At a private retreat on June 16 in Dana Point, California, Mark Holden, general counsel of Koch Industries, the Kochs’ privately held company, delivered a disquisition on the overwhelming power of rich progressive donors lined up against the meager resources of the oil barons and their network of elite allies. His speech, an audio recording of which was obtained by Lauren Windsor‘s YouTube show The Undercurrent and provided exclusively to The Huffington Post, was titled “The Opposition: Understanding Their Strategy and Infrastructure.”
Holden’s talk focused on the Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy liberal donors who strategically steer money to a set of hand-picked progressive groups. Holden told those assembled that “we’ve been able to learn a lot more details about them in the last couple of months from documents that someone in the group, Democracy Alliance, left behind at their last seminar.”