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Mike Lux is a Democratic political strategist affiliated with Democracy Partners, and his own firm, Progressive Strategies LLC. His client list has included the League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, and Democracy Alliance. He is a board member at the Arca Foundation and was
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Jill Alper is a top Democratic strategist 1 who has worked on seven presidential campaigns 2 including as the
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The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a nonprofit journalism institution located in St. Petersburg, Florida. It owns and controls Times Publishing Company, which publishes the Tampa Bay Times and previously published Congressional Quarterly. Poynter operates the controversial left-of-center PolitiFact fact-checking organization, which was launched by its subsidiary St. Petersburg
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the governing body of the Democratic Party. The DNC sets the Democratic Party’s platform, facilitates the Democratic presidential nomination process, and coordinates state-level strategy. As of 2022, its chair is former unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate from South Carolina Jaime Harrison. Structure Senior
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David J. Quolke is an Ohio-based former teachers union official1 and Democratic Party organizer.
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Joshua Pechthalt is a long-time labor union agitator and official. From 2011 to March of 2020, Pechthalt was the president of the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), the second-largest labor union in California and state-level affiliate of the left-of-center American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Previously, Pechthalt was a
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True North Research is a for-profit research firm founded by left-of-center activist Lisa Graves in 2007. The firm conducts political and policy research aimed at exposing the influence of conservative and free market leaning businessmen and businesses.
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Rebecca Pringle is a teacher and teachers’ union officer working as the president of the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest labor union. Pringle has been an outspoken opponent of reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, even to the point of supporting teacher strikes against school districts. Pringle worked
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Paloma Partners is a Connecticut-based hedge fund founded and managed by Donald Sussman with $9.5 billion in active investments. 1 The firm’s management and employees (most prominently Sussman himself) are large political donors
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The left-of-center Roddenberry Foundation was created by Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, to honor his father’s politically progressive world view.
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New Democrat Network Political Action Committee (NDNPAC) was formed in 1996 as a left-of-center committee to advocate and elect Democrats to office. After reorganizing in 2003, the political action committee and its parent organization, New Democrat Network, were involved in funding controversies and the PAC ceased operations after the
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Christopher Shelton is an American labor union activist who currently works as president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Shelton has largely continued the policies of his predecessor, Larry Cohen, and supports left-wing pro-labor policy goals. He opposed President Donald Trump (R) and is a strong
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Cindy Estrada is a vice president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW). Identified as a “key to the UAW’s future,” 1
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Cecil E. Roberts Jr. is president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA); by virtue of holding that position he is also a vice president of the AFL-CIO and sits on the AFL-CIO’s executive council. Roberts has won the Eugene V. Debs Award, which is named for
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The Howard G. Buffett Foundation is a grantmaking organization founded by Howard G. Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffett. The IRS granted the Foundation tax exempt status in 1999 as a 501(c)(3) organization. The Foundation is headquartered in Decatur, IL. Howard G. Buffett has served as chairman of
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The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers (IW) is a union of iron workers and member of the AFL-CIO. 1 The union supports left-of-center economic policies intended to raise wages
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The Senior Executives Association (SEA) is a lobbying group which represents the interests of high-level federal employees, particularly those in the Senior Executive Service (SES), or the upper management of federal agencies who rank just below presidential appointees. The SEA was founded in 1980 following a major restructuring of the
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Muslim Justice League (MJL) is a left-of-center advocacy group primarily focused on opposition to police power in Massachusetts and federal programs targeted at suppressing radical Islamist extremism. Though focused on issues specific to American Muslims, the organization supports wider left-of-center policy goals. Opposition to “Countering Violent Extremism” Programs Muslim Justice
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The Arab American Institute (AAI) is a left-of-center organization which mobilizes Arab-American voters and promotes left-of-center foreign and domestic policies. AAI purports to represent the interests of people of Middle Eastern and North African descent in the United States. AAI was founded in 1985 and is based in Washington, D.C.
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The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a left-of-center nonprofit membership association that advocates for the advancement of the study of sociology as a science. The organization had approximately 10,000 members in 2021. ASA publishes 13 scholarly journals including the American Sociological Review, the organization’s flagship publication.
