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Faithful America is a left-of-center activist group which protests center-right policies and runs campaigns related to various social issues.1 From 2013 to 2018, Faithful America had operated as a project of the Citizen Engagement Lab
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The California Budget and Policy Center (formerly California Budget Project) 29 is a labor union- and left-of-center-foundation-funded policy advocacy group focusing on the state of California.
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Morris Pearl is a left-of-center financier and activist. He is the board chair of The Patriotic Millionaires, an organization of wealthy individuals who advocate for higher taxes on high-income Americans. The group also pushes for other left-leaning economic and social policies such as an increased minimum wage. Pearl also
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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is the teachers’ union for 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, and other public school employees in the Chicago, Illinois public school system, the third-largest school system in the United States. The CTU represents its members through collective bargaining for compensation, benefits, employee work conditions, and school governance.
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Markos Moulitsas is a left-of-center activist who founded the progressive-activist blogging platform Daily Kos, the annual conference for left of center bloggers Netroots Nation, and was a cofounder and former board member of Vox Media. Through his platform of the Daily Kos, Moulitsas has raised large amounts
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Vox is a digital media brand of Vox Media that operates the left-leaning Vox.com news and opinion website as well as an expanding network of branded podcasts, videos, and other online content. Vox was founded by left-wing journalists and activists Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell in 2014.
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Erica Payne is a left-of-center political operative who started a number of organizations aimed at influencing the news and public policy through media campaigns featuring influential liberal donors and activists and publicity stunts. She began her career in politics working for former U.S. Senator Terry Sanford (D-NC) and later worked
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Nicolle Wallace is a former Republican political operative turned left-of-center television host who hosts “Deadline: White House,” which debuted with her as the anchor on the left-of-center cable network MSNBC in 2017. Wallace worked as the White House communications director during the George W. Bush administration and during Bush’s
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Andrea Mitchell is a television journalist who is the host of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on cable news network MSNBC. 282 She is also the chief Washington correspondent and the chief foreign affairs correspondent
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Joe Scarborough is an attorney, former U.S. Representative, and a media personality who hosts the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” with Mika Brzezinski. Scarborough was elected to Congress as a Republican from Florida in 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000, resigning in 2001; since that time, he has left the Republican Party,
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The American Independent (TAI), formerly known as Shareblue, is a left-of-center and Democratic Party-aligned publication that covers politics and the progressive movement. It is part of True Blue Media and receives a significant portion of its funding from American Bridge 21st Century Foundation, both of which are within
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Neera Tanden is a long-time confidante of the Clinton political family and a former Obama administration aide who served as president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a left-of-center think tank cofounded by Democratic Party fixer John Podesta, from 2011 t0 2021, before being rehired
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John Doerr is an American venture capitalist and philanthropist best known for investing in top tech firms like Amazon, Google, and Twitter through the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. As of September 2023, Doerr has an estimated net worth of $10.1 billion.
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The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is an advocacy group which claims to advocate for nonpartisan action on behalf of the Iranian-American community in domestic and foreign policy issues. In reality, NIAC pushes for a range of left-wing policy positions, including an end to all sanctions on the Iranian regime
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ClearPath Foundation (also called the 2040 Foundation) is a right-of-center grantmaking organization that claims to support convincing “conservatives and Republicans to embrace clean energy.”
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The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) is a left-of-center teachers union affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States. Founded in 1852, the union claims to represent nearly 180,000 educators and school support staff in the state of Pennsylvania.
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Cecile Richards was a social activist who worked as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 2006 through 2018.539 As president of
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Steve Rosenthal is a political consultant who works with labor unions, Democratic campaigns, and left-wing organizations. He is an expert in the application of direct voter contact and canvassing, skills he is best known for deploying as the former political director for the AFL-CIO and the former CEO of
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Van Jones is a CNN commentator, left-of-center political activist, and former Obama administration official. Jones previously described himself as a communist 608 and as a
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Cenk Uygur is a Turkish-American media entrepreneur and political commentator. He is best known for founding the left-of-center media network The Young Turks (TYT), which describes itself as “the largest online news show in the world.” Uygur has also worked for a variety of other left-of-center media outlets, including
