He is involved as a strategist, board member, and donor with a number of organizations which seek to advance limited government and self-governance.

O'Keefe is a founding board member of Citizens for Self-Governance,[1] co-chairman and co-founder of the Campaign for Primary Accountability Political Action Committee, and chairman of the Health Care Compact Alliance.

He is also a member of the board of directors of the Center for Competitive Politics, the Citizens in Charge Foundation, and the Wisconsin Club for Growth.

The group is a political action committee which seeks "to oust entrenched members of Congress in their primary races, regardless of their party.

Term Limits, Inc., v. Thornton, the Supreme Court ruled that states do not have the right to determine the conditions under which their representatives in Congress will serve.

Although an attorney recommended that the company declare bankruptcy to step away from the financial destruction caused by the felonious employees, O'Keefe chose to remain in business so creditors could be repaid.

According to O'Keefe and Rivkin, "state laws that purport to bind delegates can't be enforced without violating the First Amendment.

"[25][26] To be clear, this conclusion ends the John Doe investigation because the special prosecutor's legal theory is unsupported in either reason or law.

The probe, launched in the summer of 2012, was investigating whether conservative groups in Wisconsin had engaged in illegal campaign coordination.

[28][29][30] In November 2013, O'Keefe defied the gag order, and confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that he had received a subpoena in early October 2013 regarding the John Doe investigation.

O'Keefe told The Wall Street Journal that at least three other targets of the investigation had their homes raided at dawn by law-enforcement officers who seized belongings, including computers and files.

[31] In February 2014, O'Keefe sued in federal court to stop the investigation on the grounds that it violated his free speech rights.

Abrahamson argued, among other points, that "The court's failure to provide further justification for its highly unusual decision to cancel oral argument is, in my view, alarming."

[27] O'Keefe is the author of Who Rules America: The People Versus the Political Class, which makes the case for term limits.