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Other Group
The Democracy Funders Network (DFN) is a collaboration initiative for left-leaning grantmakers. Members of the network coordinate their philanthropic efforts and identify causes in which to invest their money. Causes that DFN and its members support include the perceived threat of right-leaning populist movements and the alleged need to restructure
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Non-profit
Bank Black USA advocates for increasing the number and influence of Black-owned financial institutions. The group claims that Black Americans are disadvantaged in access to banking services and in bank ownership, and that these disparities are the result of discrimination on a structural level in both the industry and in
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Non-profit
Defending the Early Years (DEY) is a left-leaning advocacy organization that supports changes to child education policy, such as delaying when children are taught to read and write, in the name of justice and equity. It claims that its advocacy is based on scientific research. Background Defending the Early Years
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Non-profit
Center for Freedom and Prosperity is an advocacy organization that campaigns for limited government. 1 Its staff and leadership is comprised of free-market economists who publish political commentary favoring free-market
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For-profit
TikTok is a social-media service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. 1
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Non-profit
Lilith Fund is an abortion advocacy organization that operates an abortion hotline and offers abortion funding support to individuals in Texas. 1 It is also known as the “National Network of Abortion Funds Lilith Fund”
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Non-profit
Evidence for Healthcare Improvement, operating under the trade name Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), is a nonprofit organization that publishes reports outlining what it considers fair costs of newly approved drugs and uses the reports to advocate for price controls. ICER was founded by Steven D. Pearson to
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Other Group
Validate the Vote USA is an advocacy organization which recruits volunteers to review printouts of vote count totals from voting machines at polling locations—commonly referred to as poll tapes—after elections. The organization claims that its goal is to identify mistakes and make the public increase confidence in election results.
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Non-profit
NextGen Policy (formerly NextGen California) is a nonprofit organization that advocates left-of-center policies on the environment, racial justice, and wealth redistribution. It claims to be opposing the “environmental, social, racial, and economic inequities” that allegedly exist in the state of California. It promotes left-of-center legislature on housing, election administration and
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Non-profit
DC Justice Lab is a left-wing criminal justice advocacy group focused on Washington, D.C. It supported the controversial Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, which made sentencing for many crimes in D.C. more lenient.
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Non-profit
First Draft News was a collective of left-wing media organizations that pushed for news publications to implement guidelines for sourcing and presenting information to combat so-called “misinformation.” Founded in 2015, the collective included tech giant Google and the foreign-affairs publication Bellingcat. First Draft shut down in 2022 and handed
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Non-profit
The Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement is a left-of-center foreign policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. It is a joint project of the University of Pennsylvania, which houses the center, and the now-defunct Biden Foundation, which functioned as its fiscal sponsor. The center calls for
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Non-profit
The Information Futures Lab (IFL) is a left-of-center research and advocacy organization that advocates for news outlets, social media platforms, and government institutions to adopt strategies to combat so-called “misinformation.” The organization was launched in June 2022 and is housed at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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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
Maurice Turner is a member of the advisory board of the left-of-center election administration group Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). Until November 2022, Turner was a public policy manager at social media company Meta, parent company of Facebook.
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For-profit
Civic Eagle is a for-profit company that sells Enview, a federal and state-level legislation tracking and explaining service to businesses, nonprofits, lobbying groups, and law firms, From its founding in 2019 to May 2022, Civic Eagle had served more than 2,000 users
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Non-profit
Hillel International (also known as Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life) is a Jewish community group based on college campuses. There are 800 Hillel chapters on college campuses in North America, as well as 30 Hillel chapters abroad.
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Other Group
China Policy Initiative is an initiative of the right-of-center America First Policy Institute (AFPI) that seeks to advance policies that reverse decades of American foreign policy that the initiative says have “accommodated” the rise of the Communist-ruled People’s Republic of China and nurtured China as an “existential rival” to
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Non-profit
Consumers’ Research is a charitable educational organization that intends to increase consumer knowledge and understanding related to corporate policies, products, issues, and services, to support consumer freedom. 1 Consumers’ Research was established in 1929 to test
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Labor Union
The International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) was a left-of-center labor union chartered by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). It negotiated labor protections for electrical and radio workers and organized several strikes, most notably the Westinghouse strikes of 1955-56 and the General Electric (GE) strikes of 1960
