Lauren Windsor

Lauren Windsor is an American progressive political consultant and self-described "advocacy journalist". She focuses primarily on Wall Street reform, money-in-politics corruption, and climate change. She is executive director of American Family Voices. She is a partner in Democracy Partners and Mike Lux Media.

Windsor began her career in politics as a Wall Street and campaign finance reform activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement and with the Money Out Voters In Coalition in Los Angeles. She traveled around the country documenting protests and met her mentor, Robert Creamer, who founded Democracy Partners, where she is now a partner. She was the deputy communications director for the Tom Steyer 2020 presidential campaign.^{[citation needed]}

Windsor is the creator of The Undercurrent, a field reporting web show launched with The Young Turks Network in 2012. The Undercurrent has covered the Koch brothers' donor retreats, efforts to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and the operations of James O'Keefe and Project Veritas. Her investigation of the 2014 Koch brothers' summer donor retreat was featured in Jane Mayer's book on the Koch brothers, Dark Money.

In late 2020, Windsor spent six weeks in Georgia during the runoff in both the regular Senate election and the Senate special election covering politicians such as Rudy Giuliani, then-Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville, and then-Senator David Perdue.

Windsor created the investigative website Project Veritas Exposed (PVE), which serves as a research hub for journalists, progressive movement activists, organizations, and campaigns. PVE's research has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Intercept, and other outlets.

On October 29, 2021, Windsor acknowledged helping the Lincoln Project coordinate a political demonstration wherein five fake white supremacists pretended to be supporters of Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin several days before Virginia's election day.

Windsor is a contributor to Huffington Post, DailyKos, and The Nation. She runs her own blog, Lady Libertine, and her videos have appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show, All In with Chris Hayes, The Ed Show, and The Lead with Jake Tapper.

Many of her practices have drawn comparisons to Project Veritas, but she disavows using embedded moles as Project Veritas was purported to do.