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Green Party of the United States | |
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| Governing body | Green National Committee |
| Founders | Howie Hawkins John Rensenbrink |
| Founded | April 2001 |
| Split from | Greens/Green Party USA |
| Preceded by | Association of State Green Parties |
| Headquarters | 6411 Orchard Avenue, Suite 101, Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 |
| Newspaper | Green Pages |
| Youth wing | Young Ecosocialists[1] |
| Women's wing | National Women's Caucus[1] |
| LGBTQIA+ wing[2] | Lavender Greens[1] |
| Latino and Hispanic wing | Latinx Caucus[1] |
| Black wing | National Black Caucus[1] |
| Membership (2023) |  239,474 [3] |
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| Political position | Left-wing[9][10] |
| Regional affiliation | São Paulo Forum (applicant)[11] |
| Continental affiliation | Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas |
| International affiliation | Global Greens (associate member) |
| Colors | Green |
| Seats in the Senate | 0 / 100 |
| Seats in the House of Representatives | 0 / 435 |
| State governorships | 0 / 50 |
| Seats in state upper chambers | 0 / 1,972 |
| Seats in state lower chambers | 0 / 5,411 |
| Territorial governorships | 0 / 5 |
| Seats in territorial upper chambers | 0 / 97 |
| Seats in territorial lower chambers | 0 / 91 |
| Other elected officials | 144 (February 2024)[update][12][13] |
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The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States.[14] The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy; grassroots democracy; anti-war; anti-racism; eco-socialism. On the political spectrum, the party is generally seen as left-wing.[7] As of 2023,[update] it is the fourth-largest political party in the United States by voter registration, behind the Libertarian Party.[15]
The direct predecessor of the GPUS was the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP). In the late 1990s, the ASGP, which formed in 1996,[16] had increasingly distanced itself from the Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA),[17] America's then-primary green organization which had formed in 1991 out of the Green Committees of Correspondence (CoC), a collection of local green groups active since 1984.[18] In 2001, the GPUS was officially founded as the ASGP split from the G/GPUSA. After its founding, the GPUS soon became the primary national green organization in the country, surpassing the G/GPUSA. John Rensenbrink and Howie Hawkins were co-founders of the Green Party.[19][20]
The Greens (as ASGP) first gained widespread public attention during the 2000 presidential election, when the ticket composed of Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke won 2.7% of the popular vote, raising questions as to whether they spoiled the election in favor of George W. Bush.[21][22][23][24] Nader has dismissed the notion that he and other Green candidates are spoilers.[25]
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- ^ "LGBTQIA+ – National Lavender Greens Caucus Green Party of the United States". Green Party of the United States. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ "Green Party Voter Registration Statistics". www.registergreenparty.org. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
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- ^ a b "Green Party of the United States – National Committee Voting – Proposal Details". Green Party US. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ a b McLarty, Scott (December 20, 2010). "Memo to Progressives: Green or the Graveyard" (PDF). Green Party of the United States. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ "Presidential Hopefuls Meet in Third Party Debate". PBS. October 25, 2012. Archived from the original on January 15, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Resnikoff, Ned (June 23, 2015). "Green Party's Jill Stein Running for President". Al Jazeera. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ "GPUS joining the So Paulo Forum". Green Party of the United States. October 27, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
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Green Officeholderswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "How many politicians are there in the USA? (Infographic)". PoliEngine. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
- ^ "Green Party". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Winger, Richard (March 28, 2021). "March 2021 Ballot Access News Print Edition". Ballot Access News. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
- ^ "AOR 2011–13: Advisory Opinion Request (AOR) Seeking Recognition of the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of the United States as the National Committee of the Green Party" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. August 9, 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ "Coordinating Committee for the Greens/Green Party USA National Committee Governing Body of the "Green Party", Greens/Green Party USA" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. September 7, 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ "Advisory Opinion 2001–13" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. November 8, 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ "Green Party convention-goers are ready to take on President Obama, Mitt Romney". The Washington Post. July 15, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2022.
- ^ "GreenLine — November 03, 2020".
- ^ Dao, James (November 9, 2000). "The 2000 Elections: The Green Party; Angry Democrats, Fearing Nader Cost Them Presidential Race, Threaten to Retaliate". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Roberts, Joel (July 27, 2004). "Nader to crash Dems' party?". CBS News.
- ^ Burden, Barry C. (2003). "Chapter 11: Minor Parties in the 2000 Presidential Election". In Weisberg, Herbert F.; Wilcox, Clyde (eds.). Models of Voting in Presidential Elections: The 2000 U.S. Election. Stanford University Press. pp. 206–227. ISBN 9780804748568.
- ^ Herron, Michael C.; Lewis, Jeffrey B. (April 24, 2006). "Did Ralph Nader spoil Al Gore's Presidential bid? A ballot-level study of Green and Reform Party voters in the 2000 Presidential election". Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 2 (3). Now Publishing Inc.: 205–226. doi:10.1561/100.00005039. Pdf.
- ^ Nader, Ralph (June 2, 2016). "I was not a 'spoiler' in 2000. Jill Stein doesn't deserve that insulting label, either". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 14, 2019.