Current Campaigns

In response to news reports that BuzzFeed has pulled out of a $1.3 million advertising deal with the Republican National Committee over Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric, Murshed Zaheed, Vice President…

“We’re thrilled that President Obama has joined the millions of progressive activists who support expanding Social Security,” said CREDO Political Director Murshed Zaheed. “This is a huge reversal from the days when President Obama sought a so-called ‘grand bargain’ with Republicans that included cuts to Social Security benefits,” Zaheed continued, adding, “thanks to relentless grassroots activism, the national conversation has shifted from cutting Social Security to expanding it.”

On the heels of Donald Trump securing the Republican nomination, CREDO is escalating its campaign urging Google not to sponsor the Republican National Convention across multiple channels with a scathing…

CREDO singled out Google in part because of the company’s reputation for promoting the “values of diversity and inclusion,” Heidi Hess, a campaign leader for CREDO, said at the time of the video’s release.

Speaking to The Huffington Post this week, Hess called the companies’ willingness to sponsor the Republican convention, despite their opposition to the North Carolina law, “ironic and troubling.”

At the same time, she argued, “it is not surprising that they are able to get over the cognitive dissonance in order to think about their bottom line.”

This spring, several progressive groups said Coca-Cola, Microsoft and a few other big corporations should retract $100,000 contributions pledged for the Republican convention in Cleveland. The progressive groups said the money would help promote Trump, thus compromising the corporations’ own policies not to discriminate. “They can’t be out there professing their commitment to those core values, when they end up making decisions to align their brand with Trump’s racist and sexist campaign,” said Murshed Zaheed, political director of Credo Action. “They can’t have it both ways.”

Come July, some of America’s best-known companies will pay to celebrate the nomination of Donald Trump, whose racist rants have in the past caused NBC, Macy’s and Nascar to distance themselves from him. Progressive political groups like ColorOfChange.org and Credo Action are pressuring Coca-Cola, Walmart, Microsoft, Facebook and Google to cut off money for the Republican gathering.