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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a controversial watchdog of extremist groups. It has been criticized for its financial practices and for characterizing non-violent conventional conservative organizations as equivalent to violent extremists. SPLC was co-founded in 1971 by Morris Dees, a lawyer and direct marketing expert and fellow
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The Amica Center for Immigrant Rights (Amica) is a left-of-center advocacy organization that works to prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants. The group is based in Washington, D.C. and was formerly known as the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (CAIR Coalition).
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The Alianza Center is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that engages in voter registration drives for, and provides social services to, Puerto Ricans and the Hispanic community in Orlando, Florida. It is the sister organization of Alianza for Progress, an advocacy group that funds campaigns in support of
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The Southern Engagement Funs is a now-defunct left-of-center activist group that focused on get-out-the-vote efforts in southern states and opposed what it considered to be voter suppression with voter ID laws and citizenship tests. It has been inactive since the end of 2017, though its president, Marvin Rudolph, listed his
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The Center for Right-Wing Studies (CRWS) a University of California, Berkeley-based organization that conducts research on right-of-center movements and organizations in America and around the world and is supported by private tax-deductible donations.
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The Center for Just Journalism is a left-of-center news analysis and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. The Center claims that the mainstream media has, since the 19th century, sensationalized crime, cherry-picked data and information it shares about crime, and prioritized the perspective of law enforcement while using dehumanizing language
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The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law is a project of the New York University (NYU) School of Law that claims to address alleged racial biases in the legal system. The Center conducts research, creates publications, and hosts or sponsors various events. Activities The Center is a project housed
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Center for Civic Policy (CCP) is a state-level left-of-center advocacy group in New Mexico. It mobilizes voters in New Mexico to support left-of-center policies. 162 The Center for
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The Southern Christian Leadership conference is a collection of local chapters located throughout the country that advocates for racial justice and government welfare programs for economic redistribution. Founded by Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization hosts demonstrations against businesses that it claims are engaged in racism and discrimination against African
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Southern Elections Fund (SEF) is a left-progressive organization which seeks to mobilize Black voters and elect left-progressive candidates for office in the South. 217 SEF was originally
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The Western Center on Law and Poverty (Western Center) is a Los Angeles-based left-of-center and critical race theory-inspired 232 public interest law firm and advocacy
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The Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research (CLEAR) is a left-of-center non-profit education consultancy organization that promotes left-of-center agendas on race and social policy in the education system.
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The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild is a left-leaning nonprofit that advocates for legal and illegal immigrants in the United States and lobbies on behalf of expansionist immigration policies and against immigration enforcement. The organization is associated with the far-left National Lawyers Guild, though it is
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Central American Resource Center Los Angeles (CARECEN-LA, also known as CARECEN of California) is a left-leaning immigrant advocacy group. CARECEN-LA has sister groups in Washington, D.C., New York, and San Francisco. 285
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Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a left-of-center immigrant legal activist group that provides deportation defense296 and other legal services to illegal immigrants and asylum seekers
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The Worker Justice Center of New York (WJCNY) is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that formed when Farmworker Legal Service of New York and the Workers’ Rights Law Center merged in 2011. 327 The
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The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for prison and criminal justice policy changes. It opposes for-profit prison operations347 and works
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The Legal Aid Justice Center is a Virginia-based nonprofit that provides legal services for low-income defendants and advocates for left-of-center legal policies. The Center’s headquarters is in Charlottesville with offices in Falls Church, Richmond, and Petersburg. The Center was founded in 1967 as the Charlottesville-Albemarle Legal Society with federal funding
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The Education Law Center (ELC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works in left-of-center education policy advocacy and litigation in New Jersey. While the ELC describes itself as a “voice for New Jersey’s public school children,” the organization represents and is funded by teachers’ unions.
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The Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the New Venture Fund, a leading “dark money” pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor, to promote sweeping changes to the elections process, including state laws that automatically register voters at state agencies.
