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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Nominations and Appointments Xavier Becerra is Secretary of Health and Human Services. He formerly served as the 33rd Attorney General of California, and before that served twelve terms in the
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Non-profit
People’s Action, the lobbying arm of the left-wing People’s Action Institute, was created when USAction, Community Organizations in Action, National People’s Action Campaign, and Campaign for America’s Future merged in 2016. 1 The
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is one of America’s largest, most controversial, and most politically involved labor unions. The SEIU, which represents building services employees, nurses, other healthcare workers, and public employees, is noted for its close ties to the broader left-of-center movement, perhaps most notably the controversial
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Non-profit
The New Mexico Civic Engagement Table (NMCET) is a left-leaning voter mobilization group that aims to coordinate the efforts of other left-leaning activist groups in New Mexico. The organization is the Nebraska branch of State Voices, a nationwide coalition of left-leaning nonprofits that has created a voter mobilization infrastructure for
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Non-profit
The Nebraska Civic Engagement Table (NCET) is a left-of-center voter mobilization group that seeks to increase voting participation among what it calls the “rising electorate,” which includes minorities, LGBT people, new citizens, and young voters.
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Teachers unions, like other government-employee unions, are a key player in the left-of-center infrastructure. The national teachers unions — National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — are among the largest organizational political players
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Non-profit
The Verified Voting Foundation is an electoral integrity advocacy group and the partner organization of the left-of-center advocacy organization Verified Voting. The Foundation is heavily involved in promoting the use of verified paper ballots, risk-limiting audits, and other election measures around the country and frequently provides advice and consulting
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Non-profit
Fix the Senate Now (FTSN) is a campaign that promotes changes to the procedures of the United States Senate that would make it easier for lawmakers to pass left-of-center policies. In particular, the campaign blames the “filibuster,” the Senate’s long-standing practice of requiring super-majority votes to end debate on legislation,
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Person
Anat Shenker-Osorio is a left-wing political strategist and communications consultant who has been associated with the Open Society Foundations created and funded by liberal billionaire George Soros. Shenker-Osario is known for promoting the “race-class narrative,” which attempts to play upon race and class differences to promote left-of-center policy.
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Non-profit
The Fulcrum is a digital news organization focused on electoral administration policy and spending on electoral advocacy. The Fulcrum is a subsidiary of Issue One, an advocacy group supporting restrictions on electoral advocacy with ties to the left-of-center Democracy Alliance. Though the Fulcrum claims to be nonpartisan, it
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Person
Daaiyah Bilal-Threats is a veteran left-of-center nonprofit board member and director. Bilal-Threats has worked for the National Education Association (NEA) for over two decades and is on the board of directors for a number of other left-of-center organizations, including The American Prospect and the Committee on States.
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Non-profit
Stand Together is a right-libertarian funding organization that acts as the umbrella organization for the political network that is largely funded by right-leaning businessman and political donor Charles Koch. The organization was previously called the Seminar Network and is a successor organization to the now-defunct Freedom Partners Chamber of
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Person
Deborah Sagner Buurma is the president of the left-of-center Sagner Family Foundation. The Sagner Foundation provides monetary support to left-of-center organizations that are politically active in social, economic, and racial policy. She is also the vice president of the Sagner Companies, a residential and commercial real estate development company.
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Non-profit
StoryCorps is a non-profit group that began in 2003 for the purpose of preserving voice recordings between everyday Americans. Founded through an alliance between the Library of Congress and Sound Portraits, it began with a recording booth in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal.
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Other Group
Count Every Vote is a left-leaning issue advocacy campaign that promotes changes to election laws and advocates for increased funding for election administration. The campaign was founded in 2020 as a $15 million communications campaign to counter then-President Donald Trump’s criticism of mail-in voting.
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Person
Zach Wamp is a retired former Republican Congressman who, from 1995 to 2011, represented Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his tenure, he served on the Committee on Appropriations and was a member of the right-leaning Liberty Caucus (also known as the Liberty Committee). In
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Person
Amber McReynolds is a left-of-center vote-by-mail advocate and member of the United States Postal Service board of governors, appointed in 2021 by President Joe Biden as an “independent,” a legal designation that observers dispute.
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Other Group
The Progressive State Leaders Committee is a left-leaning advocacy organization that focuses on providing resources and advocacy to convince Democratic state attorneys general to unilaterally enact left-of-center policies. 1 The organization is closely
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Person
A self-proclaimed “political entrepreneur,” Steven Olikara is the founder and CEO of Millennial Action Project, a purportedly nonpartisan organization of millennials working to bridge political divides through legislation and policy solutions that is funded by left-of-center nonprofit organizations. Early Life Olikara grew up near Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he attended
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Person
Nicholas “Nick” Chedli Carter is a left-of-center activist and Democratic Party strategist. Carter is the managing director for Resilient Democracy Fund, a left-leaning voter engagement initiative. In 2016, Carter was the national political outreach director for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and went on to work for the