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Labor Union
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is a membership association and labor union comprised of more than 330,000 law enforcement officers. Officers are members of local chapters known as “lodges,” which act as labor unions or fraternal organizations, and number over 2,200 nationwide. The FOP claims to improve working conditions
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Person
See also: the Weather Underground and Thousand Currents. Susan Rosenberg is a convicted domestic terrorist and radical left activist whose youth was spent protesting the Vietnam War and racism in America. A member of the Weather Underground and other radical organizations which used violence as a tool for political
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Person
Laura Quinn is the president and co-founder of Catalist, a data firm that services both left-of-center nonprofits and Democratic candidates and officeholders. She has held numerous positions for Democratic candidates and officeholders, most prominently as Deputy Chief of Staff for former Vice President Al Gore. Quinn has also
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Person
Lawrence Mishel is an author, economist, and former president of the left-of-center and labor-union-aligned Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Mishel has written a number of books on economic policy and has contributed to various left-of-center media outlets.
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Person
David Plouffe is a Democratic political strategist who currently is a board member and strategist for ACRONYM, a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit specializing in voter mobilization through digital outreach. He also works as the president of policy and advocacy at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, an LLC which provides seed funding
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Non-profit
Democracy Labs is a group that provides polling data and voter file information to liberal and progressive politicians running for office and to support left-of-center activists. Democracy Labs is a project of Tides Advocacy, a fiscal sponsorship nonprofit for lobbying organizations associated with the Tides Nexus network of liberal nonprofits. According
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Person
Katherine Villers is the co-founder of and an executive with several prominent left-of-center organizations primarily focused on federal and state government intervention in the U.S. health care market. These include Families USA, co-founded with her husband, factory automation pioneer Philippe Villers, as well as Community Catalyst. Families
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Non-profit
Families USA Foundation (Families USA) is a nonprofit organization that promotes left-of-center health care policy at the state and federal level. 1 Families USA also runs a lobbying and electoral advocacy organization, Families USA Action.
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Person
Philippe Villers is a businessman and left-of-center political activist who founded Families USA through which he campaigns on behalf of federal health care market regulation, especially Obamacare. Beginning in the late 1980s Villers has worked with Democratic politicians and other left-of-center individuals and organizations to enact these reforms.
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Person
Kyle Kulinski is the socialist-leaning host of Secular Talk, a YouTube-based political talk show he created in 2008 while a student at Iona College. A report on the show in the socialist opinion journal Jacobin stated that its format is part of the YouTube “logic warriors” trend, “a battleground that
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Person
Robert Raben is a left-progressive lobbyist and political operative who has served Democratic politicians and left-of-center issues for decades. 1 He donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and their causes ranging from
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For-profit
The Raben Group is a Democratic Party-aligned lobbying group comprised predominately of former members of President Barack Obama’s and President Bill Clinton’s administrations. 1 It has earned at least $50 million
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Non-profit
Raben Impact is a project of the progressive incubation firm Resource Impact that provides support to left-progressive social policy movements. It is owned by the Raben Group, a progressive activist lobbying group formed by Robert Raben, a former deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton.
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Non-profit
Resource Impact is a fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that provides incubation services for other left-of-center organizations. Resource Impact contracts services from and shares staffing with the Raben Group, a for-profit public affairs firm servicing left-leaning clients such as the Center for American Progress and the League of Conservation
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Non-profit
The Biden Foundation was a nonprofit organization established by former Vice President Joe Biden and former Second Lady Jill Biden in 2017 to support the left-of-center policies that Vice President Biden had worked to implement during his time in the Senate and the Obama administration.
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Non-profit
Public Knowledge is a Washington, D.C.-based technology advocacy group focused on intellectual property law, competition, and choice in the digital marketplace and an open standards/end-to-end internet. Public Knowledge is a staunch supporter of expanded regulations on internet businesses and technology companies, backing so-called “net neutrality” regulations against internet service providers
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Person
Barbara Simons is a computer scientist who serves on the board of Verified Voting, a nonprofit that advocates against electronic voting. Simons is an outspoken supporter of paper ballots, serving on the Board of Advisors to the United States Election Assistance Commission. In addition to her work on election administration,
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Non-profit
Unite America Institute (UAI) is a center-left, Colorado-based, advocacy organization that supports structural changes in the election system it claims will reduce voter partisanship and benefit ostensibly “centrist” and independent candidates for public office. 1
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Person
William McDonough is an architect, educator, public speaker, author, entrepreneur, and consultant involved in four primary areas of activity: environmentalist-aligned architecture, innovation of environmentally friendly products, a product registration system for products developed by third parties, and a Design for the Circular Economy.
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Political Party/527
Left-wing activist and preacher Jesse Jackson ran two campaigns for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1984 and 1988. The 1988 race was the more successful of the two attempts, with Jackson briefly taking first place in the delegate race after a strong showing in
