{"id":47049,"date":"2026-03-05T22:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=47049"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:03:28","slug":"did-saikat-chakrabarti-co-found-justice-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/did-saikat-chakrabarti-co-found-justice-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Saikat Chakrabarti a co-founder of Justice Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ChatGPT:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes. <strong>Saikat Chakrabarti was one of the co-founders of Justice Democrats.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The group was founded in <strong>2017<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The main founders were:\n<ul>\n<li>Saikat Chakrabarti<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zack Exley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kyle Kulinski<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cenk Uygur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Chakrabarti served as an <strong>executive director of Justice Democrats<\/strong> and helped design the organization\u2019s strategy and technology for grassroots organizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group became well known for recruiting progressive challengers, including <strong>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/strong>, whose 2018 primary victory over <strong>Joe Crowley<\/strong> was a major early success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In short:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Yes \u2014 Chakrabarti <strong>co-founded Justice Democrats<\/strong> and played a central role in building it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want, I can also explain something many people miss: <strong>how Justice Democrats grew out of another project called \u201cBrand New Congress.\u201d<\/strong> That backstory is actually pretty interesting politically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT: Yes. Saikat Chakrabarti was one of the co-founders of Justice Democrats. Chakrabarti served as an executive director of Justice Democrats and helped design the organization\u2019s strategy and technology for grassroots organizing. The group became well known for recruiting progressive challengers, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose 2018 primary victory over Joe&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/did-saikat-chakrabarti-co-found-justice-democrats\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47051,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47049\/revisions\/47051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}