Gina Cooper
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Gina is a new media strategist who specializes in using technology to bring together engaged Americans with political experts. Her approach to online politics has become a cornerstone of the online progressive movement.

She is also the founder and past CEO of Netroots Nation, the most dynamic and influential political organization to emerge from the early years of the progressive blogosphere.

Gina continues to explore innovative ways in which the Internet can help ordinary people become invested in their own political solutions. Most recently, Gina co-founded Tweet Progress, a directory of progressives on Twitter. Last summer Gina traveled to Taiwan to advise top elected officials on open government initiatives. In 2008 Gina was a member of Barack Obama’s policy advisory committee for Technology, Media, and Telecommunications and served on the E-Government-E-Democracy subcommittee.

Blog Entries by Gina Cooper

Lies, Disappearing Documentation, Surround Republican David Rivera (FL-25)

Posted October 29, 2010 | 13:55:51 (EST)

From crashing his car into a postal vehicle carrying his opponent's mailers, to funneling campaign cash through mama's consulting business, the more we learn about Republican David Rivera the more, well, fuzzy it gets.

The widget below chronicles the press over the past couple weeks and what they've been...

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(Updated) Shocking Violence, No Surprise (Timeline)

Posted October 27, 2010 | 18:16:56 (EST)

"Offended and outraged." That was the reaction of MoveOn's Ilyse Hogue to Rand Paul campaign worker Tim Profitt who suggested that Lauren Valle should apologize for being thrown to the ground and having her head stomped by his fellow supporters. Raw footage shows 23-year-old, 110 lb Lauren being held...

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AZ Sen: Parraz and Glassman Mark Front Line of Democratic Culture War

Posted August 16, 2010 | 16:58:18 (EST)

Last week CNN called the Senate primary between Arizona Democrats Randy Parraz and Rodney Glassman "THE primary to watch." Citing Parraz's "message, momentum, and support" as responsible for the "dead heat" presumed front-runner Glassman now finds himself in, "Latinos, the GLBT community and many independents" are breaking...

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Moving Towards a More Interactive Era of Government: AskTheSpeaker.org Launches

Posted July 8, 2008 | 14:05:55 (EST)

At the center of technology-enabled politics are people. They are people of varying degrees of expertise from the big thinkers who have made careers out of the big thinking they do, to regular people who experience policy consistently, but often unconsciously, as it is part of their everyday lives. We've...

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Going to Texas: Expanding our Netroots Nation

Posted November 15, 2007 | 13:12:10 (EST)

July 17-20, 2008: Netroots Nation is coming to Austin!

(Netroots Nation is the convention and organization formerly known as YearlyKos)

The face of progressive politics is changing. Regular people have taken it on as their civic duty to become activists, and citizen journalists,...

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Growing our Netroots Nation

Posted November 8, 2007 | 14:56:50 (EST)

The face of progressive politics is changing. Thanks in large part to the fact that growing online communities, activism, organization, and communication are in the hands of the American people more than ever before. From electing candidates to fact-checking the traditional media and everything in between, people-powered politics will only...

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