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Movement
In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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Person
Richard (Dick) Uihlein is the founder of Uline and a major Republican donor. In the 2021-2022 election cycle, Uihlein and his wife, Elizabeth Uihlein, contributed $60 million to Republican candidates and PACs, making them the largest Republican donors.
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with InfluenceWatch.org Monitoring Influence is a left-of-center website that curates profiles of conservative and right-leaning activists, organizations, and funders in imitation of InfluenceWatch.org. These profiles accuse mainstream conservative groups of trying to “stack the courts” with “like-minded ideologues” expressing “ultraconservative . . . legal theories”
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Other Group
The Denver Justice Project is a left-of-center policing policy organization. It began in 2015 as an unsuccessful attempt to recall then-Denver, Colorado district attorney Mitch Morrissey for not prosecuting police officers. 1 In 2021, the
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Non-profit
Cavali Foundation is a left-of-center private foundation run by Cedomir Crnkovic and Valerie Rubsamen. The Cavali Foundation frequently makes grants to left-leaning organizations including large grants to get-out-the-vote organizations like the Voter Registration Project, also known as the Everybody Votes Campaign, and the Voter Participation Center. Funding In
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Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) is a left-of-center Philadelphia-based anti-poverty activist group that organizes poor and homeless people for demonstrations concerning welfare and housing.
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Person
Ryan Macias is an election technology and cybersecurity expert and former election technology specialist with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and California Secretary of State’s office. Macias has worked with various states on election technology and observed ballot recounts. Macias was an observer for the Secretary of State in the
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Non-profit
The American Economic Liberties Project is an advocacy group that opposes what it considers to be an excess concentration of corporate power in various sectors of the American economy. The organization says it opposes monopolies and calls for more federal and state regulation of private businesses in hopes to “redistribute
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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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Non-profit
Solidarity Giving is a left-of-center grantmaking and advocacy donor-advised fund located in Palo Alto, California. The fund was created in 2016 immediately after the election of President Donald Trump to change government systems, laws, and policies nationwide.
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Other Group
Markers for Democracy is a Democratic-aligned get-out-the-vote organization that focuses on Congressional elections and state legislative races. 1 It is part of the Field Team 6 coalition, a pro-Democratic Party get-out-the-vote group that
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Other Group
The Prosecutors Alliance of California (PAC) is an advocacy organization that promotes left-progressive reforms to criminal justice policies within the state of California and a project of Tides Advocacy.1 The group was formed in
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Non-profit
Towards Justice is a left-of-center law firm which specializes in representing immigrants, international workers, and other low-wage workers alleging wage theft, labor trafficking, and violations of antitrust laws. 1It was founded by attorney Alexander “Alex”
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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
Worth Rises, formerly the Corrections Accountability Project at the Urban Justice Center, is a research and advocacy organization focused on dismantling the prison system. 1
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Person
Karen Hobert Flynn is president of Common Cause, a progressive advocacy group oriented around campaign finance law and policy, redistricting, and left-of-center policy objectives, as well as respectively co-chair and member of the board of the similarly-aligned Democracy Initiative and Democracy21. Background Prior to working for
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Generation Ratify is a pro-abortion and Equal Rights Amendment-advocacy and organizing student group fiscally sponsored by the Action Network. In 2022, it supported student protests after a leaked draft opinion suggested the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade, which found an expansive constitutional right to abortion nationwide.
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Non-profit
The Jewish Communal Fund is a community foundation and administrator of donor-advised funds that promotes and facilitates charitable giving within the Jewish community in the greater New York City area. The organization was founded in 1972 and since has grown to serve donor-advised fund holders across the United States and
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Person
Tammy Patrick is a former Arizona election official who studies, writes, and speaks about election administration in the United States. She advocates for more ballot-drop boxes, more early voting, and additional mail-in voting, even calling for prepaid postage on absentee ballots mailed to voters. She is on the board of
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Person
Pamela Smith is a left-of-center election law activist known for her opposition to electronic voting. 1 She works as president and CEO of
