Americonservatism/organizations

page type::list thing type::organizations subject::Americonservative organizations

Note
Eventually, US conservatism will be moved to Americonservatism, but I don't have time to update all the links right now -- so I'm saving that move for later.

Eventually, there will be a database of organizations which can be queried by various attributes: political ideology, type of org (think tank, etc.)... need to get some clarity on what the different types are and how to distinguish between them.

Related: think-tanks

Active

 * OpenSecrets
 * (Joe Kaufman) (article is deleted in Wikipedia as of 2013-11-11)
 * (AEI)
 * (AFP)
 * founded 1985 by Grover Norquist
 * (ALEC)
 * is 's blog, not an organization as such
 * - foundation, founded 1942
 * Cato Institute -- more libertarian than Americonservative, although they were taken over by the Koch brothers in late 2012
 * Capitol Hill Daily
 * Century Strategies founded in 1997 by Ralph Reed (Ralph E. Reed Jr.); provides campaign consulting for Republican candidates
 * Citizens United (W) founded 1988
 * (CEI)
 * Constitutional Rights PAC (Larry Ward)
 * Declaration Alliance or Declaration Foundation
 * : Canadian right-libertarian think tank
 * Free Enterprise Fund (FEF)
 * Gear Up Foundation (Vincent Forras)
 * Heartland Institute -- focused on global warming denialism in the 2000s; prior to that, helped promote the idea that smoking is healthy
 * Heritage Foundation -- predicted in 2001 that the Bush tax cuts would pay down the federal deficit by 2010; in 2011, Paul Ryan based his budget proposal on numbers they provided
 * John Locke Foundation -- mainly operates in North Carolina; part of Art Pope's empire
 * : libertarian think-tank established 1981 as the International Center for Economic Policy Studies by Antony Fisher and William J. Casey.
 * California-based free-market think tank founded in 1979 to promote "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government.
 * : not sure if this is a real organization or just a reference to the historical one
 * (USCC)
 * (aka Western Center for Journalism) (Floyd Brown; founded in 1991 by Joseph Farah and James H. Smith)
 * (founded in May 1997 by Joseph Farah)
 * pro-patriarchy:
 * (formerly Alliance Defense Fund): legal defense group, founded 1994 by Bill Bright (founder, Cru), Larry Burkett (co-founder, Crown Financial Ministries), James Dobson (founder, Focus on the Family), D. James Kennedy (founder, Coral Ridge Ministries), Marlin Maddoux (president, International Christian Media), and Donald Wildmon (founder, American Family Association)
 * (ADA) founded in 1999 by former elementary school teacher Bill Johnson; formerly Michigan chapter of AFA
 * (AFA) founded in 1977 by Donald Wildmon as the National Federation for Decency
 * Center for Marriage Policy
 * (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) founded 1951 by Bill Bright
 * founded 1989 by Pat Robertson
 * founded 1960 by D. James Kennedy
 * formed by 2000 merger of Christian Financial Concepts (founded 1976 by Larry Burkett) and Crown Ministries (founded 1985 by Howard Dayton).
 * founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972; has close ties to Conservapedia
 * founded 2009 by Ralph Reed
 * founded 1981 by James Dobson
 * founded 1977 by James Dobson
 * International Christian Media founded by Marlin Maddoux
 * provides free legal assistance in defense of "Christian religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, and the traditional family."
 * founded 1971 as "Free Market Counsel". "a third tier religious right legal group at best" - Ed Brayton
 * Ruth Institute (site blog): a NOM project
 * founded 1984; designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for spreading false information
 * founded 1971 as "Free Market Counsel". "a third tier religious right legal group at best" - Ed Brayton
 * Ruth Institute (site blog): a NOM project
 * founded 1984; designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for spreading false information
 * Ruth Institute (site blog): a NOM project
 * founded 1984; designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for spreading false information
 * Ruth Institute (site blog): a NOM project
 * founded 1984; designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for spreading false information

Defunct

 * founded by Jerry Falwell in 1979 and dissolved in the late 1980s.
 * (PNAC): infamously called for a new Pearl Harbor prior to 9/11