TrueMajority is a liberal

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

 advocacy group in the United States

United States

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. In 2008 TrueMajority had over 700,000 members, making it, together with MoveOn

MoveOn

MoveOn is an American non-profit, progressive or liberal public policy advocacy group and political action committee, which has raised millions of dollars for candidates it identifies as "moderates" or "progressives" in the United States. It was formed in 1998 in response to the impeachment of...

, one of the two largest liberal advocacy groups in the U.S. TrueMajority, like MoveOn, and like certain conservative advocacy groups, operates email campaigns, and a foreign journalist described all these organizations as using these campaigns "extraordinarily effectively".

TrueMajority was founded by Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's

Ben & Jerry's

Ben & Jerry's is an American ice cream company, a division of the British-Dutch Unilever conglomerate, that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and ice cream novelty products, manufactured by Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc., headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont, United...

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TrueMajorityACTION is a separate but closely related organization, which has a different status under U.S. law so that it can campaign for specific parties and politicians. In September 2007, TrueMajorityACTION merged with USAction.

TrueMajority was mentioned on The Colbert Report on March 5, 2007 when Ben and Jerry

Jerry Greenfield

Jerry Greenfield is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.Throughout his childhood, Greenfield lived in New York, on Long Island. In 1969, he enrolled at Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum before graduating in 1973...

 made a guest appearance.

Stances

TrueMajority organized protests of the 2008 G-20 Summit

G-20 major economies

The Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 major economies: 19 countries plus the European Union, which is represented by the President of the European Council and by the European Central Bank...

. It also opposed the 2008 financial bailout of banks, and helped to organize protests of the bailout.

In 2004, TrueMajority ran advertisements calling for a paper trail in electronic voting.

Iraq war opposition

TrueMajority co-sponsored protests and advertisements against the Iraq war in 2003. The organization published anti-war advertisements in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, but its ads were refused by television networks including CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

, Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

, MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

, and Comedy Central

Comedy Central

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. TrueMajority also supported Howard Dean

Howard Dean

Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...

 in the 2004 primary, mounting a letter-writing campaign and arguing for his support on the grounds of his opposition to the Iraq War

Opposition to the Iraq War

Significant opposition to the Iraq War occurred worldwide, both before and during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and smaller contingents from other nations, and throughout the subsequent occupation...

. In 2008, TrueMajority gathered over 20,000 petitions to urge CalPERS

CalPERS

The California Public Employees' Retirement System or CalPERS is an agency in the California executive branch that "manages pension and health benefits for more than 1.6 million California public employees, retirees, and their families"...

 to investigate KBR

KBR

KBR can stand for:* KBR - American engineering and construction company* Key-based routing* Royal Library of Belgium* The ISO 639 linguistic identifier code for the Ethiopian language Kaffa ....

 for war profiteering

War profiteering

A war profiteer is any person or organization that profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war. The term has strong negative connotations. General profiteering may also occur in peace time.-International arms dealers:...

, including in the petitions accusations of rape

Rape

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 and murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

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External links

• TrueMajority's web page
• CalPERS urged to divest from KBR by True Majority