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Political Party/527
Seed the Vote is a left-leaning Berkeley, California-based organization that assists left-of-center candidates and was formed to defeat President Donald Trump. While focusing on campaign efforts in swing states, over 80 percent of its volunteers come from California and New York. Seed the Vote partners with left-leaning organizations to
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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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Political Party/527
Everyday People PAC is a left-of-center political action committee based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded with the purpose of defeating then-President Donald Trump in the 2020 election and has continued with the goal of defeating the right and building the left. Seed the Vote is the
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Terry Ao Minnis is the senior director of the census and voting programs for Asian Americans Advancing Justice—Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), and a left-of-center activist on voting issues and the U.S. Census. At AAJC, Minnis directs programs relating to the U.S. Census and voting rights. She was part
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Non-profit
U.S. Vote Foundation (“USVF”) is a voter education and outreach group that continuously builds a database of information on state voter registration rules. In 2020, more than three million Americans “were served” by U.S. Vote. 1
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Non-profit
U.S. Digital Response (“USDR”) formed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help state and local governments address immediate digital needs by providing volunteer technical expertise. In 2022, it received a grant as part of a controversial program funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that raised concerns about private funding
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Non-profit
Mighty Arrow Family Foundation is a left-of-center environmentalist 1 and critical race theory-influenced 2 grantmaking foundation
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Government Agency
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a global health policy agency operating under the United Nations. Established in 1945, the WHO had a largely positive reputation around the world for supporting public health efforts, but the organization has faced numerous criticisms during the COVID-19 pandemic for mishandling policy and
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Non-profit
The National Christian Charitable Foundation (NCF), also known as the National Christian Foundation, is a community foundation. Founded in 1982, it is currently the largest Christian charity in the United States, having facilitated more than $14.5 billion in grants to more than 71,000 churches and other nonprofit organizations. The organization
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Meredith McGehee is a lobbyist, political consultant, and political commentator primarily concerned with left-of-center campaign finance advocacy. She is the founder of McGehee Strategies, a lobbying firm, and the executive director of left-of-center advocacy group Issue One. Though McGehee is generally aligned with the Democratic Party, she has criticized
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Non-profit
Vote.org is a left-of-center get-out-the-vote organization specifically designed to mobilize minority communities through online communications and resources. 1 Vote.org says it is the “largest 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan voting registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) technology platform in America, with the goal of reaching
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Mary McCord is a left-of-center attorney, academic, and former Obama administration Department of Justice official who directs the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center. McCord was a federal prosecutor for 20 years before taking a senior position in the Justice Department
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Matthew Weil is an election administration policy advocate who directs the elections project at the left-of-center Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). He first joined the BPC in 2013 and had previously worked for the Treasury Department, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and the center-right American Enterprise Institute.
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Non-profit
The Miami Foundation is a community grantmaking foundation located in Miami, Florida. The foundation offers donors the opportunity to create a donor-advised fund within the foundation for donors to direct their funds to recipient organizations. Much of the organization’s funding activity focuses on the greater Miami and south Florida region
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Person
Christine Chen is a political activist and the founder and executive director of Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote). She has opposed election integrity measures like photo ID requirements for voting and advocates for broad-based mail-in balloting.
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Other Group
MisInfoCon is a left-of-center international media organization. MisinfoCon supports online censorship under the label of online trust and verification, fact checking, reader experience, and addressing what it considers “misinformation.” 1 Founded in 2017, MisinfoCon
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Non-profit
Accountable Tech is a left-of-center advocate for restrictions on free speech on online platforms. The group was created as a fiscally sponsored project of the North Fund, which is part of the advocacy nonprofit network managed by Arabella Advisors.
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Lawrence Norden is a left-of-center election policy advocate and attorney who works as the senior director of elections and government policy at the Brennan Center for Justice. Norden has been a longtime commenter on election administration policy and campaign finance and is particularly well known for his research on
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Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein is an attorney and public policy professional who currently directs the Liberty and National Security Policy portfolio at the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-of-center advocacy group and public interest legal center located at New York University. Much of Goitein’s professional work centers around the analysis
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Person
Ethan Rome is a left-of-center campaign director who is known for his activism surrounding taxation, healthcare, and labor unions. He is as of May 2022 chief of strategy and program at Issue One, a cross-partisan organization seeking to affirm views that the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections were “the most
