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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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For-profit
Twitter (known officially since a 2023 rebranding as “X”1) is a social networking website founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams.
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Person
Katherine Maher is an American nonprofit executive who worked as chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2014 to 2021 and was appointed president and CEO of National Public Radio in March 2024. In April 2024, Maher attracted controversy for numerous statements indicating left-of-center political views after
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For-profit
The Messina Group (TMG) is political consulting and strategic advisory firm that is run by Jim Messina, the “mastermind” of President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential re-election campaign. 1 TMG was
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Other Group
Oklahoma Voice is a left-of-center online state-level news outlet focused on Oklahoma launched in 2023 by national media network States Newsroom. 1 Background Oklahoma Voice was launched in
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Non-profit
The Alkalam Institute is a San Diego-based organization devoted to using the sciences, particularly computer science, for the benefit of Muslim communities. The organization endorsed the January 13, 2024 “March on Washington for Gaza” in Washington, D.C. that called for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war and an end
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Other Group
The Criminal Law and Justice Center is a left-of-center legal advocacy organization based out of the University of California (UC) Berkeley School of Law. It was founded by former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. The Center supports left-of-center and radical-left approaches to criminal justice.
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Other Group
The Democracy Docket Action Fund (DDAF) is a left-of-center voter rights advocacy organization founded by Democratic political attorney Marc Elias and sponsored by the North Fund, a left-of-center nonprofit that operates as an umbrella group for various left-of-center advocacy organizations. The North Fund was created and is
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Non-profit
Rising Voices Fund is an educational nonprofit that works with its affiliated advocacy organization Rising Voices to organize Asian-Americans in Michigan to advance left-of-center policy priorities and social causes. 1 Rising Voices Fund
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Non-profit
Rising Voices is an advocacy organization that organizes Asian-Americans in Michigan to advance left-of-center policy priorities and elect Democratic candidates for public office. 1
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Other Group
The Alyssa Rodriguez Center (ARC) for Gender Justice is a non-profit that advocates for left-of-center policies regarding transgender issues, particularly those related to housing and incarceration assignments. It operates in New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.
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Non-profit
The American Center for Justice (ACJ) is a monitoring organization that claims to promote human rights focused on the Middle East. It is supportive of Palestinians over Israelis. ACJ criticized the United States and other countries for suspending funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
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Non-profit
Community Movement Builders (CMB) is a Marxist, Black-focused organization calling for defunding the police, ending cash bail, mass releases of prisoners and illegal immigrants from detention centers, decriminalizing minor offenses and drug laws, and removing police from protests, schools, and public housing. CMB is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and insists
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For-profit
Unbendable Media is a left-of-center public relations firm that was founded in 2016 by former staff of the left-of-center public relations firm FitzGibbon Media after it closed following allegations of personal misconduct against its president, Trevor FitzGibbon.
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Non-profit
The Charles Butt Foundation is a private philanthropy that donates to pro-public-school and anti-school-choice initiatives in the state of Texas. It was founded by Charles Butt, the billionaire heir to and CEO of the H-E-B grocery chain.
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Person
Charles Butt is the heir and CEO of the Texas-based H-E-B grocery chain and a prominent donor to left-of-center education initiatives, particularly those that champion public schools over private schools, school choice programs, and homeschooling.
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Other Group
Credibility Coalition is a self-described news analysis organization that claims to be developing objective metrics to determine the credibility of media outlets. It was founded in 2017 and has support from major media organizations like Twitter, the Associated Press, and Snopes. History Credibility Coalition was founded in 2017
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Non-profit
Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network is a think tank with hundreds of scholars from around the world producing policy analysis and ideas to help Palestinians gain social and other support against Israel. Al-Shabaka is registered in the state of California as the Middle East Policy Network.
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Non-profit
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is a non-profit medical advocacy group made up of of doctors that standardizes medical practices concerning treatments for gender dysphoria, which the organization previously termed gender identity disorder. WPATH’s recommendations, as most recently updated in 2022’s Eighth Edition of the Standards of
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Non-profit
The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism is a left-of-center advocacy organization co-founded in 2020 by two former high-level Southern Poverty Law Center employees, Heidi Beirich and Wendy Via. 1
