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Resources for researching political parties, interest groups, lobbyists, activists, and other attemps to influence the political system.

To locate resources at the UNT Libraries, search the library catalog using the following subject headings:

• Lobbying
  
• Political Activists
• Political Participation
• Political Parties
  
• Politics, Practical
• Pressure Groups
  
• Student Movements

Major Parties

• Democratic Party
• Republican National Committee
• Constitution Party (formerly United States Taxpayers Party)
• Green Party of the United States | Green Parties of North America | Greens/Green Party USA
• Libertarian Party
• Reform Party

Minor Parties

• America First Party
• American Nazi Party
• American Patriot Party
• American Patriot Party
• American Reform Party (formerly the National Reform Party Committee)
• Campaign for a Working Democracy (formerly the New Union Party)

• Communist Party USA
• Democratic Socialists of America (affilliated with The Socialist International)

• Independent American Party
• Labor Party
• Libertarian National Socialist Green Party
• Light Party
• Multicapitalist Party
• National Socialist Movement
• Natural Law Party of the United States of America
• Pansexual Peace Party
• Party X
• Peace and Freedom Party
• Progressive Labor Party
• Prohibition Party
• Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
• Socialist Action
• Socialist Equality Party
• Socialist International
• Socialist Labor Party of America
• Socialist Party USA
• Socialist Workers Party: see The Militant, their official newspaper
• Tea Party Patriots
• Third Party of America
• United States Marijuana Party
• United States Pacifist Party
• Veterans Party of America
• We The People
• Workers Party, USA
• Workers World Party
• World Socialist Party of the US (affiliated with World Socialist Movement)

Activist Cash

This site, created by the Center for Consumer Freedom, is committed to providing detailed and up-to-date information about the funding source of radical anti-consumer organizations and activists.

Political Advocacy Groups: A Directory of United States Lobbyists

Information on organizations that personally contact, pressure, and/or "educate" representatives; conduct and disseminate policy-oriented research; organize grassroots citizen activism; and provide financial resources to Congressional candidates. Organizations can be browsed by name or subject.

 

Youth-Led Social Activism

Directory of youth activist organizations, with links to other online resources for youth activists.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Organization that works to protect First Amendment rights, equal protection under the law, the right to due process, and the right to privacy.

Civic Practices Network

Collaborative and nonpartisan project bringing together a diverse array of organizations and perspectives within the new citizenship movement. Provides tools for community problem-solving (success stories, case studies and essays); searchable by topic, keyword and geographic area.

 

League of Women Voters

The League, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in elections and government.

 

Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. Occupy Wall Street is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future.

 

Resources for Nonprofit Organizations

Information about more activist groups than any other site in the world, including a library of all-purpose information for non-profits.