Of all the donors who contribute to political causes, no one is more vilified by the mainstream media than the Koch brothers for their "outsized" influence on the national debate. But according to OpenSecrets.org, which complied a list of the "Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014," the Koch brothers didn't even make the top fifty. Meanwhile, none of the top ten donors and only two of the top 20 tilted toward Republicans, with the rest supporting Democrats and only a few on the fence. These findings are hardly surprising. As David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin revealed in their 2012 book, The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future, the American right is severely outgunned by their leftist counterparts in the world of advocacy organizations. What is true of these groups is also true of political action committees and similar organizations, as OpenSecrets reveals. These facts only make the idea that IRS targeting of conservatives was "accidental" all the more ludicrous. (To order David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin's The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future, click here)

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