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Raise Up Washington, also known as “Yes On I-1433,” was a ballot initiative campaign that funded the effort to advocate for the adoption of a minimum wage increase in Washington state through a ballot initiative during the 2016 general election. The group raised over $4.3 million in support of
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Nina Turner is a left-of-center activist and Democratic politician, who formerly served as a member of the Ohio State Senate. She is a senior fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School. She is the host of “Unbossed,” a political commentary show hosted
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Geoffrey Bauman is a San Francisco-based Democratic Party donor and activist. Nonprofit Involvement Bauman worked for Slide Ranch, a Marin County organization that promotes weather-dependent energy like solar and wind power.
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Sarah Miller is a left-of-center activist serving as of 2023 as a special advisor to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan.
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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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Countable Corporation (known simply as Countable) is a left-leaning software company that provides social engagement tools to businesses to provide them with social engagement tools, including tools to contact elected officials or conduct get-out-the-vote campaigns. The firm was founded in 2013 by Bart Myers and Peter Arzhintar and later acquired
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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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Rosalind Gold is the chief public policy officer of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund. 1
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Way to Lead PAC is a left-progressive political action committee founded in 2018 to put progressive candidates in office. 1 A hybrid of federal and state political action committees, the organization targets battleground states in campaigns
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Make the Road Pennsylvania is a left-of-center advocacy and community organizing group that focuses on immigration issues and organizes protests, community services and political advocacy efforts among left-leaning immigrant communities in Pennsylvania. The group is a project of Make the Road States, an advocacy group that also hosts chapters in
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Make the Road Nevada is a left-of-center community organizing group that focuses on immigration issues and organizes protests, community services and political advocacy efforts among the immigrant community in Nevada. The group is a project of Make the Road States, an advocacy group that also hosts chapters in New Jersey,
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#NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipeline) is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign that supported protests and encampments attempting to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argued that the 1,172-mile-long pipeline’s construction would threaten the tribe’s drinking water and sacred sites due
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NGP VAN is a Democratic Party-aligned get-out-the-vote (GOTV) software company that has been described as “nearly every Democratic campaign’s primary tool for voter engagement.”
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Chiraag Bains is Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council for Racial Justice and Equity at the White House as of March 2022. Bains previously was a Special Assistant to the President for Criminal Justice and Guns Policy from January 2021 to March
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Nandini Jammi is a co-founder of the advertising consultancy Check My Ads, which pressures brands and advertisers that advertise on center-right and right-of-center websites and media programs to terminate their sponsorship under the guise of “rooting out disinformation and hate speech from their digital media buys.”
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Consumer Watchdog is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that attempts to expose business and governmental activity it deems corrupt and unjust. In addition to raising awareness to the general public in reports, it also attempts to influence policy by submitting analyses to government regulators, pressuring lawmakers to take action, leaking information
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Xan Tanner (also known as Alexander Tanner) is the co-founder of Panorama Education, an education analytics company. Tanner is the son-in-law of Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland. In 2021, the connection between the two came under scrutiny as Panorama’s curricula have been criticized by right-leaning journalists
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Stacy H. Schusterman is a left-of-center philanthropist and energy and real estate executive who is the chair of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, which is among the largest grantmakers in the United States. Schusterman is the daughter of Charles Schusterman, an oilman who died in 2000, and
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Alicia Wittink is vice president of the left-of-center Park Foundation and the daughter of Adelaide Park Gomer, heiress to the Duncan Hines fortune and president of the Park Foundation. 1 In
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United We Dream Action (UWDA) is the lobbying affiliate of the United We Dream Network, an advocacy group for liberal expansionist immigration policies. It attempts to change legislation and public opinion through rallies, protests, and political endorsements. UWDA aligns with other left-of-center groups and has called for Democrats to
