Hijacking Campaign 2024 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2024
Posted: January 16, 2025
Updated: October 6, 2025
Based in Washington, D.C., Americans for Contraception is a multi-partisan organization that advocates for birth control rights at the state and federal levels. The group operated as an unregistered express advocacy group in Wisconsin's 2024 state elections, so it was not legally required to disclose its income sources. However, the group has a federally registered independent expenditure committee and filings with the Federal Elections Commission show that the federal committee's principal funder in 2024, with $1 million, was Democracy PAC, a political action committee funded by billionaire George Soros. This was the first time Americans for Contraception reported making independent expenditures in Wisconsin.
Just before the November 5th election, the organization reported spending $175,500 for online advertising to oppose Republicans in seven legislative races - the 21st, the 26th, 51st, 61st and 85th assembly and the 8th and 14th senate districts. It was successful in three races, in two of those, the 26th Assembly and the 8th Senate, the GOP candidates were incumbent legislators running in new districts because of redrawn legislative maps, and, in the third, the 14th Senate, the Republican was an incumbent running in her old district, but one made more Democratic-leaning after redistricting.
This organization is an unregistered independent expenditure committee that is required to report any such spending done within 60 days of a primary or an election to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission per Chapter 11, Subchapter X of Wisconsin Statutes.