The Washington Post’s Robert Costa reports that last night, “Washington’s leading conservatives gathered” to “privately vent frustrations about what kind of party they will be left with after November.” The focus of this conservative pow wow? Ensuring the Republican Party sticks with its far right agenda that denies basic rights to LGBT Americans, attacks women’s rights to make their own health care decisions, and takes a hardline stance against improving opportunity for undocumented immigrants. So much for the Republican Party’s “rebrand,” which was supposed to improve its outreach to women, Latinos, and gay voters.

Who else participated in this gathering of conservative elite? Several top operatives for the Kochs. The Kochs have long sought to drive the Republican Party’s agenda further right to achieve their own self-serving goals, even when that agenda comes at the expense of working families. Now, nothing has changed.