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  • For-profit

    Endeavor Group Holdings

    Endeavor Group Holdings is a major talent agency based in Beverly Hills, California. It was formed in 2007 by a merger of Endeavor, co-founded by Ari Emanuel, and the William Morris Agency. After a failed initial public offering in 2019, Endeavor made an initial public offering in 2021.
  • Person

    Hannah Muldavin

    Hannah Muldavin is a Democratic Party staffer and liberal activist. She is a senior communications advisor to the Congressional Integrity Project, which targets Republican Party members of Congress, their associates, and their family members to expose allegedly compromising information about them. Muldavin was previously the deputy communications director for
  • Other Group

    Schmidt Futures

    Schmidt Futures is a scientific research firm and social philanthropy founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy Schmidt in 2017. It dedicates its funds to scientists, researchers, and programs that work on artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic biology, and other STEM-related projects. Schmidt Futures
  • Person

    Cristina Sinclaire

    Cristina Sinclaire is a career left-of-center activist working as a partner at Democratic-aligned polling firm Clarity Campaign Labs who also sits on the board of the Center for Tech and Civic Life. Career After graduating from the University of San Francisco in 2006 with degrees in sociology and criminology,
  • Person

    Whitney Quesenbery

     Whitney Quesenbery is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Civic Design and a user experience (UX) professional. She has advocated for reforming American voting systems to improve UX design and improve accessibility, particularly for less-educated voters. Career After earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature from a
  • For-profit

    Bipartisan Network

    Bipartisan Network LLC is a for-profit firm established in December 2022 to host networking events for legislators across parties. Its founder, Holly Harris, and its two listed employees, Carrie Glenn and Cortland Broyles, are all former employees of the Justice Action Network, a criminal justice advocacy group working at
  • Movement

    The Twitter Files

    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
  • For-profit

    Berger Montague

    Berger Montague is an American law firm politically notable for its attorneys’ support of Democratic Party-aligned candidates and causes. Background In 1970, former Philadelphia City Solicitor David Berger founded Berger Montague. Since then, the firm has involved itself in an array of increasingly prominent instances of class action litigation. The
  • Non-profit

    Equal Justice America

    Equal Justice America is a funds fellowships for law students 1 and law school graduates to work in legal assistance services organizations.
  • Other Group

    Florida Organizing Together 2020

    Florida Organizing Together 2020 was a Democratic Party-aligned campaigning organization. The organization was intended to provide a head start on building a campaign structure for the eventual Democratic Party presidential nominee in 2020 in the important battleground state of Florida in 2020. Once the presidential nominee had been decided by
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    My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Alliance

    My Brother’s Keeper (MBK), also known as the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, is a networking organization for teenage and young adult men of Black and other ethnic minority backgrounds. It also pushes for policies which it perceives to be beneficial to minority groups. MBK was founded in February 2014 by
  • Other Group

    National Action Civics Collaborative (NACC)

    The National Action Civics Collaborative (NACC) is a left-of-center education policy advocacy initiative which pushes for school systems to adopt civics instruction and service-learning programs that involve students directly in political activism, both on their own initiative and as part of their classes. The Department of Education under President
  • Political Party/527

    Democratic Club of the High Desert

    The Democratic Club of the High Desert is a Democratic club in Los Angeles County, California. The club is a gathering place for Democratic Party activists. The club works on election related activities and campaigns for Democratic Party candidates.
  • Person

    Ken Griffin

    Ken Griffin is the billionaire founder of Citadel and a right-of-center political donor. In the 2022 election cycle, Griffin donated $60 million to political candidates and PACs, making him the third-largest overall donor behind Richard Uihlein and George Soros.
  • Non-profit

    Institute for Educational Leadership Inc. (IEL)

    The Institute for Educational Leadership Inc. (IEL) is a grantmaking, advocacy, and educational organization located in Washington, D.C. IEL works within schools, school districts, community groups, and organizations to support and build networks of community leaders who are focused on areas of race, disability, economic disparity, and immigration and refugee
  • Non-profit

    Arab Digital Expression Foundation

    Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF) is an advocacy group based in Egypt that supports artists, journalists, researchers, and other content creators, and seeks to reform the education systems of Egypt and other Arab countries. In addition to its presence in the Middle East, the ADEF is also active within the
  • Non-profit

    Center for Progressive Leadership

    The Center for Progressive Leadership (CPL) is a defunct left-of-center activist training organization. From its founding in 2003 to its dissolution in 2012, the center put as many as 6,000 aspiring liberal group organizers through its various programs. These programs instructed organizers on activism tactics and connected them with potential
  • Other Group

    Women for Biden-Harris

    Women for Biden-Harris (formerly Women for Biden) is a left-of-center digital outreach advocacy organization that supported efforts to elect Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. In 2020, the organization shifted its purpose to support the policies of the Biden administration and other Democratic politicians. Background Women for
  • Non-profit

    Monitoring Influence

    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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    Action Now

    Action Now is a Chicago-based left-wing activist organization that promotes the interests of labor unions, particularly the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). It was created in 2007 when leaders, staff and supporters of ACORN Chicago left the scandal-plagued, left-wing activist national group, which would fold in 2010.