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Non-profit
Mercy for Animals (MFA) is an animal liberation group that seeks to abolish animal agriculture. In the short run, it advocates for policies that increase government regulations on livestock farming practices. MFA has faced criticism for creating misleading narratives in order to target and accuse farmers of abuse.
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Person
Amanda Ballantyne is a labor union activist who works as the director of the Technology Institute at the AFL-CIO, where she has worked since January 2021. 1 Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, she worked
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Non-profit
West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund (WV CAEF) is a charitable advocacy organization associated with West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WV CAG). WV CAEF signed a June 6, 2022, letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris requesting the use of executive action to
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Non-profit
The Pacifica Foundation is a left-of-center nonprofit media organization that owns five radio stations across the United States: KPFA Berkeley, KPFB San Francisco, KPFK Los Angeles, KPFT Houston, WBAI New York, and WPFW Washington, D.C. The organization was founded by E. John Lewis and Lewis Hill in 1946. The two
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Non-profit
350 Triangle is a left-wing environmentalist group located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The group aims to eliminate conventional energy sources in North Carolina and supports the Green New Deal, a proposal to expand government control of the economy on environmentalist pretexts.
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Person
Dolores Huerta, born Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta, is a labor union activist and community organizer best known for co-founding the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union with Cesar Chavez. She has had close associations with community organizers like Cesar Chavez, Fred Ross, and Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky.
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For-profit
Crooked Media is a left-of-center political media company founded by Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, all former senior aides to President Barack Obama. The company was founded in early 2017 after the election of President Donald Trump.
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Person
David Sirota is a far-left journalist and political operative working as the senior advisor and speechwriter for the 2020 Presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as of early 2019.
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Jose Morales Jr. is the deputy director of voter protection at Fair Fight Action, a left-of-center voter activation nonprofit created by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams, who lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election and persisted in denying the fact of her electoral defeat.
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Non-profit
Democracy Forward (DF) is a center-left litigation and advocacy nonprofit created in early 2017 by high-level Democratic Party operatives. The organization has been aggressive in targeting the Trump administration.1 Examples include an ethics complaint against
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For-profit
STG Results (also called Smoot Tewes Consulting) is a Democratic Party-aligned public affairs and political strategy firm. It was founded in 2013 as Smoot Tewes Group by two former Obama for America senior staffers, Julianna Smoot and Paul Tewes.
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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.1 The firm provides digital advertising, campaign mobilization
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Non-profit
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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Kathleen “Katie” McGrath is the spouse of Hollywood producer J.J. Abrams and director of the Kathleen McGrath and J.J. Abrams Family Foundation, the couple’s left-of-center private foundation. McGrath also works as co-CEO of Bad Robot Productions, the film production company founded by Abrams, and as a public relations
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Person
Jeffrey J. “J.J.” Abrams is an American film director and donor to left-of-center political and philanthropic causes. His principal philanthropic vehicle is the Katie McGrath and J.J. Abrams Family Foundation, which he runs with his wife, public relations executive and former aide to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) Kathleen
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Person
Susan Sandler is a San Francisco-based left-wing political activist and philanthropist known for her support of Democratic candidates and left-wing causes and organizations. Sandler and her husband Steven Phillips, who is also a left-of-center advocacy donor, founded the Sandler Phillips Center to advocate for left-wing causes. Sandler sits on
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Voices for Progress PAC is a political action committee and coordination group for left-of-center donors. It is affiliated with Voices for Progress, an advocacy project of the Tides Foundation-affiliated Advocacy Fund, and the Voices for Progress Education Fund, a nonprofit project of the Tides Center. Voices for Progress PAC makes donations
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Ai-jen Poo is a left-of-center labor organizer and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). Poo is closely aligned with a range of left-of-center foundations and organizing groups, sitting on the advisory boards of MoveOn.org, MomsRising, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
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End Citizens United (ECU) is a Democratic-aligned political action committee (PAC) founded by three former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) staffers in 2015. The PAC endorses political candidates who promise to overturn the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC.
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Non-profit
Demand Justice is a left-of-center advocacy group created in early 2018 that aims to influence the political leanings of America’s courts by supporting the appointment of liberal judicial nominees and opposing right-of-center nominees. The organization acts primarily through media campaigns against nominated and unconfirmed judicial nominees. Demand Justice was established
