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Person
Meghan Maury is a LBGT rights activist and operative who serves as the Policy Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force (formerly the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, also known simply as The Task Force). Maury’s policy work for the task force promotes a wide array of left-leaning
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Person
John C. Yang is a lawyer and activist who works as president of Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC. Prior to leading AAJC, Yang served as a trade adviser to Obama administration Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.
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Non-profit
The left-of-center Roddenberry Foundation was created by Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, to honor his father’s politically progressive world view.
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Person
Deepak Bhargava is a career left-of-center activist and community organizer who worked for 16 years as executive director and president of the Center for Community Change (CCC), a left-of-center national organization that coordinates local community organizers. Bhargava led the organization to focus on liberal expansionist immigration policy and ethnic
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Person
Kevin Moore is an official in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents transportation workers and is one of the largest private-sector unions in the United States. Moore serves as Vice President of Michigan Teamsters Joint Council 43, as well as President of Teamsters Local 299 in Detroit. He
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Political Party/527
New Democrat Network Political Action Committee (NDNPAC) was formed in 1996 as a left-of-center committee to advocate and elect Democrats to office. After reorganizing in 2003, the political action committee and its parent organization, New Democrat Network, were involved in funding controversies and the PAC ceased operations after the
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Non-profit
New Democrat Network (NDN) is a left-of-center think tank and advocacy group. Originally associated the moderate “New Democrat” wing of the party, it has shifted toward supporting more-liberal candidates and policy positions. History and Work New Democrat Network is a self-described liberal think tank and advocacy organization.
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Person
Cindy Estrada is a vice president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW). Identified as a “key to the UAW’s future,” 115
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Person
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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Person
Cecil E. Roberts Jr. is president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA); by virtue of holding that position he is also a vice president of the AFL-CIO and sits on the AFL-CIO’s executive council. Roberts has won the Eugene V. Debs Award, which is named for
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Person
Jeffrey David Cox is the former national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), an AFL-CIO affiliated union of federal government workers. In February 2020, Cox resigned as AFGE president amid allegations of sexual harassment
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Non-profit
Public Democracy Action is a left-of-center Christian-influenced lobbying group. Originally founded by former Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign advisor Burns Strider as the American Values Network,
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Other Group
For more information, see Democracy Alliance (Other Group) The Colorado Democracy Alliance (CODA) is a left-wing membership and strategy organization created to assist the Democratic Party in turning Colorado into a consistently left-leaning state in elections.
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Other Group
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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Labor Union
The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers (IW) is a union of iron workers and member of the AFL-CIO. 229 The union supports left-of-center economic policies intended to raise wages
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Non-profit
LatinoJustice PRLDEF (LJP) is a left-of-center public interest legal group that works specifically with Latinos, especially within the Puerto Rican community. Originally called the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the group changed its name targeting a broader appeal and expanded mission. LIP is mostly active in New York
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Non-profit
Defending Rights and Dissent (DRAD) is a civil liberties activist organization that aims to educate the public on their civil rights through presentations and online forums, encourage organizing, and campaign and communicate with local and federal governments to protect the right to protest and to oppose government surveillance of individuals
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Non-profit
The Intercept is a left wing news website financially supported by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. It was co-founded in 2014 by left wing journalist Jeremy Scahill, lawyer and journalist Glenn Greenwald, and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras. In 2020, Greenwald resigned from the publication citing the outlet’s refusal to run
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Non-profit
FWD.us (also styled Forward US) is a liberal expansionist immigration and criminal justice policy advocacy group based in the United States. It lobbies and advocates for left-of-center expansionist immigration policy, legal status for illegal immigrants in the United States, left-of-center changes to the criminal justice system, and changes to the
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Non-profit
Nonprofit VOTE is a left-of-center organization which engages non-profits to mobilize individuals they interact with to participate in elections and vote. 377 The group has received funding from left-of-center funder organizations, most prominently the Ford Foundation,
