanueva even said he wished that it were Pence who had run for president instead of Donald Trump.

The Kochs’ work to end the social safety net aligned well with Pence’s performance at the debate. AFP Missouri’s deputy director agreed with the Trump/Pence ticket calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme.” Extending GenOpp’s campaign to end social security, the group’s Florida field director also chimed in to call the Ponzi scheme claim a “Trump #truth.”

Pence also hit home runs in the Koch network with Trump’s extreme views on equal pay and reproductive rights. […]