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The Public Interest Network (PIN) is a collection of over one hundred left-wing nonprofit and for-profit organizations headed by Doug Phelps, a powerful Democratic Party political operative connected with the Democracy Alliance network of left-of-center donors. The network consists of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG),
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Scott Nielsen is the director of advocacy at the left-of-center Arabella Advisors investment firm. In this role, he helps Arabella’s clients use their financial resources to accomplish left-of-center political goals.
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Mike Lux is a Democratic political strategist affiliated with Democracy Partners, and his own firm, Progressive Strategies LLC. His client list has included the League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, and Democracy Alliance. He is a board member at the Arca Foundation and was
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The Solidaire Network is a left-of-center donor group for advancing race and gender-based causes. It is fiscally sponsored by the Tides Foundation and supported in part by the Proteus Group, left-of-center “pass-through” funders that obscure the identities of donors.
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Way to Win is an organizational strategy hub for left-leaning organizations that helps identify key elections that the Democratic Party needs to win in order to gain control of various legislative bodies. Way to Win then directs the efforts of other left-leaning donors and organizations towards those key campaigns. Since
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FCCP is a “fiscally sponsored” project. For more information about FCCP’s parent group, see NEO Philanthropy (Nonprofit) The Funders Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) is a donors’ affinity group for left-wing voter engagement advocacy that steers millions of dollars from left-wing funding entities to left-of-center nonprofits that use the
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The State Infrastructure Fund (SIF) is a donor collaborative and project of the left-of-center fiscal clearinghouse NEO Philanthropy launched in 2010. The SIF is one of several “funder collaboratives,” which NEO describes as tools for “connecting donors with aligned values to support work they could not fund as effectively
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Jane Mayer is a left-of-center investigative reporter and contributor the New Yorker. Prior to joining that publication, Mayer worked as a White House correspondent and as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Mayer has covered issues including U.S. military policy, the Trump administration, and campaign finance.
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Doug Phelps is the president and executive director of the controversial left-wing organizing entity known as the Public Interest Network. Phelps holds a number of additional roles inside the left-progressive movement in addition to his position with Public Interest Network, a collection of over 15 national groups that work
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The Brico Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization founded in 1990 in Milwaukee by heiress Lynde B. Uihlein. The fund provides grants to a range of left-of-center causes, beginning with a focus on women’s issues and moving to providing funding for environmentalist projects in recent years. The organization’s 501(c)(3)
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Lee Saunders is a government worker labor union official who currently leads the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest union of government workers who are not teachers in the United States and a staunch supporter of multi-issue left-progressive politics.
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See Also: Democracy Alliance (DA) (Other Group) The Committee on States is the state-level counterpart organization to the left-of-center donor conglomerate Democracy Alliance. According to Democracy Alliance documents, the Committee on States and the Democracy Alliance both share the same address,
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The Texas Future Project (TFP) is a left-of-center political strategy organization that endeavors to shift the balance of governance in Texas from Republican-leaning to Democratic-leaning. Founded in 2013 by “top democratic donors” in connection with Texas AFL-CIO, TFP partners with left-leaning political committees and advocacy groups including Battleground
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The State Engagement Fund is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) advocacy organization that funnels money to select left-wing groups. Observers have characterized State Engagement Fund as a “dark money” organization, since by law it does not have to disclose its donors.
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UltraViolet Action is the lobbying arm of UltraViolet, a left-progressive advocacy organization, which generates campaigns on LGBT-interest and social-liberal women’s issues, typically involving petitions, social media engagement, and small protests. Background UltraViolet, UltraViolet Action’s parent organization, was founded in February 2012 with funding from the Citizen Engagement
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UltraViolet (formally UltraViolet Education Fund) is a social-progressive nonprofit that advocates for LGBT and expanded abortion access, usually using social media campaigns, petitions, and small protests, oftentimes alongside or in conjunction with other left-of-center groups. UltraViolet Action is the organization’s lobbying arm. High-profile figures against whom the organization has
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The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
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One Pennsylvania (or OnePA) is a left-of-center activist group associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Its president, Gabe Morgan, is a vice president of 32BJ, an SEIU local union active throughout the northeastern United States; its executive director, Erin Kramer, is also a career SEIU organizer.
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For more information, see BerlinRosen (For-Profit) Jonathan Rosen is a Democratic Party political consultant and close political ally of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) who works as principal and co-founder of BerlinRosen, a campaign consulting and public affairs firm. Rosen is charged with the firm’s
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The Indivisible Project (or Indivisible) is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., and created in late 2016 as a response to the election of President Donald Trump. The Indivisible Project was established to provide liberals a practical guide for “Resisting the Trump Agenda.”