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Non-profit
The Emgage Foundation, Inc. (formerly Emgage USA) is a Muslim-American advocacy and voter mobilization group. It is associated with Emgage PAC, a political action committee that raises money for and endorses candidates for Congress and state legislative seats. Emgage Foundation also has a 501(c)(4) affiliated organization Emgage
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Not to be confused with the Bermuda-based Atlantic Philanthropies (Nonprofit) The Atlantic Foundation is a New Jersey-based philanthropic organization founded by J. Seward Johnson, Sr. in 1963. Primarily providing artistic and other apolitical grants and donations, it has provided many left-leaning grants since receiving funds from the Pacific Foundation
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Pisces Foundation is the private foundation of environmentalist activist and Gap, Inc. heir Robert J. Fischer and his wife Randi. It is a funder of a number of prominent environmentalist organizations. Background The Pisces Foundation is a liberal environmental group that provides grants to other environmental nonprofits. The organization was
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-described “democratic socialist,” unsuccessfully contested the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Person
Howard Wolfson is a Democratic political strategist and the former New York City Deputy Mayor for Government Affairs and Communications. Wolfson is best known as a close advisor to Hillary Clinton (D-NY) on her 2000 Senate run and 2008 presidential campaign, and then to New York City Mayor
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Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign began when former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared her candidacy for U.S. president on April 12, 2015. Clinton became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee on July 26, 2016 after defeating rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) in the party’s primary. On July 22,
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Other Group
Sludge is an online investigative journalism outlet that attempts to expose special interest spending in politics, particularly targeting entities that oppose left-of-center environmentalist, defense, and social policies. Sludge launched in 2018 using the controversial and struggling blockchain-based journalism platform Civil.
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Person
Mark Riddle is a Democratic political strategist who serves as the executive director of the left-of-center Future Majority advocacy group and was previously president of the liberal activist incubator New Leaders Council.
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Non-profit
Issue One Action is the lobbying branch of Issue One, a left-leaning organization that promotes restrictions on election-related speech activity and supports The ReFormers Caucus, a group of former legislators who lobby congress in that vein. Issue One Action supports a parallel caucus within congress: The Congressional Reformers Caucus.
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Non-profit
The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) is a center-left interfaith nonprofit that advocates for expanded abortion access as well as a host of center-left policies, including LGBTQ issues, illegal immigration, environmentalism, and “economic justice.” RCRC typically lobbies against state and federal bans on public funding of abortions, legislation and ballot
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Hilary Rosen is a Democratic political strategist, CNN political commentator, and a former recording industry lobbyist. As a music industry executive from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Rosen played a pivotal role in the ultimate dissolution of Napster and other file-sharing platforms that had previously gone unregulated.
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Zack Exley is a former senior adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and co-founder of the left-wing political committees Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress.
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Non-profit
ClientEarth is an environmental law organization based in the United Kingdom. The McIntosh Foundation awarded ClientEarth its first grant; Winsome McIntosh was the founding board chair. ClientEarth operates all over Europe and China and has a branch in the U.S. registered as ClientEarth US to secure tax benefits to U.S.
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Non-profit
The Counter, previously known as Institute for the New Food Economy from 2015 until 2019, is a left-leaning news organization and a project of the Windward Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based left-of-center philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. In Winward Fund’s 2018 tax returns, the fund
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Political Party/527
Brand New Congress is a far-left 527 political action committee (PAC) founded in 2017 by former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign staffers Saikat Chakrabarti, Alexandra Rojas, and Zack Exley to elect radical “progressive” candidates.
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Non-profit
Know Your IX (alternatively Know Your Nine) is a left-of-center advocacy organization focusing on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Know Your IX was founded to provide information and resources for victims of harassment or sexual assault and favors increasing federal resources and reporting requirements. Know Your IX
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Person
Harry Belafonte was an award-winning African American singer, actor, and liberal political activist from New York City. Belafonte, a veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, endorsed a number of far- and extremist-left positions, at one point in 2012 musing that then-President Barack Obama should “put all these guys in
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Non-profit
Constitutional Responsibility Project was a left-of-center judicial advocacy organization formed by the political organization of President Barack Obama to support his nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the United States Supreme Court. The group was a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship organization for
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Person
Aaron Dorfman is president and CEO of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), a left-of-center advocacy group that monitors charitable spending in the United States. Dorfman formerly worked as a top local organizer for the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a far-left agitation
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Non-profit
Mainers Against Health Care Cuts is a left-of-center pro-Obamacare group. It is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit created and managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Sixteen Thirty Fund created Mainers Against Health Care Cuts to
