In painting critical reporting on the Iowa caucuses debacle as a Russian plot, a Western government-backed information warfare shop smeared The Grayzone and independent reporter Jordan Chariton, falsely claiming both are “state-backed media accounts.”
By Alex Rubinstein
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, an online censorship initiative of the Western government-funded German Marshall Project, falsely and hypocritically characterized The Grayzone and independent journalist Jordan Chariton as “state-backed media,” smearing them for their factual reporting on the shadowy network behind the controversial app that undermined the integrity of the Iowa caucuses.
The Grayzone has exposed the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) in a series of investigative reports as a neo-McCarthyite outfit prone to spreading disinformation, staffed by counter-terror cranks and national security hustlers.
The ASD’s parent organization also happens to be bankrolled by the US government, numerous European governments, and the European Union, at the tune of millions of dollars — making these false accusations against The Grayzone and Jordan Chariton actual state-backed smears.
Chariton, who founded the independent progressive news outlet Status Coup, hit back at the ASD’s outrageous claims. “The days of faux democracy gladiators defaming journalists – whose factual work they seek to discredit – as part of a Kremlin syndicate are over. It’s time to fight back,” he told The Grayzone.
On February 10, the ASD published a dubious analysis of a supposed Russian effort to spread conspiracies and disinformation around the Iowa caucuses. It honed in on the Russian-funded Sputnik News and three shows broadcast by RT. Those programs included “Going Underground,” which is hosted by British journalist Afshin Rattansi.
The post continued: “In addition, all the most popular tweets about Iowa retweeted in this time period by at least one monitored account pushed a narrative that the Democratic National Committee and/or the Democratic establishment more broadly seeks to undermine Sanders via nefarious means. Monitored accounts ‘Redacted Tonight’ (@redactedtonight) and ‘Watching the Hawks’ (@watchinghawks) are the primary accounts engaging directly with this material.”
On Twitter, state-backed media accounts spread various conspiracy theories about the Iowa caucus, many of which claimed the DNC, news media, and other candidates used “dirty tricks” to steal the victory from Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“Watching the Hawks” is hosted by American journalist and son of former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, Tyrel Ventura. “Redacted Tonight” is a political satire show hosted by American comedian Lee Camp. Camp opens each show by welcoming his live studio audience to “the comedy show where Americans in America covering American news are called foreign agents.”
The social media managers for both “Watching the Hawks” and “Redacted Tonight” are US citizens.
Nonetheless, the retweeting by these shows of factual reporting by The Grayzone and Jordan Chariton set off national security alarm bells among the disinformation warriors of the Alliance for Securing Democracy.
The Grayzone article that the ASD took issue with exposed the role of pro-Israel billiionaire Seth Klarman in pouring his money into the Super PAC behind the faulty Iowa vote results app, while at the same time donating directly to candidate Pete Buttigieg – the candidate who benefited the most from the sabotage of the caucus results.
The Klarman Family Foundation also happens to be a major funder of the ASD.
On Twitter, the ASD muddled the distinction between The Grayzone, Chariton, and the RT-sponsored Twitter accounts that retweeted them. The outfit claimed that “state-backed media accounts spread various conspiracy theories about the Iowa caucuses, many of which claimed the DNC, news media, and other candidates used “dirty tricks” to steal the victory from Sen. Bernie Sanders.” Attached to the tweet was a screenshot of tweets by The Grayzone and Chariton, making no mention of either “Watching the Hawks” or “Redacted Tonight.”
The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal responded to the smear with indignation: “Neither Jordan Chariton nor The Grayzone are state-backed media, unlike your fiscal parent. And our reporting is 100% factual, unlike yours,” Blumenthal wrote on Twitter. “We are currently exploring options for holding your McCarthyite operation fully accountable for spreading malicious disinformation.”
After enduring a withering barrage of online criticism for its malicious falsehood, the ASD issued a weasely “clarifying point.” The Alliance for securing media citations and grants from oligarchs
The Alliance for Securing Democracy is the most prominent of an array of information warfare initiatives that exploited public hysteria over supposed Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections.
The group’s Hamilton 68 Dashboard claimed to have tracked 600 Twitter accounts supposedly “linked to Russian influence operations.” In the mainstream press, that dubious claim was stretched even further as the dashboard was touted as a tool for keeping tabs on “Russian bots.”
Among the widely cited claims of Russian covert influence campaigns was the #taketheknee trend inspired by blacklisted NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s high-profile protest of police brutality. The ASD’s cynical accusation, that a domestic protest movement against racism was being manipulated by the Kremlin, was reported uncritically by the New York Times.
As @BenjaminNorton reported, Alliance for Securing Democracy is co-directed by neocon Jamie Fly, who currently serves as the president and CEO of the US government's media propaganda arm, RFE/RL.
The ASD has even claimed that Stars and Stripes, a military publication operated out of the Department of Defense, was an outlet “relevant to Russian messaging themes.” It has made similar accusations against The Intercept.
Oddly enough, the sole proprietor of The Intercept is billionaire Pierre Omidyar, whose Democracy Fund is a major financial backer of the Alliance for Securing Democracy.
Aside from Omidyar’s Democracy Fund, the ASD is backed by Craig Newmark, the namesake of Craigslist, and the Klarman Family Foundation. As The Grayzone recently reported, Seth Klarman is a major funder of pro-settler Israel lobby organizations. He is also a prominent debt vulture strangling Puerto Rico with austerity. And, again, Klarman is a top donor to Buttigieg, the self-declared winner of the Iowa caucuses.
Ascertaining a full picture of just who is backing the ASD is not possible, however, as the organization’s public list of funders “does not include any donors who do not wish to disclose their charitable giving.”
But besides the centrist billionaires that fund it, the group’s fiscal parent rakes in money from Western governments, including the US State Department. Meet the real state-backed disinfo shop
While the Alliance for Securing Democracy claims to be independently funded, it shares major backers with the German Marshall Fund (GMF), including the Sandler Foundation.
Likewise, Omidyar’s Democracy Fund gave somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million to the GMF, while Klarman Family Foundation chipped in between $250,000 and $499,999.
According to the ASD website, the group is “housed at the German Marshall Fund.”
Unlike The Grayzone and Jordan Chariton, the GMF is a state-backed entity that faithfully pursues the agenda of its government funders.
In the 2019 fiscal year, the German Marshall Fund received $1 million or more from both the German and Swedish foreign offices, at least $1 million from the US State Department, and $1 million or more from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a primary arm of the US government for fomenting regime change abroad.
The European Commission — which is the executive branch of the European Union — supported the German Marshall Fund to the tune of between $500,000 and $999,999.
Additional supporters of the German Marshall Fund include branches of the German and US government, anti-communist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, NATO, internet giants like Google, the European Parliament, oil companies like Exxon, big agro companies like Bayer, large banks, and an array of global arms dealers such as Raytheon and Boeing. The Theranos nanotainer of Russiagate online initiatives
The Alliance for Security Democracy’s bogus dashboard was undoubtedly the most-cited authority on Russian bot activity in the media. But its credibility suffered a major blow following a series of revealing remarks by founder Clint Watts, who confessed to Buzzfeed, “We don’t even think [all the accounts we monitor are] all commanded in Russia — at all. We think some of them are legitimately passionate people that are just really into promoting Russia.”
Having banked his credibility on fighting the supposedly pernicious presence of Russian bots, Watts went on to concede, “I’m not convinced on this bot thing.”
The ASD’s faulty methodology was developed by J.M. Berger and Jonathon Morgan. The latter was involved in orchestrating a false flag influence campaign targeting Alabama’s Senate elections, and was banned from Facebook after it was exposed. New York Times reporter Scott Shane, who reported on the disinformation campaign, was also responsible for hyping up the ASD’s supposed findings on the “take the knee” hashtag.
But among the ASD’s cadre of national security hacks, Clint Watts is perhaps the most shameless hustler. As The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal previously reported, “Watts appears to speak no Russian, has no record of reporting or scholarship from inside Russia, and has produced little to no work of any discernible academic value on Russian affairs.”
In his published work, Watts has not only called for the US to “befriend” the “al-Qaeda linked group” Ahrar al-Sham; he also urged Washington to support “jihadi[s]” in order to deliver “payback” to Russia.
Tulsi Gabbard’s take on Syria is completely false. US did not start the war in Syria nor did we initiate a regime change. US did not back al Qaeda in Syria. Why didn’t the moderators or other candidates challenge her on these falsehoods?
In testimony to Congress in 2017, Watts claimed Russia organized a massive bot attack on his Twitter account after his article urging support for al-Qaeda was published. The tale was not just hyperbole; it appeared to have been a fabrication. He also regaled Congress with a story about RT’s and Sputnik’s coverage of a stand-off at Turkey’s Incirlik Airbase that was completely false.
Clint Watts has admitted to running an influence operation for 15 years aimed at improving approval for US foreign policy in the Middle East, which he has said “had almost no success,” and came at a cost of “billions a year in tax dollars.”
While he hypes his work for the FBI, where he spent at most one year, Watts has spent much of his career at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a hardline neoconservative think tank founded by an open white supremacist.
And left unmentioned in Watts’ bio is his affiliation with the Central Intelligence Agency: the Agency has published an article he co-authored with former CIA director and current CNN contributor John Brennan.
Besides producing dubious analysis, Clint Watts has exhibited a tendency for paranoid Cold War fantasies. In 2017, he warned an audience that Russia was “trying to knock us down and take us over,” then claimed that his colleagues had seen their computers “burned up by malware” after they criticized Russia.
In response to supposed Russian meddling, Watts has called for interfering in Russia’s elections, “but do[ing] it in line with the founding principles of democracy and America.”
He has also called for a government-imposed censorship campaign inside the United States, demanding it “quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.”
Even as the Alliance for Securing Democracy was exposed by The Grayzone and others as the Russiagate version of the phony Theranos nanotainer – with Clint Watts playing the Cold Warrior analog to Elizabeth Holmes – the state-backed neo-McCarthyite operation has forged ahead, rebranding its dashboard as “Hamilton 2.0” and rolling out an “Authoritarian Interference Tracker.”
Currently, the ASD is hyping up claims by NATO vassal state Estonia about Russian interference in their country, according to its “Authoritarian Interference Tracker.” Coincidentally, former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves sits on ASD’s advisory council.
He is joined on the ASD board by Michael Chertoff, the notoriously self-dealing former Department of Homeland Security chief; and by John Podesta, who workshopped ways to “stick the knife” into Bernie Sanders while leading Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016. Podesta was recently nominated to the 2020 Democratic Convention Rules Committee.
Also on the ASD advisory council is neoconservative extraordinaire turned liberal media’s favorite Never-Trumper Bill Kristol, who is widely acknowledged as the leading media and think tank influencer behind the US invasion of Iraq. Kristol has called for a deep state coup to depose Trump, and is rolling out a wave of ads to undermine Bernie Sanders.
Former CIA director Michael Morell, who offered unsolicited advice on killing Russians and Iranians in Syria during a televised interview, and the obsessively anti-Russian former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul also occupy seats on the council.
While the ASD couches its work as an attempt to counter Russian disinformation, a clear pattern has emerged of efforts to suppress domestic reporting in the US that doesn’t conform to the imperial foreign policy consensus.
As The Grayzone previously reported, senior German Marshall Fund fellow and neocon movement veteran Jamie Fly appeared to take credit for a purge of popular Facebook accounts of alternative media outlets including The Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, and Cop Block. He promised it was “just the beginning.”
Now, the Alliance for Securing Democracy has trained its guns on The Grayzone. And with its latest falsehood, this malign organization has targeted an independent journalistic organization that has done more than any other to hold it accountable.
In November 2019, the Bolivian army – with a nudge from the shadows – told its President Evo Morales Ayma to resign. Morales would eventually go to Mexico and then seek asylum in Argentina. Jeanine Áñez, a far-right politician who was not in the line of succession, seized power; the military, the fascistic civil society groups and sections of the evangelical church backed her. Áñez said that she would hold elections soon, but that she would herself not stand in them.
Áñez set the date of election for May 3. Despite her promise, she will stand for the presidency. The conditions for the election are so poor that the United Nations has publicly worried about the “exacerbated polarization” in the country. There is ample evidence of intimidation and violence being used by the interim government and its far-right allies against the members of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) – Morales’s party – and its supporters. Even though early polls indicate that MAS is ahead, with its candidates Luis Arce Catacora (president) and David Choquehuanca Céspedes (vice president), there is every indication that dirty tricks are afoot to create fear in society and to disenfranchise sections of the Bolivian citizenry.
Áñez attempted to suffocate society with great force after the November coup, but pressure from MAS militants and its base – as well as the United Nations, the European Union, and the Catholic Church – have forced Áñez to send Bolivian forces to the barracks and to withdraw the decree that granted the military immunity for its violence. This has not stopped Áñez and her far-right base from using the state to oppress MAS – including arresting over 100 MAS officials and threatening 592 more with charges that include sedition and terrorism (Morales already faces these charges). Arturo Murillo, Áñez’s interior minister, has called for the disenfranchisement of voters from the Chapare, an area that almost completely supports MAS.
On Jan. 9, the U.S. government sent a USAID team to offer “technical support” for the election; Morales had expelled USAID in 2013 on the grounds that it was working to undermine his government. “Technical support” is another way of saying interference in the elections.
To head Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Áñez brought back Salvador Romero, who had been in charge of this body from 2003 to 2008. After Morales won his first election, he told Romero that his term would not be extended. Romero rushed to the U.S. embassy in La Paz to complain to U.S. Ambassador Phillip Goldberg, whom Morales expelled from Bolivia in 2008 (Goldberg is now the U.S. ambassador in Colombia). The United States took care of Romero; he was appointed to head the National Democratic Institute in Honduras, a quasi-independent agency of the U.S. ruling class that works towards “democracy promotion” – in other words, towards installing pro-U.S. and pro-capitalist parties into office in places such as Bolivia and Honduras. In the first election after the 2009 coup in Honduras, Romero provided a patina of legitimacy for the violence that led to the 2013 election of the far-right candidate, Juan Orlando Hernández.
María Amparo Pineda Duarte.
A few days before the 2013 vote, two leaders of the National Centre of Farmworkers (CNTC), María Amparo Pineda Duarte and Julio Ramon Maradiaga, were returning home after an election training; they were supporters of the left-wing Libre party. They were killed and beheaded. Florencia López, a relative of María, said, “They are people who are forgotten” (“son personas que son olvidadas”).
But we remember them. They are a memory of the way in which U.S.-driven “democracy protection” works in elections in places such as Honduras and Bolivia.
The May 3 Elections
On Nov. 10, 2019, a coup d’état took place in Bolivia. The commander-in-chief of the Bolivian Armed Forces asked President Evo Morales to resign. The police had already mutinied, and society had already been destabilized – this had been triggered by a presidential election whose results had not been recognized by the opposition and whose results had been suspiciously discredited by the Organisation of American States (OAS). Two days after Morales resigned, a largely unheard-of opposition politician, Jeanine Áñez, declared herself to be the interim president without the necessary quorum in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, where Morales’s party, the Movement to Socialism (MAS) holds the majority of the seats.
The new government said that it would only remain until elections could be held. However, from the inauguration of Áñez, the government has prosecuted a policy of repression against the leaders and militants of MAS and against social movements (36 people have died), and it has implemented political and economic policy changes that are inspired by the neoliberal agenda driven by the U.S. government. The interim government has a racist, patriarchal, and fundamentalist character, as expressed through symbolic and reactionary acts of violence, such as the denigration of the Wiphala (a flag that represents the diversity of the indigenous people and nations of Bolivia).
In January 2020, the government announced that the presidential and legislative elections will be held on May 3. The election process began under conditions of severely restricted democratic freedom; by January’s end, the interim government had militarized the country’s main cities to prevent any possible demonstrations. It has continued to harass and persecute members of MAS government who have sought asylum in foreign embassies for fear of their lives. The interim government has closed more than fifty radio stations; it has accused them of sedition and of incitement to violence for having broadcast stories critical of the interim government.
A number of coalitions of political parties have registered tickets for the presidential election. The candidates for MAS are Luis Arce Catacora (president) and David Choquehuanca Céspedes (vice president). Catacora was the minister of economy and public finance under Morales and the architect of the administration’s economic success. Céspedes was the foreign minister in that government. He managed Bolivia’s policy of international sovereignty and is an important person to Bolivia’s indigenous and peasant movements. Early polls show that the MAS ticket is in first place.
In the first days of February, one of Morales’s two attorneys was detained. The government sought to arrest MAS’s attorney, who was in the midst of registering candidates for the May elections. Threats began to mount against Luis Arce Catacora, the presidential candidate of MAS, as he returned to Bolivia, including the possibility of his arrest. Parts of the country with the deepest support for MAS face repression and threats that their right to vote might be withdrawn.
The interim president – Áñez – announced that she will be a candidate for the presidency without leaving her current position; this is in contradiction to her earlier statements. The other candidates who supported the coup d’état nonetheless criticized her move, which validates the coup character of this government and its officials.
The international community must be aware of the danger that the interim government will ban MAS, commit fraud, and destroy the possibility of democracy in Bolivia.
Why the US Coup & Intervention?
Bolivia has the largest known lithium reserves in the world (with the potential to produce 20 percent of global lithium). Lithium is a central component for batteries, which are used in electric cars, laptops, watches, and cell phones, as well as for the storage of renewable energy. The largest deposit of lithium in Bolivia is in the Uyuni salt flats in the department of Potosí, where Morales’ administration had planned to extract it through the state-owned company.
Bolivia has considerable hydrocarbon reserves – especially natural gas – which it supplies to Brazil and Argentina. When Morales took office, an early measure was to nationalize these resources and develop state control over them. A substantial part of the hydrocarbon reserves is located in Santa Cruz, in Bolivia’s eastern region. This is also the home of its agribusiness, especially soy. The government of Santa Cruz and its civic committee have been the base of the opposition to Morales from the very beginning and played a central role in the social destabilization that led to the coup.
Morales won the 2005 election with more than 50 percent of the vote. In his first term (2006-2010), his MAS-led administration nationalized hydrocarbon production and other strategic parts of the economy; it pushed for land reform; and it reformed the constitution through a Constituent Assembly process, which became the foundation for the formation of Bolivia as a Plurinational State. Morales, from 2006, drove a policy to substantially improve all social indicators; his government was able to reduce poverty (38.2 percent to 15.2 percent), eradicate illiteracy, and improve hygiene as well as life expectancy (by nine years).
Despite being a majority indigenous country, Bolivia has been governed by a caste that is predominantly made up of groups who consider themselves to be white. Indigenous people have long suffered from subjugation, racism and discrimination in political, economic and social spheres at the hands of this governing caste.
Morales’ government represented a complete shift in the social sense. It forcefully combatted the violence of racism and the xenophobic discourse about indigenous peoples and cultures; this was a government committed to ending the structure and culture of colonial domination. The symbols that define the interim government, on the other hand, are marked by racial hatred and fascism; this is what has sustained them in their fiercely racist attacks against MAS.
The U.S. government hastily recognized and warmly welcomed Áñez into the diplomatic world; it immediately pressured the Mexican government, and then later the Argentinian government, to deny asylum requests from members of MAS and from Morales’ administration. It is now clear that the U.S. government participated in the preparation and the execution of the coup against Morales. There was an immediate dislike by the US of Morales for his policy of economic resource nationalism, for his expulsion of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from Bolivia, for his suspension of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) military eradication programme against coca, and for his denunciations in international forums of the US policy of economic, military, and political intervention.
Rita Valdivia, a young Bolivian woman who escaped from an abusive father and into the world of revolutionary struggle and poetry, joined the Bolivian National Liberation Army (ELN). Poetry gave her voice; the revolutionary struggle put that voice into motion. Ernesto “Che” Guevara was killed in 1967, the year that Rita Valdivia went to Cuba for training. The leader of the ELN – Guido Álvaro ‘Inti’ Peredo Leigue (a member of the Bolivian Communist Party) – put her in charge of revolutionary activity in her native Cochabamba, where she returned after her training in Cuba. In 1968, Inti wrote his iconic text, “Volveremos a las montañas” (“We will return to the mountains”), a pledge to continue the fight against the oligarchy and its army. On the night of July 13, 1969, Valdivia, also known by the name “Comandante Maya,” and her comrades went to a meeting at a safe house; they had been betrayed, and she was gunned down. She was 23. Inti was killed the following September.
In Cantaura (Venezuela), there is a people’s medical center that is named after Comandante Maya, which is where I first heard of her. Comandante Maya’s poem – “Defensa a la calle” (“Defending the Street,” as translated by Margaret Randall) – teaches us that even in the worst moments in Bolivia, there are people struggling for their rights and aspirations, opening their fists to the world:
Me he cansado de retener otros mundosen mi puño. Lo abro de golpe.
I am tired of holding other worlds in my fist. I open it suddenly.
Vijay Prashad, an Indian historian, journalist and commentator, is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and the chief editor of Left Word Books.
Before commenting please read Robert Parry’s Comment Policy. Allegations unsupported by facts, gross or misleading factual errors and ad hominem attacks, and abusive or rude language toward other commenters or our writers will not be published. If your comment does not immediately appear, please be patient as it is manually reviewed. For security reasons, please refrain from inserting links in your comments, which should not be longer than 300 words.
OUR PLAN TO WIN THE GREEN NEW DEAL: ELECT GREEN NEW DEAL CHAMPIONS TO CONGRESS
We just came out of Iowa and New Hampshire and our movement won big: the Green New Deal was at the top of the polls. This shows how ready we are as a country to elect progressive leaders at all levels of office. The next candidates we need in Congress to win the Green New Deal are from Texas, and they have primaries coming up on March 3rd.
We need Bernie, but we also need to elect candidates down the ballot who can help usher in the movement’s vision for the Green New Deal. And winning in Texas will be the ultimate indication that our country is ready for the blue wave.
This Thursday at 8:30 PM ET, we'll hear from one or two surprise guest stars you won't want to miss to learn about how we’re going to use this momentum to elect Jessica Cisneros and Mike Siegel, two Green New Deal champions running for Congress in Texas. We need your help to make sure as many people as possible get on the mass call on Thursday. Register for the call bellow and invite your friends: REGISTER FOR THE CALL
COMPARE THE 2020 CANDIDATES
Sunrise has developed a comprehensive scorecard to evaluate candidates’ plans to tackle the climate crisis. EXPLORE THE PRESIDENTIAL SCORECARD
JOIN A HUB Use the map to find a hub in your area.
SUNRISE HUBS Sunrise Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama Sunrise Huntsville Huntsville, Alabama Sunrise Anchorage Anchorage, Alaska Sunrise Fairbanks Fairbanks, Alaska Sunrise Kodiak Kodiak, Alaska Sunrise Susitna Wasilla, Alaska Sunrise Flagstaff Flagstaff, Arizona Sunrise Phoenix Phoenix, Arizona Sunrise Scottsdale Scottsdale, Arizona Sunrise Tucson Tucson, Arizona Sunrise Little Rock Little Rock, Arkansas Sunrise University of Arkansas Fayetteville fayetteville, Arkansas Sunrise Arcadia High School Arcadia, California Sunrise Bay Area Oakland, California Sunrise Berkeley Berkeley, California Sunrise Chico Chico, California Sunrise Claremont Colleges Claremont, California Sunrise Coachella Valley Palm Springs/Joshua Tree, California Sunrise Contra Costa County Danville, California Sunrise Davis Davis, California Sunrise East Bay Hayward, California Sunrise Fresno Fresno, California Sunrise Humboldt County Humboldt County, California Sunrise Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, California Sunrise Idyllwild Idyllwild, California Sunrise Inland Empire Riverside, California Sunrise International School of Los Angeles Los Angeles, California Sunrise Irvine Irvine, California Sunrise Los Angeles Los Angeles, California Sunrise Marin Fairfax, California Sunrise Mills College Oakland, California Sunrise Mountain View HS Mountain View, California Sunrise Nevada County Nevada City, California Sunrise Orange County Santa Ana, California Sunrise Palo Alto Palo Alto, California Sunrise Placer County Auburn, California Sunrise Rancho Cucamonga Rancho Cucamonga, California Sunrise Redondo Beach Redondo Beach, California Sunrise SLO San Luis Obispo, California Sunrise Sacramento Sacramento, California Sunrise Salinas Salinas, California Sunrise San Diego San Diego, California Sunrise San Ramon San Ramon, California Sunrise Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California Sunrise Santa Clara University Santa Clara, California Sunrise Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California Sunrise Santa Ynez Santa Ynez, California Sunrise Sequoyah Pasadena, California Sunrise Sonoma County Santa Rosa, California Sunrise South Lake Tahoe South Lake Tahoe, California Sunrise Stanford University Stanford, California Sunrise University of California, Irvine (UCI) Irvine, California Sunrise Venice Venice, California Sunrise West Valley Woodland Hills, California Sunrise Boulder Boulder, Colorado Sunrise Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, Colorado Sunrise Denver Denver, Colorado Sunrise Fort Collins Fort Collins, Colorado Sunrise Connecticut Hartford, Connecticut Sunrise Danbury Danbury, Connecticut Sunrise Fairfield Fairfield, Connecticut Sunrise Middletown Middletown, Connecticut Sunrise New Canaan New Canaan, Connecticut Sunrise New Haven New Haven, Connecticut Sunrise Stonington Stonington, Connecticut Sunrise University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut Sunrise American University Washington, District of Columbia Sunrise George Washington University Washington DC, District of Columbia Sunrise Georgetown Day School Washington, District of Columbia Sunrise Washington DC Washington, District of Columbia Sunrise Broward Davie, Florida Sunrise Clearwater Clearwater, Florida Sunrise Florida Golf Coast University Fort Myers, Florida Sunrise Hernando County Brooksville, Florida Sunrise Homestead Homestead, Florida Sunrise New College of Florida Sarasota, Florida Sunrise Orlando Orlando, Florida Sunrise Palm Beach County Palm Beach, Florida Sunrise South Florida Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sunrise Steinbrenner Lutz, Florida Sunrise Tallahassee Tallahassee, Florida Sunrise Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia Sunrise Atlanta University Center Atlanta, Georgia Sunrise Clayton County Clayton County, Georgia Sunrise Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia Sunrise North Georgia Gainesville, Georgia Sunrise Hawaiʻi Honolulu, Hawaii Sunrise Boise Boise, Idaho Sunrise Coeur d’Alene Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Sunrise Chicago Chicago, Illinois Sunrise DePaul Chicago, Illinois Sunrise Edwardsville Edwardsville, Illinois Sunrise Evanston Evanston, Illinois Sunrise Northwest-Southwest Suburbs Bartlett, Illinois Sunrise Southern Illinois Carbondale, Illinois Sunrise Bloomington Bloomington, Indiana Sunrise Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Indiana Sunrise Goshen Goshen, Indiana Sunrise Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana Sunrise Jay County HS Portland, Indiana Sunrise Manchester University North Manchester, Indiana Sunrise South Bend South Bend, Indiana Sunrise Ames Ames, Iowa Sunrise Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids, Iowa Sunrise Des Moines Des Moines, Iowa Sunrise Dubuque Dubuque, Iowa Sunrise Grinnell Grinnell, Iowa Sunrise Scattergood West Branch, Iowa Sunrise Lawrence Lawrence, Kansas Sunrise Manhattan Manhattan, Kansas Sunrise Bowling Green Bowling Green, Kentucky Sunrise Louisville Louisville, Kentucky Sunrise New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana Sunrise Bates College Lewiston, Maine Sunrise Bowdoin Bowdoin, Maine Sunrise Portland ME Portland, Maine Sunrise Unity Unity, Maine Sunrise Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland Sunrise Bethesda Bethesda, Maryland Sunrise Howard County Columbia, Maryland Sunrise Prince George's County Clinton, Maryland Sunrise Silver Spring Silver Spring, Maryland Sunrise Towson Towson, Maryland Sunrise Acton Acton, Massachusetts Sunrise Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts Sunrise Arlington MA Arlington, Massachusetts Sunrise Blue Hills Blue Hills, Massachusetts Sunrise Boston Boston, Massachusetts Sunrise Cape Cod Barnstable, Massachusetts Sunrise Concord-Carlisle Concord, Massachusetts Sunrise Easthampton Easthampton, Massachusetts Sunrise Hampden County Springfield, Massachusetts Sunrise Hilltowns Williamsburg, Massachusetts Sunrise Lexington MA Lexington, Massachusetts Sunrise Martha's Vineyard Martha's Vineyard Island, Massachusetts Sunrise MetroWest Natick/Framingham, Massachusetts Sunrise Mount Holyoke Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts Sunrise Northampton Northampton, Massachusetts Sunrise Northeastern Boston, Massachusetts Sunrise Norton Norton, Massachusetts Sunrise Salem Salem, Massachusetts Sunrise Simon’s Rock Great Barrington, Massachusetts Sunrise South Coast Dartmouth, Massachusetts Sunrise South Shore Hull, Massachusetts Sunrise Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts Sunrise UMass Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts Sunrise Wakefield Wakefield, Massachusetts Sunrise Waltham Waltham, Massachusetts Sunrise Westford Westford, Massachusetts Sunrise Worcester Worcester, Massachusetts Sunrise Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, Michigan Sunrise Detroit Detroit, Michigan Sunrise Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, Michigan Sunrise Henry Ford College Dearborn, Michigan Sunrise Kalamazoo Kalamazoo, Michigan Sunrise Lansing East Lansing, Michigan Sunrise Oakland County Oakland County, Michigan Sunrise Traverse City Traverse City, Michigan Sunrise Mankato Mankato, Minnesota Sunrise Maple Grove Maple Grove, Minnesota Sunrise St. Olaf Northfield, Minnesota Sunrise Twin Cities Twin Cities, Minnesota Sunrise Mississippi Brandon, Mississippi Sunrise Columbia MO Columbia, Missouri Sunrise Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri Sunrise Kirksville Kirksville, Missouri Sunrise Rolla Rolla, Missouri Sunrise Springfield MO Springfield, Missouri Sunrise St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri Sunrise Billings Billings, Montana Sunrise Gallatin Valley Bozeman, Montana Sunrise Missoula Missoula, Montana Sunrise Omaha Omaha, Nebraska Sunrise Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada Sunrise New Hampshire Keene, New Hampshire Sunrise Fairleigh Dickinson University Hackensack, New Jersey Sunrise Hunterdon County Hunterdon County, New Jersey Sunrise Jersey Shore Asbury Park, New Jersey Sunrise Lambertville Lambertville, New Jersey Sunrise Montclair Montclair, New Jersey Sunrise Morris County Morris County, New Jersey Sunrise NJ Skylands Hamburg, New Jersey Sunrise Princeton Princeton, New Jersey Sunrise Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey Sunrise South Jersey Haddon Heights, New Jersey Sunrise Albuquerque Albuquerque, New Mexico Sunrise Santa Fe Santa Fe, New Mexico Sunrise Adirondacks Jay, New York Sunrise Albany Albany, New York Sunrise Buffalo NY Buffalo, New York Sunrise Burnt Hills Burnt Hills, New York Sunrise Columbia University New York, New York Sunrise Culinary Institute of America Hyde Park, Hudson Valley, New York Sunrise Great Neck Great Neck, New York Sunrise Hamilton College Clinton, New York Sunrise Huntington Huntington, New York Sunrise Ithaca Ithaca, New York Sunrise Lehman Alternative Community School Ithaca, New York Sunrise Long Island Long Island, New York Sunrise New York City New York City, New York Sunrise New York University New York City, New York Sunrise Rivertowns NY Rivertowns, New York Sunrise Rochester Rochester, New York Sunrise Rockville Centre Rockville Centre, New York Sunrise Sarah Lawrence Bronxville, New York Sunrise Shoreham Shoreham, New York Sunrise St. Lawrence University Canton, New York Sunrise Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York Sunrise Syracus Syracuse, New York Sunrise Vassar Poughkeepsie, New York Sunrise Washington Heights New York, New York Sunrise Westchester Westchester County, New York Sunrise Westhampton Beach Westhampton Beach, New York Sunrise Asheville Asheville, North Carolina Sunrise Boone Boone, North Carolina Sunrise Chapel Hill & Carrboro Chapel Hill, North Carolina Sunrise Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina Sunrise Durham Durham, North Carolina Sunrise Greensboro Greensboro, North Carolina Sunrise Raleigh Raleigh, North Carolina Sunrise Wilmington Wilmington, North Carolina Sunrise North Dakota Valley City, North Dakota Sunrise Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio Sunrise Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio Sunrise Columbus Columbus, Ohio Sunrise Dayton Dayton, Ohio Sunrise Oberlin Oberlin, Ohio Sunrise Scioto Dublin, Ohio Sunrise Youngstown Youngstown, Ohio Sunrise Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Sunrise University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma Sunrise Beaverton Beaverton, Oregon Sunrise Corvallis Corvallis, Oregon Sunrise Eugene Eugene, Oregon Sunrise Portland OR Portland, Oregon Sunrise Beaver County Beaver County, Pennsylvania Sunrise Berks Reading, Pennsylvania Sunrise Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Sunrise Crefeld Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunrise Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunrise Haverford Haverford, Pennsylvania Sunrise Jenkintown Jenkintown, Pennsylvania Sunrise Lancaster Lancaster, Pennsylvania Sunrise Lehigh Valley Lehigh Valley (Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton), Pennsylvania Sunrise Lewisburg Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Sunrise Muhlenberg Allentown, Pennsylvania Sunrise Northwest Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunrise Pennsbury High School Yardley, Pennsylvania Sunrise Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunrise Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sunrise Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunrise State College State College, Pennsylvania Sunrise Swarthmore Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Sunrise Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunrise Wallingford-Swarthmore Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Sunrise Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico Sunrise Brown and RISD Providence, Rhode Island Sunrise Providence Providence, Rhode Island Sunrise South County Kingston, Rhode Island Sunrise Greenville Greenville, South Carolina Sunrise University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina Sunrise Franklin Franklin, Tennessee Sunrise Knoxville Knoxville, Tennessee Sunrise Nashville Nashville, Tennessee Sunrise Austin Austin, Texas Sunrise Carnegie Vanguard Houston, Texas Sunrise Dallas Dallas, Texas Sunrise El Paso El Paso, Texas Sunrise Houston Houston, Texas Sunrise RGV McAllen, Texas Sunrise San Antonio San Antonio, Texas Sunrise The Woodlands The Woodlands, Texas Sunrise Bear River Logan, Utah Sunrise Ogden Ogden, Utah Sunrise Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, Utah Sunrise University of Utah University of Utah, Utah Sunrise Brattleboro Brattleboro, Vermont Sunrise Burlington Burlington, Vermont Sunrise Middlebury Middlebury, Vermont Sunrise Montpelier Montpelier, Vermont Sunrise Arlington VA Arlington, Virginia Sunrise Charlottesville Charlottesville, Virginia Sunrise Chesapeake Chesapeake, Virginia Sunrise Emory Emory, Virginia Sunrise Fairfax County Vienna, Virginia Sunrise Fredericksburg Fredericksburg, Virginia Sunrise Harrisonburg Harrisonburg, Virginia Sunrise Norfolk Norfolk, Virginia Sunrise Richmond Richmond, Virginia Sunrise Roanoke Roanoke, Virginia Sunrise Williamsburg Williamsburg, Virginia Sunrise Anacortes High School Anacortes, Washington Sunrise Bellingham Bellingham, Washington Sunrise Eastern Washington Spokane, Washington Sunrise Olympia Olympia, Washington Sunrise Seattle Seattle, Washington Sunrise Tacoma Tacoma, Washington Sunrise Vancouver Vancouver, Washington Sunrise Walla Walla Walla Walla, Washington Sunrise Greater Morgantown Morgantown, West Virginia Sunrise Madison Madison, Wisconsin Sunrise Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin Sunrise Jackson Hole Jackson Hole, Wyoming
