12 Facts About ThinkProgress

ThinkProgress was an American progressive news website that was active from 2005 to 2019.

ThinkProgress hosted a climate section called Climate Progress, which was founded by Joe Romm.

ThinkProgress was founded in 2005 by Judd Legum, a lawyer, who ran the site until he left in 2007.

ThinkProgress described itself as "editorially independent" of the Center for American Progress and CAP Action.

In November 2016 ThinkProgress launched a "Trump Investigation Fund" crowdfunding effort.

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ThinkProgress reports drew comment from news outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and CNN.

In 2013, ThinkProgress posted a video of Pam Simon, a staffer for Representative Gabby Giffords, who was shot alongside Giffords in 2011, confronting Senator Kelly Ayotte regarding Ayotte's opposition to closing the gun show loophole; the Times cited the video in a report on gun control activism among gun violence victims.

Similarly, a 2012 Washington Post article cited ThinkProgress research showing that Crossroads GPS failed to register as a nonprofit organization in Virginia.

ThinkProgress reported an average of one school shooting every other day in the first days of 2014; Post columnist Dana Milbank cited the research in a 2014 column on the lack of progress on gun control.

ThinkProgress reports were cited by academic researchers in peer-reviewed journals such as Climatic Change and The American Economic Review.

In 2017 ThinkProgress published the disciplinary records of the New York City police officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal choke hold.

ThinkProgress had about 100,000 visitors per day in 2006,6 million unique visitors and 14 million page views in March 2014, and 8 to 10 million unique page views per month in 2017.