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Hub
Teachers unions, like other government-employee unions, are a key player in the left-of-center infrastructure. The national teachers unions — National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — are among the largest organizational political players
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Non-profit
The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) is a non-partisan, public policy think tank focused on expanding economic opportunity for those with incomes or wealth below the U.S. median. To achieve this, FREOPP advocates for equal opportunity through public policies that use the principles of individual liberty, free enterprise,
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Non-profit
Young Voices is a non-profit public relations and talent agency for young right-of-center writers. Young Voices provides writers under 35 with training, mentorship, and brand building to establish a network of pro-liberty voices in the media.
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Non-profit
The Empire Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank that promotes public policy reforms in support of free-market principles, personal responsibility, and limited government intervention. 1 The Empire Center supports
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Non-profit
American Compass is a self-proclaimed conservative think tank which considers itself a part of the “conservative labor movement.” American Compass was founded by Oren Cass, a former advisor to now-U.S. Senator Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) presidential campaigns and a labor and environmental policy analyst. In American Compass’s founding letter, Cass
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Movement
The 1776 Project (also known simply as “1776,” the “1776 Initiative,” and “1776 Unites”) is a campaign started by civil rights organizer Bob Woodson to counteract the left-wing historical narrative expressed by the left-of-center 1619 Project.
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Non-profit
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order (also known as the Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph) is a Catholic clerical religious congregation that advocates for left-of-center policy implementation in the private and public sector. It operates in seven U.S. states, Nicaragua, and Panama as a division of the
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Other Group
The New York City Public Pension Funds refer collectively to five New York City public-employee pension funds that hold over $253 billion in combined assets.1 Managed by the New York
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Other Group
The Philadelphia Public Employees Retirement System creates and maintains a retirement benefits system for civilian public and quasi-public employees in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Retirement System also participates in substantial shareholder advocacy, leveraging its $4.9 billion in assets to push for left-of-center proposals in corporate board regulation, executive
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Person
Ron Unz is a financially successful former investment industry and software entrepreneur. Since 2013, he has been the publisher of the Unz Review, a website notable for spreading anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories, especially about U.S. policies related to Israel and the Middle East. Unz Review writers, including Unz himself, have
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Person
William (Bill) Kristol is a political commentator and the son of left-wing-turned-conservative intellectuals Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb. 1 Since the mid-1990s,
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Non-profit
Political Research Associates (PRA) is a left-wing “social justice think tank” which seeks to advance left-progressive and critical race theory-aligned thinking and action.1 PRA opposes the political right,
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Non-profit
The We Mean Business coalition is a European-American coalition of advocacy groups that aims to get private business to take action on climate change and achieve net zero carbon emissions and to push governments to adopt environmentalist policies. It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a grantmaking and
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Non-profit
The Economic Security Project (ESP) is a left-of-center initiative that advocates for the federal government to distribute “unconditional cash for Americans” through a universal basic income program. 1 It is housed within the Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3)
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Labor Union
The California Teachers Association (CTA) is the largest state affiliate of the left-of-center National Education Association (NEA) and the largest teachers’ union in California. 1
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Movement
The “Fight for $15” is a corporate campaign principally orchestrated and funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which seeks to unionize the quick-service franchise restaurant industry and raise the federal minimum wage by more than double to $15 per hour, using the slogan “$15 and a union.”
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Person
Howard Zinn was a professor of history at Boston University and a left-wing political activist who described himself as “something of an anarchist, something of a socialist” and “maybe a democratic socialist.”
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Person
Bill de Blasio is a New York City Democratic politician who has served as mayor of New York City since 2014 after serving lesser roles in the city government for twelve years. He ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020 but suspended his campaign after four months. De
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Labor Union
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is a government worker union representing schoolteachers in New York City. It is an affiliate of the national American Federation of Teachers labor union as AFT Local 2 and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and is one of
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For-profit
The New York Times (NYT or Times) is a newspaper and digital media brand published by The New York Times Company. Founded in 1851, the Times has long been one of the most prestigious and highest-profile newspapers in the world.
