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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
New Jersey Citizen Action (NJCA) is a state affiliate of the now defunct Citizen Action, a national left-of-center voter mobilization and community organizing group. Citizen Action of New Jersey works in tandem with its sister 501(c)(3) group, New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund to conduct left-progressive advocacy and social service
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Person
David Bookbinder is an attorney and chief counsel to the Niskanen Center, a center-left and nominally libertarian think tank. Prior to that, Bookbinder was chief climate counsel to the Sierra Club, where he managed the group’s involvement in the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA, which established the
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Non-profit
The Progressive Congress Action Fund (PCAF) was a left-progressive advocacy organization affiliated with Progressive Congress. 1 2
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Non-profit
The Congressional Progressive Caucus Center (CPCC) is the advocacy and think-tank arm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,1 a left-wing congressional caucus within the Democratic Party.
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Non-profit
The Inclusive Economy Fund (IEF) is a project of the Democracy Alliance, a collective of left-of-center donors influential in left-progressive politics. 1 The IEF financially supports state and local nonprofit organizations that pursue left-of-center
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Non-profit
The Inclusive Economy Action Fund (IEAF) is a project of the Democracy Alliance, a collective of influential left-of-center donors that works to build political organizing power on the left. 1 The IEAF financially supports
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Non-profit
Arise Chicago is a left-of-center, faith-based worker center which organizes among primarily non-unionized workers in the Chicago area. The organization promotes unionization and left-of-center labor policy, leading demonstrations supporting policies including increased labor regulations, a $15 minimum wage, and increased “wage theft” protections.
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Political Party/527
Need to Impeach is a left-of-center super PAC created in 2017 to support independent expenditure campaigns opposing President Donald Trump. Need to Impeach is closely associated with billionaire environmentalist and Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer, who is the super PAC’s founder and principal funder.
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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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Person
Hector Figueroa was president of 32BJ SEIU, a New York local of the Service Employees International Union that represents building cleaners, security guards, doormen and airport workers in 11 states and Washington, D.C., until he died in 2019.
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Non-profit
Fair Elections Center (formerly the Fair Elections Legal Network) is a left-of-center litigation and election policy advocacy nonprofit created in 2006. The group originated as a project of the center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship group New Venture Fund; it has since been incubated into an independent nonprofit and was
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Non-profit
Equity Forward (sometimes spelled “Equity Fwd”) is a left-of-center abortion advocacy organization and a project of the Hopewell Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. Because it is sponsored as a project of Hopewell, the funders for Equity Forward are
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For-profit
Chapo Trap House (sometimes known by the short name “Chapo”) is a for-profit political podcast founded in the spring of 2016 by three far-left socialists: Matt Christman, Felix Biederman and Will Menaker. Their twice-weekly show (which has since expanded to five contributors), named for infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El
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Non-profit
Make It Work Action (MIWA) is a left-of-center advocacy and media campaign created by the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center funding and fiscal sponsorship organization. Make It Work Campaign is MIWA’s education arm and a project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund. The Sixteen Thirty Fund and
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Non-profit
The Make It Work Campaign was a three-year campaign that began in 2014 targeting the 2016 election season. 1 The main focuses were on women’s economic advancement issues. It also sought to “update the narrative around
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Person
Alexander Soros is the son of finance billionaire and political mega-donor George Soros and deputy chair of the Open Society Foundations, his father’s left-of-center private grantmaking foundation. 1
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Person
Lawrence “Larry” Page is the co-founder of Google, and current board member and largest shareholder of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. With a net worth of $64.8 billion as of September 2020, Page is the eighth-richest person in the world.
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Non-profit
The Sunrise Movement, often referred to as “Sunrise,” is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) environmental advocacy organization founded in 2017. The group endorses liberal and far-left Democratic Party candidates for public office and organizes alongside other activist organizations to support expansive and radical environmentalist legislation it terms a “Green New Deal.” Sunrise
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Person
Stanley Druckenmiller is a billionaire investor, philanthropist, and former hedge fund manager who once worked for George Soros’s Quantum Fund and later his own Duquesne Capital Management. He is estimated to be worth approximately $4.8 billion.
