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Defending Democracy Together is a right-leaning 501(c)(4) advocacy and incubation group founded in Washington, D.C. in January 2018. Its leadership consists of former Weekly Standard editor-at-large William “Bill” Kristol, Ethics and Public Policy Center senior fellow Mona Charen, and other conservatives.
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Defending Liberty is an advocacy organization affiliated with the Convention of States Foundation. Defending Liberty seeks to provide strategic assistance to individuals and organizations that have allegedly been targeted by the government due to their political, religious, or ideological beliefs.
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Defending Rights and Dissent (DRAD) is a civil liberties activist organization that aims to educate the public on their civil rights through presentations and online forums, encourage organizing, and campaign and communicate with local and federal governments to protect the right to protest and to oppose government surveillance of individuals
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Defending the Early Years (DEY) is a left-leaning advocacy organization that supports changes to child education policy, such as delaying when children are taught to read and write, in the name of justice and equity. It claims that its advocacy is based on scientific research. Background Defending the Early Years
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The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, or DFI, is a right-leaning nonprofit organization that focuses on education, labor, and employment issues. It also supports limiting the power of federal agencies and government-sector unions.
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Define American is a left-of-center illegal immigration advocacy organization. Define American was incubated by the fiscal sponsorship pass-through group NEO Philanthropy. 1 The group
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The Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) is an environmentalist nonprofit organization that promotes legislative protection of the Delaware River watershed. The organization advocates that “environmental rights” should be granted the same level of protection as the right to free speech and freedom of religion, supporting amendments to the U.S. Constitution and
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Deliver My Vote is a left-of-center political advocacy nonprofit that promotes at-home voting in collaboration with other left-leaning nonprofits such as Engage Michigan, ProgressNow, the Center for Voter Information, the Voter Participation Center and VoteAmerica.
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Demand Justice is a left-of-center advocacy group created in early 2018 that aims to influence the political leanings of America’s courts by supporting the appointment of liberal judicial nominees and opposing right-of-center nominees. The organization acts primarily through media campaigns against nominated and unconfirmed judicial nominees. Demand Justice was established
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For more information, see Demand Justice The Demand Justice Initiative is a left-wing judicial policy advocacy organization associated with Demand Justice. It is a former project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit controlled by the for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors, and achieved independent tax status
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Not to be confused with Demand Progress Action (PAC) Demand Progress Action (DPA) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for policies relating to foreign policy and civil liberties.
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Demand Progress Education Fund is the educational arm of Demand Progress Action, a left-of-center lobbying organization, and Demand Progress PAC. It describes itself as “sponsored by the New Venture Fund,” a left-liberal funder and nonprofit sponsor that critics describe as part of a half-billion dollar “dark money”
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DemCast USA (often simply styled DemCast) is a left-of-center Democratic Party-aligned digital media advocacy and voter mobilization group oriented around supporting Democratic candidates for office and bolstering general support for Democratic policies. Background DemCast USA is a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt left-of-center advocacy organization founded in 2019 in Franklin, Tennessee. Nick Knudsen,
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Democracy 21 is a lobbying and advocacy group that aims to combat the influence of private money in politics. It was founded in 1997 by longtime activist Fred Wertheimer. 1 Media Bias/Fact Check has rated
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Democracy 21 (D21) Education Fund is the research and education arm of the left-of-center political advocacy group Democracy 21. 1 D21 and D21 Education Fund were founded by activist Fred Wertheimer in 1997 to advocate
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Not to be confused with Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund and Democracy Fund Voice The Democracy Alliance Democracy Action Fund, commonly called the “Democracy Action Fund,” is a center-left voter registration and mobilization group created by the Democracy Alliance, a network of highly influential funders within the Democratic Party and
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The Democracy and Power Fund is a now-defunct project of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), a private grantmaking foundation created in 1993 and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros.
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Democracy at Work is a left-of-center advocacy group headed by former University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor Richard D. Wolff, whom a New York Times writer characterized as “probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist.”
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Democracy Builders Fund is a public-school funding advocacy group and nonprofit incubator that has funded and provided consultation to several education projects, including Democracy Prep Public Schools. 1 It was incorporated in 2014 by former
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The Democracy Collaborative is a left-of-center organization that advocates for the transition of the United States economic system from a free-market economy to government-controlled socialism. It supports government ownership and control of industries like health care, utilities, and transportation, and the group proposes the creation of a “welfare state” that
