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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at independent agencies of the United States government. Nominations and Appointments AmeriCorps Michael D. Smith is Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service). He most recently served as Executive Director of the My Brother’s
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Government Agency
The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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Other Group
Minnesota Reformer is a left-of-center news organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that began in January 2020 as part of States Newsroom. 1 Though the
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Person
Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali is a real-estate investor, philanthropist, and Democratic Party donor who has reportedly purchased artwork from Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
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Person
Hannah Muldavin is a Democratic Party staffer and liberal activist. She is a senior communications advisor to the Congressional Integrity Project, which targets Republican Party members of Congress, their associates, and their family members to expose allegedly compromising information about them. Muldavin was previously the deputy communications director for
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Person
James “Jim” Baker is an attorney formerly employed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Twitter. He has also been a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Baker became the Twitter deputy general counsel in June 2020 and held
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Non-profit
First Draft News was a collective of left-wing media organizations that pushed for news publications to implement guidelines for sourcing and presenting information to combat so-called “misinformation.” Founded in 2015, the collective included tech giant Google and the foreign-affairs publication Bellingcat. First Draft shut down in 2022 and handed
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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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Non-profit
Facts First USA is a left-of-center advocacy organization, self-described as a “Truth SWAT-team,” created shortly after the 2022 midterm elections to advocate against right-leaning news sources and Congressional Republicans, whom it calls the “MAGA-Majority.” 1
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For-profit
Simmons Hanly Conroy is an Illinois-based national trial law firm 1 that specializes in mesothelioma and asbestos, prescription drugs,
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Non-profit
The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) is an investigative journalism outfit that tracks transactions and documents, gathers research, and employs fact-checkers to uncover abuses of government power. GAI promotes its findings and analyses through books, investigative reports, and a podcast.
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Non-profit
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is an advocacy group that seeks to advance ethics by limiting government. NLPC engages in research, investigation, education, and legal action to expose and hold government, politicians, and corporations accountable for shortcomings in character, morality, and common sense.
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Person
Nina Jankowicz is a left-leaning writer and commentator on international affairs, technology, and alleged disinformation who held a brief appointment as the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, before stepping down amid controversy over her past partisan social media posts and the existence of
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Person
Yoel Roth is a senior employee of the social media company Twitter. His title is “Head of Site Integrity,” a position which involves developing policies related to spam blocking and data protection, as well as the site’s practice of selective censorship and narrative shaping, particularly when it comes to
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For-profit
Blue Star Strategies is a Democratic firm that lobbies on behalf of many companies and nonprofit organizations in the United States and internationally. The firm is headquartered in Washington D.C. and has international offices in Brussels, Buenos Aires, Paris, and Vienna. The firm is led by former Clinton administration
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Non-profit
The Atlantic Council is a think tank based in Washington, D.C. that focuses on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Atlantic alliance, and international affairs. Spread across fourteen different centers worldwide, the Atlantic Council focuses on a variety of policy issues including climate change, economic development, and advocacy of
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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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For-profit
Viscoil Group was an energy company based in California that formerly employed Paul Pelosi, son of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). The company dissolved in 2010, but reformed in 2013 under a new name, NRGLabs.
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Labor Union
The division does business as North America’s Building Trades Unions; for more information on the connections of the BCTD, see the NABTU profile. North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), also known as the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD), is a department of the American Federation of
