Replacing Nation Builder
It is time for the Green Party to stop spending so much money on corporate-controlled Nation Builder. and start using newer less expensive alternatives like GreenMaps, Stripe, ListMonk and WordPress.
GreenMaps is a map of Green candidates and organisations. GreenMaps makes it easy to find your local parties and candidates. It is an alternative to NationBuilder. When a candidate declares or a local group forms, they get an instant webpage which they can edit, a zip-code-targeted mailing list (with voter data) and a dedicated Discord channel for organising. GreenMaps plays well with WordPress, Email, Discord and Mastodon. You can also link to other social media accounts.
NationBuilder​ is a commercial product.
- Charges per server ("Nation").
- Charges extra for add-ons, API access, and more data.
- Uses servers under the control of a US corporation based in the US jurisdiction.
- Is closed source.
- Has a security model organised by function, not by county. To protect the data, the system admins will often gate keep access leading to less efficient business processes.
- If you are not using the Advanced Privacy suite of tools, we do not know what happens with our data.
- Reportedly:
- Difficult to use.
- Difficult to set up DNS records perfectly, leading to chronic email problems.
- Disappearing accounts.
Green Maps is free software.
- Zero fees.
- No lock in. Every state or country can run their own server with all source code included.
- GDPR based privacy. Your data is never sold, and is only duplicated for backups.
- No conflict of interest. We do not do business with the Democrats or Republicans. We do not take corporate donations.
- Appropriate security model with permissions organised by state and county party.
- Voter self-registration by zip code.
- A growing community of Green organisers. (100 Discord Members Aug 2025.)
WordPress plays well with GreenMaps. Our Discord group includes both WordPress and GreenMaps developers.
- We provide both GreenMaps and WordPress hosting,
- We provide both GreenMaps and WordPress candidate and party sites.
- GreenMaps can import WordPress social media links.
GreenMaps conforms to the Green Party values of
- Grassroots Democracy, Free to use.
- Equal Opportunity: Every candidate and organisation gets the same services.
- Ecological Wisdom: Avoids energy-intensive AI and surveillance data retention.
- Decentralisation: each state or country can run their own server.
- Global Responsibility: Started in the US, increasingly multilingual, and spreading globally.
- Sustainability: Less than $10/month to run the servers.
If you have questions, please join the Global Green Party Tech Discord server. Prefer email? Contact: lozinski@PythonLinks.info. If you would like to replace NationBuilder, then please join the conversation on our NationBuilder Discord channel. If you want to try out the user interface, then please login to GreenMaps, and then request permission to access your group's data.