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The political organization backed by the Koch brothers plans to spend almost a billion dollars in the 2016 campaign cycle.

Actually, the fiture is only $889 million. This is double their 2012 spending, which helped produce a Republican congressional majority and an increasing Republican majority in state legislators — the laboratories of kochocracy. this spending doesn’t include large sums spent by ideologically aligned but independent groups, state and national.

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