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==2015-2016 Election Cycle== ===$3 Million Ad Campaign to Support Republicans in 70 Districts==={{#ev:youtube|YErZV_VCDu4|200|right|"New Day - Mick Mulvaney"|frame}}AAN announced the launch of a $3 million ad campaign supporting House Speaker [[Paul Ryan]] and "Freedom Caucus" Republican members of Congress in 70 districts, ''Politico'' reported in December 2015. The campaign was set to target "conservative primary voters" and to include digital ads, print ads, and mailings, as well as television ads in 12 districts (see right), and would cover "nearly 30 percent of the House Republican Conference." ''Politico'' reported that the campaign was a shift from earlier AAN ads attacking Republicans over Department of Homeland Security Funding.<ref>Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, "[http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/aan-changes-tune-with-new-multi-million-dollar-ad-campaign-216505 GOP group that hit conservatives changes its tune]," ''Politico'', December 9, 2015.</ref> ===2015 Attacks on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau===

Warren is featured in the AAN attack ad which portrays the CFPB as a Soviet-style,paper-pushing bureaucracy. The real agenda behind the ads is to smear the CFPB as it cracks down on forced corporate arbitration clauses contained in many consumer contracts that are closing off access to justice through class-action lawsuits.<ref name="NYTArbitration">Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Michael Corkery, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/business/dealbook/efforts-to-rein-in-arbitration-come-under-well-financed-attack.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=business/dealbook&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=DealBook&pgtype=article Efforts to Rein in Arbitration Come Under Well-Financed Attack]", "The New York Times", November 15, 2015.</ref> A November 2015 front page ''New York Times'' expose showed "how corporations across the spectrum of the American economy — phone companies, credit card providers, nursing homes — use mandatory arbitration to circumvent the court system and derail legal claims alleging predatory lending, wage theft, discrimination and other violations."<ref name="NYTArbitration"/> The U.S. Department of Justice is recommending new regulations to rein in forced arbitration, while the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pushing back.<ref name="NYTArbitration"/>