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Anita Jain is the editorial director at the Open Markets Institute, a left-of-center think tank. She has been working as a journalist and nonprofit staffer for over 20 years. Her writings have appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and New York magazine. She has
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Citizens Action Coalition (formerly Citizens Energy Coalition) is a political advocacy organization that lobbies for left-of-center causes, especially environmentalist policies, in Indiana. It was formed in 1974 when several labor unions, churches, nonprofits, and other organizations, united by their shared environmentalist outlook and concern that utility companies were exploiting consumers,
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Celinda Lake is a pollster and political strategist for the Democratic Party. Lake has worked as a pollster for Democratic politicians, including Presidents Joe Biden and Bill Clinton, former U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano.
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Urban Tilth is a left-of-center environmentalist organization based in Richmond, California. Urban Tilth positions itself as an urban agricultural organization, thought it has ties to far-left environmentalist organizations and has frequently engaged in political activism. Founded in 2005, Urban Tilth manages seven community gardens throughout San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley.
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Center for Story-Based Strategy (formerly SmartMeme) is a left-of-center organization that advises advocacy campaigns to create stories or narratives and to use literary elements to persuade individuals to support its advocacy and to disparage its political opponents.
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The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation established by former satellite communications executive Bernard L. Schwartz. 73 Formed in 1982, the foundation primarily backs left-of-center economic and foreign policy think tanks,
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Voice of the Experienced (VOTE) is a left-of-center advocacy organization founded by formerly incarcerated people and anti-prison activists in 2004. Operating in Louisiana, VOTE aims to provide increased political and social opportunities for former convicts and argues for decreased incarceration.
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The Western Way (TWW) is an ostensibly right-of-center advocacy group that works on energy and environment issues. The Colorado-based organization seeks to combat “the false narrative that conservatives do not value the environment”99 and
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Donald K. Ross was a political consultant, lawyer, and left-wing political activist credited with proposing the model of the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) in the 1970s alongside activist Ralph Nader. The PIRGs, state-based policy advocacy groups, operate under the national U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG); US-PIRG
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ConservAmerica is a right-of-center advocacy group that claims to promote unity between conservatism and environmentalism through policies to address climate change. 146 ConservAmerica has opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR),
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Conservatives For Clean Energy is a Raleigh, North Carolina based 501(c)(3) environmental group that works to increase solar subsidies. The organization works primarily in the southeastern states. Despite being billed as a conservative organization, it has taken money from left-wing groups and it has sent mixed messages on free markets.
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The Hutchins Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization founded by private equity billionaire Glenn H. Hutchins and his wife, Debbie. The foundation has ties to far-left organizations such as the Democratic Party establishment-aligned think tank Center for American Progress and the Barack Obama Foundation. The
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Ted Halstead was an environmentalist activist and an advocate for left-leaning environmental policies. He was co-founder and president of the Climate Leadership Council, a co-founder of the left-leaning think tank New America, and founder of the now-defunct Redefining Progress. He was a TED Talk speaker and co-author of
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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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Also see First Trump Administration The Trump 2016 presidential campaign formally began on June 16, 2015, when real estate mogul and media personality Donald Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States.
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The Sall Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports environmentalist and conservationist organizations within the United States and the United Kingdom. 371 The Foundation has made contributions to organizations that seek to prevent the commercial development of
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The Alliance for Market Solutions (AMS) is a notionally right-of-center organization that advocates in favor of implementing a carbon tax to address concerns about climate change. 383 AMS works
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Panta Rhea Foundation is a grantmaking foundation located in La Jolla, California. It makes grants primarily to left-leaning organizations that focus on racial and economic issues, food systems, democracy, and climate change. It has aligned itself with left-of-center organizations to oppose conventional energy infrastructure.
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The Venceremos Brigade is a radical-left activist group that organizes trips to communist-ruled Cuba as a way for sympathetic Americans to demonstrate their solidarity with the country’s government and their opposition to related United States government policies. As of 2024, it is a fiscally-sponsored project of The People’s Forum,
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Ajamu Sibeko Baraka is a far-left civil rights and environmental activist. He ran for Vice President of the United States as the running mate of Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein in the 2016 presidential election. Baraka works as an associate fellow at the far-left Institute for Policy
