Michael Dubke, David Carney, and several business groups helped start Americans for Job Security in 1997. Carney was political director for President
George H. W. Bush, and Dubke was the first executive director and then president of Americans for Job Security until April 2008, when Stephen DeMaura, recruited by Carney, took over. In 2002, AJS ran over $1 million in advertising attacking Democrat
Jeanne Shaheen, who was running for the US Senate from NH in opposition to Republican
John Sununu. In the 2008, rematch between Shaheen and Sununu, AJS again funded advertising attacking Shaheen. In 2012, it bought $8 million worth of ads opposing Obama's reelection. In September 2019, the Federal Election Commission reached a conciliation agreement with AJS, requiring them to register as a political committee and disclose their donors, which they did on October 25, 2019. Notable donors include: • Peter Thiel – $500,000 • Richard and Helen Devos – $2 million • Sheldon and Miriam Adelson – $500,000 • Robert McNair – $1,000,000 Notable corporate donors include: • Continental Resources – $1 million • Devon Energy and Devon Energy Production Corp – $3 million • Hensel Phelps Construction – $2.93 million • Penn National Gaming – $737,000 • US Sugar Corp – $750,000 • Wynn Resorts – $500,000 • Bass Pro Shops – $50,000 • Quicken Loans – $250,000 Previously known donors include Anthony Pritzker, Eli Broad, John Fisher and Charles Schwab. Schwab was known to have given millions to AJS, but the new information shows that he gave an additional $2.15 million. In April 2018, watchdog groups filed complaints with the
Internal Revenue Service against Americans for Job Security for failure to comply with federal rules governing nonprofits by not filing its taxes in over three years. Americans For Job Security's
501(c)(6) status was revoked by the Internal Revenue Service on June 1, 2018, retroactive to March 15, 2018. ==Operation Trenchcoat==