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The Calvert Institute for Policy Research is a right-of-center nonprofit organization that operates as a public policy think tank located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Institute frequently publishes reports and commentary on political issues ranging from economic regulation to foreign policy.
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FreedomWorks was a right-of-center advocacy organization that promoted limited government and low taxes, along with many other issues traditionally aligned with the Tea Party Movement strain of conservative activism that emerged in opposition to the Obama administration. The organization was originally founded as Citizens for a Sound Economy in
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Non-profit
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a libertarian advocacy nonprofit associated with billionaire businessman and philanthropist Charles Koch and his late brother David. The organization was formed in 2004 after Citizens for a Sound Economy split into Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks. AFP engages in direct grassroots lobbying events
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The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, commonly known as the Commonwealth Foundation, is a right-of-center think tank that promotes free market solutions for Pennsylvania policy matters. It is a member of the State Policy Network, a right-of-center consortium of conservative and libertarian thinktanks that focus on state-level policy.
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The National Urban Indian Family Coalition (NUIFC) is a left-of-center Native American activism and grantmaking organization founded in 2003 with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. 66 NUIFC is comprised of 45
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The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation, formerly the Comcast Foundation, is the corporate foundation of Comcast Corporation, which owns the Comcast cable television service, the NBC television network, and Universal movie studios. The foundation gives extensive local grants in cities for which Comcast is the primary cable operator, as well as nationally
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The Campaign Against Corporate Complicity is a far-left attack website created to blacklist former members of the Trump administration, stopping them from obtaining jobs in government and the private sector by demanding major corporations refuse to hire them. The campaign is run by two left-of-center groups: Accountable.US, a former
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National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) Action Fund is the political and lobbying arm of the left-of-center National Women’s Law Center. 124 The Fund promotes left-of-center policy on women’s issues through legislative
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Four Directions is a left-of-center Native American get-out-the-vote advocacy organization that was formed after the 2002 U.S. Senate election in South Dakota. 145 Four Directions
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Person
Richard Andrew “Dick” Gephardt is a former Democratic Party politician and lobbyist for corporate, labor union, and Democratic Party-aligned organizations. 169 Gephardt played a role in the 2020 presidential election by shoring up corporate donations to create a messaging
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Count Every Vote is a left-leaning issue advocacy campaign that promotes changes to election laws and advocates for increased funding for election administration. The campaign was founded in 2020 as a $15 million communications campaign to counter then-President Donald Trump’s criticism of mail-in voting.
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The Population Connection Action Fund PAC is a left-leaning political action committee that donates to Democratic congressional candidates who support left-leaning policies regarding abortion, contraceptive use, and environmentalism. 191 The organization
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Netflix is a media production and distribution company headquartered in California founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Netflix and its employees have become more openly left-leaning and politically active since the 2016 election cycle. In 2020, Netflix was the most Democratic-leaning major tech company in the United States
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Project for Good Information (PGI) is a media venture announced by Democratic political consultant Tara McGowan in early February 2021. The project claims to “restore social trust” between the public and the media by countering the alleged misinformation produced by right-leaning media outlets across the United States. Critics contend
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Person
Wendy Weiser is a left-leaning attorney and elections activist who currently works as the director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning think tank and legal activist organization housed at the New York University Law School. Weiser’s work at the Brennan Center focuses around
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Norman L. Eisen is a lawyer and former diplomat with an extensive track record of left-of-center institution-building and policy advocacy. Eisen held several positions in the transition team and administration of President Barack Obama, who later appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. He later waged an aggressive
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Person
Neil Bradley is the executive vice president and chief policy officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a major business advocacy organization and the largest lobbying group in America. 243 Bradley is the
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The NDN Collective is a left-of-center Native American advocacy organization best known for campaigning to close the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
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Other Group
Detroit Will Breathe (DWB) is a left-of-center racial activist organization that leads protests and advocates for the defunding of the Detroit Police Department. 304
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The Democracy Defense Coalition was a coalition of several left-leaning advocacy organizations that was formed during the 2020 election to support left-leaning election administration policies. The organization’s work centered around speculation leading up to the 2020 election that President Donald Trump would refuse to concede the race to now-President
