20 Facts About FreedomWorks

FreedomWorks is a conservative and libertarian advocacy group based in Washington, DC FreedomWorks trains volunteers, assists in campaigns, and encourages them to mobilize, interacting with both fellow citizens and their political representatives.

FreedomWorks originated from a conservative political group founded by the brothers David H Koch and Charles Koch, and called Citizens for a Sound Economy.

FreedomWorks is an associate member of the Koch-funded State Policy Network, a US national network of free-market oriented think tanks.

Together with Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks played an important role in generating a significant part of the Tea Party movement and encouraging it to lay a focus on climate change denial.

In 2009, FreedomWorks responded to the growing number of Tea Party protests across the United States, and became one of several groups active in the "Tea Party" tax protests.

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In September 2010, FreedomWorks was one of the top five most influential organizations in the Tea Party movement, according to The Washington Post.

In 2009, FreedomWorks advocated for the defeat of Democratic-sponsored climate change legislation.

In 2010, FreedomWorks helped organize Tea Party protests and passed fliers opposing national climate policy.

FreedomWorks promoted the Contract from America, a Tea Party manifesto, which included planks in opposition to the Obama administration's initiatives on health care reform and cap and trade.

FreedomWorks sponsored campaigns to block climate legislation as well as Obama's broader agenda.

FreedomWorks spent over $10 million on the 2010 elections on campaign paraphernalia alone.

An independent study performed by Brigham Young University showed that only FreedomWorks's endorsement had a statistically significant impact on the success of a candidate in the election.

In 2011, FreedomWorks ran a number of campaigns targeted at corporate rent-seeking behavior.

FreedomWorks ran a campaign with the goal of getting Duke Energy to fire their CEO Jim Rodgers, accusing Duke Energy of lobbying for a "progressive agenda" to ensure that the company would receive green energy subsidies.

Additionally, FreedomWorks ran an active grassroots campaign in support of Ohio Governor John Kasich's union reforms.

FreedomWorks delivered thousands of yard signs, door-hangers, handouts, and registered conservative voters.

In September 2013, FreedomWorks opposed the legislation called Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against the Government of Syria to Respond to Use of Chemical Weapons.

On February 12,2014, FreedomWorks joined with Rand Paul as co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration concerning reports of NSA domestic wiretapping.

Some of FreedomWorks' campaigns have been called "astroturfing", and some claim that they project a false impression of grassroots organizing.

FreedomWorks receives funding through the sale of insurance policies through which policyholders automatically become members of FreedomWorks.