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Investor Advocates for Social Justice (IASJ, formerly the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment) is a left-of-center shareholder advocacy organization which promotes a left-of-center environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) agenda. In recent years, most of IASJ’s shareholder advocacy has focused on promoting left-of-center labor policy.
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Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sisters of Charity BVM) is a religious order of Catholic nuns that advocates for left-of-center social policy in both the public and private sector. Originally founded in the United States to provide education, the order has expanded in recent years to pursue
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The New York City Public Pension Funds refer collectively to five New York City public-employee pension funds that hold over $253 billion in combined assets.1 Managed by the New York
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Joy Loving is a left-of-center, Virginia-based activist who works with Climate Action Alliance of the Valley (CAAV), an environmentalist organization. Loving is a campaigner for the adoption of solar electric power, working with both local-level organizers and large national organizations including the Sierra Club and Solar United Neighbors (SUN).
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Stephanie Schriock is a career political strategist and nonprofit executive who has worked for numerous Democratic Party campaigns and left-of-center activist causes. Schriock was the president of EMILY’s List, which together with its subordinate groups has spent more than $90 million to help win elections for Democratic candidates, specifically,
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David Plouffe is a Democratic political strategist who currently is a board member and strategist for ACRONYM, a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit specializing in voter mobilization through digital outreach. He also works as the president of policy and advocacy at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, an LLC which provides seed funding
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Richard L. Hasen is a professor of law and the Director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at the UCLA School of Law.1 He supports increased restrictions on campaign finance, more oversight of
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The Mass Liberation Project is a far-left criminal justice advocacy organization formed in 2019 to advocate for “community liberation” for African-American families and other communities of color. 1 It is a project of Tides Advocacy, a 501(c)(4)
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Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC), is an advocacy and campaigning organization focused on promoting far-left policies in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. The organization is a project of Tides Advocacy, the advocacy arm of the left leaning Tides Foundation. The organization was formed in response to President Donald
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The Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) is a theologically liberal, US-based Protestant Christian denomination that claims 1.4 million members and 9,300 congregations. 1 PCUSA shares a common background with its theologically conservative counterpart, Presbyterian
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The Resilient Democracy Fund (RDF) – also referred to as Resilient Democracy – is an activist group which pushes for changes to election laws that favor left-of-center candidates and constituencies. The managing director of the RDF is Nick Chedli Carter, who previously worked for the far-left Vice Media, the
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For more see: Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society, and Bill Ayers Bernardine Dohrn was an original co-founder and arguably the top leader of the Weather Underground, a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. Prior to this
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Fix Congress Now (stylized Fix Congress Now!) is a super PAC founded in Denver, Colorado in 2019. The PAC is affiliated with Unite America, a national ostensibly bipartisan but functionally liberal-aligned organization pushing for left-of-center voter reform and “compromise” candidates in primary elections. As of 2020, Fix Congress Now
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For more see: Students for a Democratic Society, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn The Weather Underground (also known as Weatherman or the Weathermen) was a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. What became known as the Weather Underground began
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Progressive Secretary (or ProgSec) is a liberal lobbying organization founded it 1999 that has called itself a “progressive letter writing cooperative.”1 It regularly writes the letters and letter templates and allows people to put
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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Coalition is a left-leaning advocacy organization that aims to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed Constitutional amendment that would stipulate that “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
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The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations
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RepresentWomen is a left-leaning organization that advocates for increased female representation in elected office. 1 RepresentWomen works towards implementing structural changes they believe would help
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Established in 2012, VoteRiders is a left-of-center nonprofit organization based in Southern California that supports voters, especially voters from left-leaning demographic groups, in obtaining valid voter identification. Framed as a charitable organization, VoteRiders provides free voting resources and services, including guides to state voter identification laws and one-on-one voter registration
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Jennifer “Jenny” Flanagan is a left-of-center activist who previously served as Deputy Secretary of State for Colorado, a position she held from January 2019 until approximately early March 2020. Flanagan specializes in election policy and is the former vice president of state operations in Colorado for Common Cause, a
