BlogPAC was a political action committee founded in 2004 by Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong focused on progressive bloggers and politics online."The Blogfather", Alternet, June 15, 2005 In 2006, Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller took over BlogPAC from Moulitsas and Armstrong."BlogPAC", DailyKos, June 5, 2006 Instead of channeling money to electoral campaigns, the mission was refocused "to defend the netroots and improve the quality of online activism"."Support the Netroots, Support BlogPAC", Bob Brigham Blog, June 5, 2006 In 2007 BlogPAC organized progressive bloggers in several states, and offered microgrants to progressive bloggers through the 50 State Blog Project run by Laura Packard."Support The 50 State Blog Network", DailyKos, January 10, 2007 Later that year, BlogPAC ran a contest to fund progressive entrepreneurs for infrastructure building."BlogPac Progressive Entrepreneur Contest", DailyKos, July 10, 2007 In 2009, BlogPAC funded the website software platform SoapBlox., OpenLeft, January 12, 2009 BlogPAC was active until 2012.
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