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Sheldon Whitehouse (born 19551) is a Democratic politician and the junior U.S. Senator for Rhode Island, serving since 2007. 2 He
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The Franklin Education Forum is a communications group that provides debate and media training to left-of-center activists. It the fiscal sponsor of 65 Project, a legal campaign that took action against lawsuits issued by former president Donald Trump and his legal team regarding the outcome of the
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CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Assets) is a cell-phone company that explicitly uses its profits to support left-wing causes. Through doing business with CREDO its customers “fund progressive causes and power social activism.” 77 Left-of-center groups
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The Movement Strategy Center (MSC) is a left-wing 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Oakland, California, which provides support and funding to other left-wing organizations. It tends to work with many groups that identify as socialist. History The MSC started in 2001 and obtained its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 2004.
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Civic Ventures is a Seattle-based 142 left-of-center policy advocacy group of “political troublemakers” that attempts to “build social change” 143
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Make the Road Action (MRA) is a left-of-center organization that works to elect more left-leaning Democratic Party candidates and advance left-of-center policies, especially in the areas of immigration and labor policy. It operates voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts focusing largely on Hispanic communities in New York, Pennsylvania, New
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James P. Hoffa is the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, commonly known as the Teamsters Union. He is the son of James R. “Jimmy” Hoffa, the mid-20th century leader of the same union who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. In February 2020, Hoffa announced that he
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The Popplestone Foundation is a grantmaking foundation founded by Alan Dworsky and his wife, Suzanne, that funds left-of-center advocacy organizations. 233 Notable grantees include Americans United for
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Barack Obama is a Democratic politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, as U.S. Senator from Illinois, and as an Illinois state legislator. After graduating from Columbia University, he worked and studied in Chicago, where he built his political career.
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Kim Glas is the president and CEO of the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), a labor union-aligned organization that works to advance the interests of the American textile industry. Glas has worked in a number of capacities for various labor and environmentalist organizations, most notably as the executive
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The United Teachers of Dade (UTD), an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, is a teachers’ labor union in Miami-Dade County, Florida and one of the largest and most influential local teachers’ unions in the United States.
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The Washington Teachers Union is the labor union representing District of Columbia Public Schools teachers. The union is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, the national left-leaning teacher union conglomerate, and is identified as AFT Local 6. The union is a powerful political force within the far-left local
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Andrew Cuomo is a Democratic politician best known as the former governor of New York. Cuomo resigned as governor in August 2021 after a series of scandals, starting with alleged information cover-ups regarding his role in forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients, and concluding in a series of sexual
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Bill de Blasio is a New York City Democratic politician who served as mayor of New York City from 2014 through 2021 after serving lesser roles in the city government for 12 years. He ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020 but suspended his campaign after four months.
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The Peter G. Peterson Foundation was created by Peter G. Peterson, who served as secretary of commerce in the Nixon administration and co-founded Blackstone, a mergers-and-acquisitions firm. The Peterson Foundation supports center-left, center, and center-right organizations that support reducing the national debt and curtailing the growth of Social Security and
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Keith Ellison is a Democratic politician and lawyer who serves as the Attorney General of Minnesota. 452 He is a former U.S. Representative and Minnesota state
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(Freddie) Ray Marshall is a labor union-aligned, progressive economist and retired University of Texas professor who served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter Administration.
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Robert Reich is a left-of-center lawyer, professor, author and public figure who served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997. As Secretary of Labor Reich promoted most of the generally centrist economic policies of the administration, such as the North Atlantic Free Trade
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TakeAction MN (TakeAction Minnesota) advocates for left-leaning causes and candidates in Minnesota. TakeAction MN advocates for raising taxes,
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Lisa Graves is a left-of-center activist who previously served as executive director at the Center For Media and Democracy (CMD) from 2009-2017, where she continues as a senior research fellow.630 Graves
