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Non-profit
The Leadership Now Project is a left-of-center organization that seeks to improve governance. It was formed by a group of Harvard Business School graduates and has chapters in at least five cities. It is a member of the Fix the System coalition, which is purportedly targeted towards right-leaning voters. The
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Non-profit
Millennial Action Project (MAP) is a political advocacy group which promotes legislation focused on issues of importance to young people. MAP claims to be a non-partisan organization but is funded by left-of-center nonprofit groups and promotes many left-of-center policy goals, especially liberal expansionist immigration policy, government job training programs, environmentalist
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Person
Sarah Longwell is currently the executive director and co-founder of Defending Democracy Together. In this role she works as the spokeswoman for Republicans for the Rule of Law, a project of Defending Democracy Together. She is co-founder of the Center Action Now project as well as the president
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Non-profit
All Americans Vote is a nominal voter mobilization group which seeks to increase voter turnout for young and racial-minority voters expected to support the Democratic Party. 1 The group was founded in 2018 by Tamer Mokhtar, a
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The Center for Civic Design (CCD) is an election-administration policy organization that frequently partners with left-of-center organizations like Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund.
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Person
Barbara Simons is a computer scientist who serves on the board of Verified Voting, a nonprofit that advocates against electronic voting. Simons is an outspoken supporter of paper ballots, serving on the Board of Advisors to the United States Election Assistance Commission. In addition to her work on election administration,
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Movement
The 1619 Project is an artistic and journalistic project of the New York Times Magazine that asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619 and not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or the drafting of
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Person
Jing Zhao is a think tank manager who is active in shareholder advocacy, frequently submitting left-leaning shareholder resolutions to some of the largest companies in the world. Zhao frequently advocates for left-of-center corporate governance policies and new human rights policies, specifically for businesses that do business in the People’s Republic
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Non-profit
The Sustainability Group at Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge is an investment advisory group involved in the left-of-center “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) movement that is a part of the Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge investment firm. The group mostly works with individuals and trusts by handling investment management, investment advisory accounts,
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Non-profit
When We All Vote is a self-described non-partisan voter outreach and registration organization and was started as an initiative of Civic Nation, an advocacy-based nonprofit group, in 2018. 1 The organization was
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Non-profit
Insure our Future is an environmentalist organization focusing on advocating for anti-fossil-fuel policies to combat climate change. The organization attacks insurance companies that insure or invest in conventional energy companies. 1 The organization works in
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Person
Tim Smith is the director of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) shareholder engagement at Boston Trust Walden which was formerly known as Walden Asset Management. Smith works to promote left-of-center policies on the environment and social issues at private businesses in which his firm invests. Smith and his firm
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For-profit
Miller/Howard Investments is a private firm which manages investment portfolios for a range of clients, including high net worth individual investors and large institutions. 1 Miller/Howard focuses on managing portfolios targeted towards left-of-center policy in
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Other Group
The State Power Caucus is a radical left-influenced advocacy coalition, founded in 2017, made up of 22 organizations from 15 states, created with the purpose of enhancing state-level progressive organizing and voter mobilization through cooperation among its members.
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Non-profit
Voter Rights Action is a nominal voter advocacy group created by the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit arm of the left-of-center “dark money” advocacy network associated with the for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors.
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Non-profit
Secure Elections for America Now (SEAN) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the left-progressive New Venture Fund
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Non-profit
The Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the New Venture Fund, a leading “dark money” pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor, to promote sweeping changes to the elections process, including state laws that automatically register voters at state agencies.
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Non-profit
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical-left student organization often credited as the main force that created the New Left. It existed from 1960 until its demise in 1969, when it split apart after a Maoist SDS group affiliated with the Progressive Labor Party was expelled by a
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Non-profit
Priorities USA Foundation is the charitable arm of Priorities USA, a major Super PAC that supports Democratic candidates and opposes Republican candidates. Founded in 2017, the Foundation primarily funds litigation against voter integrity laws and promotes research to advocate for fewer voting requirements.
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Non-profit
StayWoke (or Stay Woke) is a left-wing organization and digital accelerator that grew out of the Black Lives Matter campaigning and demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri after the police-involved shooting death of Michael Brown. The organization was founded and is led by left-wing activists involved in promoting protests against police,
