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For-profit
True North Research is a for-profit research firm founded by left-of-center activist Lisa Graves in 2007. The firm conducts political and policy research aimed at exposing the influence of conservative and free market leaning businessmen and businesses.
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For-profit
True North Group is a left-leaning consultancy that focuses its work on communications strategies, messaging development, and website development for organizations focused on policy, research, and advocacy goals. 1 Previous True North Group projects
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Non-profit
The Pew Research Center is a research institution focusing on questions of public policy and national culture. It is a subsidiary of the Pew Charitable Trusts. The center conducts research in seven areas. Each section of the Pew Research Center includes analytical reports and polling. The Center was founded
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Non-profit
The Rule of Law Trust is a right-of-center organization that seeks to develop a more right-leaning judicial system by electing judges with an originalist approach, or one based on interpreting laws based on their meanings at the time they were adopted, to the law.
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Lisa Graves is a left-of-center activist who previously served as executive director at the Center For Media and Democracy (CMD) from 2009-2017, where she continues as a senior research fellow.1 Graves
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The Democracy Docket Action Fund (DDAF) is a left-of-center voter rights advocacy organization founded by Democratic political attorney Marc Elias and sponsored by the North Fund, a left-of-center nonprofit that operates as an umbrella group for various left-of-center advocacy organizations. The North Fund was created and is
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Person
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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Evident Change, formerly the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, is a left-of-center research nonprofit with a focus on criminal justice and child welfare issues. The group opposed the use of cash bail as a condition of pretrial release, claiming that it places an unfair burden on poor and nonwhite
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Non-profit
Inkstick Media is a left-of-center media outlet that provides reporting and commentary on international and military affairs as well as global security issues. The organization has been critical of Israel and has called for the recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state by the United States and has called for
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Other Group
Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) is a research laboratory located within Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center for the Study of Information Technology that is focused on the concepts of “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
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Non-profit
The Siegel Family Endowment is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation that was founded in 2011 by technology entrepreneur David M. Siegel, co-founder of financial services company Two Sigma. The foundation focuses on technology and training programs as well as funding research and development projects connected to various nonprofit organizations. The foundation
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Movement
There are more than 700 nonprofits and other advocacy groups in the United States that oppose the use of carbon free nuclear energy.
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InterOccupy is a left-of-center communications and organizing hub for the broader Occupy movement and other left-of-center and far left entities. Founded in 2011, the group reportedly began with a meeting of around 20 members of Occupy Wall Street’s Movement Building Working Group who were looking for a way to
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Non-profit
Freedom Virginia is an advocacy group that supports left-of-center policy goals in Virginia, particularly the establishment of a state Prescription Drug Affordability Board. In May 2023, Freedom Virginia, the SEIU Virginia Local 512 labor union, the Loudon Education Association teachers’ union, and left-of-center nonprofit New Virginia Majority organized
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Non-profit
The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) is a far-left coalition of antiwar, environmentalist, and critical race theory-influenced left-of-center organizations that oppose the foreign policy of the United States.
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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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Other Group
The Transnational Institute is a left-wing to far-left research and advocacy group located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a legal status equivalent that of a 501(c) nonprofit organization in the United States. Originally founded as an international branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) from 1973
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Labor Union
Saint Paul Federation of Educators (SPFE), formerly known as the Saint Paul Federation of Teachers, is a teachers’ union based in Saint Paul, Minnesota representing more than 3,500 teachers, assistants, community service professionals, and other related employees.
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Person
Neri Oxman is an American-Israeli academic and designer. She is the wife of American celebrity hedge fund manager and left-of-center donor Bill Ackman. In 2019, the Boston Globe reported on the connections between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, where Oxman was employed as an associate
