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Political Party/527
America Votes Action Fund is the 527 Super PAC affiliate of the left-of-center voter mobilization organization America Votes. It was established to conduct “exclusively electoral activity” as part of America Votes’ effort to build “a permanent advocacy and campaign infrastructure” to promote left-progressive causes.
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Non-profit
Campaign Zero, a project of We the Protesters, is a policing policy movement associated with the broader Black Lives Matter movement which aims to reduce police violence. The organization provides a platform to disseminate existing research to derive best practices to reduce policing-related deaths.
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Non-profit
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation) is the primary organizational outgrowth of the more decentralized Black Lives Matter movement. According to an Associated Press report from February 2021, BLM Global Network Foundation was granted tax-exempt status by the IRS in December 2020.
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Non-profit
MPower Change Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) project of NEO Philanthropy Action Fund. It is the sister affiliate of the 501(c)(3) organization MPower Change, an left-of-center advocacy group focusing on issues related to American Muslims. Background MPower Change Action Fund was founded in January 2016 in New York.
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Person
Denise Cardinal is the executive director of the left-of-center activist organization WIN Minnesota. 1 She has held communications and political roles for liberal candidates, causes, campaigns, and elected officials for more than 20 years.
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Non-profit
Oakland Rising (OR) is a left-of-center activist project of the Movement Strategy Center (MSC) that focuses on voter mobilization among of low-income people, immigrants, and people of color in Oakland, California. Operating under the Bay Rising umbrella with sister organizations San Francisco Rising and Silicon Valley Rising,
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For-profit
Wide Eye Creative is a Washington, D.C.-based graphic design firm that designs websites and logos. Its clients include left-wing political groups and Democratic Party campaigns.1 Political Activity Wide Eye Creative
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Non-profit
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-profit
Sandler, Reiff, Lamb, Rosenstein and Birkenstock, P.C. (Sandler Reiff) is a “left-leaning” 1
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Person
Karl Frisch is a Democratic politician and political operative who has worked with several left-progressive political campaigns and organizations as a communications director, press secretary, and field director at the federal level. He is member of the Fairfax County School Board in Virginia and sits as chair of the board’s
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For-profit
Upworthy (legal name Cloud Tiger Media) is a left-of-center news aggregation site. Founded by left-of-center activists Eli Pariser and Peter Koechley, Upworthy attempts to manipulate “emotional data” in order to influence readers’ “decision making” on social issues.
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Person
Natalie Foster is a left-of-center activist who is the president and co-founder of the left-of-center Economic Security Project (ESP), an initiative housed within the Hopewell Fund, which is itself a nonprofit operated by the left-of-center dark money organization Arabella Advisors.
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Political Party/527
The National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC) is a 527 political action committee which trains Democratic candidates to run for public office.1 To this end, the NDTC provides candidates with online fundraising services,
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Non-profit
Ragtag is a group of left-of-center programmers and lawyers who volunteer to provide technical development and support for left-wing groups. As of 2018, the group has over 600 volunteers. 1 Ragtag is structured as a nonprofit LLC.
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Non-profit
The Ragtag Education Fund is the 501(c)(3) sister organization of Ragtag which helps organize tech volunteers to assist left-progressive political causes.1
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Person
Katherine Peck is the former senior vice president of the left-of-center nonprofit Civic Participation Action Fund. She also chaired the board of State Voices, a social reform advocacy group. Political Activism Democratic Donations The following are donations from Peck to PACs and political candidates:
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Person
Stephen McConnell is the former head of the Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF). Political Activism Donations to Democratic Politicians The following are known donations by McConnell to Democratic Party politicians: 1
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Non-profit
Rise to Run is a progressive left-of-center non-profit organization that encourages women to participate in politics and run for public office. Rise to Run supports the Women’s March, a left-wing advocacy group, and uses ActBlue, a donation accepting organization used by the Democrat Party.
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Person
Jonathan Zucker is a political technology entrepreneur and campaign finance attorney best known as the founder of Democracy Engine, the first employee of ActBlue and the founder of It Starts Today..
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Other Group
Reboot Democracy is a fiscally sponsored project of Harmony Labs, an organization focused on contemporary media. The organization is focused on the intersection of democracy and technological innovation and hosts informational and networking events around the country. It also hosts an accelerator program that provides funding and mentorship to
