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Not to be confused with Demand Progress Action (PAC) Demand Progress Action (DPA) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for policies relating to foreign policy and civil liberties.
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Morris Pearl is a left-of-center financier and activist. He is the board chair of The Patriotic Millionaires, an organization of wealthy individuals who advocate for higher taxes on high-income Americans. The group also pushes for other left-leaning economic and social policies such as an increased minimum wage. Pearl also
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Vox Media is an American digital media company that operates news and opinion websites and new media channels. Originally founded by left-wing political activists including Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas and led by an executive team with deep connections to the Democratic Party, Vox Media has expanded from
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The George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) is a grantmaking organization associated with billionaire oilman George Kaiser the owner of BOK Financial Corporation. 1
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Judd Legum is the founder and long-time editor in chief of the now-defunct left-of-center media outlet ThinkProgress, which was published by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for American Progress, a leading left-of-center think tank.
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Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of technology giant Microsoft. He also founded the philanthropic Bill Gates Foundation, known since Gates’s marriage to Melinda Gates (nee French) as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Since founding Microsoft in the 1970s, Gates has become one of the world’s
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The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is an advocacy group which claims to advocate for nonpartisan action on behalf of the Iranian-American community in domestic and foreign policy issues. In reality, NIAC pushes for a range of left-wing policy positions, including an end to all sanctions on the Iranian regime
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The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) is a left-of-center teachers union affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States. Founded in 1852, the union claims to represent nearly 180,000 educators and school support staff in the state of Pennsylvania.
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Van Jones is a CNN commentator, left-of-center political activist, and former Obama administration official. Jones previously described himself as a communist 1 and as a
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Cenk Uygur is a Turkish-American media entrepreneur and political commentator. He is best known for founding the left-of-center media network The Young Turks (TYT), which describes itself as “the largest online news show in the world.” Uygur has also worked for a variety of other left-of-center media outlets, including
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The Instructional Telecommunications Foundation, doing business as Voqal, is a lobbying nonprofit which advocates for left-of-center policies, including increased government regulation of public broadcasting. Voqal provides substantial funding to groups involved with the Democracy Alliance, a donor collaborative for high-profile funding groups on the Left. Voqal generates revenue by
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Bill McKibben is an influential environmentalist author and activist. A former journalist who wrote a seminal book in the anthropogenic global warming movement, McKibben founded the environmentalist organization 350.org and has been involved in the People’s Climate Marches movement. McKibben’s first book, The End of Nature, has been
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit umbrella organization overseeing Wikipedia, MediaWiki, Wikisource, and other projects. Its stated mission is to gather and disseminate knowledge around the world at no cost to recipients. 1 Founding
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The Movement Strategy Center (MSC) is a left-wing 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Oakland, California, which provides support and funding to other left-wing organizations. It tends to work with many groups that identify as socialist. History The MSC started in 2001 and obtained its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 2004.
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Harold Ickes is a labor lawyer, Democratic political strategist, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton,1 and a senior advisor to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns.
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James P. Hoffa is the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, commonly known as the Teamsters Union. He is the son of James R. “Jimmy” Hoffa, the mid-20th century leader of the same union who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. In February 2020, Hoffa announced that he
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The Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC) is a donor-advised fund provider established in 1958 that manages funds for 2,700 separate charitable individuals, families and organizations. 1
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For more information, see Blue Green Alliance (Nonprofit) BlueGreen Alliance Foundation is a left-wing nonprofit think tank that researches the economy and environment. It is an arm of the BlueGreen Alliance. Funding Financial Overview BlueGreen Alliance Foundation: Financial Overview YearTotal RevenuesTotal ExpendituresGrants PaidNet Assets 2019 $2,983,352 $4,979,036 $294,500
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(Freddie) Ray Marshall is a labor union-aligned, progressive economist and retired University of Texas professor who served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter Administration.
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Lisa Graves is a left-of-center activist who previously served as executive director at the Center For Media and Democracy (CMD) from 2009-2017, where she continues as a senior research fellow.1 Graves
