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font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>funded, initiated, and supported</u></a> efforts to <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/how-koch-industries-is-fighting-democracy-both-at-home-and-abroad-journalist" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>dismantle democracy</u></a> in the United States, two professors wrote for Progressive Magazine.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nancy MacLean, the William H. Chafe distinguished professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, and Lisa Graves, executive director of <a href="https://truenorthresearch.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>True North Research</u></a> and a co-creator of the websites Koch Exposed and Koch Docs, detailed a seemingly never-ending list of ways one of the richest people in the world and his wealthy allies continue to “divide the American electorate.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has long been funded by Koch and his late brother, David, has strategized on ways to enforce voter suppression efforts by passing voter ID laws – which began when Barack Obama was first elected in 2008.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><strong>READ MORE:</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/how-koch-industries-is-fighting-democracy-both-at-home-and-abroad-journalist" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u><strong> How Koch Industries is fighting democracy both 'at home and abroad': journalist</strong></u></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Last year, the Center for Media and Democracy, for which Graves sits on the board, found that a <b>handful of Koch-backed groups collectively <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/08/koch-controlled-organizations-spent-more-than-1-1-billion-during-the-2020-election-cycle/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>spent more than $1 billion</u></a> on the 2020 election.</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">One of the organizations, Americans for Prosperity, spent around $70 million leading up to the 2022 midterms, involving itself in over 450 races on efforts that heavily targeted swing voters.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Soon after the election, Koch released <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200969/believeinpeople" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><em>Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World</em></a>, a book in which he claimed he was ready for “a final act building bridges across political divides.” No more political involvement. MacLean and Graves noted that a few days prior to the book release, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> published an article titled, “Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The book even contained phrases like, “<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/11/24/boy-did-we-screw-up-charles-koch-renounces-partisanship-while-pouring-money-into-georgia-gop/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Boy, did we screw up</a>.” “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-charles-koch-regrets-his-partisanship" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">What a mess!</a>” “This is crazy! Are we going to have a civil war?” He had convinced the public that his time toying with democracy was over.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><strong>READ MORE: </strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/charles-koch-climate-disinformation-campaign" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u><strong>Charles Koch must be held accountable for his climate disinformation campaign</strong></u></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But, MacLean and Graves said that “mainstream news editors seemed to forget that” they were reporting on “a specialist in <a href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/koch-network-climate-change-misinformation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">strategic disinformation</a>, who had perfected the practice of deceiving the public during his network’s three decades of climate change denial” – a mastermind of finesse.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Even with that, what Maclean and Graves call Koch’s “most diabolical” move thus far, is how he bandwagoned the “white supremacist” reaction to nationwide civil unrest following George Floyd’s murder in 2020, by initiating a campaign that geared fear-mongering language towards the idea of teaching race in schools – also known as <b>critical race theory.</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>The Koch network proceeded to fund organizations that actively fought against CRT,</b> although a spokesperson from a Koch-funded group claims that is untrue.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two examples of Kock-backed anti-CRT initiatives include ALEC’s financial support of a workshop titled “Against Critical Theory’s Onslaught,” featuring the main figurehead of anti-CRT rhetoric, Christopher Rufo in 2020; and when a coalition of Koch-funded groups including the <b>Manhattan Institute and Heritage Foundation</b> advocated against the idea of teaching race in schools in a published letter.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><strong>READ MORE:</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/thats-oligarchy-bernie-sanders-billionaires" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u><strong> 'That's oligarchy': Bernie Sanders batters billionaires over election spending</strong></u></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Aside from funding organizations that promote anti-CRT language, Koch also funds Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) and Independent Women’s Voice (IWV), which work in tandem to promote anti-trans language. For example, the groups created a “Women’s Bill of Rights” which asserts that trans women are not women.</b></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">MacLean and Graves wrote, “Just as Koch-funded operations weaponize and intensify racism to secure political power, they also exploit and escalate misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia by any means to boost Republican power.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite his claim that he was removing himself from politics two years ago, it’s clear that with the success of a majority conservative Supreme Court, the continued push to control the bodies of women; anti-CRT, anti-trans, and other discriminatory laws that Koch’s behind-the-scenes funding and staunch support of those who can bring he and his allies' vision of a fully dismantled democracy to life presses on.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><strong>READ MORE: </strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/koch" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u><strong>Koch keeps doing business in Russia as top journalist says family fortune came from Hitler: report</strong></u></a></p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><div data-reactid="184" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">WHEN THE</span> Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the country’s top internet companies quickly responded with commitments to help employees in states that moved to ban abortion. In an implicit signal of support for abortion rights, the companies said they would help those employees seek abortions in states where the procedure remains legal.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the years leading up to the seismic reproductive rights decision, however, the tech giants sponsored a controversial group that’s worked tirelessly to put the Supreme Court under conservative control, setting the stage for Roe’s reversal.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Independent Women’s Forum traces its origins back to the 1991 fight to confirm the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas. Since then, the group has expanded into promoting a litany of perennial right-wing causes like <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2020/04/21/policy-focus-a-realistic-approach-to-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">climate denial</a>, <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2022/08/04/biden-should-address-the-immigration-crisis-at-its-core/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">immigration alarmism</a>, and <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2022/08/22/competition-protects-consumers-not-protection-from-government/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">deregulation</a>, but a conservative-dominated Supreme Court remained a focus.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">public relations plays a key role in its operation. With savvy self-branding as a pro-woman organization, the group</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">fought for the appointment</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">of conservative justices to the Supreme Court. The IWF couched support for Brett Kavanaugh as good</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.iwf.org/2018/09/04/statement-kavanaugh-is-a-champion-of-women-limited-government/" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">feminism</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">and any opposition to Amy Coney Barrett as</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.iwf.org/2020/09/26/the-hypocritical-smearing-of-amy-coney-barrett/" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">sexism</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">— despite well-founded concerns that their ascensions to the court would spell the end of Roe</span><b>. The IWF wields a skillful mix of media placement, op-eds, television punditry, and other contributions to the conservative content ecosystem.</b></span></font></p></div><div data-reactid="195" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The group also takes advantage of quieter influence peddling as well. In 2020,</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> IWF chief and Vicks VapoRub heiress Heather Higgins</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> boasted to a closed audience of Virginia conservatives about how instrumental the group was in rallying congressional support for Kavanaugh’s nomination.</span> Higgins told the group that the IWF circulated a confidential strategy memo on the Hill. “Most important,” Higgins said, “Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” referring to the Republican senator from Maine.</font></p></div><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 20px 0px 10px; margin: 7px 40px 20px 0px; float: left; width: 400px;"><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/24/amy-coney-barrett-women-group-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;"><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></font></a></div><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-eyebrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; font-kerning: normal; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related</font></h2><h3 class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; font-kerning: normal; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Dark Money-Funded Women’s Group Rallying Behind Amy Coney Barrett</font></h3></div></div><div data-reactid="248" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Independent Women’s Forum and its sister organization, Independent Women’s Voice, draw on donations from right-wing financial mainstays like the Koch brothers, but in recent years the groups have enjoyed financial support from Facebook’s parent company, Meta; Google; and Amazon. </span><b>In 2017, Google sponsored an IWF gala at the “gold” donor level, according to brochures provided to The Intercept by True North Research,</b> a progressive watchdog group. Other brochures show that Meta (which at the time still using the name Facebook) sponsored IWF galas in 2018, alongside Google, and 2019. <b>Honorees at IWF events have included notable anti-abortion figures like Rep. Lynne Cheney, R-Wy.; top Trump administration official Kellyanne Conway; and Vice President Mike Pence.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporate disclosures from Amazon show that the company donated undisclosed sums to the IWF in 2018, 2019, and 2020.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amazon, Google, Meta, and the IWF did not respond to a request for comment.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>True North founder Lisa Graves characterized the IWF’s efforts as an attempt to launder conservative ideology. “</b>They act as a distaff,” she said in an interview, “in essence providing a woman’s face for the right wing’s critique or attack on progressives and its advance of this extreme and regressive, repressive agenda.”</font></p><div data-reactid="251" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">DESPITE THE PUBLIC</span> perception of Silicon Valley’s alignment with progressive values and liberal causes, tech companies, particularly those fearing state regulation, have long funneled money to right-wing groups like the IWF. At the same time, the IWF routinely pushes policy positions that are highly favorable to its corporate donors.</font></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The IWF has consistently espoused tech industry-friendly positions on labor, antitrust, and other issues, without disclosing its donors’ interests.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Take, for example, an April IWF <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2022/04/04/price-of-new-antitrust-regulations/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">blog post</a> that warned that antitrust enforcement against Big Tech would prove disastrous. “Tech innovation has been nothing short of miraculous over the past few decades,” wrote <b>Patrice Onwuka, </b>director of IWF’s Center for Economic Opportunity and its go-to defender of powerful tech firms.</span></font></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><a class="InstreamPromo InstreamPromo--promo" href="https://theintercept.com/collections/end-of-roe/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 40px 0px 40px -20px; padding: 20px 0px; letter-spacing: normal; width: auto !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font><span class="InstreamPromo-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 420px; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; max-width: 420px;"><span class="InstreamPromo-text-callout" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; text-transform: capitalize;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"> Read Our Complete Coverage</font></span><span class="InstreamPromo-text-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The End of Roe</font></span></span></a></p><div data-reactid="253" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Few issues in tech have <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2022/01/20/concerning-klobuchar-antitrust-bill/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">galvanized</a> the IWF and Onwuka like the bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would block tech companies from leveraging their enormous reach to favor their own services over competitors</b>. In a December 2021 piece titled “Amazon Prime may not be around to save the day next Christmas,” Onwuka <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2021/12/23/amazon-prime-may-not-be-around-to-save-the-day-next-christmas/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">claimed</a>, “Senator Amy Klobuchar and others are on a path to end services like Prime’s fast and free shipping and other services that we depend upon.” Onwuka then linked to a blog post by the Amazon-funded Chamber of Progress that <a href="https://medium.com/chamber-of-progress/a-closer-look-how-senator-klobuchars-bill-would-ban-amazon-prime-aa57dd5d22c0" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">claimed, dubiously, that the law would “ban Amazon Prime.”</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In June, Onwuka <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2021/06/14/congress-steps-up-antitrust-crusade-with-bills-against-big-tech/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a> a jeremiad against congressional antitrust efforts: </b>“The conveniences that make life and work easier and faster and save consumers money may disappear.” <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2021/06/14/fbi-keeping-peoples-fortunes-and-antitrust-bills-targeting-big-tech/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Later</a> that day, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Onwuka appeared on Fox Business</span>, again protesting antitrust enforcement against the tech industry. “I’m more worried about the impact on small business owners and on women and families that rely on some of the benefits that some of these big four tech companies provide,” she said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While shielding Big Tech from antitrust scrutiny has proven a priority for the IWF, the group also stands up directly for its benefactors. In 2019, Onwuka wrote an entire post dedicated sticking up for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg after Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/14/facebook-zuckerberg-conservatives-private-meetings-046663" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a> that he had attended dinners with notable conservative commentators and lawmakers. “Zuckerberg is a private citizen who can eat dinner with whomever he wants,” Onwuka wrote. “His dinner has a clear business purpose and that’s part of doing business.”</font></span></p></div><blockquote class="Pullquote Pullquote--right" data-reactid="254" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; box-shadow: none; line-height: 1.125; float: right; max-width: 55%;"><div data-reactid="256" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Institutionally they have no position on abortion, that’s their stated position. But organizationally, they have backed the most aggressive anti-choice slate of judges we’ve ever seen.”</font></div></blockquote><div data-reactid="257" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The cordial treatment of industry giants is of course a linchpin of conservatism</b>, and the IWF would almost certainly be warning that antitrust will bring us back to the Bronze Age even without Google sponsoring its gala dinners. But fueling the right-wing punditry mill is a large, ever-expanding facet of Big Tech’s political strategy.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>While there’s no evidence that Zuckerberg or Google CEO Sundar Pichai have any personal opposition to abortion access, their companies no doubt benefit from <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90424503/facebook-google-amazon-are-ramping-up-their-secretive-influence-campaigns-in-dc" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">their support of a broad, thriving conservative discourse ecosystem</a> in which any government regulation is anathema.</b> For tech company leadership, the reality that this ecosystem pushes not just Facebook-friendly laissez-faire economics, but also climate denial and abortion bans is considered a perhaps unfortunate but worthwhile byproduct.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Silicon Valley’s patronage of right-wing think tanks and campaigns is an arrangement in which there is ample plausible deniability to go around. When The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a> in 2019 that Google was donating to some of the nation’s most notorious climate-denial organizations, a company spokesperson retorted, “We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The multitude of topics on which the IWF engages, and its careful avoidance of publicly opposing abortion access have helped it avoid a reputation as an anti-abortion group. “Institutionally they have no position on abortion, that’s their stated position,” explained Graves, of True North. “But organizationally, they have backed the most aggressive anti-choice slate of judges we’ve ever seen.”</font></p></div></div></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><div data-reactid="184" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">MARCH 4,</span> the <b>Leadership Institute</b>, a nonprofit that trains conservative political leaders, hosted its monthly “Wednesday Wake-Up Club Breakfast” at its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The headliner of this event was Heather Higgins, an heiress to the Vicks VapoRub fortune, as well as the chair of the Independent Women’s Forum and the CEO of its political advocacy arm, the Independent Women’s Voice, right-wing nonprofits that self-describe as nonpartisan. For most of the event, Higgins stood before a clear podium and fielded questions on how to build conservative political influence — at one point revealing that IWF came up with a memo, used by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on how to support Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 Supreme Court confirmation without alienating the #MeToo movement.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I will tell you that I’m extraordinarily proud of IWF,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xc9o5bKMV0&feature=youtu.be&t=3061" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">said Higgins</a>. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him.</span> A<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">nd if you look at<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/5/17943276/susan-collins-speech-transcript-full-text-kavanaugh-vote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> the speech</a> she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and <b>architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’” After Collins’s hourlong speech, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., announced that he would vote for Kavanaugh, helping achieve the threshold of votes necessary to confirm Kavanaugh.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s not the first time the IWF and IWV have sought to exert conservative influence over the Supreme Court, often by leveraging their positions as women’s nonprofits. IWF rose out of “Women for Judge Thomas,” which was formed in 1991 to support Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas amid Anita Hill’s accusation of sexual harassment. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2016, IWF and IWV were<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/neil-gorsuch-and-the-senates-convoluted-supreme-court-confirmation-dance" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> vocal opponents</a> of President Obama’s Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland and <b>in 2017 pushed for Neil Gorsuch’s quick, <a href="https://www.iwv.org/2017/02/why-gorsuch-should-be-quietly-confirmed/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">quiet confirmation</a>, i</b>ncluding by sharing<a href="http://supremecourtquestions.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> misleading quizzes</a> on the Supreme Court.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, IWF and IWV have turned their attention to pushing for the rapid confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, including staging an “I’m With Her” rally outside of the Supreme Court on October 17, at the same time as a Women’s March.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> They have been quick to place <b>op-eds in support of Barrett for the Washington Examiner, the Washington Times, and the National Review. On Fox News, </b>where IWF and IWV are regular commentators, Kelsey Bolar, a senior policy analyst at IWF,<a href="https://www.iwf.org/2020/10/12/will-amy-coney-barretts-nomination-impact-female-voters/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> criticized the Women’s March</a> for “advocating against women, protesting a highly qualified female nominee to the Supreme Court” — part of a broader strategy of casting criticism of Barrett as anti-woman. IWF and IWV did not return a request for comment</span>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">iWF and IWV are carefully branded as independent nonprofits supporting women, regardless of their policy positions, which include opposing Title IX, employer and tax-funded paid leave, and the Violence Against Women’s Act. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Being branded as neutral, but actually having people who know know that you’re actually conservative puts us in a unique position,” Higgins</span></span><a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/heather-higgins-moving-needle-frontpagemagcom/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> told donors</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); letter-spacing: 0.01em;">in 2015, a quote</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/08/13131/independent-womens-forum" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">unearthed</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">by the Center for Media and Democracy. Beyond this neutral front, the groups are financially tied to an anonymously funded nonprofit network advancing conservative control of the courts, which could set the stage for</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> dismantling the Affordable Care Act, the constitutional right to an abortion, marriage equality, and the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> regulation of pollutants under the Clean Air Act,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> and block future progressive (or moderate) legislation.</span></b></span></font></p></div><div data-reactid="195" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The central architect behind this ultraconservative vision is Leonard Leo, former vice president of the<a href="https://polluterwatch.org/federalist-society" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> Koch-funded</a> Federalist Society and President Donald Trump’s adviser responsible for coming with<a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-justice-052ae9cd-fd12-42f0-a4d1-5a1ae8de4e40.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> a list</a> of potential Supreme Court nominees</b>. In 2019, an<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> investigation</a> by the Washington Post described Leo as “the maestro of a<a href="https://cdn1.opensecrets.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/01160340/Supreme-Dark-Money.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> network of interlocking nonprofits</a> working on media campaigns and other initiatives to sway lawmakers by generating public support for conservative judges,” which has received $250 million from anonymous donors. IRS rules do not require 501(c)(4) nonprofits to disclose corporate funders, allowing corporations to exert an unlimited amount of financial influence behind a veil of nonprofits, which go<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-political-dark-money-groups-501c4-tax-regulation" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> largely unregulated</a>.</font></p><div data-reactid="198" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>iWF and IWV are not controlled by Leo, but they receive funding from organizations in his network. The Freedom and Opportunity Fund, which Leo founded in 2016, gave a total of $4 million in 2016 and 2017 to the Independent Women’s Voice, based on<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5749702-Freedom-and-Opportunity-Fund-2016-990.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> tax</a><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5749670-Freedom-and-Opportunity-Fund-2017-990.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> filings</a>. In 2018, the Judicial Education Project,</b> the research arm of the Leo-tied Judicial Crisis Network, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6587303-Judicial-Education-Project-2018-990.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">gave $300,000</a> to Independent Women’s Forum. (We don’t yet know whether IWF or IWV received another influx of money from the Leo-tied network of dark-money nonprofits, coinciding with the current Supreme Court vacancy; the 990 tax forms for this year won’t be publicly available until November 2021.) <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Donors Trust, which Mother Jones<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> called</a> “the dark money ATM machine of the conservative movement,” also gave $792,000 in 2017 and $625,000 in 2018 to IWF, according to tax filings<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/who-donors-trust" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> compiled by</a> DeSmog.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lisa Graves, a researcher on the influence of dark money in U.S. politics and the founder of True North Research, notes that the influx of money from Leo-tied nonprofits to IWF and IWV coincides with the period when they were working to <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">keep Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacancy open, while ultimately pushing forward with</span> confirming Gorsuch in 2017 and Kavanaugh in 2018 to the Supreme Court. “</span>We do know that IWF is playing a significant role within this right-wing infrastructure and that includes defending Trump’s nominees, no matter their record,” said Graves.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Another key strategy to influence the courts by IWF and the broader network of Leo-tied nonprofits has been filing<b> amicus briefs</b>, which can make it appear like there is a wider-ranging support or opposition for an issue than in reality</span>. “A small number of donors are trying to orchestrate this legal revolution, but it looks broader than it is because they are throwing their voices through a<b> flotilla</b> of groups, and IWF is one of them,” said Graves.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To push Kavanaugh’s and Gorsuch’s nominations forward, staff of IWF and IWV made appearances on Fox News, wrote blog posts, and placed op-eds, including in the Boston Globe, and praised Gorsuch on IWF’s “Working for Women” podcast. On Tucker Carlson’s talk show, Tammy Bruce, the president of IWV, referred to the sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh as a “political stunt.” Erin Hawley, a legal fellow at IWF,</span> was quoted in a slideshow published by Refinery21 on what women think about Kavanaugh, which also included quotes from high-profile politicians, like Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They hosted an “<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?452158-1/i-stand-brett-rally#" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">I stand with Brett</a>” rally on Capitol Hill, along with other groups, including and the Leo-tied Judicial Crisis Network and the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2010/18-anti-gay-groups-and-their-propaganda" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">anti-LGBTQ </a><b>Concerned Women for America.</b></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;" /></div><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo" data-reactid="199" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 20px 0px 10px; margin: 7px 40px 20px 0px; float: left; width: 400px;"><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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The brochure from the IWF and IWV’s 2019 gala, which lists its private and nonprofit sponsors, offers a partial window into the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>private corporations funding it. These include Facebook, Juul, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, the American Beverage Association, the Walton Family Foundation (Walmart), Karen Wright (the CEO of the Ariel Corporation, the largest global manufacturer of gas compressors), Amway, and Dick DeVos (former Amway CEO and the husband of Betsy DeVos</b>, the secretary of education). Who won the gala’s “Woman of Valor” Award? None other than Betsy DeVos.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This money isn’t all funneled into IWF and IWV’s efforts to restructure the courts; it could also go to their work advocating for a range of issues that seemingly have little to do with women. In the past few years, this has included <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">downplaying the<a href="https://www.iwf.org/2019/08/28/two-truths-and-a-lie-pesticides/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> risks of pesticides</a> and <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2020/02/12/vaping-lies-from-the-who/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">e-cigarettes</a>, <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2020/04/21/policy-focus-a-realistic-approach-to-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">spreading climate disinformation</a> by arguing the science on climate change is not settled, and<a href="https://www.iwf.org/2011/12/29/blame-the-free-market/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> arguing for the privatization</a> of school lunch programs.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A 2016<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/meet-the-feminists-doing-the-koch-brothers-dirty-work/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> article</a> by Joan Walsh in The Nation describes how IWF and IWV have come to take on a platform increasingly aligned with the Koch brothers.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Walsh traces this shift to 2001, when<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/nancy-pfotenhauer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> Nancy Pfotenhauer</a>, the former top lobbyist for Koch Industries, became the president of IWF. In 2003, Pfotenhauer also became president of<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> Americans for Prosperity</a>, a right-wing political advocacy group founded by the Koch brothers. While Pfotenhauer has since left IWF, the ties remain: Sixteen of the current staff and board members of IWF and IWV have worked for organizations that have received Koch funding, according to an analysis provided to The Intercept by True North Research.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In her acceptance speech at IWF and IWV’s gala, DeVos described her goal of chipping away at Title IX, the landmark civil rights law that protects from gender-based discrimination in any educational program that receives federal funding.</b> “So, we are working to dismantle the government social engineering in education, including the previous administration’s staggering overreach on Title IX,” said DeVos, which then credits this policy position to IWF. “You were among the first to sound the alarm decades ago about the downstream unintended consequences of that 1972 law.” Now, as Barrett’s confirmation looms, they are closer than ever to this goal.</font></p></div></div></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">big trump booster</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">True North Research has released a new report documenting how a group
calling itself the “Independent Women’s Voice” used its “independent”
branding to target women in Wisconsin in the weeks before the 2016
election. The group claimed it played a decisive role in moving women
toward Trump, citing a double-digit shift in polling. What role will it
and its leader, Heather Higgins, play in targeting Wisconsin and other
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Expenses: $1,626,906
Assets: $2,317,513</p> </td></tr><tr class="profile-sidebarlist-row"><td class="profile-sidebarlist-label">Formation:</td><td class="profile-sidebar__list-content"><p>2003</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><div class="profile-main-content the-content"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></font><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) is the political arm of the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-forum/">Independent Women’s Forum</a>
(IWF), </span>a right-of-center nonprofit organization which focuses on policy
issues affecting women. The organization develops policy approaches to
appeal to women, independents, and millennial voters <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-1"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-1">[1]</a></sup> <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-2"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-2">[2]</a></sup></font></font></font></p> <div class="profile-toc" id="profile-toc">
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<div class="profile-tocinner"> <ul><li class="first"> <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#background">Background</a> </font></li><li> <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#finances">Finances</a> </font></li><li class="last"> <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#leadership">Leadership</a> </font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#references">References</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#associated-orgs">Associated Organizations</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#non-profit-info">Form 990 Information</a></font></li></ul></div></div><h2 id="background"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background</font></h2> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) is the political arm of the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-forum/">Independent Women’s Forum</a> (IWF), a conservative-leaning organization which focuses on policy issues related to women. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-3"><a class="profile-reference__link" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-3">[3]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>IWV
advocates for right-of-center policies, including <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">earned leave for
parents rather than government-mandated paid leave programs,</span> school
choice, Title IX reforms, worker freedom, market-based healthcare, and
the preservation of women’s sports</b>. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-4"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-4">[4]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">IWV
seeks to appeal to women, independents, and millennials by messaging
right-of-center policy in new ways. The organization has contended that
Republicans do not always understand how to talk to voters who are not
already Republicans, arguing that conservatives must learn to appeal to
new bases, including women, to win elections. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-5"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-5">[5]</a></sup> <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-6"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-6">[6]</a></sup> <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-7"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-7">[7]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">IWV
CEO Heather Higgins has claimed that the organization is “what is
needed in the Republican conservative arsenal” because it can “talk to
those cohorts that would not otherwise listen, but can do it in a way
that is taking a conservative message and packaging it in a way that
will be acceptable and will get a hearing.” <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-8"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-8">[8]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">IWV
seeks to represent mainstream conservative and independent women in the
political arena to ensure that policymakers hear from everyday women,
as opposed to only hearing from left-wing feminists. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-9"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-9">[9]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">To
advance its policy goals, IWV conducts research and advocacy campaigns,
runs “informative quizzes” to influence key demographics, and engages
in strategic writing campaigns. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-10"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-10">[10]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Tammy Bruce, a talk-radio host and the former president of the Los Angeles chapter of the left-of-center <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-organization-for-women/">National Organization for Women (NOW)</a>, became president of the IWV in 2018 and stepped down from the role in 2021</b>. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-11"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-11">[11]</a></sup> <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-12"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-12">[12]</a></sup></font></p> <h2 id="finances"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finances</font></h2> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Independent
Women’s Voice has received some funding from right-of-center
organizations, including $25,000 from the Club for Growth and over $8
million from the<b> Freedom and Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit organization
associated with right-of-center legal policy advocate Leonard Le</b></span><b>o</b>. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-13"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-13">[13]</a></sup><sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-14"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-14">[14]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">IWV has many corporate sponsors as well. The brochure from the joint <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-forum/">Independent Women’s Forum</a> and IWV 2019 gala lists private and non-profit sponsors including <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/facebook/">Facebook</a>, Juul, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, the American Beverage Association, the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/walton-family-foundation-inc-walmart/">Walton Family Foundation</a>;
Karen Wright, and Amway. The gala was also funded by Dick DeVos, the
former Amway CEO and the husband of then-Secretary of Education <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Betsy_DeVos">Betsy DeVos</a>. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-15"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-15">[15]</a></sup></span></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span></font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2016, the left-wing <b><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-media-and-democracy/">Center for Media and Democracy</a>
(CMD) accused IWV of spending millions of dollars in the 2010, 2012,
and 2014 elections to benefit Republican candidates despite its
assertion of being independent.</b></span><b> </b><sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-16"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-16"><b>[</b>16]</a></sup></font></p> <h2 id="leadership"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leadership</font></h2> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Heather Higgins is the CEO of Independent Women’s Voice. She is also the chairwoman of the board for the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-forum/">Independent Women’s Forum</a>. Higgins previously had a career in journalism as a former editorial writer for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and former assistant editor at the <em>Public Interest </em>magazine. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-17"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-17">[17]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Carrie Lukas is the vice president of IWV and president of IWF.</b> She is the author of <em>The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism</em>.
Previously, she was a domestic policy analyst for the House Republican
Policy Committee. She also previously worked for the libertarian <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/cato-institute/">Cato Institute</a>. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-18"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-18">[18]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Victoria Coley is the vice president of communications for both IWV and IWF. She was previously a producer at Fox News. </span><sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-19"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-19">[19]</a></sup></font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Somerlyn
Cothran is the IWF senior vice president of investor relations. She is
the former president and a board member of the Ada City Schools
Foundation. She has also been a board member of the Harold Hamm Diabetes
Center and Mama T’s Homeless Shelter. <sup class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-20"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-womens-voice/#note-20">[20]</a></sup></font></p></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Independent Women's Voice</b><span> </span>(IWV) is a nonprofit organization advocating conservative policy established in 2003. IWV is the self proclaimed sister organization of<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Independent_Women%27s_Forum" title="Independent Women's Forum" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Independent Women's Forum</a>. According to it's website, "Like IWF, IWV is dedicated to promoting limited government, free markets, and personal responsibility. ... IWV seeks to ensure that our mainstream voices are heard in the media and before state and national policymakers, in order to educate the public about how our conservative principles benefit women, men, and families, and are critical to the future of our country."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#News_and_Controversies" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;"><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">News and Controversies</span></span></a></font><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; text-align: left;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; text-align: left;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#IWF_and_IWV_Market_Right-Wing_Ideas_to_Reach_Independent_Women_Voters_Under_the_Guise_of_Neutrality" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">IWF and IWV Market Right-Wing Ideas to Reach Independent Women Voters Under the Guise of Neutrality</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#IWV_Spent_to_Help.E2.80.9CWar_On_Women.E2.80.9D_GOP_Candidates" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">IWV Spent to Help “War On Women” GOP Candidates</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#2013_Mark_Sanford_Campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2013 Mark Sanford Campaign</span></a></font></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#Ties_to_Koch_Brothers" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Ties to Koch Brothers</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Funding</span></a></font><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; text-align: left;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#2011-2018" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2011-2018</span></a></font></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#Core_Financials" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Core Financials</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#Personnel" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personnel</span></a></font><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; text-align: left;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#Staff" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Staff</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#Board_of_Directors" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Board of Directors</span></a></font></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Contact Information</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#Articles_and_Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Articles and Resources</span></a></font><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; text-align: left;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#IRS_Form_990_Filings" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">IRS Form 990 Filings</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#External_Articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External Articles</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#Related_SourceWatch_Articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Related SourceWatch Articles</span></a></font></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></a></font></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="News_and_Controversies">News and Controversies</span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px none; line-height: 1.6; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="IWF_and_IWV_Market_Right-Wing_Ideas_to_Reach_Independent_Women_Voters_Under_the_Guise_of_Neutrality">IWF and IWV Market Right-Wing Ideas to Reach Independent Women Voters Under the Guise of Neutrality</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Independent Women’s Forum and its 501(c)(4) affiliate, the Independent Women’s Voice, market themselves to the media and voters as “non-partisan,” “independent,” and “neutral.” An investigation of the groups by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveals them to be anything but that.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Joan Walsh wrote for<span> </span><i>The Nation</i>, "IWF and its political arm, Independent Women’s Voice, have become aggressive players in Republican politics, embedded in the network of organizations backed by Charles and David Koch, advocating for the<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers" title="Koch Brothers" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Koch brothers’</a><span> </span>myriad concerns, and playing on their 'independent' label to elect GOP candidates."<sup id="cite_ref-nation_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-nation-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Heather Higgins, the President of the Independent Women’s Voice and the Board Chair of the Independent Women’s Forum, admitted as much in a speech to potential 2016 donors at a<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Horowitz_Freedom_Center" title="David Horowitz Freedom Center" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">David Horowitz Freedom Center</a><span> </span>retreat:<sup id="cite_ref-cmd_report_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-cmd_report-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><blockquote style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Being branded as neutral, but actually having people who know know that you’re actually conservative puts us in a unique position. Our value here and what is needed in the Republican conservative arsenal is a group that can talk to those cohorts [women who are not Republican conservatives] that would not otherwise listen but can do it in a way that is taking a conservative message and packaging it in a way that will be acceptable.</font></p></blockquote><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/independentwomensforum" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) no-repeat scroll right center, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">CMD: Independent Women's Forum and Independent Women's Voice Use “Independent” Brand to Push Right-Wing Agenda to Women Voters</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3026994-Independent-Womens-Forum-Voice-Report-by-CMD-08.html" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) no-repeat scroll right center, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">CMD: A Reporter's Guide on the Independent Women's Forum/Voice</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/meet-the-feminists-doing-the-koch-brothers-dirty-work/" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) no-repeat scroll right center, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Joan Walsh: Meet the ‘Feminists’ Doing the Koch Brothers’ Dirty Work</a></font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px none; line-height: 1.6; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="IWV_Spent_to_Help“War_On_Women”GOP_Candidates"><span class="mw-headline" id="IWV_Spent_to_Help.E2.80.9CWar_On_Women.E2.80.9D_GOP_Candidates">IWV Spent to Help “War On Women” GOP Candidates</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IWV made $67,242 in independent expenditures aiding Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin with calls and independent voter outreach in November 2012, after Akin claimed on August 19, 2012 that rape victims couldn’t get pregnant because “if it’s legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$176,991 on a “Romney wants Mourdock” ad after Indiana U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock asserted that when a woman is raped, she carries a “gift from God” and that such a pregnancy “is something that God intended to happen.”</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Walsh, a GOP Rep. from Illinois claimed in the 2012 race against Tammy Duckworth that abortions to save a mother’s life are never medically necessary. Two weeks later, Independent Women’s Voice spent more than $5,000 on calls and outreach to independent voters in his district.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 2014 Senate races, CMD’s research finds that Independent Women’s Voice spent more than $850,000 on GOP candidates, most of whom had 0% NARAL ratings; it spent more than $5 million that year on related advocacy.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Higgins also told donors that Independent Women’s Voice made the only significant independent expenditure in Mark Sanford’s 2012 congressional race in South Carolina. She said Independent Women’s Voice worked to convince “evangelicals to hold their nose and vote for Mark in order to be able to hold onto that seat and not have the liberal win it.”<sup id="cite_ref-cmd_report_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-cmd_report-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px none; line-height: 1.6; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2013_Mark_Sanford_Campaign">2013 Mark Sanford Campaign</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Years after former South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford's political popularity plummeted after a public confession of infidelity in 2009, Sanford ran and won against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special election for a position in Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup><span> </span>The Independent Women's Voice reported spending $250,000 in support of Sanford in just the last week of the election.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ties_to_Koch_Brothers">Ties to Koch Brothers</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Although the Independent Women's Voice calls itself "nonpartisan", the group has numerous ties to the billionaires<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Koch" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Koch" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Charles Koch</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Koch" class="mw-redirect" title="David Koch" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">David Koch</a>, arguably two of the most influential financiers of anti-regulation and right-wing ideology in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">IWV reportedly received $250,000 from the<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_to_Protect_Patient_Rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Center to Protect Patient Rights" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Center to Protect Patient Rights</a><span> </span>(CPPR), another Koch affiliated organization.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup><span> </span>This conservative advocacy group is run by Sean Noble, who Politico has described as a "Koch Operative".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup><span> </span>Nobel was hired by the Kochs to coordinate with other conservative Super PACs to target Democratic representatives in 2010.<span> </span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup><span> </span>Other individuals associated with the group also have Koch ties. Consultant Cheryl Hillen has raised at least $2.6 million for the organization and was formerly director of fundraising for the<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers" title="Koch Brothers" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Koch Brothers</a>-backed<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy" title="Citizens for a Sound Economy" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Citizens for a Sound Economy</a><span> </span>(which later split into<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Americans for Prosperity</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedomworks" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedomworks" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Freedomworks</a>). One of CPPR's original directors, Heather Higgins, is chairwoman of the Independent Women's Forum, a climate change denialist group that has received Koch money and was previously run by a Koch lobbyist.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2004, the Independent Women's Voice listed<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nancy_Pfotenhauer" title="Nancy Pfotenhauer" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Nancy Pfotenhauer</a><span> </span>as its president. Pfotenhauer is a former Koch Industries lobbyist, and has rotated between various leadership roles at Kochs' flagship special interest groups including Americans for Prosperity and Citizens for a Sound Economy.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">IWV's sister organization has been openly receiving funding from Koch brothers'<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Claude_R.Lambe_Charitable_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</a><span> </span>since 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><table style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><tbody><tr><th style="background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid rgb(198, 19, 12); text-align: left; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch Wiki</font></span></th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G.Koch" title="Charles G. Koch" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Charles Koch</a><span> </span>is the right-wing billionaire owner of<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Koch Industries</a>. As one of the richest people in the world, he is a key funder of the right-wing infrastructure, including the<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a><span> </span>(ALEC) and the<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">State Policy Network</a><span> </span>(SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on Charles Koch and his late brother David include:<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers" title="Koch Brothers" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Koch Brothers</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Americans for Prosperity</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stand_Together_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="Stand Together Chamber of Commerce" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Stand Together Chamber of Commerce</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stand_Together" class="mw-redirect" title="Stand Together" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Stand Together</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Family_Foundations" title="Koch Family Foundations" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Koch Family Foundations</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Universities" title="Koch Universities" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Koch Universities</a>, and<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=I360" title="I360" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">I360</a>.</font></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Funding">Funding</span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px none; line-height: 1.6; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2011-2018">2011-2018</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Although IWV is not required to disclose its funders by law, The Center for Media and Democracy uncovered over $4,765,000 to IWV between 2011 and 2018 through an analysis of IRS filings.<sup id="cite_ref-DAIWF_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-DAIWF-13" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a></sup></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of the six identified funders, three are part of<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leonard_Leo" title="Leonard Leo" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Leonard Leo</a>’s dark money network utilized to promote Trump’s judges which gave $4.2 million:<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=45Committee" title="45Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">45Committee</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom_and_Opportunity_Fund" title="Freedom and Opportunity Fund" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Freedom and Opportunity Fund</a>, and<span> </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Judicial_Crisis_Network" title="Judicial Crisis Network" style="text-decoration: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Judicial Crisis Network</a>.</font></span></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“IWV was vociferous in its defense of [Brett] Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford, a Stanford professor who knew the justice while he was in prep school,” the Center for Responsive Politics reported. “IWV’s president, Tammy Bruce, said on Fox News last year that Kavanaugh was ‘effectively being used as a stand-in for all perpetrators.'”<sup id="cite_ref-DAIWF_13-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-DAIWF-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a></sup></font></dd></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Funders</b></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=45Committee" title="45Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">45Committee</a>: $50,000</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Tax_Reform" title="Americans for Tax Reform" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Americans for Tax Reform</a>: $410,000</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Annual_Fund&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Annual Fund (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Annual Fund</a>: $80,000</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom_and_Opportunity_Fund" title="Freedom and Opportunity Fund" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Freedom and Opportunity Fund</a>: $4,000,000</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Judicial_Crisis_Network" title="Judicial Crisis Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Judicial Crisis Network</a>: $150,000</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Right_to_Work_Committee" title="National Right to Work Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">National Right to Work Committee</a>: $75,000</font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Core_Financials">Core Financials</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>2020</b><sup id="cite_ref-2020_990_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-2020_990-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $2,660,303</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $3,068,601</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $1,893,710</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>2019</b><sup id="cite_ref-2019_990_15-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-2019_990-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $731,401</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $1,626,906</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $2,302,008</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>2018</b><sup id="cite_ref-2018_990_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-2018_990-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $2,148,976</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $2,911,604</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $3,200,101</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>2017</b><sup id="cite_ref-2017_990_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-2017_990-17" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $3,014,965</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $2,025,703</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $3,966,199</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>2016</b><sup id="cite_ref-2016IWV990_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-2016IWV990-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $5,152,385</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $2,371,287</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assests: $2,989,507</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>2015</b><sup id="cite_ref-2016IWV990_18-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-2016IWV990-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $980,320</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $1,781,059</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assests: $208,409</font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personnel">Personnel</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As of January 2021:<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Voice#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; white-space: nowrap;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px none; line-height: 1.6; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Staff">Staff</span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heather_R.Higgins" class="mw-redirect" title="Heather R. Higgins" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Heather R. Higgins</a>, CEO</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meghan Agostinelli, Communications Coordinator</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cassie Alsfield, Senior Digital Marketing Manager</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenny Avis, Membership Director</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelsey Bolar, Senior Policy Analyst</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa Boothe, Senior Fellow</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrea Bottner, Senior Advisor</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekayi Brunson, Graphic Design Lead</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Natalie Cassase, Communications Assistant</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Victoria Coley, Vice President of Communications</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Somerlyn Cothran, Senior Vice President for Development</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sarah Culver, Digital Marketing Coordinator</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Julie Gunlock, Senior Policy Analyst</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charlotte_Hays&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charlotte Hays (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Charlotte Hays</a>, Senior Policy Analyst</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKenzie Holmes, Communications Assistant</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brianna Howard, Social Media Manager</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ashley Kaitz, Communications Intern</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Natalie Le, Communications Assistant</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carrie_L.Lukas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carrie L. Lukas (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Carrie L. Lukas</a>, Vice President</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ashley MacLeay, Director of External Relations</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heather Madden, Director of Operations and Policy Research</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elisha Maldonado, Senior Fellow</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hadley Heath Manning, Policy Director</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adriana McLamb, Digital Marketing Director</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Casidy McMeans, Development Associate</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patrice Lee Onwuka, Director of the Center for Economic Opportunity</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lorena Riely, Senior Administrative Officer</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Claudia Rosett, Foreign Policy Fellow</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amber Schwartz, Interim-Acting President</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carrie Sheffield, Senior Policy Analyst</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Inez Feltscher Stephan, Senior Policy Analyst</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elizabeth Tew, Communications Director</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michele Vogt, Digital Media Director</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlotte Whelan, Policy Analyst</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Former Staff</b></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tammy Bruce, President</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ashley B. Carter, Director of External Relations</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sekayi Stephens, Graphic Designer</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jamie Whitefield, Investor Relations Coordinator</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sabrina_L._Schaeffer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sabrina L. Schaeffer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Sabrina L. Schaeffer</a>, Executive Director</font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px none; line-height: 1.6; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Board_of_Directors">Board of Directors</span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heather Higgins</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Grover Norquist</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tammy Bruce</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christie Herrera</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Former Directors</b></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Midge Decter</font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255); 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ggl 7 22</font></div><div><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.iwv.org/people/heather-r-higgins/" data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw1LOHpqWfZR95BNHI4is14s" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQFnoECAUQAQ">Heather R. Higgins | Independent Women's Voice</a></font></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text">https://www.iwv.org<span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text"> › people › heather-r-higgins</span></cite></font></div><div class="B6fmyf"><div class="TbwUpd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text" /></cite></font></div><div class="csDOgf"><div data-isdesktop="true" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQ2esEegQIBRAE"><div><div role="button" tabindex="0" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:5px;position:absolute" aria-label="About this Result"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="D6lY4c"><span class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="height:18px;line-height:18px;width:18px"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></span></span></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g Ww4FFb tF2Cxc" style="width:600px" data-hveid="CBAQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQFSgAegQIEBAA" lang="en"><div class="jtfYYd" data-sokoban-container="ih6Jnb_XszhR"><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0"><div class="yuRUbf"><div class="B6fmyf"><div class="csDOgf"><div data-isdesktop="true" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQ2esEegQIBRAE"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQh-4GegQIBRAF" /></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM" data-content-feature="1"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-line-clamp:2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span><em>Heather</em>
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</a></font><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Higgins" data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw08FNOg5oOs9db-pKBSvlme" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQFnoECAYQAQ">Heather Higgins - Wikipedia</a></font></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text">https://en.wikipedia.org<span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text"> › wiki › Heather_Higgins</span></cite></font></div><div class="B6fmyf"><div class="TbwUpd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text" /></cite></font></div><div class="csDOgf"><div data-isdesktop="true" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQ2esEegQIBhAE"><div><div role="button" tabindex="0" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:5px;position:absolute" aria-label="About this Result"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="D6lY4c"><span class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="height:18px;line-height:18px;width:18px"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></span></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g Ww4FFb tF2Cxc" style="width:600px" data-hveid="CAwQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQFSgAegQIDBAA" lang="en"><div class="jtfYYd" data-sokoban-container="ih6Jnb_lrFJcb"><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0"><div class="yuRUbf"><div class="B6fmyf"><div class="csDOgf"><div data-isdesktop="true" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQ2esEegQIBhAE"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQh-4GegQIBhAF" /></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM" data-content-feature="1"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-line-clamp:2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span><em>Heather</em> Richardson <em>Higgins</em> (born September 21, 1959) is an American businesswoman, political commentator, and non-profit sector executive.</span></font></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM" data-content-feature="2"><div class="HiHjCd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Higgins#Journalist_and_commentator" data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw08FNOg5oOs9db-pKBSvlme" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQ0gIoAHoECAgQAQ">Journalist and commentator</a> · <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Higgins#Non-profit_roles_and_policy_work" data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw08FNOg5oOs9db-pKBSvlme" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQ0gIoAXoECAgQAg">Non-profit roles and policy work</a> · <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Higgins#Political_views" data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw08FNOg5oOs9db-pKBSvlme" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQ0gIoAnoECAgQAw">Political views</a></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g Ww4FFb tF2Cxc" style="width:600px" data-hveid="CA4QAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQFSgAegQIDhAA" lang="en"><div class="jtfYYd" data-sokoban-container="ih6Jnb_dDXdhb"><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0"><div class="yuRUbf"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/independent-womens-voice/" data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw2sGwIQbKttFdmPPXDs7eZK" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQFnoECAcQAQ">
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</a></font><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Forum" data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw3Wph1X1qQ3xuP00TEoOHOr" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQFnoECDAQAQ">Independent Women's Forum - SourceWatch</a></font></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text">https://www.sourcewatch.org<span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text"> › index.php › Independen...</span></cite></font></div><div class="B6fmyf"><div class="TbwUpd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text" /></cite></font></div><div class="csDOgf"><div data-isdesktop="true" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQ2esEegQIMBAE"><div><div role="button" tabindex="0" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:5px;position:absolute" aria-label="About this Result"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="D6lY4c"><span class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="height:18px;line-height:18px;width:18px"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></span></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></li></ul></div><div data-hveid="CDIQAA"><div class="g"><div class="d4rhi"><ul class="FxLDp"><li class="MYVUIe"><div class="XN9cAe"><div style="width:600px" data-hveid="CDEQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQtJkDKAB6BAgxEAA" lang="en"><div class="jtfYYd" data-sokoban-container="ih6Jnb_mcR8Wd"><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0"><div class="yuRUbf"><div class="B6fmyf"><div class="csDOgf"><div data-isdesktop="true" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQ2esEegQIMBAE"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQh-4GegQIMBAF" /></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM" data-content-feature="1"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-line-clamp:2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="MUxGbd wuQ4Ob WZ8Tjf"><span>Jan 11, 2022</span> — </span><span>The <em>Independent Women's Forum</em> (<em>IWF</em>, not to be confused with the ... <em>Heather Higgins</em>, the President of the <em>Independent Women's Voice</em> and the ...</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="g Ww4FFb tF2Cxc" style="width:600px" data-hveid="CCcQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQFSgAegQIJxAA" lang="en"><div class="jtfYYd" data-sokoban-container="ih6Jnb_LsDBse"><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0"><div class="yuRUbf"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://truenorthresearch.org/report/group-stealthily-targeted-independent-women-and-claimed-decisive-role-in-trumps-win/" data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw1uHubQI94SYnrO-7NT04w3" data-ved="2ahUKEwipkJzi2en4AhX4K0QIHWBGDCUQFnoECCIQAQ">
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