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Person
Thomas A. Saenz is the president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). A longtime activist for expanded immigration and senior advisor to former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D), Saenz is also an occasional columnist at the HuffPost and speaks before
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Non-profit
First Look Media is a research and media organization founded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar in partnership with controversial left-of-center activist journalist Glenn Greenwald, perhaps best known for collaborating in the mass disclosure of classified national security documents by Edward Snowden, a former U.S. government contractor residing in Russia
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Person
Max Blumenthal is a journalist, author, and documentarian highly critical of Israel who currently works as the editor-in-chief of the Grayzone. He is the son of Sidney Blumenthal, who worked as a journalist until becoming a communications strategist for the Clinton administration.
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Non-profit
The Bloomberg Family Foundation is the $7 billion foundation1 created by left-leaning Democratic billionaire and former Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg. Bloomberg,
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Person
Hamilton “Ham” Fish V is a liberal activist who has financially supported or published numerous liberal political journals, including The Nation, the New Republic, and the Washington Spectator. In November 2017, Fish resigned as publisher of the New Republic following allegations that he had sexually harassed female
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Political Party/527
Not to be confused with the similarly named 501(c)(4) advocacy group NextGen Climate Action Also see Steyer Network NextGen Climate Action Committee is the unlimited-contribution independent expenditure committee (known as a Super PAC) for NextGen America, an organization associated with left-wing environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer that
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Other Group
The American Independent (TAI), formerly known as Shareblue, is a left-of-center and Democratic Party-aligned publication that covers politics and the progressive movement. It is part of True Blue Media and receives a significant portion of its funding from American Bridge 21st Century Foundation, both of which are within
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Person
Cenk Uygur is a Turkish-American media entrepreneur and political commentator. He is best known for founding the left-of-center media network The Young Turks (TYT), which describes itself as “the largest online news show in the world.” Uygur has also worked for a variety of other left-of-center media outlets, including
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Person
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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Labor Union
The Writers Guild of America East (WGA East) is one of two major labor unions representing writers and other staff working in the film, television, news, and other media industries. Along with its partner organization, the Writers Guild of America West (WGA West), WGA East has taken the lead
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Non-profit
The American Prospect is a left-progressive publication that promotes left-of-center public policy through articles on its website and in print. Founded in 1989 by Robert Kuttner, Paul Starr, and former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, the Prospect has received grants from a number of left-of-center
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Non-profit
Also see National Organization for Women Foundation (nonprofit) The National Organization For Women (NOW) is a second wave feminist organization formed in the 1960s to support social liberal policies in the name of women.
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Non-profit
The David Rockefeller Fund is a left-of-center philanthropic organization that makes grants related to art, climate change, and criminal justice. Founded in 1989 and expanded in 2001, its grants go to independent organizations as well as initiatives affiliated with established groups like the Tides Foundation and the Arabella
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Non-profit
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) was an annual conference hosted from 2005 through 2016 by former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton coinciding with the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Non-profit
The TerraMar Project was a non-profit dedicated to ocean-focused environmental activism. Founder Ghislaine Maxwell was an alleged “close associate” of politically connected sex offender and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Non-profit
Brave New Films Action Fund is the advocacy partner of Brave New Films, a left-of-center film production company. Both are headed by founder and president Robert Greenwald and share the same web and mailing address. The Action Fund works to translate Brave New Films’ left-of-center agenda into public policy.
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Non-profit
Brave New Films is a left-of-center media production organization that has produced feature length and short documentaries and videos. While there are broad themes in the films’ subject matter, notably what Brave New Films identifies as “social justice,” their subjects range from increasing the minimum wage to American foreign policy
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Other Group
Berks Gas Truth is a local activist group in eastern Pennsylvania that protests natural gas drilling and pipelines. 1 Berks Gas Truth has partnered with a wide range of
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Non-profit
American Family Voices (AFV) is a left-of-center political organization founded by longtime activist and consultant Mike Lux. Founded during the 2000 presidential election between then-Texas Governor George W. Bush and incumbent Vice President Al Gore, Lux created this lobbying organization to support Gore’s campaign. Lux, having worked in
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Non-profit
MPower Change is a left-of-center advocacy project of NEO Philanthropy focusing on American Muslims co-founded by controversial activist Linda Sarsour. The Action Network claims that it is the largest Muslim-led advocacy organization in the U.S.
