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Tennessee Citizen Action is an affiliate of US Action. It's Executive Director, Brian McGuire, ran in 1996 for a House seat. Political party: Democrat. From the US Action website: "Across America, well-funded right-wing forces continue to try and control the political agenda. If unchallenged, they will continue to tear down the institutions that have helped immigrants and low-income Americans rise out of poverty. If unopposed, they will work to promote a world vision based on individual gain -- refusing adequate health care to all but the very rich, assaulting the rights of consumers and working people, undermining democracy, and betraying the promise of equal opportunity embodied in our educational system. Throughout American history, the strongest national organizations have combined independent, locally-rooted power bases with an effective national center. USAction and USAction Education Fund are working together to help create an organization whose whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. USAction is the nation�s largest progressive activist organization, dedicated to winning social, racial and economic justice for all. We join together from different backgrounds around an issue of common concern: to take our democracy back from the corporate elite and the well-heeled special interests that dominate the political process today. USAction fights to win real changes that benefit the vast majority of Americans whose voices are not being heard in our state capitols and in the corridors of power in Washington. USAction Education Fund (USAEF) provides educational programming, technical support, and research to state, regional, and national organizations promoting social justice in the United States. USAEF devotes its primary attention to multi-issue, multi-constituency organizations that are committed to empowering low- and moderate-income communities and individuals. Our work assists them in expanding civic participation, especially for traditionally under-represented groups such as people of color, people with disabilities, low-income workers and retirees, women, and gays and lesbians. By working closely with USAction, a democratic organization governed by its thirty-three affiliates, USAEF is able to prioritize our work according to the expressed needs of the constituents we serve. USAction represents the largest grouping of such organizations in the nation."