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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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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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Not to be confused with InfluenceWatch.org Monitoring Influence is a left-of-center website that curates profiles of conservative and right-leaning activists, organizations, and funders in imitation of InfluenceWatch.org. These profiles accuse mainstream conservative groups of trying to “stack the courts” with “like-minded ideologues” expressing “ultraconservative . . . legal theories”
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The Arab Studies Institute (ASI), formally organized as ASI-KP, is 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that studies and publishes research on the Arab world. 1
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Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies (RDCY) is a Chinese financial research think tank. It produces reports, videos, commentaries, and hosts events to facilitate research of China’s economy and recommend insights to Chinese government officials.
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Other Group
Democracy R&D (sometimes written as Democracy Research and Development) funds and organizes local conferences to discuss means of improving democracy and informing the public. Democracy R&D has 95 individual and organizational members throughout the world.
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a global health policy agency operating under the United Nations. Established in 1945, the WHO had a largely positive reputation around the world for supporting public health efforts, but the organization has faced numerous criticisms during the COVID-19 pandemic for mishandling policy and
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Non-profit
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is an organization that provides training, expertise, and mentoring via video conference in a variety of fields but primarily focuses on medicine. Project ECHO began in New Mexico to provide medical expertise to health care professionals in underserved areas and has expanded to
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Person
Yochai Benkler is an law professor specializing in analyzing the role of the internet in information production. He is a board member of U.S. Programs at Open Society Foundations, a grantmaking organization created by left-of-center billionaire George Soros. Career On his website, Yochai Benkler lists his first job
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The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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Person
Michael Quattrone is a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family who is a poet, singer-songwriter, and nonprofit consultant, board member, and founder. He has personally funded Democratic candidates and used his position in philanthropy to fund left-of-center organizations. He is a grandson to David Rockefeller and recently become more involved
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Person
Stewart Paperin is a career investor and left-of-center philanthropy manager. He is the managing director of LionRock Partners and the Leopard Rock Property Group, which invests in a variety of ventures, most notably real estate. Paperin previously spent years working for and overseeing organizations within the Open Society Network,
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Person
Ken Zimmerman is the director of the mental health strategic impact initiative at the Jed Foundation, adjunct assistant professor of urban planning at New York University (NYU), and a fellow at the NYU Furman Center, NYU’s research center for urban policy. Zimmerman was previously the director of U.S. programs at
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Person
Gigi Sohn is an academic and advocate for left-of-center internet policy, particularly “net neutrality.” In October 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Sohn to serve as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). She has faced opposition from Republicans due to a perceived bias against conservatives based on
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The Congressional Integrity Project (CIP) is a left-of-center activist group that opposes Republican members of Congress and exposes allegedly compromising information about them with the intent of damaging their public images and re-election prospects. In particular, the project targets lawmakers who allegedly hold further-right beliefs or were not sufficiently critical
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The Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF) is a right-of-center advocacy organization affiliated with the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA). The organization promotes right-of-center legal policy and provides a forum for collaboration between Republican state attorneys general.
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The TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) is a left-of-center political advocacy organization based in California. The organization supports left-wing policy on transgender issues, including California legislation that would require inmates to be housed in facilities according to their gender identities, regardless of biological sex.
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Non-profit
Data and Society Research Institute (Data & Society) is a left-of-center think that promotes censorship of online speech and applies critical race theory to technology issues.
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Unmasking Fidelity is a far-left advocacy campaign that opposes privacy and anonymity for donors to right-leaning nonprofits, a free speech provision protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Unmasking Fidelity is a coalition of multiple center- and far-left activist nonprofits, including
