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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as “AOC,” is a Democratic politician and a leader of the left wing of the House Democratic Caucus. In 2018, she was elected U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th District located in the Bronx and Queens. First elected at 28 years old, Ocasio-Cortez is as of
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All On The Line is a left-of-center advocacy campaign focused on pushing congressional redistricting efforts favorable to Democratic politicians. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of the National Redistricting Action Fund (NRAF). All On the Line was created when NRAF merged with Organizing for Action (OFA), an advocacy group
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Jewish Voice for Peace is a left-wing, nominally Jewish group that opposes U.S. assistance to the state of Israel and supports allowing Palestinians to live on land within Israel vacated by Arabs during the Israeli War of Independence. The group supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement to
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Ben de Guzman is a left-wing activist that works to promote Asian American-Pacific Islander and LGBT interests. Guzman currently serves as the director of Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs. Guzman previously served as the Community Outreach Specialist in the Mayor’s
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The Anika Foundation is a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that supports economic empowerment, voter engagement, and improved healthcare in African-American communities. It is named after its founder and Executive Director, Anika Robbins, a Civil Rights Commissioner for the City of Minneapolis. Though the Anika Foundation is legally nonpartisan, its voter engagement,
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Ian Simmons is a Democratic political donor, liberal activist investor, and youth voter engagement activist. He has founded or is otherwise involved in a number of left-leaning organizations such as the Foundation for Civic Leadership and Organizing for Action.
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The Virginia Civic Engagement Table is a coalition of left-of-center advocacy groups that functions as a hub for environmentalist anti-conventional energy organizations, expanded voting rights, expanded abortion, and protection of illegal immigrants. The organization is the Virginia branch of State Voices, a nationwide coalition of left-leaning nonprofits that has
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Do Big Things (DBT) is a for-profit political consulting agency that provides creative strategy, digital ads, campaign content, digital technology, branding, website development, data, analytics, and research in digital content for left-of-center candidates and organizations. Clients of Do Big Things are reported to include the Open Society Foundations, the
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Ahsia Badi is the Census Director of Emgage, a Muslim-American advocacy and voter mobilization group. As such, she campaigns at both the local and state levels to maximize Muslim participation in the 2020 Census. Badi partners with community organizations, mosques, and cultural institutions..
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Agnes Gund is an heiress and philanthropist known for her work as a patron of the arts and as a funder of left-of-center causes. She is the chair of the left-of-center organization Art for Justice Fund, which works to release inmates and works to reduce prison sentences. In addition
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The Kaphan Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization founded by Sheldon Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee. The Foundation funds a variety of left-of-center causes and organizations, including Planned Parenthood, groups seeking to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and abolish the Electoral College, and various environmentalist organizations. The
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William (Bill) J. Roberts is a left-of-center political activist, environmentalist, and philanthropist who works as the principal consultant of Corridor Partners consultancy firm. He is also a board member of League of Conservation Voters (LCV), a left-of-center environmentalist political advocacy group, and has held leadership positions at both
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Page Gardner is a left-of-center activist who founded the Voter Participation Center, formerly the Women’s Voices, Women Vote organization. Through her work, Gardner aims to register unmarried women to vote; unmarried women tend to vote Democratic. Gardner worked for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign and maintained professional ties
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The Bridge Initiative researches allegations of anti-Muslim sentiment in America and provides commentary, reports, and other materials related to its mission. 190 It is an initiative of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
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Frank Smith is a left-of-center political activist who currently works as senior political advisor to the Democracy Alliance, a liberal donors’ convening that calls itself “the largest network of donors dedicated to building the progressive movement in the United States.”
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Heather Smith is a left-progressive activist with a career focused on growing youth voting participation. 227 She employed a variety of tactics while working for different left-of-center organizations, many
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Equality Virginia Advocates (EVA) is the lobbying arm of the nonprofit organization, Equality Virginia, a left-of-center organization that promotes LGBT-interest policies and legislation. EVA actively engages with legislators in the Virginia General Assembly in support of its agenda. EVA also encourages legislators to sign any number of its non-discrimination
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Alexis McGill Johnson is the acting President and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She entered the role on July 16, 2019 following the departure of Leana Wen.
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Grassroots Solutions is a left-of-center political consulting firm. 281 Grassroots Solutions has received tens of millions of dollars282 to support the
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Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a radical environmental activist organization created in the United Kingdom in mid-2019 from a network of individuals affiliated with Earth First! and Occupy Wall Street.
