Astroturfed partisan organizations and individuals! Straight from the Whitehouse website!

An "astroturfed partisan organization" is a group that deceptively tries to appear as a grassroots movement supported by regular citizens. Still, it is sponsored or orchestrated by political or commercial interests to promote a particular agenda. The term "astroturfing" is used because it refers to artificial grass, implying that the support is fake or manufactured, rather than organic and from the ground up.