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Non-profit
The Dangerous Speech Project is a project of the New Venture Fund to promote online censorship. The Dangerous Speech Project advocates for censoring speech that it argues can lead to violence. It defines speech as any form of human expression and argues that any speech that can inspire violence
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Non-profit
Campus Vote Project is a project of Fair Elections Center to increase voter participation among young adults. It advocates for eliminating voter identification requirements, increasing the number of polling locations, and expanding voter registration.
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Other Group
The Transition Integrity Project is a nominally bipartisan but functionally left-progressive and Democratic-leaning group of political and media figures that convened in the summer of 2020 to conduct simulations of the 2020 presidential election, including potential reactions by Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
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Movement
The 1619 Project is an artistic and journalistic project of the New York Times Magazine that asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619 and not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or the drafting of
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Non-profit
The Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund (CLDEF) is a nonprofit educational organization that seeks to protect the written text of the Constitution and the rule of law. CLDEF’s projects include Expose the Steal, the Patriot Defense Fund, and the Center for Medical Freedom.
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Non-profit
The Woodhull Freedom Foundation is a left-of-center advocacy group with a primary focus on promoting permissive socially liberal stances related to sex. In addition, the group advocated for left-of-center stances on other issues related to the economy and race.
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Non-profit
Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR) is a left-of-center legal advocacy clinic housed at the City University of New York School of Law’s clinical arm, Main Street Legal Services. The clinic was founded in 2009 by Razmi Kassem, a law professor at the CUNY Law School who in 2022
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For-profit
Teen Vogue is an online journal publication produced by Conde Nast in 2003 as a spinoff of Vogue to build brand loyalty with adolescent women.
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Movement
In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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Other Group
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard University research center that focuses on left-of-center issues relating to the media, press, and politics. 1 It has received funding from well-known organizations including
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Non-profit
Council on American-Islamic Relations California (CAIR-CA) is the California chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a left-of-center advocacy organization for Muslims in the United States. 1
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Person
Rosa Brooks, born Rosa Ehrenreich, is the daughter of longtime feminist activist Barbara Ehrenreich and is a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. 1 She is also an adjunct
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Non-profit
Access Now is a left-leaning internet access and digital rights advocacy group that works to decrease internet censorship and to curtail violations of privacy by businesses that collect the personal data of internet users. This group receives funding from some of the companies whose data collection practices it criticizes, such
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Person
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to advocacy and electioneering. Alinsky pioneered “community organizing,” a form of coalition-building centered on aligning the common goals of multiple interest groups too small or electorally
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Political Party/527
The Black Panther Party was a communist Black militant organization founded in 1966 that allied with extremist New Left organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and communist regimes abroad.
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Non-profit
The Heritage Foundation is a right-of-center policy think tank founded in 1973 that researches and recommends policies such as free markets, limited government, a strong national defense, and courts that adhere to the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution.
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Non-profit
North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Citizen Lobby (NCPIRG) is the lobbying arm of the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and the North Carolina state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), one of a network of left-progressive advocacy and canvassing organizations controlled
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Movement
See also: For a more complete list of public figures who promoted collusion claims, please see this resource from the Capital Research Center. Starting at least by July 2016 and continuing through March 2019, the FBI and then the office of Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert
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Person
Laura Quinn is the president and co-founder of Catalist, a data firm that services both left-of-center nonprofits and Democratic candidates and officeholders. She has held numerous positions for Democratic candidates and officeholders, most prominently as Deputy Chief of Staff for former Vice President Al Gore. Quinn has also
