Dave’s Killer Bread Is Made By a Huge MAGA Corporation

The history of Dave’s Killer Bread sounds funky. The company was founded by Dave Dahl, and sold at farmer’s markets in Portland, Oregon.

Dave had gone to prison for armed robbery, but started selling bread when he got out, pulling himself up by his own bootstraps. He redeemed himself and became a responsible citizen.

That story makes Dave’s Killer Bread seem progressive, and anti-establishment, emblematic of the Little Guy standing up to The Man.

The truth about about Dave’s Killer Bread is not as pretty as the story that’s told on the package.

First of all, Dave Dahl didn’t really pull himself up by his own bootstraps. He is the son of a wealthy family that had already made a fortune in the bakery business. He had plenty of big money and connections helping him set up Dave’s Killer Bread.

Second, Dave Dahl didn’t really go on the straight and narrow after he founded Dave’s Killer Bread. Years after he got the company going, his girlfriend called the police, frightened because Dave was saying and doing alarming things. Then the police arrived, Dave Dahl attacked them, ramming police cars and sending three police officers to the hospital.

Third, Dave Dahl is an extremist MAGA Republican. He’s never been a liberal. Oregon Live reports that “Dave enthusiastically supported Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and watches Fox News.”

Fourth, Dave’s Killer Bread is no longer an independent company. Dave’s Killer Bread was sold to a gigantic food conglomerate, a corporation based in southern Georgia named Flower Foods. Dave Dahl approved of the sale to Flower Foods explicitly because Flower Foods management shares his extremist right wing ideology.

A few years ago, the New York Times reported that Flowers Foods is the most lopsidedly pro-Republican large business in the United States. The Flowers Foods political action committee has given more consistently to Republican campaigns than ExxonMobil, than Halliburton, and than the Koch Brothers.

“The political action committee of Flowers Foods, a Georgia company that produces the pillowy sandwich bread, Tastykakes and Nature’s Own baked goods, has given more than 99 percent of its political contributions since 1979 to Republicans,” the New York Times wrote.

Over the last few election cycles, the amount of contributions from Flowers Foods to political campaigns has gone down, but that’s true of corporate political contributions across the board. After the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court legalized unlimited secret corporate contributions to political candidates and political parties, corporate contributions to campaigns have risen, but out of public view. So, companies like Flowers Foods are exerting more control over the political system in the United States, but we have less information about corporate political spending, because it happens in the shadows.

Under Donald Trump, it’s gotten even worse. Corporations are now paying Trump and his cronies outright bribes, through cryptocurrency or through funding of Trump’s vanity projects, such as the destruction of the East Wing of the White House.

Dave’s Killer Bread isn’t the creation of a small countercultural company that supports Portland Oregon’s progressive values. Dave’s Killer Bread is a nationwide brand of processed bread made by a gigantic corporation that supports the nasty fascist agenda of Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

Dave’s Killer Bread stands for ICE agents grabbing people off the streets and throwing them into concentration camps without due process of law.

Dave’s Killer Bread stands against reproductive values for women.

Dave’s Killer Bread stands for attacks against science.

Dave’s Killer Bread stands with the Trump Administration’s attacks against prison reforms.

Dave’s Killer Bread stands with massive cuts to food aid programs.

Dave’s Killer Bread stands with weakened regulation of food ingredients, and elimination of federal food inspectors who keep the nation’s bread, and other foods, safe.

Dave’s Killer Bread stands for fascism.

To be fair, it isn’t just Dave’s Killer Bread that’s the problem. No, Dave’s Killer Bread is just one of many brands manufactured and distributed by Flowers Foods.

Other Flowers Foods fascist brands include:

Simple Mills

Sunbeam

Nature’s Own

Canyon Bakehouse

Wonder bread

Tastykake

Mrs. Freshley’s

Merita

Great Grains

Captain John Derst’s

Evangeline Maid

European Bakers

Butternut

Bunny Bread

Mi Casa

Papa Pita

Home Pride

Bubba’s Bagels

All of these bakery brands are being used by corporate executives at Flowers Foods to funnel money into the bank accounts of the architects of American fascism.

If you believe in an America in which no one is above the law, join the boycott against these brands.

You can find better bread.