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Chapo Trap House (sometimes known by the short name “Chapo”) is a for-profit political podcast founded in the spring of 2016 by three far-left socialists: Matt Christman, Felix Biederman and Will Menaker. Their twice-weekly show (which has since expanded to five contributors), named for infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El
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The Soze Agency is a left-of-center strategy firm that specializes in social media, awareness campaigns, and strategic communications that caters to left-of-center clients. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the organization operates on the worker owned cooperative model. The company was founded by liberal film producer and activist Michael Skolnik, among
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The Trace is a left-of-center gun control news and journalism website created in 2015 with startup funding from Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, a left-of-center gun control advocacy group, and the Joyce Foundation. The Trace is a project of Trace Media, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Funding According to
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Faiz Shakir is a Democratic political operative and left-progressive organizer who is the founder and executive director of More Perfect Union and the interim executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project as of August 2023. He was campaign manager for the 2020 Presidential Campaign of U.S. Senator
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Revolution Messaging is a Washington D.C.-based Democratic Party-aligned campaign consulting firm founded in 2009 by Scott Goodstein, the former external online director of President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.1 The firm provides digital advertising, campaign mobilization
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Scott Goodstein is a left-of-center advocacy organizer who runs the consulting firms Revolution Messaging and Catalyst Campaigns. He has been involved in launching several major political activist movements in the United States, including the Rock Against Bush campaign opposing the George W. Bush administration and several activism projects
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Talia Lavin is an “extremism researcher” for the left-of-center media criticism organization Media Matters for America, a position she’s held since July 2018. Lavin has also been a freelance writer for publications such as the Washington Post and Lilith magazine.
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Unite Here Local 11 is a labor union that represents hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona. The hotel industry employs most workers represented by Local 11, but the union also represents workers in the gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, laundry, and airport industries. Local 11 is a part of
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Kelly Craighead is the CEO of the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) and former president of Democracy Alliance, a major donor clearinghouse for Democratic and left-wing donors and advocacy organizations. Craighead started her political career in the Clinton White House and is reportedly a close associate and friend
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Fix the Court (FTC) is a left-of-center judicial policy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a former project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and major funding organization for left-wing organizations characterized as a “dark money outfit”
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Phil Radford is a left-wing environmentalist activist and the former executive director of Greenpeace USA (2009-2014). He is also the founder of president of Progressive Power Lab, co-founder of the Democracy Initiative, a board member of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and a board member of the left-of-center environmental advocacy group Green
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Kentuckians for the Commonwealth is a left-of-center organizing and advocacy group focusing on environmental issues. Kentucky activists founded the group in 1981 as the Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition. In the decades that followed, the Coalition adopted its present name and expanded its area of focus to include advocacy efforts related
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Andre Delattre is a senior vice president and the chief operating officer of the Public Interest Network (PIN), a nonprofit run by Doug Phelps which oversees a collection of left-of-center nonprofit and for-profit organizations. PIN’s most notable component is the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG), a
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Washington Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG) Foundation is the policy research arm of the Washington Public Interest Research Group. It is the Washington state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG) Education Fund, a national left-progressive policy advocacy coalition within the Public Interest Network of left-of-center
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NARAL Pro-Choice California Foundation is the California state affiliate of NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, a pro-abortion rights group. The organization promotes a radical pro-abortion legislative agenda at the local and state level. Issue Positions Abortion Access NARAL Pro-Choice California Foundation categorically opposes laws which may limit access to abortion.
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The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) is a self-claimed nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded with the intention of tracking money in politics. 1 The CRP was founded in 1983 by former U.S. Senators Frank Church
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Anthony Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Before that, he worked with various left-wing foundations focusing on civil and human rights. Under his tenure as ACLU executive director, he has overseen the transformation of the ACLU from a legal organization into more of
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FairVote is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Takoma Park, Maryland that promotes and is a principal activist for ranked-choice voting (RCV), universal voter registration, and abolition of the Electoral College. FairVote was founded in 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio by a group of activists, educators, and former government officials, and
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Vanita Gupta is a civil rights attorney and the former president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR). She was appointed to lead the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama and was nominated for Associate Attorney
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Jodie Evans is the co-founder of the controversial far-left anti-war organization CODEPINK, a political activist, and an author. She has defended anti-U.S. insurgents during the Iraq War and claimed those that fought U.S. troops were “cool” as they didn’t “back down.”