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Rational 360 is a lobbying firm led and staffed by numerous former federal employees, most notably former Clinton White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart. Rational 360 formed in 2009 from a merger of Rational PR and Stevens and Schriefer Group.
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The Redstone Strategy Group is a consulting firm which serves left-leaning activist groups, philanthropic institutions, and private companies. Redstone explicitly identifies itself with left-wing politics, describing itself as “in the business of social change” and touting its race, gender, and identity-based hiring criteria.
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Redwood Enterprise is a Washington D.C.-based consultancy and business advisory firm that works with left-of-center organizations that promote diversity and social inclusion.
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Renaissance Technologies (also called RenTech or RenTec) is an investment management firm founded in 1982 by James Simons and Howard Morgan. Renaissance Technologies designs and executes its investment programs using mathematical and statistical methods. 1
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Reproductive Health Investors Alliance (RHIA), also known as Rhia Ventures, 1 is an investment firm that prioritizes left-leaning reproductive health initiatives, including maternal health, contraception availability, and abortion access, with a focus
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The Retail Action Project (RAP) is an organization that represents workers in the retail industry. The group’s main campaigns include “Race & Gender Equity Enforcement” and “Recognizing & Stopping Wage Theft.” Its network of members is primarily comprised of individuals who are minorities, immigrants, women, and part of the LGBT
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ReVenture is a business consulting firm that aids clients in marketing, digital advertising, and customer growth. The firm advocates for the implementation of water dependent energy sources to stop climate change.1
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Revolution Messaging is a Washington D.C.-based Democratic Party-aligned campaign consulting firm founded in 2009 by Scott Goodstein, the former external online director of President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.1 The firm provides digital advertising, campaign mobilization
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Rhodium Group is a think tank that focuses on environmentalism and the economy and politics of China. 1 It has received funding from multiple left-of-center private foundations including the Heising-Simons Foundation, William
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Ricchetti Incorporated is a lobbying firm owned by Jeff Ricchetti that represents major corporate clients. It was previously co-owned by Jeff’s brother Steve Ricchetti, now a senior White House advisor to President Joe Biden. Background Ricchetti Incorporated is a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. connected to the Democratic Party
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Rideshare2Vote LLC is a for-profit firm that provides free rides to voters on behalf of Democratic campaigns. The group operates throughout the United States but mostly contracted with campaigns in Texas in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles. The firm is explicitly partisan, stating on its website that its goal
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Robert Kolodny & Associates is a for-profit group that teaches skills in team building, development, and leadership to private companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. The group’s clients include the Clinton Global Initiative, AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical, the Ford Foundation, the Federal Transit Agency, New York Civil Liberties Union, and the U.S
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The Rock & Roll Hotel is a famous concert venue in Washington, DC. It suddenly closed its doors in 2020 due to a shortage of ticket sales and tough competition with other concert venues in the area. The owners of the Rock & Roll Hotel are Joe Englert and Jason
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Runbeck Election Services (RES) is a for-profit election company based in Phoenix, Arizona, that primarily produces and distributes ballot papers. As of 2020, RES had 180 full-time workers and 200 seasonal workers and can create as many as two million ballot papers per day.
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Running Tide Technologies is a research, technology, and advocacy firm with a mission to “restore ocean health” and reduce the use of fossil fuels in global supply chains. To achieve this, the firm develops ocean diagnostic systems, grows biomass to consume carbon in the atmosphere, and restores aquatic and coastal
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Salon.com is a liberal blog known in recent years for sensational clickbait headlines, questionable content, and low journalistic standards.1 Salon has adopted an increasingly
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Salsa Labs, Inc. is a Bethesda, Maryland-based software as a service company that provides donor management, digital marketing, online fundraising, online advocacy, and peer to peer fundraising tools to more than 3,000 nonprofit organizations in North America and around the world.
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Sandler, Reiff, Lamb, Rosenstein and Birkenstock, P.C. (Sandler Reiff) is a “left-leaning” 1
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Saxman Consulting LLC is a left-of-center consulting firm founded by Christine Saxman, a former teacher and a staff member of the National SEED Project. 1 Saxman Consulting primarily teaches educators of school districts left-of-center ideas on
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Sayara International (also known as Sayara Media and Communication and Sayara Strategies) is an international research and public relations firm based in Vienna, Virginia that works with governments, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Background Sayara International (also known as Sayara Media and Communication and Sayara Strategies) was founded on December
