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About Jerome Armstrong

Jerome Armstrong, known as "The Blogfather," is a prominent American political strategist, political consultant, political blogger, and author.

Championing Political Blogging as an Online Advocacy: In 2001, Armstrong founded MyDD, a blog that covered politics, making him one of the first political bloggers. He coined the term Netroots and has been called "The Blogfather" for mentoring many other famous bloggers like Markos Moulitsas in their early years. He is considered one of the architects of Howard Dean's grassroots campaign for the 2004 presidential campaign, and brought those tactics to campaigns around the world.

Jerome Armstrong Co-founded Vox Media: Vox Media was founded in 2005 with Markos Moulitsas and Tyler Bleszinski.

Successful Political Consulting Partnership: In January 2003, Markos Moulitsas joined Armstrong in a political consulting partnership called Armstrong Zuniga and became a technical advisor that same year. Armstrong introduced the campaign to Meetup.com and handled online advertising and blogger outreach. He worked with U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown's 2006 Ohio campaign, among others, and was hired by Mark Warner's Forward Together PAC to develop its Internet political strategy. In 2007, Armstrong was awarded the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Award for Political Organizing by the 21st Century Democrats "for his visionary leadership in creating the online netroots community."

By 2012, Armstrong had worked with more than 40 campaigns for the U.S. Democratic Party and for campaigns abroad through the political consulting firm WebStrong Group, and served as a consulting partnership partner for political campaigns and organizations until 2016.

Jerome Armstrong as an Author: With Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, Armstrong co-authored Crashing the Gate: Grassroots, Netroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics in 2006, a book that takes a critical look at the state of the Democratic Party in the U.S. and describes the rise of a new movement to reform and conquer the party. An Australian edition was published in July of the same year.

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