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Julie Ann Su 1 is a left-of-center labor activist and attorney who has served as
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Civic Works is a social media platform dedicated to left-of-center political activism. It distributes civic action announcements and serves as a communication platform for activist organizations. Based in Los Angeles, California, Civic Works is led by George A. Polisner.
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The Swing Blue Alliance is a left-of-center voter mobilization and policy advocacy organization. While its headquarters is in Massachusetts, Swing Blue mainly operates in states with what it considers to be competitive elections and attempts to shift the balance in favor of the Democratic Party. The organization also pushes for
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The American Affairs Foundation (AAF) is a nonprofit organization that publishes American Affairs, a quarterly journal featuring scholarly essays and research on public policy and political thought, mostly from a heterodox nonpartisan right-of-center perspective.
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Open the Government (OTG) is a coalition of left-of-center organizations that promote various changes to open records and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws, as well as left-of-center racial preference policies. The group was founded in 2008 and has operated campaigns criticizing the federal government’s counter-terrorism and surveillance programs. The
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Democracy Found is a Wisconsin-based organization that advocates a form of ranked-choice voting that it calls “Final-Five Voting” to replace party primaries and plurality voting. 1 Wisconsin business leaders Katherine Gehl and Austin Ramirez established
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Eternal Vigilance Action Inc. is a conservative-leaning nonprofit that supports adopting instant-runoff voting, a form of ranked-choice voting, in Georgia elections.
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Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) is a nonpartisan government watchdog organization that seeks to ensure that public officials are all held accountable to the same set of rules, no matter their political party or ideology. To this end, PPT monitors senior officials across the U.S. government for improper and illegal
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The Bullpen Strategy Group is a public relations and campaign strategy firm that works for politicians, corporations, and advocacy groups around the world. The firm has offices in Washington, D.C.; Dallas, Texas; and London, England.
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Patomak Global Partners (PGP) is a financial consulting firm primarily focused on regulatory compliance and risk management. Most of PGP’s staff are former government regulatory employees and appointments, particularly from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Cryptocurrency Regulations Patomak Global Partners encourages the development of cryptocurrency regulations. In
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Kansas Values Institute is a left-of-center political advocacy organization in Kansas that has been “long aligned with Democrats.”
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International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) is a left-of-center immigration policy organization that seeks to liberalize policies on immigration to the United States and refugee status. 1
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) was founded in 1920. 1 It has 31,000 members and more than 200 affiliates in the
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America’s Frontier Fund is a nonprofit venture capital fund that aims to help incentivize microchip manufacturing in the United States. It was founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and right-of-center PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The organization has described itself as “the nation’s first deep-tech fund that
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Person
James “Jim” Baker is an attorney formerly employed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Twitter. He has also been a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Baker became the Twitter deputy general counsel in June 2020 and held
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Council for Global Equality is a Washington, D.C.-based LGBT advocacy group comprised of a variety of left-of-center and LGBT organizations, including Human Rights Campaign and Open Society Foundations. 1 The Council
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Labor Union
The International Association of Sheet Metal Air, Rail, and Transportation (SMART) Workers is a North American labor organization that coordinates the activities of 700 different local unions consisting of 203,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
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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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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF; formerly the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) is an agency of the United Nations (UN). Its stated mission is to support the health, education, rights, and overall welfare of children around the world. The agency was founded in the aftermath of the
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Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) is pro-Israel think tank focused on U.S. defense and national security issues, especially as they relate to the Middle East. JINSA advocates for a strong security relationship between the United States and Israel.
