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Bernard “Bernie” Sanders is a Vermont politician, currently serving as the state’s junior United States Senator. Sanders ran for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States in 2016. A self-described “democratic socialist,” Sanders is formally an independent but caucuses with the Senate Democrats.
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Symone Sanders-Townsend is a political commentator and Democratic Party strategist who hosts “Symone,” an MSNBC weekend program. 1 She was previously the chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris and worked on the 2020 presidential
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-described “democratic socialist,” unsuccessfully contested the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Jane O’Meara Sanders is the former President of Burlington College, wife of Senator Bernie Sanders, and founder of the progressive nonprofit The Sanders Institute.
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Symone D. Sanders is an American who served as national press secretary for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, during the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016.
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The Sanders Institute was a left-wing think tank that formed in the aftermath of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) 2016 presidential campaign. It was founded by Senator Sanders’s wife Jane O’Meara Sanders in 2017. The goal of the think tank was to propose left-wing policy solutions for
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People for Bernie is a staunchly left-wing organization that uses social media influencing and voter mobilization tactics to support Bernie Sanders and other left-wing socialist candidates. The group is concerned with changing the politics and culture of the United States so that a socialist political revolution may occur and
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Darrick Hamilton is the Henry Cohen professor of economics and urban policy at The New School and the founding director of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy. 1 Hamilton is an
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Turnout Nation is a get-out-the vote advocacy organization that focuses on peer-to-peer persuasion to increase voter turnout. 1 Though the organization claims to be nonpartisan, it is managed by self-described democratic socialist Kendall Lareau, a
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DC Jobs with Justice (DCJWJ) is the Washington, D.C. chapter of Jobs with Justice, a national coalition of worker centers and advocacy groups that promotes labor union policy priorities and perspectives across the country.
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Yanis Varoufakis is a radical-left Greek economist and politician who served as Greece’s finance minister in 2015. 1 Varoufakis
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The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (WDEP) is an advocacy group focused on incarcerated LGBT immigrants in the tri-state area of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. 1 QDEP is fiscally sponsored by the
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Shawn Fain is the president of the United Auto Workers (UAW). Fain was unexpectedly elected in early 2023 by a narrow margin after working in the union for almost 30 years. Shortly after his election, Fain launched an aggressive strike against the Big Three car companies (General Motors, Ford,
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Tom Morello is a musician best known as the lead guitarist of the now-defunct band Rage Against the Machine and a left-wing political activist. Morello is on the Council of Advisors for Progressive International, a left-of-center organization of international socialist political parties and socialist-aligned activist groups that aims to
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Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) is a left-wing to radical-left pan-European movement 1 that supports what it calls a “radically progressive” Europe.
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Carolina Forward is a left-of-center advocacy group based out of North Carolina. The group was founded to influence the 2022 midterm elections, endorsing nine candidates. 1 Carolina Forward also produces
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Michael Harrington (full name Edward Michael Harrington) was an influential left-wing activist. He founded the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), an organization which works to advance far-left politics, including within the Democratic Party, and claims to be the largest socialist group in the United States. He was also involved
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We Are Somebody (WAS) is a left-of-center pro-labor-union group founded in October 2023 by Democratic activist and former Ohio state legislator Nina Turner. WAS aims to support unions and workers through policy advocacy and the building of labor funds. Founding We Are Somebody was founded on October 4, 2023,
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Fair World Project is an advocacy and litigation organization that promotes left-wing legal and regulatory models for international trade, such as “fair trade” requirements that American corporations be held responsible for the livelihood of all workers throughout their international supply chains.
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The Lever is a news and commentary outlet founded by David Sirota, a far-left journalist and former speechwriter for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT). Background The Lever originated as The Daily Poster, a Substack founded by David Sirota in April 2020. In May 2021, The Daily Poster moved
