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Non-profit
Common Cause Texas is the Texas state branch of Common Cause, a left-of-center advocacy organization. Common Cause Texas lobbies for changes to the Texas judicial-selection process, campaign finance laws, and election laws. The organization’s executive director said he was “really concerned about violence at the polls” prior to the
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Non-profit
The Common Cause Education Fund is the 501(c)(3) partner organization of Common Cause, an influential and controversial 501(c)(4) advocating for left-of-center causes headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Common Cause Education Fund exists to raise tax-deductible dollars from liberal donors and foundations that can be used to support the progressive
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Non-profit
Common Cause is a lobbying and advocacy group focused on advancing left-of-center policy priorities at the national, state, and local levels. Common Cause has state offices in 28 states and a sister education and advocacy group called the Common Cause Education Fund.
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Non-profit
Faith Commons is an interfaith organization that advocates for left-of-center social policies in Dallas, Texas. It welcomes “multi-faith, multi-ethnic” members and focuses on education, discussion, and advocacy related to left-leaning issues such as race, immigration, and abortion access. During the 2024 election cycle, Faith Commons produced a series of videos
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Non-profit
Common Crawl is a nonprofit which maintains an open repository of “crawled” internet data. The group makes the information which it crawls from the internet free and open to researchers. Some news outlets began demanding that the group not crawl their websites because of the group’s role in training artificial
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Political Party/527
Alliance for Common Sense is a political organization founded by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) to support the re-election of Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D). The Alliance sponsored several ads in 2022 that attacked the Republican candidate Tim Michels, claiming he was too radical and divisive for
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Non-profit
Common Justice is a Brooklyn-based criminal justice advocacy organization that promotes efforts to defund the police and end the incarceration of criminals, including violent felons. 103 The
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Non-profit
Common Good Iowa is a left-of-center advocacy organization that advocates increased social welfare spending in Iowa. The organization opposes cutting Iowa’s state income tax, claiming that tax cuts would benefit the wealthy and lead to draconian cuts in Iowa’s welfare spending.
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Non-profit
Vote Common Good is an left-leaning voter advocacy and education group focused on religious voters. Founded in 2018 by longtime liberal evangelical activist Doug Pagitt, Vote Common Good was explicitly founded to oppose the policies of the Trump administration.
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Non-profit
The Common Sense Institute (CSI) is a non-partisan, public-policy think tank that intends to protect and promote Colorado’s economy using principles that support free markets, individual freedom, and individual opportunity. 140 CSI is
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Non-profit
The Commonwealth Fund is a health care policy-focused private foundation. It funds research on and advocacy for health care systems, frequently taking a left-of-center perspective on state intervention in the medical system
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Other Group
Rally for Common Ground is a left-wing organization which helps organize protests and events promoting left-wing environmental causes.188
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Non-profit
Common Dreams is a left-wing nonprofit news organization which frequently publishes news and opinion pieces with a left-of-center perspective. 189 Though the organization claims to maintain editorial independence by refusing corporate and government funding, Common Dreams explicitly
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Non-profit
The Feminist Majority is a feminist advocacy organization that advocates on abortion access and other left-of-center issues including racial activism, LGBT interests, immigrant rights, expanded health-care and child-care benefits, and environmentalism. Affiliated organizations include the Feminist Majority Foundation, Feminist Campus, and Ms. Magazine.
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Non-profit
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is an organization of civil rights lawyers and advocates that claims to seek “racial equity and economic opportunity for all.” 234 The Chicago
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Other Group
GenDemocracy is a left-of-center activist group which argues for “advancing social justice at the intersection of gender and democracy.” 244 The group’s most visible activity is Stop the Coup 2025, a website opposing Project 2025,
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Non-profit
Sheriffs for Trusting Communities (also known as Sheriff Accountability Action) is a left-of-center anti-policing nonprofit based in Durham, North Carolina. The group supports defunding sheriffs’ offices, “promotes alternative safety models,” and works to oppose “deportations and mass incarceration.”
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Non-profit
Unite Oregon, also known as the Center for Intercultural Organizing, 274 is a local membership organization that claims to advocate for the creation of a “multicultural movement for
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Non-profit
The Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA) is an advocacy group for Muslims that claims to promote the Islamic faith in North America, particularly in the United States, through interfaith dialogue and community outreach.
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Non-profit
The Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation is a private family grantmaking organization founded in 1943 by Bernard and Alva Gimbel. As of December 2024, the foundation was managed by Bernard and Alva Gimbel’s granddaughter, Leslie Gimbel.
