Search results for ‘texas public policy foundation’


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    iCivics

    iCivics is a nonprofit digital educational platform that provides online civics education programming tailored to K-12 students. The organization was founded by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2009 and has a network of tens of thousands of teachers across 50 states. The organization claims that
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    American Constitutional Rights Union

    The American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) is a conservative legal group founded in 1998 as the American Civil Rights Union. 15 Former Reagan administration adviser Robert Carleson started the organization to advocate for
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    ExcelinEd

    ExcelinEd (formerly the Foundation for Excellence in Education) is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy think tank that advocates for educational innovation. ExcelinEd advocates for policies that support school choice, increased technologies and online learning, and programs that better prepare graduates for college and careers.
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    American Bar Association (ABA)

    The American Bar Association (ABA) is a professional organization that works on behalf of American lawyers. The ABA is responsible for accrediting law schools, setting standards of conduct in the legal profession, and serving as a trade organization for attorneys.
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    Charles Koch

    Charles G. Koch is an American businessman, political and charitable donor, and the current chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States. Koch, along with his late brother David, is a prolific donor to and founder of many right- and libertarian-leaning
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    American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

    The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a right-of-center nonprofit think tank that also functions as the nation’s largest voluntary membership association for state legislators. It also offers membership to private sector companies and think tanks. The group authors a variety of publications and utilizes member task forces to adopt
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    Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP)

    The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is an advocacy organization that supports left-of-center criminal justice policy. Originally founded as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition in 2002, the organization was intended to combat drug prohibition but has since expanded to pursuing left-of-center criminal justice policy more broadly.
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    First Liberty Institute

    The First Liberty Institute (FLI) is a non-partisan, non-profit legal organization that exclusively defends religious freedoms for Americans of any faith. 229 The First Liberty Institute is an associate member of the State
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    Turning Point USA

    Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is an ostensibly student-based right-of-center organizing and advocacy group which claims to have a presence on over 2,500 campuses,243 though its figures have been disputed.
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    Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom

    The Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) (formerly the Citizens’ Council on Health Care) is a non-partisan, public policy think tank that supports freedom of choice in health care. CCHF advocates for policy that supports individualized patient care, increased choice in health care, and patient privacy rights.
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    Archbridge Institute

    The Archbridge Institute is a right-leaning public policy think tank that conducts academic research in order to propose policy solutions intended to increase opportunities for individuals. The Institute purports that “artificial barriers” created by public policy limit opportunity and thereby stand in the way of individual success, especially at is
  • Person

    Anne Filipic

    Anne Filipic is a Democratic political operative and nonprofit executive who was director of the White House Office of Management and Administration in the Biden Administration until 2022.
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    George W. Bush

    George Walker Bush is a Republican politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States and 46th Governor of Texas. He served two terms as president, winning the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. During his time in office, he oversaw the American response to the terrorist attacks on
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    Robert M. Bass

    Robert Muse Bass is a billionaire entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He inherited $2.8 billion from his oil tycoon uncle in 1959 and grew his fortune through investments and ventures. On the Forbes Billionaires 2021 list, he placed at number 550 with a net worth of $5.1 billion as of June
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    Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP)

    Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) is a media advocacy group, founded in 1970, that provides legal services for journalists and news organizations involved with free speech-related cases. 360
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    Biden-Harris Transition

    The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
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    Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

    Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to unaccompanied undocumented immigrant children. 784 The Center also also advocates for changes to U.S. immigration
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    VOCAL-NY

    Voices of Community Activists and Leaders-New York, or VOCAL-NY, is a New York-based membership organization that advocates for left-of-center policies relating to criminal justice, drug policy, housing, and homelessness, and in favor of increased state spending on social services. The group was originally known as the “New York AIDS Housing
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    National Rifle Association

    The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a single-issue right-of-center advocacy organization that promotes responsible firearms ownership and use. It is involved in firearms-related education, training, and political activism, supporting policies that it sees as furthering the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment to the
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    Walter Funder Initiative

    The Water Funder Initiative (WFI) is a left-of-center environmental advocacy group and a project of the Windward Fund,893 a sponsor of environmentalist projects associated with the Arabella Advisors network of left-progressive “dark money.”