The Christian Coalition of America – originally calle the Christian Coalition, Inc. – is a US Christian political advocacy group, which includes Christian fundamentalists, evangelicals, neo-evangelicals, charismatics, Roman Catholics and members of mainline Protestant churches. While it once wielded great power within the Republican Party, and helped shape the Republican majority in congress in the mid- to late- 1990's, it largely collapsed following the departure of Ralph Reed, and has flirted with bankruptcy in recent years. It claims to have 1,200,000 members, but records of public contributions and former employees indicate that its mailing list of active members is around 30,000. The organization People For the American Way says other data suggest it is 300,000-400,000.