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#TaylorFarms Spent Big on #MAGA and #AntiRegulatory #Lobbying Before #Diarrhea Outbreak

The company donated more than $3.6 million to #conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the #MAGAInc. #SuperPAC.

by Kate Taylor, Jul 21, 2026

"The lettuce supplier at the center of the turbo diarrhea outbreak has spent millions of dollars to sway sentiment around #FoodRegulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans, according to public filings.

"Taylor Farms donated more than $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings. That includes a $1 million donation to MAGA Inc., the Trump-centric super PAC, and $1.1 million to other super PACs dedicated to electing Republicans.

"From 2020 through the end of 2024, the company donated more than $1.6 million to conservative PACs, including a total of $850,000 to #AFPAction, an anti-regulation super PAC with ties to the #Koch network.

"#BruceTaylor, the chairman and CEO of Taylor Farms, is also a longtime donor to Republican causes. Since 2020, Taylor has personally donated more than $900,000 to Republican PACs and candidates, including contributions to Texas senator #JohnCornyn and Tennessee senator #MarshaBlackburn."

Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbreak-taylor-farms-maga-donations-lobbying/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zUBU5

#KochBrothers #KochNetwork #Capitalism #Crapitalism #USPol #CyclosporaOutbreak

#COVID #TrumpRegime #KochNetwork #DarkMoney

"The academy was inspired by the pandemic. 'As we reflect on the worst public health fiasco in history, our pandemic response has unveiled serious issues with how science is administered,' noted the college president in a press release.

But the venture isn't exactly an effort to apply science to the COVID-19 crisis. The so-called 'fiasco' was government pandemic measures like mask and vaccine mandates, contact tracing, and lockdowns.

Hillsdale is a conservative Christian institution with ties to the Trump administration. And the scholars behind the academy — Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and Martin Kulldorff — are connected to right-wing dark money attacking public health measures.

The trio also has ties to the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely-rebuked yet influential missive that encouraged governments to adopt a 'herd immunity' policy letting COVID-19 spread largely unchecked, even as the virus has killed more than 800,000 Americans.

The academy is the newest initiative designed to provide intellectual cover to a nearly two-year campaign by right-wing and big business interests to force a return to normalcy to boost corporate profits amid a pandemic that is now surging once again thanks to Omicron."

https://www.levernews.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/

A new report by @taylorlorenz for WIRED reveals how a web of dark money, with scope that's drawn comparison to the Koch network, has been used to coerce liberal influencers into parroting Blue MAGA talking points, with lucrative contracts tied to strict censorship clauses.

The program is unironically called "Chorus," and the first rule of the liberal "Chorus" is that you don't talk about the Chorus...

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers

#uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork