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Non-profit
The Texas Organizing Project is a 501(c)(4) left-of-center political advocacy group oriented around organizing Black and Latino residents of Texas’s largest metropolitan areas through statewide advocacy campaigns. Its sister organizations are the Texas Organizing Project PAC and the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund.
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Person
Morris Dees is the co-founder and former chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Dees was involved with the SPLC for 48 years and grew the organization into one of the largest civil rights organizations in the United States. The SPLC bankrupted numerous prominent extremist organizations
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Greg Rosenbaum is the president and founder of Palisades Associates, a banking firm. 36 He has served as the director of TVC Communications and CEO of Empire Kosher Poultry.
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Orin Kramer is a hedge fund manager and a Democratic Party fundraiser. He also served in the Carter administration on the White House domestic policy staff. He has also served on various commissions for Democratic governors across the country. Kramer is also on the board of directors for the
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Heather Reams is the executive director of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES), a right-leaning environmentalist advocacy group funded by and connected to other center-left environmentalist organizations. CRES works to lobby Republican-controlled legislatures at the federal and state levels to adopt environmentalist policy.
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Person
Stacey Abrams is a Democratic Party politician and activist. She is best known for losing the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election as the Democratic Party candidate; since her loss, she has alleged election improprieties, many think without clear evidence.
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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 left-of-center environmentalist nonprofit that previously served as a pass-through grant maker.
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Non-profit
Arise Chicago is a left-of-center, faith-based worker center that 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 protections against “wage theft.”
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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 McIntosh Foundation is a private foundation associated with the family of Salomon Brothers investment banker William McIntosh that funds environmentalist projects. 195 Michael McIntosh served as president of the foundation from 1971
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David Sirota is a far-left journalist and political operative working as the senior advisor and speechwriter for the 2020 Presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as of early 2019.
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Matt Christman is one of three co-founders and regular co-hosts of Chapo Trap House (Chapo), a for-profit socialist podcast. As of March 2019, Chapo reportedly grossed more than $120,000 per month through the website Patreon.
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Other Group
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is a left-of-center political news and commentary website created in 2000 by journalist Josh Marshall. 255
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Suzanne Gollin is a writer, activist, and philanthropist who supports left-of-center causes and campaigns. She is the daughter of Las Vegas businessman and alleged former mobster Moe Dalitz and the wife of former investment banker James Gollin.
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Non-profit
Bipartisan Policy Center Action (BPC Action) is a nonprofit federal political advocacy organization that advocates for solutions to public policy issues that include health, security, and economic growth. In addition to its advocacy, BPC Action uses strategic education and outreach plans to bring Republicans and Democrats together on major policy
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Person
Liz Simons is the daughter of billionaire retired hedge fund manager and Democratic political donor James Simons. She is the wife of Mark Heising, the founder of Medley Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund.
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Non-profit
The Heising-Simons Foundation is a California-based private family foundation led by philanthropists and major Democratic Party donors Liz Simons and her husband Mark Heising. 330 The Heising-Simons Foundation primarily funds organizations that work on environmentalist
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Person
Ian Bassin is the founder and executive director of the Protect Democracy Project (PDP) as well as its sister affiliate group United to Protect Democracy, often shortened to “Protect Democracy.”350 Prior to establishing
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Non-profit
Stand Up Republic Foundation (formerly Stand Up Ideas) is a nominally right-leaning advocacy organization created by failed presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate Evan McMullin and Mindy Finn, respectively. The group is affiliated with Stand Up Republic (SUR), an advocacy nonprofit critical of Trump administration policies. Stand
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Person
Henry R. Munoz III is a businessman, philanthropist, Democratic political activist, and politician. He spent much of his career as the CEO of design architecture firm Munoz and Company in San Antonio, Texas. Through his contract connections he became involved in local civics and then moved into federal politics. He
