Founder and CEO
Nick Penniman is the Founder and CEO of Issue One, one of the country’s leading pro-democracy nonprofit organizations. Prior to founding Issue One, he was the founder and executive director of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Washington director of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, publisher of the Washington Monthly magazine, director of the Alliance for Democracy, and an editor at various publications, including the American Prospect and the Lincoln Journal. He is co-author of “Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy And What We Can Do About It,” published by Bloomsbury in 2016, and writes and appears regularly in various media outlets. He is a trustee of St. Lawrence University.
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A new analysis from Issue One finds that President Donald Trump has sold access and influence to domestic and foreign interests, and used the presidency to enrich himself and his…
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In response to President Trump continuing his unauthorized war in Iran and Congress failing to assert its war authority mandated by the 1973 War Powers Resolution, Issue One Founder and…
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In response to President Trump firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Issue One Founder and CEO Nick Penniman provided the following statement: “The scandal-plagued tenure of Kristi Noem was…
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In response to both this general situation and today’s news that Gov. Time Walz deployed the National Guard to Minneapolis in the aftermath of a Border Patrol agent shooting and…
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One year into his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump has reshaped the presidency to drastically blur the lines between government and business, abetting unprecedented levels of…
