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Other Group
TurboVote is a software program that assists various communities, particularly colleges and corporations, with voter registration. TurboVote is a project of left-leaning advocacy group Democracy Works and has been contracted by major colleges and universities across the United States to conduct school-sponsored voter registration drives. It has also partnered
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Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously, she was the co-founder and CEO of the center-left foreign policy group Truman National Security Project. Kleinfeld published an article in July 2022 for the left-of-center website
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Rebecca Green is an associate professor of law and co-director of the Election Law Program at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is an expert on election law and frequently is sought out by the media and others to comment on the issue. In the aftermath
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Political Party/527
Grassroots Democrats HQ is a California-based political action committee that works to elect Democratic federal and state candidates. It is associated with Field Team 6, a multi-state Democratic get-out-the-vote organization.
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Other Group
Healthy Democracy Healthy People Initiative (previously known as VoteSAFE Public Health) is a coalition of roughly a dozen public health, health care advocacy, civic engagement, and medical organizations to influence policymakers and influence the politics of public health and the handling of elections. The Initiative sought to introduce novel election
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Terry Ao Minnis is the senior director of the census and voting programs for Asian Americans Advancing Justice—Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), and a left-of-center activist on voting issues and the U.S. Census. At AAJC, Minnis directs programs relating to the U.S. Census and voting rights. She was part
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Political Party/527
They See Blue is a get-out-the vote organization formed to drive Democratic party voter turnout among Americans of South Asian descent. The organization was formed in 2018 in California and established a national presence ahead of the 2020 presidential election with chapters in key swing states, including Georgia and Pennsylvania.
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For-profit
Sojourn Strategies is a political consulting firm that works with left-of-center social policy campaigns, left-progressive nonprofits, and research groups. It was founded by criminal justice activist and former professor Katrina L. Gamble. 1 The firm
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Other Group
Institute for Responsive Government (IRG) is a policy think tank that purports to seek to improve government effectiveness and correct bureaucratic inefficiency. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by consulting company Arabella Advisors that makes grants to left-of-center organizations.
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For-profit
Campaign Sidekick LLC, also known as Sidekick, is a campaign vendor that provides voter outreach databases and software. According to Sidekick chief executive officer Drew Ryun, he started the firm to address issues he encountered while working on campaigns during the 2002 primary election season.
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Kate Shaw is a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and a left-of-center political commentator. She frequently comments on legal and election-related issues. In addition to being a law professor, Shaw is a legal analyst for ABC News. She is also the co-host of the
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Tim Tsujii is the director of elections for the Forsyth County Board of Elections in North Carolina, and sits on the advisory committee of the Center for Tech and Civic Life.
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Other Group
Indivisible Philadelphia is a Democratic get-out-the-vote organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a chapter of Indivisible, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group. The organization’s flagship voter outreach project is the 35 Doors Project, in which organization members commit to knocking on 35 doors and talking to voters.
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Other Group
The Safeguarding Democracy Project is a project of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Law School founded by Richard L. Hasen, a prominent election law professor who has criticized voter identification laws and accused Republicans of using the COVID-19 pandemic to keep Democratic voters from voting. In its mission
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Other Group
Force Multiplier is a left-of center activism group founded to oppose President Donald Trump. It now raises money via direct donations through Act Blue for Democratic candidates and get-out-the-vote efforts in swing states. 1
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Edward B. Foley is a law professor who has written on left-of-center election-administration issues for the Washington Post. Foley advocates for expanded early voting, mail-in voting, and other changes to election laws to increase participation. Foley has been outspoken in his opposition to President Donald Trump. Foley has called
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Non-profit
You Can Vote is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that engages in voter registration campaigns in North Carolina. It targets ethnic-minority communities to increase voter registration and distribute left-of-center ballot infographics. 1 You Can Vote
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For-profit
Vigil for Democracy is a left-of-center agitation organization that organizes rallies, boycotts, protests, strikes, and other actions to “mass mobilize against tyranny” 1 and advocate for left-of-center policy outcomes.
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Matthew Masterson is a member of the left-of-center advisory group National Task Force on Election Crises, and frequent author for the Virality Project, a think tank designed to assess and control the flow of ideas and information disseminated to the general public through social media. Masterson is the former
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Non-profit
Way to Rise is a left-of-center strategy non-profit group that works to direct funding from donors and grantmaking institutions to local activists and political organizations. The group opposes what it calls the “boom and bust cycle of funding” and aims to ensure a continuous flow of financial resources to local
