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The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) develops policy recommendations through research projects, including those on election integrity and analyzing various Russian state-backed communications. The Alliance for Securing Democracy is led by Laura Thornton and consists of an advisory council of more than a dozen individuals including John Podesta, former
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Consortium for Educational Change (CEC) is a Chicago-based left-of-center education advocacy organization that seeks social change through education. 1
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The Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles (JCF Los Angeles) is a grantmaking organization supporting nonprofit programs which support Jewish communities in California, across the United States, and around the world. While most of the foundation’s grants are awarded to Jewish community organizations, the
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Children Now is a left-of-center organization based in Oakland, California that supports higher state spending on education and health care for children. It also advocates for increased welfare-state spending in general.
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Sheldon Whitehouse (born 19551) is a Democratic politician and the junior U.S. Senator for Rhode Island, serving since 2007. 2 He
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The Connecticut AFL-CIO, based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, is one of approximately 500 state and local labor councils of the American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest organization of labor unions in the United States. The Connecticut branch is a federation of local unions
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The American Humanist Association (AHA) is an organization devoted to promotion of secularism and non-theism in the United States and is well known for its controversial anti-religious litigation and advertising campaigns. AHA also lobbies for left-leaning political issues such as abortion access and environmentalist policy to address climate change. Background
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Blueprint North Carolina (Blueprint NC) is a left-leaning coalition of organizations that promotes Democratic candidates and left-of-center policies in North Carolina. Blueprint NC became well known when a local North Carolina media outlet leaked a Blueprint NC memo which called for an intense public pressure campaign against Republican political leaders
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Naomi Klein is a prominent Canadian activist, syndicated columnist, and author of four books. She is a Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute and contributing editor for The Nation magazine. She has written articles for Harpers, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Guardian,
