Green Party of the United States

The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States.[13] The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy; grassroots democracy; anti-war; anti-racism; libertarian socialism and 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.[14]

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Green Party of the United States
Abbreviation	GPUS
Co-chairs	Ahmed Eltouny (NJ) Christopher Stella (LA) Rei Stone-Grover (MI) Garret Wasserman (PA) Margaret Elisabeth (WA) Tamar Yager (VA) Anita Rios (OH)
Governing body	Green National Committee
Founders	Howie Hawkins John Rensenbrink
Founded	April 2001; 22 years ago (2001-04)
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]
Ideology	Green politics[4] Eco-socialism[5] Libertarian socialism[6] Communalism[7] Progressivism[8] Left-wing populism[8]
Political position	Left-wing[9][10]
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	142 (November 2023)[update][11][12]
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Website
www.gp.org
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The direct predecessor of the GPUS was the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP). In the late 1990s, the ASGP, which formed in 1996,[15] had increasingly distanced itself from the Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA),[16] 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.[17] 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.[18][19]

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.[20][21][22][23] Nader has dismissed the notion that he and other Green candidates are spoilers.[24]