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Non-profit
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is the 501(c)(3) education arm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (commonly called “Brady Campaign”), which together are referred to as the Brady organizations. The groups engage in political advocacy, education, lawsuits and activism aimed at expanding regulations and restrictions
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Person
Jodie Evans is the co-founder of the controversial far-left anti-war organization CODEPINK, a political activist, and an author. She has defended anti-U.S. insurgents during the Iraq War and claimed those that fought U.S. troops were “cool” as they didn’t “back down.”
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Non-profit
The Climate Leadership Council (CLC) is an organization of former government officials, intellectuals, and businessmen who advocate for a carbon tax. The organization was founded in 2017 by the late Ted Halstead, an environmentalist activist and founder of the center-left think tank New America Foundation.
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Person
Farhad Ebrahimi is a left-wing political activist, supporter of the radical Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, advocacy donor, and founder of the Chorus Foundation. He is also a board member of the Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy donors bankrolling Democratic campaigns and left-of-center advocacy organizations. Ebrahimi is
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Person
Kim Anderson is the executive director of the National Education Association (“NEA”), the nation’s largest labor union, and the former executive vice president of the Democracy Alliance. Anderson was named Executive Director of the NEA—which represents nearly three million government workers, principally teachers—in June 2019, and began work the following September.
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Person
Ralph Nader is an American environmentalist and consumers’-interests activist and left-of-center politician. Though he affiliates with neither major party, his views are generally considered left-wing and he focuses on promoting anti-free-market regulations. Nader became a household name in the 1960s with Unsafe at Any Speed, his investigative report on the
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For-profit
For more information on Working Assets, see CREDO Mobile Working Assets is the holding company for and former brand name of the group of companies known as CREDO, which uses for-profit ventures in cellular and long-distance telephone service, branded credit cards, and renewable energy to support left-of-center causes.
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Person
Geri Mannion is a philanthropy manager and liberal-expansionist immigration activist who has described support for immigration restrictions as “vitriolic nativism.”
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Non-profit
The Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, formerly known as the Matan B’Seter Foundation, was created in 2001 as part of an elaborate and secretive network of grantmaking organizations funded by three hedge fund billionaires: Andrew Shechtel, David Gelbaum and C. Frederick Taylor.
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Person
Leslie Dach is a career administrator and policymaker who has held senior positions in government, private industry, and the nonprofit industry. Currently, he is the board chair of Protect Our Care, a coalition of advocacy groups that aim to preserve the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as
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Non-profit
The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation is a donor-advised fund that was spun off from the Service Employees International Union-owned Amalgamated Bank in 2017. 1 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
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Person
Elon Musk is a South African-born American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known for his role as a founder or co-founder of a number of high-profile technology firms. Musk is the chief executive officer, chairman, or a board member of a number of prominent firms across various industries, including
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Non-profit
The Othering and Belonging Institute (formerly the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society) is a left-of-center research center within the University of California, Berkeley. 1 The Institute advocates for increasing entitlement spending, increasing government-controlled urban planning,
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Non-profit
The Creative Alliance is a coalition of private advertising and marketing companies which provide volunteer creative marketing services to the left-of-center viral marketing producer Civic Nation. The coalition partnered with the Obama administration to produce celebrity-backed advertisements promoting the Obama administration’s policies to combat perceived widespread campus sexual assault.
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Non-profit
FCCP is a “fiscally sponsored” project. For more information about FCCP’s parent group, see NEO Philanthropy (Nonprofit) The Funders Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) is a donors’ affinity group for left-wing voter engagement advocacy that steers millions of dollars from left-wing funding entities to left-of-center nonprofits that use the
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Person
Peter Fritsch is an American journalist and Democratic Party operative. He is a founding partner at Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that produced the controversial and unverified document commonly known as the Steele dossier containing accusations against then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election cycle. During
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Legislation
The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) of 1959—known as the Landrum-Griffin Act after its sponsors, U.S. Reps. Phillip Landrum (D-Georgia) and Robert Griffin (R-Michigan)—is a piece of federal labor, transparency, and anti-corruption legislation targeting improper practices in labor-management relations. The Landrum-Griffin Act instituted a bill of rights for
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Legislation
The Taft-Hartley Act (known formally as the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947) is a set of amendments to the federal National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) passed after the Second World War to promote industrial peace and correct the pro-organized-labor bias of the New Deal-era Wagner Act (the un-amended
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Non-profit
Also see Democracy Fund (Non-profit) Democracy Fund Voice is a left-leaning lobbying and electoral advocacy group within the advocacy-philanthropy network of eBay chairman and founder Pierre Omidyar.
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Political Party/527
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the governing body of the Democratic Party. The DNC sets the Democratic Party’s platform, facilitates the Democratic presidential nomination process, and coordinates state-level strategy. As of 2022, its chair is former unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate from South Carolina Jaime Harrison. Structure Senior
