Cliff Walker Green

Cliff Walker Green lives in Washington, District of Columbia. From New Jersey. He is a member of the South Jersey chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Manages Terps for Bernie 2020.

Education

Studies Government and Politics at University of Maryland.

Career

2017 Technical Committee Chairman at SkillsUSA.

Seed the Vote

In 2020/21 Cliff Walker Green was leading Seed the Vote activist in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

DSA member

Cliff Walker Green is a member of South Jersey Democratic Socialists of America, and Wolf PAC.

Socialist Majority Caucus

DSA's Socialist Majority Caucus signatories list as of April 25 2019 included Cliff Walker Green of Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America.

West Michigan Field Team

Campaigned for Abdul El-Sayed.

Cliff Walker Green August 15, 2018.

West Michigan Field Team — with Robert Van Kirk, Drew Stoppels, Kendra Valkema, Kyla McCallum, Aysha Valkema, William Thayer, Hunter Green, Isabel Delgado, Ajla Alisic and Brianna Massey.

Comrades

Cliff Walker Green January 9 2019.

With Hauwa Muazu, Andrew Saundry, Shabd Singh, Molly Klezer, Abbie Olshin, Priya Vengat, Yong Yang, Irene Koo, Justine Morris and Lizz Ann.

Project Veritas Investigation Sept 2018

Cliff Walker Green, Allison Hrabar and Natarajan Subramanian were featured in an undercover video posted by Project Veritas on Sept 19 2018.

The video shows Department of Justice paralegal Allison Hrabar "reportedly using government-owned software and computers to push a socialist agenda. Also featured is Jessica Schubel, the former Chief of Staff for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services during the last Obama administration."

"The video also shows Cliff Walker Green stating that Allison Hrabar uses Lexis Nexis to find home addresses for Democratic Socialists of America protests:

“So Allison is a paralegal, so she, her living is researching people, so she’s very good at researching people. So, they just find the companies, and then the people that run those companies, and then they find their home address. She uses Lexis Nexis and a couple other software things.”

"Also in the report, Natarajan Subramanian – an auditor for the Government Accountability Office and fellow Democratic Socialists of America member – explains to the Project Veritas undercover journalist that Allison Hrabar uses her work computer to access Lexis Nexis: “I mean, she has used it, she uses it probably on her work computer.”

"Subramanian explains that this sort of information needs to be kept secret:

"“…that’s the kind of thing that you would get fired for…people do not have the silver bullet, the smoking gun or whatever. Um, if they were able to get proof of that, you know? So, we’re all walking that line.”

Personnel

Members of the DSA Disability Caucus/Working Group, closed Facebook group. as of July 16, 2017 included Walker Green.

University of Maryland Young Democratic Socialists Public FB Group

Members of the University of Maryland Young Democratic Socialists Public Facbook Group, as of October 15, 2017 included Cliff Walker Green.

Raskin connection

2017, Intern at Rep. Jamie Raskin

Peoples Summit

Cliff Walker Green and Nomiki Konst at the 2017 People's Summit.

Vandalizing Wikipedia

On Dec. 5, Kate Kohn fired up her computer in the U.S. Capitol for one last time and performed one of the only wildly popular, top-secret actions regularly performed in the halls of Congress: vandalizing a dead person’s Wikipedia page.

“Hi everyone, it’s the last day of my internship. I just wanted to thank you for laughing at, or otherwise enjoying, some of my edits. I’m writing this on the page of a personal hero of mine. Maybe i can be as badass a woman as she someday... well, after i graduate,” Kohn wrote.

“Thanks for this fun semester of shitty wiki edits! Have a Happy Hanukkah!!”

The Twitter bot @CongressEdits tracks every change made on Wikipedia from the U.S. Capitol building. Any edit made with a Capitol IP address is preserved with a screenshot and posted instantly, which has won it an avid following of 60,000 Beltway obsessives.

And one of those screenshots was Kohn’s farewell message, which she tacked onto the bottom of the entry for Olga Bancic, a Romanian communist who was executed by the Nazis for her antifascist activism.

Days later, Kohn, in a conversation with The Daily Beast, became the first member of what she says is a secret society of interns editing Wikipedia pages with political messages they know will reach some of the biggest names in Washington to out herself.

“It was all for the goof, but some people were really radicalized by the past election,” Kohn told The Daily Beast. “I won’t say I wasn’t one of them.”

Kohn, a 20-year-old American University student, spent the last few months interning for Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA), whom she called a “chill guy” and “an Irish-Catholic man who loves his district.”

Boyle’s communications director, Sean Tobin, told The Daily Beast that “her efforts, hard work ethic and enthusiasm are very much missed” around Boyle’s office.

Although Tobin may not have known, some of Kohn’s efforts included a wide range of Wikipedia edits that spanned from overt political statements to fixing genuine grammatical and factual errors in entries about quantum physics, video games and Korean pop stars.

She said she appended the entry for the word “Internship” with a plea to “please pay us.” Shortly after Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) became embroiled in sexual harassment allegations, “Retire Bitch” was added to The Al Franken Show page. In a span of three days, she said she swapped the wording on the page for the particles that make up dark matter to be more scientifically accurate, then separately added a detail about how one of the hosts of the left-wing Chapo Trap House podcast “got cucked on [another podcast] Lovett or Leave It.”

Kohn claims she was also responsible for an edit that made Tom Nook, a character in the Nintendo GameCube game Animal Crossing, “directly responsible for the rise of ISIS.”

(After this story published, Liz Drinkwater, a former intern for Seth Moulton, and Cliff Green, an intern for Jamie Raskin, claimed credit for that last edit. They didn’t provide proof, but Green quickly edited the Wikipedia entry for “Stolen Valor” to include Kohn’s name.)

“The better received ones are culture things,” she said. “I think it’s probably comforting to some people to know that somebody in Congress has played as Snake.”

Snake is the main character from the video Metal Gear Solid, and Kohn’s addition of a comma to the game’s page was how she discovered how easy it was to accidentally join the ranks of Wikipedia vandals in Congress.

That comma, in fact, is when Kohn realized the enormous power she had on her laptop in the Capitol.

The tradition of terrorizing Wikipedia entries from government IP addresses is time honored and goes back as far as 2014, when Congressedits was viewed as a revolutionary tool for government transparency.

Normally, repeated trolling edits would lead to potentially permanent suspensions of the IP address from Wikipedia. But Capitol IPs are instead met with regular 10-day suspensions. (And while troll edits are quickly removed from Wikipedia entries, the troll edits made from Capitol IPs have already been screengrabbed and tweeted by @CongressEdits by the time they’re taken down.)

The Daily Beast was able to authenticate a screenshot provided by Kohn showing when she attempted to edit Wikipedia while the site’s IP address was temporarily banned.

Kohn did not take her trolling responsibility lightly.

“Someone apparently vandalized the stevia page,” she told a friend at the time of the 10-day ban. “Some scrub ruined it for all of us.”

Kohn believes CongressEdits was never really about tracking elected representatives subtly dropping hints about future legislation, or, as CongressEdits’ creator Ed Summers put it, to “provide more transparency about our democracies.“

CongressEdits was always about giving bored interns a way to be heard.

“People following this know it’s a bunch of interns fooling around. I mean, I only edit Wikipedia from within the hallowed halls of Congress,” said Kohn.

“It’s just a series of little acts of resistance that show there’s a younger generation of people coming into their own in a dire political time. They don’t have the reins yet, but it’s a reminder that a different, better time is coming.”

The day after Kohn left her internship, someone editing from the Capitol wrote on on the Bears Ears National Monument’s Wikipedia page that Kohn was a “false prophet,” and said: “I can assure you I am the one who has made all the best ones and I am still here, still editing.”

“Anyway,” the anonymous staffer wrote, “all sexual harassers in Congress should resign and we should leave public lands to the public.”

Metro DC DSA Public Facbook group

Members of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America, public Facebook group, as of October 14, 2017 included Cliff Walker Green.

Democratic Socialists of America Electoral Committee

In March 2018 Cliff Walker Green was involved with the Democratic Socialists of America Electoral Committee.

Democratic Central Committee

Cliff Walker Green, left

In 2018, Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America endorsed their member and candidate for Democratic Central Committee (Dist. 21, Prince George’s County) Cliff Walker Green.

DSA Boston Public Facebook Group

Members of Boston Democratic Socialists of America Public Facebook Group, in June 12 2018 included Cliff Walker Green.