The role of political resources is helpful in defining a coalition, supporting policy learning, and influencing policy change. This chapter conceptually defines political resource interrelationships and their value to the policy process by examining how coalitions leverage them. Advocacy coalition behavior around the U.S. Violence Against Women Act of 1994 and its four subsequent reauthorizations serve as the study context. The authors use a directed content analysis of evidence documenting four decades of coalition activity. The findings provide three contributions to ACF development. First, the data sources internal to the coalition and data sources external to the coalition tell different stories about coalition behavior. Second, a coalition's control over a resource determines its ability to allocate or influence the resource. Finally, resource usage must be assessed in the context of policy issue type and technological eras.