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When it was founded in 2011 with the help of $2 million from Koch network donors."<ref name=wapo2018/> In the beginning, CVA tried to create the image of itself as "a full-service veterans advocacy group." But, it broke from that mold to support Koch-back policies outside of the typical realm of veterans affairs.<ref name=wapo2018/> Between 2011 and 2016 CVA spent over $52 million on campaigns and policy work. It "was funded almost entirely by [[TC4]]" -- a now-defunct Koch-connect "shadow money mailboxes”<ref>Robert Maguire and Viveca Novak [https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/09/exclusive-largest-dark-money-donor-groups-hide-ties-using-new-trick/ Exclusive: Largest Dark Money Donor Groups Share Funds, Hide Links] Open Secrets, Sept. 10, 2014</ref> -- in 2012.<ref name="koch players"/> The [[Freedom Partners]] provided $44,580,000 in funding from 2012-2016.
In September of 2016, the Kochs reorganized their political network to make CVA, their Latino front group [[Libre Initiative]], and their youth front group [[Generation Opportunity]] sub-projects of [[American for Prosperity]] (AFP).<ref>David Armiak, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/11/26/koch-brothers-freedom-partners-group-spends-115-2-million-2017/ "The Koch Brothers' Freedom Partners Group Spends $115.2 Million in 2017"], ''ExposedbyCMD'', November 26, 2018.</ref> CVA Action, its sister organization, is now registered with the Virginia Corporation Commission as a "fictitious name" for [[AFP Action]].<ref name=gibson>Connor Gibson, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/30/charles-kochs-shape-shifting-influence-machine/ "Charles Koch's Shape-Shifting Influence Machine"], ''ExposedbyCMD'', August 30, 2022.</ref>
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