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Non-profit
Michigan Citizen Action (MCA) was a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based, left-leaning advocacy nonprofit that supported higher taxes and increased government spending on public schools, roads, and mass transit. MCA also lobbied to end Michigan’s law prohibiting consumers from re-selling tickets to sports and entertainment events at higher prices than face value (“ticket
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Non-profit
United Vision for Idaho (UVI) is a left-of-center organization that attempts to influence public policy in the state of Idaho. The organization organizes campaigns and protests in support of a left-progressive policy agenda, including a universal government-controlled health care system, expanded entitlement programs, universal student loan forgiveness, an end to
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Patrick Gaspard is a distinguished senior fellow and the former president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP) from 2021 through 2024. Gaspard previously worked as president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the principal philanthropic entities of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, from 2017 until late
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Not to be confused with the similarly named 501(c)(4) advocacy group NextGen Climate Action Also see Steyer Network NextGen Climate Action Committee is the unlimited-contribution independent expenditure committee (known as a Super PAC) for NextGen America, an organization associated with left-wing environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer that
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Labor Union
Workers United, SEIU is a labor union and division of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) that was founded in 2009 as a result of the dissolution of the merged labor union Unite Here. In March 2009, fifteen regional joint boards of Unite Here voted to leave the
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Person
Robert Redford is an American actor and political and environmental activist. In 1980, Redford established the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization that holds film workshops each summer for young filmmakers.123 Redford is a trustee
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Non-profit
The Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) is a Billings, Montana-based lobbying and advocacy127 coalition of left-leaning political activist groups based in seven western states with prominent agricultural and energy industries.
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The Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) is a left-leaning voter registration and mobilization organization. Its parent organization is the left-progressive Hispanic-activist group Mi Familia Vota (Spanish for My Family Votes). MFVEF guides immigrants through the citizenship process to increase the political power of left-leaning Latino voting blocs and
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Person
Joseph B. Uehlein is the founding president of the Labor Network for Sustainability, a left-leaning labor union-backed group that supports far-left environmentalist policies including the Green New Deal. Uehlein has a long career in labor union organization and holds numerous positions in the labor union community, most notably
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Person
Michael Moore is a left-wing documentary filmmaker, former editor of the left-wing magazine Mother Jones, and liberal activist. Moore was born in an up-state Michigan bedroom community outside Flint, Michigan
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Bradley Beychok is a Democratic political strategist based in Washington, D.C. He currently works as the president and co-founder of American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic Party-aligned opposition research organization. The organization was co-founded by conservative-journalist-turned-Democratic-activist David Brock. Previously, Beychok was president of Media Matters for America
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Person
Angelo Carusone is the president and CEO of Media Matters for America (MMfA), a left-of-center organization that purports to “fact check” conservative media and political commentators. 246 Carusone frequently discusses “fake news”
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Tom Perriello is a former Democratic Congressman from Virginia who ran unsuccessfully for the party’s 2017 gubernatorial nomination. From 2018 to July 2023, Perriello served as executive director for U.S. programs at the Open Society Foundations, the private philanthropic network of George Soros.
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Non-profit
The Latino Victory Project is a left-of-center advocacy group. It is one of three affiliated Latino Victory organizations co-founded by actress Eva Longoria and political activist Henry R. Munoz III that supports left-of-center policies and priorities in the Latino community.
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Non-profit
The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) is a left-of-center professional organization for trial attorneys. Founded in 1958, ABOTA exists to support the use of trial by jury in civil cases and has frequently opposed attempts to establish arbitration or easier mechanisms for dispute resolutions.
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William Hall Janeway is a left-of-center economist and policy advocate. He is the co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a think tank founded in 2010 with the financial backing of billionaire financier and left-of-center philanthropist George Soros that pushes for increased government involvement in the
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Non-profit
Generation Citizen is a left-of-center advocacy group that operates campaigns targeted at high school students. The organization is most notable for its support of a national campaign to lower the voting age to 16. The campaign, which is called Vote16USA, has pushed for both lowering the national voting age and
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Labor Union
The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) is a left-of-center labor union that claims to represent more than 200,000 educators in New Jersey. 405 The union is affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA),
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Person
Amelia Warren Tyagi is an American businesswoman, left-of-center political activist, consultant, and author. Tyagi is the daughter of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and has been called her “full political partner.”
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James Rucker is a left-of-center political activist who co-founded the left-of-center advocacy and activist groups Color of Change and Citizen Engagement Lab. He is considered a pioneer of contemporary left-of-center “Netroots Nation”-style digital activism, especially on racial issues. Background Rucker was born and raised in Seaside, a town in Monterey
