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Issue One Action is the lobbying branch of Issue One, a left-leaning organization that promotes restrictions on election-related speech activity and supports The ReFormers Caucus, a group of former legislators who lobby congress in that vein. Issue One Action supports a parallel caucus within congress: The Congressional Reformers Caucus.
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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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The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) is a center-left interfaith nonprofit that advocates for expanded abortion access as well as a host of center-left policies, including LGBTQ issues, illegal immigration, environmentalism, and “economic justice.” RCRC typically lobbies against state and federal bans on public funding of abortions, legislation and ballot
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Hilary Rosen is a Democratic political strategist, CNN political commentator, and a former recording industry lobbyist. As a music industry executive from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Rosen played a pivotal role in the ultimate dissolution of Napster and other file-sharing platforms that had previously gone unregulated.
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Zack Exley is a former senior adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and co-founder of the left-wing political committees Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress.
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ClientEarth is an environmental law organization based in the United Kingdom. The McIntosh Foundation awarded ClientEarth its first grant; Winsome McIntosh was the founding board chair. ClientEarth operates all over Europe and China and has a branch in the U.S. registered as ClientEarth US to secure tax benefits to U.S.
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The Counter, previously known as Institute for the New Food Economy from 2015 until 2019, is a left-leaning news organization and a project of the Windward Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based left-of-center philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. In Winward Fund’s 2018 tax returns, the fund
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Brand New Congress is a far-left 527 political action committee (PAC) founded in 2017 by former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign staffers Saikat Chakrabarti, Alexandra Rojas, and Zack Exley to elect radical “progressive” candidates.
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Know Your IX (alternatively Know Your Nine) is a left-of-center advocacy organization focusing on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Know Your IX was founded to provide information and resources for victims of harassment or sexual assault and favors increasing federal resources and reporting requirements. Know Your IX
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Harry Belafonte was an award-winning African American singer, actor, and liberal political activist from New York City. Belafonte, a veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, endorsed a number of far- and extremist-left positions, at one point in 2012 musing that then-President Barack Obama should “put all these guys in
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Non-profit
Constitutional Responsibility Project was a left-of-center judicial advocacy organization formed by the political organization of President Barack Obama to support his nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the United States Supreme Court. The group was a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship organization for
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Aaron Dorfman is president and CEO of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), a left-of-center advocacy group that monitors charitable spending in the United States. Dorfman formerly worked as a top local organizer for the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a far-left agitation
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Non-profit
Mainers Against Health Care Cuts is a left-of-center pro-Obamacare group. It is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit created and managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Sixteen Thirty Fund created Mainers Against Health Care Cuts to
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Sarita Gupta is a left-of-center activist who currently serves as the director of the Ford Foundation’s Future of Work(ers) program. Gupta’s radical associations include greeting the 7th National Convention of the Young Communist League.
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For-profit
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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For-profit
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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Non-profit
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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For-profit
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.400 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
