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Choose Democracy is a left-wing organization formed to prepare to nonviolently resist a supposed potential coup by President Donald Trump if he loses the 2020 presidential election. The organization was founded by two executives from 350.org, a far-left environmental advocacy group. According to its website, Choose Democracy will either
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The Georgian Democracy Initiative is a judicial reform organization based in Tbilisi, Georgia. The group won a freedom of expression case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2021.
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Walking To Fix Our Democracy is a left-of-center activist organization that seeks changes in the political and electoral systems. It sponsors the walk across the country of Rick Hubbard, who in October 2022 began walking from Los Angeles, California to Washington, D.C. in order to raise awareness for left-of-center efforts
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Democracy R&D (sometimes written as Democracy Research and Development) funds and organizes local conferences to discuss means of improving democracy and informing the public. Democracy R&D has 95 individual and organizational members throughout the world.
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The Resilient Democracy Fund (RDF) – also referred to as Resilient Democracy – is an activist group which pushes for changes to election laws that favor left-of-center candidates and constituencies. The managing director of the RDF is Nick Chedli Carter, who previously worked for the far-left Vice Media, the
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National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private nonprofit grantmaking organization that supports the development of democratic institutions around the world. Though formally private, the NED is almost entirely funded by the U.S. Congress. Annually, the NED distributes more than 2,000 grants with an average value of $50,000 in more
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Virginia Democracy Forward is an organization that was formed in 2016 to support left-of-center policies and candidates in congressional, state, and local elections in Virginia. 1 Background Virginia Democracy Forward, also known as VADF, was founded in Northern
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George Lakey is a professional left-progressive activist who has organized protest movements in the United States for the last fifty years. Lakey built protest movements in the United States between the 1960s and 1980s primarily to advocate against the Vietnam War and support LGBT issues. Lakey eventually expanded his activism
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Protect the Results is a coalition of left-of-center and left-wing nonprofits which is preparing to non-violently resist President Donald Trump if he refuses to leave office should he lose the 2020 presidential election. The organization is a joint-project of Indivisible and Stand Up America, two left-of-center nonprofits created
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The Morino Institute is the private grantmaking vehicle of left-of-center businessman Mario Morino. Morino was one of the first to incorporate venture-capital-style giving to advocacy. He would later bring that mentality to his participation in the left-of-center donor network Democracy Alliance, which supports funding left-of-center causes.
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American Endowment Foundation (AEF) is a donor-advised fund (DAF) provider that manages over $4 billion in assets and consists of 10,000 individual donor-advised funds 1 serving donors in all 50 states.
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Associated Press (AP) is major media cooperative that operates as a newsgathering nonprofit organization. 1 AP operates in all 50 states and at 250 locations in 100 different countries,
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The Athenai Institute is a student organization founded in May 2020 that advocates for colleges and universities to disentangle financially from China and to do away with Confucius Institutes on campuses.
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The New Hampshire Youth Movement (NHYM) is a left-of-center youth organization that promotes far-left policies and candidates for election. 1 It is a grantee of the Tides Center, Rural Democracy
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Civic Works is a social media platform dedicated to left-of-center political activism. It distributes civic action announcements and serves as a communication platform for activist organizations. Based in Los Angeles, California, Civic Works is led by George A. Polisner.
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Hazmat America is a left-of-center Washington, D.C.-based agitation and advocacy organization. It is protests Republican lawmakers and conservative organizations using a balloon character in a hazmat suit called “Cleanup Carl,” which the group bills as a “superhero for democracy.”
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Institute for Political Innovation Inc. (IPI) is a voter advocacy organization that promotes the implementation of ranked choice voting, the elimination of party-primary nomination elections, and the establishment of the Legislative Machinery Innovation Commission that would overhaul the current design of the legislative branch of the United States.
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Northridge Indivisible is an informal left-of-center activism organization based in the Northridge section of Los Angeles, California. It is a chapter of the national Indivisible Project. The organization works to elect Democrats, register voters, and promote left-wing policies. The organization also protests Republicans.
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Voters of Tomorrow (VoT) is an activist group which aims to increase participation in politics by left-leaning young adults in the United States. Founded by Mexican-American immigrant and high school student Santiago Mayer in 2019, the group labels competing youth-focused political groups on the right as a “dangerous” influence on
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The CAA Foundation is the left-of-center grantmaking arm of Creative Artists Agency LLC, a leading talent agency for the sports and entertainment industry. The CAA Foundation supports organizations that engage in climate change activism, organizations that seek to weaken voter integrity laws, organizations that advocate for soft-on-crime policies, organizations that
