A coalition of more than 70 liberal groups coordinated to plan nationwide protests demanding President Donald Trump release his tax returns.
The April 15 protests drew thousands of people in Washington, D.C. 'Local protests' took place in 44 states, with international protests in Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
The protests were organized through a website called TaxMarch.org. The site claims the demonstrations were the result of ordinary Americans, community organizers, advocates, and "people from all walks of life and all backgrounds" holding Trump, his administration, and Congress accountable.
The Tax March's executive committee includes individuals who have already been involved with a number of Trump protests around the country.
Anna Chu, who sits on the Tax March's executive committee, is the vice president for income security and education at the National Women's Law Center, a D.C.-based advocacy group. Chu previously worked for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the advocacy arm of a liberal think tank founded by Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager John Podesta. Before that, Chu was a policy director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and a policy adviser for the House Democratic Caucus.
Ezra Levin, a cofounder and executive director of Indivisible, a D.C-based group that works with activists to resist the Trump agenda at the state level, also sits on the group's executive committee.
Indivisible is closely connected to powerhouse liberal groups that have mapped out protests against Trump and Republican politicians.
The group published a guide for activists that is promoted by other liberal groups, including the Town Hall Project, the "organizing hub" of town hall protests against Republican politicians. The Town Hall Project recently announced a partnership for anti-Trump events with the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Town Hall Project uses an online organizing platform from the Action Network, a group located at the same address as other groups involved in the anti-Trump Tax Day protests such as Color of Change, a union organizing group.
More than 70 progressive groups were involved in the Tax Day protests, including Media Matters for America, an organization run by longtime Clinton ally David Brock, and Demos, a George Soros-funded group chaired by the daughter of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.).
The progressive groups that took part in the Tax Day protests are listed below.
MoveOn.org
Stand Up America
Working Families
A Union of Professionals
American for Tax Fairness
CPD Action
CREDO
Indivisible
Our Revolution
32BJ SEIU
Action Group Network
AVAAZ
Change.org
Color of Change
CWA
Demos
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Education Association (NEA)
National Low Income Housing Coalition
Public Citizen
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
RISE Stronger
#AllofUs
Alliance for Democracy
American Family Voices
Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund
Center for Economic and Social Rights Coalition of Human Needs
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
Coalition of Human Needs
Coming Clean
Common Cause
Courage Campaign
Daily Kos
Demand Universal Healthcare
Demlist
Democracy Spring
Economic Opportunity Institute
Economic Policy Institute
Endangered Species Coalition
Every Voice
Fix Democracy First!
Food & Water Watch
Free Speech for People
Generation Progress
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Jobs With Justice
Main Street Alliance
Media Matters for America
Moms Rising
Money Out Voters In
National Partnership for Women and Families
NELP Action
Other 98
Patriotic Millionaires
People For The American Way
People's Action
ProgressNow
Project Vote
Resource Generation
Rock the Vote
Roots Action
Social Security Works
State Innovation Exchange
Sunlight Foundation
Take On Wall Street
UltraViolet
United For a Fair Economy
United For Homes
UniteWomen.org
Urban Citizens for Social Justice
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom U.S. Section
Workmen's Circle
The Tax March group did not return requests for comment by press time.