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Person
Saule Omarova is a Soviet Union-born lawyer and academic specializing in banking regulations. Her views on financial reform have been characterized as far-left, including proposals to nationalize much of the private banking system. Omarova is a law professor at Cornell Law School. In November 2021, President Joe Biden announced
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Non-profit
The American Independent Foundation (AIF) supports liberal investigative journalism that creates “increased public awareness of progressive issues.” 1 AIF is part of a network of left-of-center media outlets that frequently attack Republicans and conservatives
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Nominations and Appointments Tommy Beaudreau was formerly Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Prior to joining the Biden Administration, he was a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, and before that
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Non-profit
Accountability Lab is a nonprofit organization that works to expose governmental and aid sector corruption in developing countries. Blair Glencorse, the founder and executive director of Accountability Lab, is associated with the left-of-center groups Echoing Green and Americans for Informed Democracy.
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Non-profit
Citizens for Renewing America is the conservative-leaning advocacy group founded by Russell Vought, former budget director for President Donald Trump.
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Non-profit
VDare is an anti-immigration advocacy group and news site founded by Peter Brimelow. VDare is commonly considered an alt-right or white nationalist organization, though Brimelow denies the designations for himself and the group. VDare primarily operates as a “forum” and host for political commentary.
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Non-profit
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is a right-of-center educational nonprofit that creates programming and educational materials for college students. The institute was first led by conservative journalist and National Review founder William F. Buckley, Jr., and promotes libertarian and conservative political-economic thought. The organization is based in Wilmington, Delaware, and
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Person
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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For-profit
The Atlantic is a left-of-center literary, political, and ideas magazine that publishes ten issues per year. It was founded as The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 by several prominent American literary figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Other Group
Defend the Republic is a Democratic Party-aligned messaging and strategic communications venture targeting President Donald Trump over alleged associations between Trump, his 2016 Presidential campaign, and the Russian government. It is associated with Petkanas Strategies, a political consultancy headed by Democratic operative Zac Petkanas.
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Political Party/527
Victory 2020 is a Democratic Party-aligned political action committee (PAC) created in May of 2020. Victory 2020 is closely associated with American Bridge 21st Century, a left-of-center PAC that typically funds media criticism of Republican politicians, and Unite the Country, a PAC created in 2019 to support the
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Other Group
The Soros Network (also called the Open Society Network) is a system of private grantmaking foundations and nonprofits that comprise one of the largest funders of center-left and far-left activism and advocacy in the world. At the center of the network is George Soros, a Hungarian-born financier and liberal
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Person
Jeffrey Skoll is a left-leaning billionaire and former president of eBay. He has since become founder of the film production firm Participant, and a network of grantmaking foundations that include the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll Fund, and the Skoll Global Threats Fund. In 2019, Forbes
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Non-profit
Impeachment HQ is a rapid response campaign “war room” sending out press links and spin to media to support the impeachment and removal from office of President Donald Trump. The project is a joint effort by Defend the Republic and Stand Up America, an advocacy group founded and led
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Non-profit
The Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation associated with liberal activist couple Larry Lebowitz, a hedge fund manager, and Naomi Aberly, the chair of the board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Grantmaking The Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation supports a number of left-of-center organizations and advocacy causes; appropriately given
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Non-profit
Oceans 5 is a left-of-center environmentalist organization sponsored by the liberal Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA). 1 Oceans 5 has donated close to $80 million to create marine sanctuaries worldwide and to prevent fishing and exploration
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Person
Leslie Hanauer is an American liberal political activist and philanthropist known for her association with her husband Nick Hanauer and as the codirector of their foundation, the Nick and Leslie Hanauer Foundation. Background Leslie Hanauer is the wife of Nicholas “Nick” Hanauer, a liberal donor, venture capital investor,
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Non-profit
The Johnson Family Foundation is a New York City-based left-of-center private grantmaking organization. It is also known as the Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson foundation. Until 2000, the foundation’s giving was oriented more towards education and religious philanthropic causes. But since then, the foundation has become a major contributor
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Person
Brian Weeks is a left-of-center political operative and labor union activist who currently serves as political director for the American Federation State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a major government worker union known for advancing left-leaning polices and liberal grassroots advocacy. Most of Weeks’ work at AFSCME consists of
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Person
Dan Pfeiffer is a Democratic political operative best known for his work in the Obama White House. He is a co-host of the liberal political podcast Pod Save America, a product of Crooked Media. He is the author of the book Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age
