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Non-profit
Ground Game LA is a left-of-center voter mobilization group which originated from Jessica Salans’s unsuccessful 2017 campaign for Los Angeles City Council as a member of the Green Party. After the election, the campaign formed Ground Game LA as the lobbying and electoral sister-group to People Organized for
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Person
Christina “Tina” M. Tchen1 is a Chicago-based lawyer, former Obama administration official,
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Political Party/527
Democracy for America is a left-of-center political action committee that claims to have more than 1 million members, to have raised more than $70 million for progressive candidates, and been responsible for 1,091 left-progressive candidates being elected to office across the United States.
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Non-profit
Chalkbeat is a left-of-center nonprofit media organization that is focused on local reporting on education issues in the United States. Since 2020, the organization has embraced critical race theory-inspired “antiracist” activism and regularly reports on the use of critical race theory in teaching and efforts to bar it from public
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Non-profit
California Voter Foundation (CVF) is an election policy and voter mobilization group. While CVF claims to be non-partisan for tax reasons, its leadership has associations with the Democratic Party, and it has taken funding from left-of-center foundations and organizations.
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Non-profit
Massachusetts Voter Table (MVT) is a left-of-center advocacy group that works to increase civic engagement among racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, women, young people, and low-income communities in Massachusetts. MVT is the Massachusetts state affiliate of the left-of-center advocacy group State Voices, which is composed of state-based coalitions called
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Non-profit
Kentucky Civic Engagement Table (KCET) is a left-of-center advocacy group that supports and coordinates efforts of small, left-leaning activist groups in Kentucky. The group is part of the coalition State Voices, which organizes left-of-center state-based political advocacy groups.
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Non-profit
Florida Civic Engagement Table, also known as State Voices Florida, is a voter outreach and civic engagement organization working to increase voter turnout among historically left-of-center populations in the state. 1 It is
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Non-profit
Engage San Diego is a coalition of left-of-center organizations focused on civic engagement and voter outreach. It is a member of the left-of-center coalition State Voices and is one of State Voices’ California affiliates.
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Non-profit
Accountable Pharma (formerly known as Patients Over Pharma) is a seemingly defunct project of Accountable.US, which is itself a project of the left-of-center Sixteen Thirty Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship organization for left-of-center lobbying and electoral advocacy projects managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors, that
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Other Group
Better Internet Initiative is a project of the left-of-center Hopewell Fund launched in 2020 to create a collaborative fellowship for left-leaning influencers and content creators on social media sites like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. According to the organization’s website, the initiative offered a 2020 Fellowship, which worked with
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Non-profit
The Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy is a think tank formed in 2018 in Washington, D.C. The organization is named after Reconstruction-era U.S. Rep. Joseph Hayne Rainey (R-SC), the first Black man to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Person
Anne T. Bass is an American philanthropist who is married to billionaire entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist Robert Bass. She is the director and president of the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Foundation, which contributes millions to health, education, and performing arts programs, mainly in the Fort Worth
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Non-profit
Wisconsin Native Vote is a voter turnout initiative of Wisconsin Conservation Voices. The initiative has been active since 2011, and it was formed out of a partnership with the Bad River Band to oppose the development of an iron-ore mine near the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin.
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Non-profit
United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) is a Native American youth development organization that has connections to multiple left-of-center organizations. UNITY is based in Arizona, but it has over 320 local councils in 36 states. UNITY supports programs aimed at improving the mental and physical health of Native youth, spreading
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Non-profit
United Methodist Church (UMC) is a Protestant Christian church based primarily in the United States with significant membership in Western Europe, Africa, and the Philippines. The UMC has almost 13 million members, with almost 6.5 million living in the US. In 2007, 5.1% of Americans were members of the UMC,
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Person
Seth Flaxman is a researcher, nonprofit manager, and self-described “social entrepreneur.” He is the co-founder and former chief executive director of Democracy Works, an organization which works to boost voter engagement among left-of-center constituencies and takes funding from leading left-of-center philanthropic organizations, such as the MacArthur Foundation and
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Person
Carmel Martin is a lawyer and career left-of-center policy advisor. She is as of 2021 the deputy director for economic mobility on the White House Domestic Policy Council, reporting to director Susan Rice. She joined the Biden Administration after working as a senior policy advisor to President Biden’s
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Non-profit
Democracy is Good for Business is a left-of-center group that advocates for changes to the U.S. electoral system, including automatic voter registration, mail-in voting, and widespread early voting. It is a project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit. The fund is
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Non-profit
We Can Vote is a left-of-center project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a Washington, D.C.-based left-of-center pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm that controls a multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network which supports left-of-center causes.
