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Non-profit
Movement Labs, formerly known as Resistance Labs, is a left-of-center nonprofit technology consultant that focuses on using peer-to-peer texting to promote left-of-center activist organizations and political candidates. The organization re-invests its revenue into “experiments for the movement,” creating “social welfare organizations,” and working pro bono for left-of-center activists.
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Non-profit
Kansas Values Institute is a left-of-center political advocacy organization in Kansas that has been “long aligned with Democrats.”
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Non-profit
DC Vote (also known as the Coalition for D.C. Representation Education Fund) is an advocacy group that supports giving Washington, D.C. Congressional and Senatorial representation. DC Vote is a member of Declaration for American Democracy, a left-wing coalition under Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen Foundation.
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Non-profit
Pro-Life Action League is an advocacy organization that seeks to end abortion by providing support to pro-life activists, including training, tools, and guidance for practical action. The Pro-Life Action League’s activism includes abortion clinic witness activities, public protest, confronting abortion providers, and fighting Planned Parenthood.
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Non-profit
SisterSong Inc., based in Atlanta, advocates for legal and state-supported abortion. 1 SisterSong is a party in a lawsuit seeking to block Georgia’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
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For-profit
The Redstone Strategy Group is a consulting firm which serves left-leaning activist groups, philanthropic institutions, and private companies. Redstone explicitly identifies itself with left-wing politics, describing itself as “in the business of social change” and touting its race, gender, and identity-based hiring criteria.
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Other Group
Defend Our Constitution is an Alaska-based single-issue advocacy group that opposes a state constitutional convention. 1 The group is officially nonpartisan, but is led by prominent Democratic politicians. In addition, the group
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Other Group
Florida Organizing Together 2020 was a Democratic Party-aligned campaigning organization. The organization was intended to provide a head start on building a campaign structure for the eventual Democratic Party presidential nominee in 2020 in the important battleground state of Florida in 2020. Once the presidential nominee had been decided by
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For-profit
Patagonia is an apparel company known for its activism, including donating 1 percent of its revenue to more than 1,000 nonprofits. 1 Though Patagonia is best known for supporting environmentalist causes, the company also
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Political Party/527
Restoration PAC is a political action committee (PAC) that campaigns against Democratic candidates and in support of Republican candidates. During the 2020 general election, it spent more than $19.7 million to support President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful reelection campaign.
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Non-profit
The Center for Progressive Leadership (CPL) is a defunct left-of-center activist training organization. From its founding in 2003 to its dissolution in 2012, the center put as many as 6,000 aspiring liberal group organizers through its various programs. These programs instructed organizers on activism tactics and connected them with potential
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Other Group
Democracy Donors is a left-of-center Democratic Party-aligned political advisory group. Guide Democracy Donors advises prospective donors interested in getting involved with the group to read its guide, “A Guide for New Political Funders.” The document is intended to help individuals become acquainted with the basics of being a donor. The
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Non-profit
The Stolte Family Foundation (SFF) is a grantmaking organization which funds left-of-center education and environmental policy advocacy, as well as other activist causes. 1 The Foundation, which primarily backs projects in the Seattle, Washington
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Non-profit
ParentalRights.org supports a Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and parental rights legislation at the state and federal level. 1 Michael Farris, a homeschooling advocate, founded ParentalRights.org in 2009 to oppose the United Nations Convention
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Other Group
Flip the Vote works to elect Democratic candidates and raises money for left-of-center political groups in eight states. 1 Flip the Vote supports left-of-center positions on abortion, global warming, gun control, and immigration.
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Person
Madison Grant was an American eugenicist and conservationist who wrote The Passing of the Great Race and other eugenics propaganda books and led several eugenicist groups. His advocacy supported the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, which greatly reduced or eliminated immigration from non-Northwestern European countries and sterilization laws
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Other Group
Raise Up Washington, also known as “Yes On I-1433,” was a ballot initiative campaign that funded the effort to advocate for the adoption of a minimum wage increase in Washington state through a ballot initiative during the 2016 general election. The group raised over $4.3 million in support of
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Person
Rachel Laser is the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS), a left-of-center advocacy group. She formerly worked for Planned Parenthood, the National Women’s Law Center, Third Way, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. For two years, Laser
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Other Group
National Sex Education Standards (also known as the National Sexuality Education Standards) is an initiative of the Future of Sex Education (sometimes styled as the Future of Sex Education Initiative and initialized as FoSE), which is itself in turn a joint initiative of Answer, Advocates for Youth, and the
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Non-profit
The Gender Spectrum Charitable Fund, commonly shortened to Gender Spectrum, was an organization that promoted transgender ideology among youth. It provided resources, conferences, and “social groups” for families of children experiencing gender dysphoria.
