Editing MoveOn (section)

{{Short description|American grassroots progressive campaigning community}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                = MoveOn
| image               = MoveOn logo black pages.png
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| leader_name         = Rahna Epting
|leader_title         = Executive Director
| formation           = {{start date and age|1998}}
| website             = {{url|moveon.org}}
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'''MoveOn''' (formerly known as '''MoveOn.org''') is a [[progressivism in the United States|progressive]] public policy [[advocacy group]] and [[political action committee]].<ref name=moveonabout>{{cite web|title=What is MoveOn™?|url=http://front.moveon.org/about/#.VNT-k8Yhwt8|publisher=MoveOn.org|access-date=February 6, 2015}}</ref> Formed in 1998 around one of the first massively viral email petitions,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Carr|first=Chris|date=February 7, 1999|title=Internet Anti-Impeachment Drive Yields Big Pledges of Money, Time|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/moveon020799.htm|access-date=May 6, 2021|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref> MoveOn has since grown into one of the largest and most impactful<ref>{{Citation |last=Karpf |first=David |title=The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy Get access Arrow |date=2012-05-29 |pages=22–51 |access-date=2023-09-18 |chapter=The MoveOn Effect: Disruptive Innovation in the Interest Group Ecology of American Politics |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199898367.003.0002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199898367.003.0002 |isbn=978-0-19-989836-7}}</ref> [[grassroots]] progressive campaigning communities in the [[United States]], with a membership of millions.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Karpf|first=David|title=The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2012|isbn=9780199898381}}</ref><ref name="Hayes">{{Cite news|last=Hayes|first=Chris|date=July 16, 2008|title=MoveOn.Org Is Not as Radical as Conservatives Think|journal=The Nation|language=en-US|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/moveonorg-not-radical-conservatives-think/|access-date=May 6, 2021|issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=December 31, 2019|title=MoveOn members in 2019: Putting our people power to work|url=https://front.moveon.org/moveon-in-2019/|access-date=May 6, 2021|website=MoveOn: People-Powered Progress}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=MoveOn endorses Joe Biden|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541|access-date=May 6, 2021|website=[[NBC News]]|language=en}}</ref> MoveOn did not endorse a candidate during the [[2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries|2020 presidential primary campaign]]; it then endorsed and actively supported [[Joe Biden]] in the [[2020 United States presidential election|general election]].<ref name=":4" /> MoveOn endorsed [[Kamala Harris]], the then-current [[Vice President of the United States|vice president of the United States]], as the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] nominee for president in the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 presidential election]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=MoveOn |date=2024-07-22 |title=NEW: MoveOn Members Endorse Vice President Kamala Harris |url=https://front.moveon.org/new-moveon-members-endorse-vice-president-kamala-harris/ |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=MoveOn: People-Powered Progress |language=en-US}}</ref> Rahna Epting has been Executive Director of MoveOn Civic Action and MoveOn Political Action since 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|last=MoveOn|date=October 17, 2019|title=A note from MoveOn's new executive director, Rahna Epting|url=https://moveon-org.medium.com/a-note-from-moveons-new-executive-director-rahna-epting-3df8bbc21177|access-date=May 6, 2021|website=Medium|language=en}}</ref>