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BeforeThe Never Trump movement emerged in 2015 as an organized Republican resistance to Donald Trump's presidential candidacy, leveraging digital platforms for coalition building, fundraising, and messaging campaigns throughout his political rise. ## Movement Evolution **2015-2016: Formation and Primary Opposition** The movement coalesced around prominent Republican figures, conservative intellectuals, and political operatives who used Twitter, Facebook, and conservative media outlets to coordinate opposition during the Republican primary. Digital organizing included fundraising for alternative …
After"Never Trump" describes Republican and former-Republican opposition to Donald Trump's candidacies and presidency. Its distinguishing feature is where it operated: not through party structures, which it largely lost access to, but through independent political committees and subscription media. ## What the filings show The Lincoln Project is the movement's largest single vehicle and the only part of it with a mandatory public accounting. It registered with the Federal Election Commission on November 5, 2019 as a hybrid PAC, committee ID C00725820. Its receipts by cycle, from the FEC's own …