Zack Exley

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EducationUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst (BA)
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Brand New Congress
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Websitezackexley.com

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Zack Exley (born December 5, 1969[1]) is an American political and technology consultant.

Early life and education

Exley was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut. He studied abroad at Shanxi Normal University before earning his B.A. in Social Thought and Political Economy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1993. He also attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1][2]

Career

2000s

2000 presidential election

Exley created the political parody website, GWBush.com, as well as cnndn.com, a site that parodied financial reporting. Both sites attracted legal action by Bush's 2000 election campaign and CNN, respectively. CNN successfully closed cnndn.com, but legal action from the Bush campaign led to increased publicity for Exley's site and set legal precedent that has allowed political websites to operate without Federal Election Commission regulation.[3] In response to GWBush.com, then-candidate George W. Bush called Exley a "garbage man" and expressed his opinion that the website should be shut down, arguing "There ought to be limits to freedom."[4][5]

Around the 2000 election controversy, Exley enabled citizens to self-organize over 100 protests around the United States through a website.[6]

2004 presidential election

Exley then served as Organizing Director at MoveOn.org during the group's campaign to prevent the Iraq War, and during its controversial involvement with the Howard Dean 2004 presidential campaign. He was criticized for "rigging" the 2003 "MoveOn Primary" in favor of Dean, a charge the group rejected.[7]

In 2004, he was hired from MoveOn to be the Director of Online Communications and Organizing of the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign,[8][9] and directed internet operations for the UK Labour Party's re-election campaign in 2005.[10]

In 2005, he co-founded the New Organizing Institute, a progressive political technology training organization, where he served as president.[11]

In 2007, Exley started Revolution in Jesusland, a blog that sought to create dialog between the secular left and groups within Evangelical Christianity that promote economic and social justice as a matter of faith.[12][13] The blog has been inactive since 2010.[14]

In 2008, Exley joined ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy, helping to "pair developers with non-profits in need".[15]

2010s

Exley served as the Chief Revenue Officer (formerly Chief Community Officer) at the Wikimedia Foundation from 2010 to 2013. He continued to provide contracted fundraising consultation until 2017.[16][17]

Politico reported in August 2015 that Exley had joined the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign as a senior advisor responsible for digital communications.[18][19] Following Sanders loss in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, several staffers, including Exley, founded Brand New Congress.[1][20]

After the 2016 United States presidential election, Exley, Saikat Chakrabarti, a former fellow Sanders campaign executive, Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks created the Justice Democrats to reform the Democratic Party and challenge President Donald Trump.[21][22] Exley co-founded Middle Seat, a Washington, D.C.-based digital organizing firm, which worked extensively with Justice Democrats.

2020s

As of 2025, Exley was managing Chakrabarti's campaign to challenge Nancy Pelosi in the Democratic primary for California's 11th congressional district.[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Zack Exley". www.influencewatch.org. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Class Notes". www.umassalumni.com. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
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  4. ^ Associated Press, May 21, 1999; Dallas Morning News, May 21, 1999; Jefferson Muzzle Award from http://www.tjcenter.org/past2000.html#item01 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Satirical Web Site Poses Political Test". www.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved October 16, 2023.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Exley, Zack. "Organizing Online". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Franke-Ruta, Garance (June 6, 2003). "Zero Sum. Why MoveOn will be the real winner of its own presidential primary". American Prospect. Archived from the original on May 14, 2006.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CNN.com - Kerry hires online chief from MoveOn - Apr 7, 2004". edition.cnn.com. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
  9. ^ RNC Press release, "Zack Attack!", April 5, 2004.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."No 10 in new dirty tricks row over role of US 'garbage man'". The Independent. February 27, 2005. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wimsatt, William (2010). Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement. Akashic Books. p. 133. ISBN 9781617750113.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cory Doctorow (October 5, 2007). "Revolution in Jesusland: building bridges between progressives and born-agains". BoingBoing. Archived from the original on December 7, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Exley, Zack (September 8, 2007). "Welcome to Jesusland". Revolution in Jesusland. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Exkey, Zack (March 14, 2010). "Revolution in Jesusland". Revolution in Jesusland. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Michelle Evans (March 3, 2008). "ThoughtWorks". Crain's Chicago Business. Archived from the original on March 23, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wikimedia Foundation appoints new CCO and CDGO". June 3, 2010. Archived from the original on June 6, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors". November 7, 2012. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bernie Sanders bulks up his digital operation". POLITICO. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Svitek, Patrick (November 11, 2015). "Sanders Campaign Ramps Up in Texas, by Patrick Svitek". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Brand New Congress". brandnewcongress.org. Archived from the original on November 20, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Grigoryan, Nune; Suetzl, Wolfgang (2019). "Hybridized political participation". In Atkinson, Joshua D.; Kenix, Linda (eds.). Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 190. ISBN 9781498584357.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.David Weigel (January 23, 2017). "Progressives launch 'Justice Democrats' to counter party's 'corporate' legislators". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sosa, Anabel. "Ex-AOC chief of staff going after the most powerful woman in Congress". SFGATE.
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