Forty percent of the television ads that outside groups have broadcast this year are from dark money organizations, with secret donors. Guess who's in the lead in the dark money spending spree for 2018? Yeah, of course it's the Kochs.
Two Koch-affiliated groups account for more than one-quarter of the House and Senate advertising from groups that don’t disclose their donors, according to a tally of broadcast ads tracked by Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group.
Those Koch advocacy groups, Americans for Prosperity and Concerned Veterans for America, have trained their advertising fire on five Democratic senators up for re-election from red and purple states: Sens. Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Jon Tester of Montana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.
That's just the beginning. AFP is going to spend at least $1 million in ads to get Brett Kavanaugh confirmed on the Supreme Court, which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about this nominee.