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The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy is a conservative-leaning think tank founded in 1979 by students of Harry Jaffa, a professor at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University, based on Jaffa’s political philosophy.
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Jennifer Pritzker is a member of the Pritzker family of billionaires and Democratic politicians. Pritzker was born in 1950 as James Pritzker, a nephew of the founders of the Hyatt Hotel chain. In 2013, Pritzker changed his name from James to Jennifer,
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NGP VAN is a Democratic Party-aligned get-out-the-vote (GOTV) software company that has been described as “nearly every Democratic campaign’s primary tool for voter engagement.”
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Julie Packard is an environmentalist activist and philanthropist whose father, David Packard was the co-founder of Hewlett Packard. Packard has been the executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium since it was founded by her family in the 1970s, and she is the vice-chair of the David and Lucile
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The Predistribution Initiative (PDI) pressures investors and financial institutions to comply with left-of-center policy and social objectives, particularly those related to environmentalism and race and class. Founded by a team of career investors and financial managers in 2019, the initiative highlights corporate practices that do not sufficiently support environmental,
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For The Long Term (FTLT) is an activist group which promotes investment practices that comply with left-progressive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policy goals. The organization focuses primarily on state, regional, and city governments, aiming to pressure their treasurers and financial oversight departments to adopt policies that are compatible
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Delilah Rothenberg is a financial advisor and political activist. She is the co-founder and executive director of the Predistribution Initiative (PDI), an organization which pressures financial services providers to choose their investments in ways that advance left-progressive causes. Rothenberg has previously worked on a broad range of international government and
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Aileen Adams is chair of the board of the Weingart Foundation, a left-of-center California grantmaking institution. She was appointed to high-ranking positions in the administrations of former President Bill Clinton, former California Governor Gray Davis (D), and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D). She has
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Miriam Krinsky is the founder and executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), a group focused on organizing, training, and promoting elected prosecutors, including state and district attorneys, who adopt lenient, left-progressive approaches to criminal justice.
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Peter Thiel is a technology investor and a mega-donor to Republican Party candidates. 1 Thiel co-founded PayPal in 1998 and in 2004 was the first outside investor in Facebook. He was on the Facebook
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Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker is an American billionaire, Democratic politician, left-of-center philanthropist, co-founder of the Pritzker Group, and co-director of the Pritzker Family Foundation. In 2018, he was elected the 43rd governor of Illinois, taking office in January 2019. Background Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker is a member of the wealthy
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Alexa “Allie” Rothenberg is director of operations and strategy at Democracy Docket, a public interest law firm founded by Democratic Party attorney Marc Elias and dedicated to supporting election administration, redistricting, and voter access policies seen as advantageous to the Democratic Party.
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Aaron Scherb is a career left-of-center policy advocate and lobbyist. He is the senior director of legislative affairs at Common Cause, an activist group that promotes campaign finance laws and redistricting initiatives that favor Democratic Party politicians. Previously, Scherb was the legislative program manager at Every Voice, another
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Emily Kaiser is a left-leaning journalist currently working on initiatives to help fellow journalists. Through her position at the Aspen Institute and Global Press Institute, Kaiser oversees journalism education programs in media, advocacy, and editorial training. She is a trustee of her family’s nonprofit, the George Kaiser Family
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David Rockefeller Jr. is a great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., the eldest son of David Rockefeller, Sr., and one of “the cousins” in the Rockefeller family. He has had major roles in the Rockefeller family’s organizations including the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Family Fund, Rockefeller Capital Management,
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Emma Bloomberg is a philanthropist and the daughter of billionaire former New York City mayor and unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination Michael Bloomberg. She is the founder and CEO of the data analytics and tech company Murmuration and the former chief of staff of the charity
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Laurie Tisch is the only daughter of Preston Robert Tisch, the co-founder of Loews Corporation. She is the founder of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, a grantmaking organization that funds social and civic programs in New York City. About Tisch studied education at the University of Michigan. After graduation,
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The American Spectator Foundation is the parent organization of the magazine American Spectator. The conservative commentary magazine was founded by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. 1 In the 1990s, it began to investigate
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Coronavirus War Room is a left-of-center advocacy organization founded in March 2020 that has supported vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization is a project of Protect Our Care, a dark-money group operating under the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which funds a variety
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Jennifer Rainin is a left-of-center filmmaker and philanthropist from the San Francisco Bay area. She is the co-founder and chief executive officer of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, a private grantmaking foundation that is named for her father. In addition to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, she is the co-founder of the
