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Navin Nayak serves as president and executive director at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He oversees day-to-day management of the Action Fund and helps create new programs and projects that will help the organization fulfill its mission.
Nayak has more than 15 years of experience in advocacy and elections with several organizations. Most recently, Nayak served as the director of opinion research for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, where he oversaw all the campaign’s message research. Prior to that, he worked for eight years at the League of Conservation Voters, where among several roles, he served as senior vice president for campaigns, overseeing all the organization’s electoral work. He also served as the deputy director for the Clean Energy Works campaign, a national multimillion-dollar effort to pass comprehensive climate legislation in 2009–2010.
In addition to his advocacy experience, Nayak worked as a donor adviser at Corridor Partners, where he provided strategic guidance to donors on their advocacy and electoral investments.
Nayak has appeared on numerous television programs and in numerous publications, including CNN’s “Crossfire” and MSNBC’s “Hardball.” In 2013, he was named one of Politico’s “50 Politicos to Watch.” He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children.
House Republicans’ “Default on America” Act would inflict devastating harm on America’s middle class.
CAP Action President Navin Nayak joins Daniella to talk about the 2022 midterm elections and voters' rejection of MAGA extremism.
Navin Nayak writes about the MAGA takeover of the GOP and the stakes of the upcoming midterm elections.
Daniella checks in with CAP Action President and Executive Director Navin Nayak to reflect on key moments from 2021, from the January 6 insurrection to the American Rescue Plan.
Author Navin Nayak urges the new Congress to follow the will of the people as it pursues policy solutions in the coming months.
This survey finds that battleground-state voters have deep concerns about President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as significant concerns about who benefits under Trump’s economy.
With the Supreme Court agreeing to take up the lawsuit pushed by President Trump and Republican state attorneys general, which targets the ACA’s provisions on preexisting conditions directly and seeks to overturn the entire law, Trump has put ACA repeal front and center going into November.
New research shows that Americans are deeply concerned about the role that corporations, particularly those that are foreign owned, are playing in U.S. elections and finds strong support for passing new laws to address the problem.
Author Navin Nayak discusses how important it is for Democrats to reject corporate PAC dollars in their efforts to restore Americans' trust in their politicians.
