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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] |
| Ideology | |
| 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]
History
Early years
The political movement that began in 1985 as the decentralized Committees of Correspondence[26] evolved into a more centralized structure by 1990, opening a national clearinghouse and forming governing bodies, bylaws and a platform as the Green Committees of Correspondence (GCoC) and by 1990 simply The Greens. The organization conducted grassroots organizing efforts, educational activities and electoral campaigns.
Internal divisions arose between members who saw electoral politics as ultimately corrupting and supported the notion of an "anti-party party" formed by Petra Kelly and other leaders of the Greens in Germany[27] vs. those who saw electoral strategies as a crucial engine of social change. A struggle for the direction of the organization culminated in a "compromise agreement", ratified in 1990 at the Greens National Congress in Elkins, West Virginia and in which both strategies would be accommodated within the same 527 political organization renamed the Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA). It was recognized by the FEC as a national political party in 1991.
The compromise agreement subsequently collapsed and two Green Party organizations co-existed in the United States until 2019 when the Greens/Green Party USA was dissolved. The Green Politics Network was organized in 1990 and the National Association of Statewide Green Parties formed by 1994. Divisions between those pressing to break onto the national political stage and those aiming to grow roots at the local level continued to widen during the 1990s. The Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) encouraged and backed Nader's presidential runs in 1996 and 2000. By 2001, the push to separate electoral activity from the G/GPUSA issue-based organizing led to the Boston Proposal and the subsequent rise of the Green Party of the United States. The G/GPUSA lost most of its affiliates in the next few months and dropped its FEC national party status in the year 2005.
Ideology
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