Who we are

Blue Revolution is a national, online community of 100,000+ progressives fostering camaraderie, good cheer, and action in these tough times. In 2020, we made over 8.7 million voter contacts to swing states through our partners. We aim to do more in 2024!

We’ve worked with dozens of local, House, and senate campaigns over the years. Our activism is done through our incredible partners like Swing Left, Field Team 6, Progressive Turnout Project, and more. We also create captivating (sometimes viral!) content to motivate our members for action.

Founder Dan McCool is a published author who taught political science for many years in NYC. He has been interviewed by NPR, the NYTimes, and various podcasts over the years about American politics in the Trump era, and the role of activists.

While most political spaces on the internet are drowning in negativity and cynicism, we seek to advance an uplifting, positive message to our members about the responsibility and the dignity of political activism. We help get out the vote through activities like letter and postcard-writing, phone banking, text banking, and donations to campaigns in critical races. And we provide spaces for folks to vent and feel welcomed by fellow progressives.

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“Blue Rev gave me a positive outlet for some the darkest days, when I lost hope and everything looked so bleak, Blue Rev was there to get me going again. Write a post card, text a voter, text my Congress people, find a progressive running in a local election and donate to their campaign. Blue Rev kept hope alive! 🇺🇸💙”

— Blue Rev Member, Joyce V.D.K.

Our Team

ADMINISTRATORS

DAN MCCOOL

Dan McCool, PhD is the founder and administrator for Blue Revolution. Dan has been teaching American politics and political theory at different colleges, as an adjunct or visiting lecturer, since 2007. His book "Three Frames of Modern Politics: Self, Institutions, and Others" was published by Palgrave-Macmillan Press in fall 2018.

A native of the Boston area, Dan lives in NYC and is an avid south-shore-style pizza-lover, dog-lover, pun-teller, traveller, coffee-drinker (tho trying to quit), meditator, former comic, and current musician, having played in a number of touring bands from New England and NYC over the years.

Janine BUONOMO

Janine Buonomo is an administrator for Blue Revolution. She has 20 years of experience in business management, human resources, web & graphic design & marketing.

In addition to her work with Blue Revolution, she spends her time with loved ones, her highly sensitive dog, gardening and creating art. Her artwork has been featured in numerous design publications such as Apartment Therapy, Cloth Magazine, Lowes, Curbly, Decoist, and iVillage.

MODERATORS

Kirsten Alexander

Kirsten Alexander is an active volunteer for progressive causes and a Board Member at several Boston area non-profits. Professionally, she leads marketing, editorial, and fundraising efforts for academic, non-profit, and high tech start up organizations. Kirsten has volunteered for political campaigns and get out the vote efforts since childhood, and sent more than 50,000 texts to help elect Blue Revolution candidates and flip the House in the 2018 midterms. She successfully campaigned for marriage equality in MA, and to elect Marty Walsh as Mayor of Boston, Elizabeth Warren as the first MA woman to the US Senate, Sam Yoon as the first Asian-American in the Boston City Council, and Ayanna Pressley as the first Black woman to represent MA in Congress. She thinks it’s ridiculous it took so long for these firsts to happen. After many years in Dorchester, Kirsten now lives North of Boston with her husband, daughter, and extremely photogenic dog.

Sarah Ibrahim Andrade

Sarah Ibrahim Andrade is a native of southern California with a B.A. in Psychology from UC Santa Barbara & a degree in Culinary Arts from Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco. She has been a business owner for over 20 years and currently works in insurance and financial services. She has always been interested in politics but became really active in 2007 when she worked with the Obama campaign. She prides herself on being active in her local community and has served on the board of her local neighborhood council. She currently lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, 2 children, dog, and cat.

Ben Davidson

Ben Davidson is a moderator for Blue Revolution. He is a salesman in the staffing industry by trade and a political operator in his spare time. His political interest was sparked while studying Political Science at Mississippi State University. He used to be a Republican, but has apologized profusely many times about that dark time in his life.

In addition to his work with Blue Revolution, he has also been a Director of Field Operations for a state house race, helped run a massive voter registration operation in the north Atlanta suburbs, and has coordinated events between multiple campaigns on both the state and federal level.

Robyn Donaldson

Robyn Donaldson is a legally-trained political activist and yoga teacher from Atlanta, GA. She is the co-founder of Paths to Peace and has worked for Obama for America and the Jon Ossoff campaign. Robyn has a passion for civil rights, social justice, peace, and nonviolence.

Christa Thompson

Christa Thompson is a single mom and entrepreneur. In 2013 she founded the travel and lifestyle blog, The Fairytale Traveler and has since become a citizen of the world. As a full time travel writer Christa has grown a deep love and respect for culture, history, adventure and humankind. During the pandemic, unable to travel, she launched Mood 13 Magazine as both Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director. Christa owns a home in Northerm Georgia where she and her son like to hike, camp, and explore as often as possible. She loves pop culture, her two pups, cat, working with her hands to build, design, craft and decorate her home, snd Taylor Swift.

TORI SHANK

“Tori is an activist at heart who started getting more involved in politics, especially on the local level, back in 2017. She loves to get involved with campaigns wherever needed, whether that be through canvassing, text banking, phone banking, or letter writing. In 2020 she organized various post card and letter writing pop up events to help get out the vote.

She is a moderator for Blue Revolution and has volunteered with Field Team 6 to register voters. Tori has participated in and volunteered for many different rallies and protests over the years. Most recently volunteering to help with set up at a Bans of Our Bodies event in Harrisburg, PA.

Tori has a business degree and currently works as an independent contractor. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two sons, and best beagle pal Bandit.

Karen Templeton

Karen Templeton is a moderator for Blue Revolution. Karen has 20 years’ experience in public relations, media strategy, and risk and crisis communications. Her career the last few years has focused on higher education fundraising. She has provided communications and fundraising consulting for state-level candidates, advocacy groups and local nonprofits.

In addition to Blue Rev and her career, she goes on adventures with her husband Brian and their children Joseph and Cora. She has a penchant for travel, cooking, and shelter dogs particularly one she rescued named Phoebe.

Andrea WITTCHEN

Andrea Wittchen is a Moderator for Blue Revolution. She is a small business consultant, a fierce advocate for progressive values, and a classically-trained harpist (who has played many a tear-filled virtual concert for Blue Rev volunteers.)

INTERNS

Urwa Hameed

Urwa Hameed is a Research Assistant for Blue Revolution. She is currently a student of Political Science and International Studies at Boston College. She has served as the Vice President of the Debating Union at her university and is currently serving the head of intersectionality and minority rights in student government. She is the recipient of numerous awards at Boston College including the prestigious Thomas Aquino Social Activism Award. She is currently conducting her own research about women in politics which will showcase original date, in-field research and interviews of female political candidates.

Nicholas Newbold

Nicholas Newbold is a Research Assistant for Blue Revolution. He is currently a sophomore at Boston College with a major in Political Science and a minor in Management & Leadership. A child of Boston but a native of Pittsburgh, when not reading and musing about politics, Nicholas can be found with a camera, his dog, and a wisecrack befitting his British ancestry.