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Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) is a left-of-center voter turnout organization that receives financial support from leading left-of-center grant makers like the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and NEO Philanthropy.
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Voto Latino (also known as the Voto Latino Action Fund) is a left-of-center voter mobilization group targeted at Latino voters and aimed at assisting Democratic candidates. Co-founded by Maria Theresa Kumar and actress Rosario Dawson, Voto Latino has registered hundreds of thousands of voters since 2004. The organization also advocates
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UltraViolet (previously known as UltraViolet Education Fund) is a left-of-center nonprofit that advocates for LGBT rights, and expanded abortion access through social media campaigns, petitions, and protests with similar activist groups. UltraViolet Action is the organization’s lobbying arm.
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Lily Eskelsen Garcia is a teachers union activist and the former president of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States. Eskelsen Garcia was considered a top contender for the Education Secretary in the administration of President-elect Joe Biden. Eskelsen Garcia began
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Shannon Watts is a left-of-center gun control activist and founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (Moms Demand Action). Watts founded the left-of-center gun control organization in 2012 to support a number of anti-gun regulations, including “red flag” laws to allow judges to bar individuals from
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Glenn Simpson is an American journalist, corporate researcher, and political opposition researcher. He is a founding partner at Fusion GPS, the research firm which produced the controversial and unverified document commonly known as the “Steele dossier” containing allegations against then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign during
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SKDKnickerbocker (SKDK) is a political consulting and public affairs company whose clients include prominent Democratic Party politicians, particularly in the state of New York. SKDK has done consulting work for former President Barack Obama, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), and New York City Mayor and Democratic presidential
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Ana Maria Archila is a liberal expansionist immigration activist and the co-executive director of the left-of-center Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) and the Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund along with Andrew Friedman, Jennifer Epps-Addison, and Brian Kettering. Archila claims to support the idea of “believe
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The Latino Victory Project is a left-of-center advocacy group. It is one of three affiliated Latino Victory organizations co-founded by actress Eva Longoria and political activist Henry R. Munoz III that supports left-of-center policies and priorities in the Latino community.
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William Hall Janeway is a left-of-center economist and policy advocate. He is the co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a think tank founded in 2010 with the financial backing of billionaire financier and left-of-center philanthropist George Soros that pushes for increased government involvement in the
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The Oak Foundation (and its U.S. affiliate Oak Foundation USA) is a left-leaning environmentalist grantmaking foundation. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Oak Foundation was formed in 1983 and maintains offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Bulgaria, India, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania.
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Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington came to America in 1980 and quickly made a name for herself as a Manhattan “It Girl” among New York’s powerful. 313 In the mid-1980s
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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. 418
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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 is also the co-founder of the Gates Foundation along with his previous wife Melinda French Gates.
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The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is an advocacy group that claims to advocate for non-partisan action on behalf of the Iranian-American community in domestic and foreign policy issues. NIAC pushes for a range of policy positions sympathetic to the Islamic Republic of Iran government, including an end to all
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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 632 and as a
