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Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) is an electoral policy advocacy group which provides grants and conducts research ostensibly to increase voting security and increase voter turnout. The organization was created in the wake of the 2016 election in response to foreign interference and alleged low voter turnout; in
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See also: For a more complete list of public figures who promoted collusion claims, please see this resource from the Capital Research Center. Starting at least by July 2016 and continuing through March 2019, the FBI and then the office of Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert
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The Poor People’s Campaign (PPC): A National Call for Moral Revival is a left-of-center anti-poverty campaign founded in 2018 by William J. Barber II. 1 PPC was founded to build a “new electorate” of low-income
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The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is a United Kingdom-based non-profit foundation that focuses on providing financial support to climate-change initiatives, environmentalist organizations, and to groups tackling various issues concerning children. 1
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Accountable.US is a center-left advocacy group and self-described “nonpartisan watchdog group.” The group is a former project of the New Venture Fund, a center-left 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm Arabella Advisors, though Accountable.US has announced that it is “in the process of transitioning
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Ryan Alexander is the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a tax policy advocacy organization that is funded by a number of left-of-center advocacy grantmakers. She has worked for non-profits for the majority of her career and often appears on news outlets to discuss tax policy and other issues.
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Jose Morales Jr. is the deputy director of voter protection at Fair Fight Action, a left-of-center voter activation nonprofit created by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams, who lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election and persisted in denying the fact of her electoral defeat.
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Soros Fund Management is a private investment management firm headquartered in New York. Left-progressive political-donor billionaire George Soros founded the firm in 1973, though its name has changed numerous times throughout its existence. Soros Fund Management operated as a hedge fund until 2011, when it became a family fund,
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Restore Public Trust (RPT) is an advocacy organization launched in November 2018 to assist the efforts of organizations within what has been called a “constellation of progressive-oriented accountability groups that have launched in response to Donald Trump’s presidency.”
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American Oversight (AO) is an activist and litigation organization focusing on filing open records requests targeting Republican interests, especially the administration of President Donald Trump. The organization was launched in March 2017, following and in response to the election of President Trump’s inauguration and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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Alliance for Justice Action Campaign (AFJAC) is a left-of-center judicial policy advocacy group. It is the political advocacy arm of Alliance for Justice (AFJ), a research and advocacy group devoted to confirming judges appointed by Democratic presidents and governors and preventing the confirmation of Republican-appointed judges. AFJAC sponsored campaigns
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The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
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John Podesta is a Democratic political operative who has served as White House Chief of Staff in the Clinton administration, Counselor to the President in the Obama administration, and chair of the Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign. He is also the co-founder and former president of the Center
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The Center for International Policy is a non-profit public policy research and advocacy think tank with offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City. It was founded in 1975 in response to the Vietnam War. Funding Donors to CIP Between 1999 and 2018, CIP received over $20 million from foundations:
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Chad Griffin is a career left-of-center activist who has played a key role in the national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist movement. He was the president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the leading LGBT pressure group in the United States and an influential player in mainstream
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Arabella Advisors (commonly called “Arabella”) is a philanthropic consulting company that guides the strategy, advocacy, impact investing, and management for high-dollar left-leaning nonprofits and individuals. 1 Arabella provides these clients with a number of services that ease
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The ClimateWorks Foundation is a left-of-center “pass-through” funding entity that distributes funds from donors to environmentalist advocacy groups around the world. Many of these nonprofits lobby for emissions taxes, restricting coal use, international climate treaties with strict enforcement mechanisms, and diminishing the use of cars.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a controversial watchdog of extremist groups. It has been criticized for its financial practices and for characterizing non-violent conventional conservative organizations as equivalent to violent extremists. SPLC was co-founded in 1971 by Morris Dees, a lawyer and direct marketing expert and fellow
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Friends of the Earth is a global environmentalist group based in the Netherlands. The U.S. branch is based in San Francisco and was started in 1969 by former Sierra Club executive director David Brower. The organization routinely moves beyond environmental matters and into various other left-of-center advocacy including economic
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (also known as the Hewlett Foundation) is a private foundation established in 1966 by Hewlett-Packard co-founder William R. Hewlett, his wife Flora, and his son Walter.
