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David Elliot is the communications director of USAction. USAction is a federation of 21 state groups that organize for progressive change. David is the former long-time communications director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. In his former career, he covered politics and the Texas Legislature as a newspaper reporter in Austin.