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Vote Captain is a voter mobilization website that claims to be non-partisan but is run by a left-of-center family that has been active in politics with ties to Democratic politicians. Vote Captain suggests apps and resources for getting people to vote that link to left-leaning voter projects. Social media programs
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Non-profit
Issue One Action is the lobbying branch of Issue One, a left-leaning organization that promotes restrictions on election-related speech activity and supports The ReFormers Caucus, a group of former legislators who lobby congress in that vein. Issue One Action supports a parallel caucus within congress: The Congressional Reformers Caucus.
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Non-profit
Fair Fight Action (formerly Voter Access Institute) is an advocacy nonprofit established in 2014 by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams, who lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election and persisted in denying the fact of her electoral defeat.
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Person
Kathleen Welch is a principal at Corridor Partners, a left-of-center political advocacy and strategy investment firm that focuses on energy and environment issues. A 2013 HuffPost article described Welch as “a highly influential figure in Democratic fundraising circles, playing a central role in steering money to environmental and
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Person
Sarah Christensen is a program director for the center-left Solidago Foundation and a former senior program officer for the World Wildlife Fund for Nature. Christensen is also the co-founder and co-chair of the Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund, a funding group created by the Democracy
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Person
Roger Kim is executive director of the Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund, an environmentalist funder and project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund. Kim is also a senior adviser to the Democracy Alliance, a networking group for major funders on the political Left.
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Non-profit
The Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund (often shortened to CCEEF, Climate Equity Fund, or Climate Fund) is a nonprofit environmental donors’ pass-through grantmaker.
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Non-profit
The Voter Registration Project, also knowns as Everybody Votes, is a voter mobilization group which targets African-American, Latino, Native American, low-income, and other voter groups likely to lean left-of-center. The organization claims to be non-partisan, but is run by individuals with long-standing connections to left-of-center non-profits, including the AFL-CIO
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Non-profit
The Voter Registration Project Education Fund is the education wing of the Voter Registration Project, a left-of-center voter mobilization group which targets African-American, Hispanic, low-income, and other individuals considered likely to support left-progressive politics and the Democratic Party. The Education Fund gives grants to other left-of-center nonprofit voter mobilization
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Person
James Gollin is a former investment fund executive and current Democratic donor who is active in a number of left-of-center political causes. Gollin is involved in activist nonprofits focused on environmentalism, Democratic Party politics, and political causes in South and Central America. He is married to fellow donor and activist
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Political Party/527
Courage Campaign Super PAC (CCSP) is the political action committee (PAC) branch of the progressive advocacy organization Courage Campaign and its fundraising and education arm, Courage Campaign Institute. Background The Courage Campaign Super PAC was formed in California in 2011 with the goal of reelecting President Barack
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Person
Anna Lefer Kuhn is the executive director of the Arca Foundation, which funds left-wing causes in the U.S. and abroad. Previously, she worked for the Open Society Foundations, the advocacy philanthropy of left-of-center billionaire George Soros, as a program officer. Kuhn also previously served on the boards
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Person
Ady Barkan is a political activist and project director at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) and founder of the Fed Up campaign. He is a former fellow for the left-wing Make the Road New York and speaker at the April 2018 Democracy Alliance Conference.
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Non-profit
For more information, see American Bridge 21st Century (Super PAC) American Bridge 21st Century Foundation is the 501(c)(4) advocacy arm of American Bridge 21st Century, a PAC created by Democratic Party operative David Brock to attack Republican politicians. American Bridge 21st Century Foundation is a major donor to
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Person
Kelly Craighead is the CEO of the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) and former president of Democracy Alliance, a major donor clearinghouse for Democratic and left-wing donors and advocacy organizations. Craighead started her political career in the Clinton White House and is reportedly a close associate and friend
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Non-profit
Bell Policy Center is a left-of-center state-level think tank based in Colorado. It is known for its support of efforts to raise state taxes and increase state spending; the group opposes the state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR). It also focuses on other economic issues with a self-described emphasis on
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Non-profit
American Oversight (AO) is an activist and litigation organization focusing on filing open records requests targeting Republican interests, especially the administration of President Donald Trump. The organization was launched in March 2017, following and in response to the election of President Trump’s inauguration and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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Person
Laurie Zeller, sometimes written as Laurie Hirschfeld Zeller, is currently a Denver-based non-profit consultant. She has served as an executive at several left-wing organizations in Colorado. Zeller has been involved in left-wing causes since the 1980s. She was executive director of the Colorado Democracy Alliance. As of early 2019,
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Person
Karen Leaffer is a left-of-center nonprofit lawyer based in Denver, Colorado. She is the founder and managing partner of Leaffer Law Group, a specialized firm which provides legal counsel to nonprofit organizations. Leaffer is an active philanthropist and member of left-of-center donor networks, serving on the board of the
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Person
Adam J. Lewis is the son of billionaire Peter B. Lewis, the former chairman of Progressive Insurance and an early partner in the liberal donor collective Democracy Alliance, who died in 2013. Adam Lewis is a board member of Spear Point Energy, a solar energy company.
