“The goal,” Ms. Coulter said, “came originally from a place of really wanting to shop the stores we loved again with a clear conscience.”
It’s been a wild ride these past few months for Ms. Coulter, who runs her shoestring movement from her home, or from cheerfully decorated work spaces like this one — surrounded by bright-blue furniture, clam chairs and decorative pillows
that feel more Silicon Valley than anti-administration war room.
“I attribute it directly to the Muslim ban,” Ms. Coulter said, referring to the executive order on immigration that Mr. Trump issued on Jan. 27.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Sitting in a basement office that she rents by the hour, Shannon Coulter ticks off the activities she gave up in defiance of President Donald J. Trump: renting movies with her husband on Amazon,
and shopping at Nordstrom, Macy’s and other retailers that sell Ivanka Trump’s products.
Enraged by a video that emerged last October of Mr. Trump bragging about sexually assaulting
women, Ms. Coulter began a boycott of any sort of product connected to Mr. Trump.
“I don’t think either of us envisioned that some of the things
that have happened would happen,” said Sue Atencio, who helped Ms. Coulter get the site started.
In addition, Ms. Coulter said, Ms. Trump played a prominent role in the presidential campaign.
None of the retailers credited Grab Your Wallet with their decision — the department stores blamed poor sales —
and it is not possible to know to what degree Ms. Coulter and her followers have influenced the companies’ decision making.
“Maybe that gave me a taste of what something like this would be like,” she said, describing herself as a chronic list maker.