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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 known 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.
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Non-profit
Defending Democracy Together is a right-leaning 501(c)(4) advocacy and incubation group founded in Washington, D.C. in January 2018. Its leadership consists of former Weekly Standard editor-at-large William “Bill” Kristol, Ethics and Public Policy Center senior fellow Mona Charen, and other conservatives.
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Person
Roger Waters is a British musician and former front-man of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters is known for his support for left-wing activism, and is a supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Waters also supports Chelsea Manning, who controversially leaked classified data from
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Political Party/527
Justice Democrats is a Democratic Party-aligned 527 political action committee (PAC) that recruits and supports left-wing Democratic primary challengers to establishment Democratic members of Congress. In the 2018 election it targeted 12 incumbent Democrats and defeated ten-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY), who lost to socialist Alexandria
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Labor Union
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 2015 is a Los Angeles-based local union of the SEIU, representing long-term care workers. Representing over 400,000 home care and nursing home workers throughout California, it is the largest union in the state and the largest long-term care worker union in the United States.
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Labor Union
SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is a left-of center California-based health care workers union that is an affiliate of the Service Employees international Union (SEIU), a prominent and left-of-center national labor union. SEIU-UHW is also identified as SEIU Local 2005 and was formed in 2004 as a result
