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Non-profit
South Asians for America is a left-of-center political advocacy organization that engages in get out the vote (GOTV), community advocacy, and issue-oriented messaging targeted at South Asian communities to elect Democratic Party candidates to office. Background South Asians for America was formed in May 2021 through a merger of an
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Non-profit
The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) is a major philanthropic organization backed by major players in the film industry, the music industry, and other American entertainment industries. Founded in 1942 by several leading figures in Hollywood, the foundation claims to have raised more than $1 billion throughout its existence and contributes
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Other Group
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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Person
Ben Silbermann is a billionaire donor and former technology executive who co-founded the social media sharing site Pinterest and served as its CEO from its founding until stepping down from the company in 2022. Together with his wife Divya Silbermann, he has signed Warren Buffett’s “Giving Pledge” where high
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Person
Michael T. Morley is a law professor who has written extensively on election and constitutional law. He has contributed to both the conservative-leaning Federalist Society and the National Task Force on Election Crises, an ostensibly nonpartisan commission on election security that criticized President Donald Trump. Morley is
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Central Valley Indivisible is an informal left-progressive organization based out of the Central Valley region of California. The organization is a chapter of the Washington, D.C.-based left-of-center advocacy and get-out-the-vote operation Indivisible Project. The organization is most famous for its advocacy against former U.S. Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA).
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Person
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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Non-profit
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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Code Blue Washington is a left-of-center get-out-the-vote-organization based in Seattle, Washington. It is a chapter of the organization Code Blue. The organization was founded in 2017 in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The organization works to elect Democrats across
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Non-profit
Open Progress was a left-of-center text messaging and social media platform designed to connect volunteers to potential Democratic voters. Open Progress provided targeted messaging to potential voters, assisted in voter turnout in targeted states, and in 2020 assisted local organizations with promoting and providing vaccinations against COVID-19. After five years,
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Person
Jessica McKellar is a San Francisco-based technology executive who is the founder and chief technology officer of Pilot.com. 1 In 2022, McKellar donated $100,000 to oppose the recall of controversial San Francisco District Attorney
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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 Southern Progress Fund works to elect left-of-center statewide and state legislative candidates in the South. The Southern Progress Fund initially had support of the Democracy Alliance and was chaired by former Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove (D). After involvement in some races in the South in 2013-2014, the
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Other Group
Wave Michigan is a Democratic get-out-the-vote tool that helps organizations identify targeted voters and track contacts and voter activity. 1 It has been used by the Michigan Democratic Party, the Washtenaw County Democratic Party, the
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Person
Yoel Roth is a senior employee of the social media company Twitter. His title is “Head of Site Integrity,” a position which involves developing policies related to spam blocking and data protection, as well as the site’s practice of selective censorship and narrative shaping, particularly when it comes to
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Other Group
The Voter Project is a left-of-center organization that promotes increased vote-by-mail and voter registration in Pennsylvania. 1 Originally founded in 2020 to implement Pennsylvania’s Act 77 law that expanded
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Person
Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein is a Democratic Party-aligned consultant and operative who was the Wisconsin lead for the left-of-center National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI) in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for the 2020 election. 1 In his role
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Person
Meryl Chertoff is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and the executive director of the Georgetown Project on State and Local Government Policy and Law (SALPAL). 1 Chertoff
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Non-profit
Accountable Tech is a left-of-center advocate for restrictions on free speech on online platforms. The group was created as a fiscally sponsored project of the North Fund, which is part of the advocacy nonprofit network managed by Arabella Advisors.
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with Omidyar Network (Nonprofit) The Omidyar Nexus describes a collection of nonprofit and for-profit organizations associated with and funded by Pierre Omidyar, a billionaire donor to center-left political causes and founder of eBay. Information about each member of the nexus is compiled below; for
