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FreedomWorks is a conservative and
libertarian advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.
FreedomWorks trains volunteers, assists in
campaigns, and encourages them to mobilize,
interacting with both fellow citizens and their
political representatives. It was widely associated
with the Tea Party movement before firmly aligning
with Donald Trump. The Koch brothers were once a
source of the organization's funding. 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. Three national conservative groups,
FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity, and DontGo
led the tea party movement in April 2009, according
to The Atlantic magazine. FreedomWorks was a lead
organizer of the September 12, 2009, Taxpayer March
on Washington, also known as the 9/12 Tea Party. In
February 2010, FreedomWorks, the FreedomWorks
Foundation, and the FreedomWorks Political Action
Committee were among the twelve most influential
groups in the Tea Party movement, according to the
National Journal. 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. |
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Justice Department
Unseals Capitol Riot Charges Against
FreedomWorks
Organizer |
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"The Justice Department
unsealed charges on Thursday against an organizer
from the conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks
for his alleged role in the January 6 insurrection."
[...] "According to court documents, a confidential
source identified Prenzlin from video shot inside
the Capitol on January 6. Investigators matched the
images to his social media posts, including a March
video in which he identifies himself as a grassroots
coordinator with FreedomWorks. FreedomWorks was
created through a merger between the Koch Brothers’
Citizens for a Sound Economy and Empower America, a
right-wing think tank. Citizens for a Sound Economy
Foundation later split off in 2004 and became
Americans for Prosperity." |
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Photo: Media
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Secretive Right-Wing
Nonprofit Plays Role
In COVID-19
Organizing |
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"A
shadowy
right-wing nonprofit
is helping
coordinate
coronavirus response
strategy and
promoting the
lockdown protests." |
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May 15, 2020 |
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Astroturf Group
FreedomWorks Looking
For 'Someone To Give
Us Free Cash' In
COVID-19 Loans |
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"FreedomWorks, one
of the astroturf
groups created in
the previous decade
primarily to not let
a Black president
create anything nice
for this country,
has been doing its
astroturf thing in
the past week by
encouraging its
members to protest
Democratic governors
trying to save
lives" |
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Apr. 24, 2020 |
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Here's The Video A
Tea Party Group Made
That Implies Oral
Sex Between A Panda
And Hillary Clinton |
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"The existence of
the video, produced
by FreedomWorks, was
first reported on in
2013, but it's never
been seen before." |
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Jun. 19, 2015 |
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FreedomWorks Tea
Party Group Nearly
Falls Apart In Fight
Between Old And New
Guard |
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"the group’s
chairman and a
former House
majority leader,
walked into the
group’s Capitol Hill
offices with his
wife, Susan, and an
aide holstering a
handgun at his
waist." |
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Dec. 25, 2012 |
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Anti-Gay-Marriage
Petition Drive Hits
Hectic Pace |
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"For supporters of a
state constitutional
ban on marriage for
same-sex couples, it
has been a hectic
couple of weeks
since they got the
go-ahead to begin
circulating
petitions. The
proposal would write
into the Oregon
Constitution a
definition of
marriage as the
union of one man and
one woman." |
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Jun. 7, 2004 |
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