About Us

How Did This Happen? (HowDidThisHappen.org) is an education campaign of the Center for American Progress Action Fund and Media Matters Action Network to stop conservatives from rewriting history and highlight how conservatives and their policies are primarily to blame for the current financial crisis.

The Center for American Progress Action Fund is the sister advocacy organization of the Center for American Progress. The Action Fund transforms progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world. The Action Fund is the home of I Am Progress, CAPAF’s online advocacy program; the Progress Report; and Think Progress, the blog that pushes back daily.

Media Matters Action Network is a progressive research and information center dedicated to analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media; ensuring accuracy, appropriate balance, and accountability in the media through targeted public action campaigns; empowering and expanding progressive voices in the media by providing a full range of resources to assist the larger progressive community in creating and disseminating progressive information and views; and engaging in other activities at the confluence of progressive thought, policy, and media.

Media Matters Action Network is a partner project of Media Matters for America.