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Political Party/527
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a radical-left socialist political party based in San Francisco, California. In addition to running presidential candidates in the 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 elections, PSL operates Liberation News, an online newspaper; Breaking the Chains, a print magazine; and Liberation School, an educational
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Person
Nina Turner is a left-of-center activist and Democratic politician, who formerly served as a member of the Ohio State Senate. She is a senior fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School. She is the host of “Unbossed,” a political commentary show hosted
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Non-profit
TRACTION (also known as TRACTION Community Action or TRACTION PNW) is a far-left transgender activist group operating in the Pacific Northwest. TRACTION supports “decolonizing gender,” a radical movement that claims that “transphobia” is a product of social systems imposed by European colonists to subjugate people. In addition to far-left gender
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Ben Walton is a left-of-center philanthropist and businessman based in Denver, Colorado. He is the grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton. Walton is the co-founder and creator of Zomalab, his family office, which houses his investment firm Zoma Capital. The firm invests in companies tackling environmental and social problems,
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Non-profit
The Center for Cultural Power (previously Citizen Engagement Lab Education Fund) is a left-of-center organization led by women of color artists focused on activism and community organizing through art.
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Non-profit
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice advocates for abortion and other left-of-center economic and social policies in California, taking an “intersectional” approach that views economic and social issues as interconnected. The organization has played a key role in California’s expansion of abortion access, bucking the national trend of states increasingly restricting
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Other Group
Indivisible Sonoma County (ISC) is an informal left-of-center organization based in Sonoma, California. It is an affiliate of the left-of-center organizing and activism network Indivisible Project. 1 Background Indivisible Sonoma County claims that it is
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Non-profit
The James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy (Hunt Institute) is a left-of-center education advocacy organization based in Durham, North Carolina. 1
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Person
Janai Nelson is an academic, entrepreneur, and civil rights attorney. After working at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) for 13 years and establishing herself as the organization’s “long-time second-in-command,”
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Non-profit
Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training, formerly known as Crossroads Ministry, 1 is a far-left organization that hosts critical race theory-inspired workshops, training sessions, and webinars.
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For-profit
Pacific Educational Group is a left-leaning educational consulting firm formed by Glenn Singleton in the 1990s that contracts with K-12 school districts in 20 states across the United States to provide consulting and training services around racial equity and critical race theory. The company is known for requiring program participants
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Non-profit
The Lyda Hill Foundation (or Lyda Hill Philanthropies) is a private foundation that awards grants to scientific research ventures and community foundations in Texas and Colorado. Its founder, entrepreneur Lyda Hill, supports the foundation with “the entirety of her estate.” Hill’s foundation states that she has “a fervent belief that
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Non-profit
Education for Liberation Network (EdLib) is a national network of left-of-center and radical-left teachers, organizers, and supporters who aim to place education in a context of the “struggle for social justice and connect it to action that leads to social change.”
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Person
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to advocacy and electioneering. Alinsky pioneered “community organizing,” a form of coalition-building centered on aligning the common goals of multiple interest groups too small or electorally
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the Executive Office of the President. Nominations and Appointments Jen O’Malley Dillon is White House Deputy Chief of Staff. She was Campaign Manger for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, and prior to that for Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign. She was a
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Political Party/527
The Black Panther Party was a communist Black militant organization founded in 1966 that allied with extremist New Left organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and communist regimes abroad.
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Person
John Kerry is a former U.S. Senator, presidential candidate, and U.S. Secretary of State. Kerry is currently the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate under President Joe Biden. Special Envoy Kerry’s politics have been assessed in the past as on the left wing of the Democratic Party.
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Non-profit
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) is a left-of-center activist and legal-aid organization based in New York City. The organization works to provide legal aid to transgender individuals regarding issues such as legal name changes, the immigration process, and rights while incarcerated. The organization also works to familiarize government agencies with
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Person
Angela Davis is a life-long, radical-left activist and academic. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and twice served as its vice-presidential candidate. She retired from academia in 2008 and has since been a full-time author and activist ever since. Davis first became involved in
