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For-profit
HuffPost (until 2017, The Huffington Post1) is a left-leaning news aggregation website
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Person
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington came to America in 1980 and quickly made a name for herself as a Manhattan “It Girl” among New York’s powerful. 34 In the mid-1980s
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Other Group
The Pearl Project is an investigative journalism organization named for Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002.
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Person
Lawrence H. (Larry) Summers is an American economist who served as Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration and as an economic advisor in the Obama administration. Summers was also president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, resigning from the role after developing a fraught
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Other Group
Change the Ratio was an initiative founded by Canadian attorney and freelance journalist Rachel Sklar to advocate for increased representation of women in politics, media, and technology. The initiative was one of several groups and websites founded by Sklar, a founding editor of Mediaite and former media editor of the
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Political Party/527
Democratic Victory PAC is a Democratic Party-aligned political action committee (PAC) that supported the 2024 presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris. It drew criticism from Democratic Party-aligned operatives and activists for high spending on luxury donor services relative to its direct support for campaigning activity.
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Non-profit
Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) is a think tank claiming to promote policies for increasing economic equity for women. It publishes research reports that promote policy responses and hosts events on topics of female empowerment.
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For-profit
Follow My Vote is an activist organization that supports the expanded use of internet-based voting and the use of blockchain technologies to create what it considers trackable and verifiable voting systems. 138 The organization
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Labor Union
The Campaign Workers Guild is a labor union that seeks to organize campaign workers who work for Democratic Party candidates and associated organizations.
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For-profit
Campaign Verify is a for-profit company that verifies the validity of political campaigns and organizations involved in mass texting on behalf of cellular providers. Campaign Verify claims that its service “helps prevent spoofing, increases trust, and preserves the integrity of political discourse and political communications,” and helps wireless carriers distinguish
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Other Group
The American Association of Evangelicals (AAE) is a religious organization that describes itself as an “e-gathering of Christians.” 194 The association was founded in 2016 by Christian and right-leaning political activists and commentators
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Non-profit
Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW) investigates online extremism, produces reports, and advocates for a safer internet. It identifies organizations and groups that leverage social media to spread extremist messaging and to recruit for and organize violent activities across the United States. It focuses on social media messaging that endorses
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For-profit
The Taubman Entertainment Group is a Beverly Hills, California-based for-profit film production company owned by far-left activist Lawrence Taubman. 223 Taubman was the executive producer of the 2014 documentary Killswitch which advocated
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Non-profit
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is a left-of-center Muslim advocacy organization co-founded by Salam al-Marayati in 1988. Marayati was a member of the Executive Committee of the California Democratic Party and a Bill Clinton delegate at the 1996 Democratic National Convention. He was nominated to serve on the
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For-profit
Berman and Company is a public relations firm founded by lobbyist Richard “Rick” Berman. 263 264 Critics
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Non-profit
Homes for the Homeless (HFH) is a nonprofit that runs homeless shelters, assisted living facilities, and migrant shelters in New York City. HFH also conducts research on the impact of homelessness through its think tank, the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness. HFH’s leadership has experience working for the New
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Non-profit
The Norman Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that focuses on environmentalist and economic justice issues and movement building. The Foundation mandates that grant requests should further equity and that funded projects are likely to achieve left-of-center systemic change. The Norman Foundation funds environmentalist groups that seek to preserve land
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Other Group
The Muslim Students Association (MSA) is an Islamic community and advocacy group with chapters in universities throughout the United States and Canada. The MSA was originally founded with support from the Muslim Brotherhood and the government of Saudi Arabia, but has since distanced itself from foreign groups. MSA chapters have
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Non-profit
The North End Woodward Community Coalition (NEWCC) is a left-of-center group based in greater Detroit that provides services to low-income families, including free internet access, food banks, and solar energy installation. In the past, NEWCC has focused on opposing municipal public transportation policies for not providing enough service to low-income
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Non-profit
Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) (not to be confused with People United in Responsible Education (PURE)) was a left-of-center nonprofit advocating for education policies. PURE appears defunct and its former website no longer functions. The group’s Facebook page stopped updating in October 2018.
