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The Fund for Policy Reform is a 501(c)(4) lobbying organization founded and funded by left-of-center megadonor George Soros within his Open Society Foundations network of groups. The Fund for Policy Reform provides grants to left-of-center organizations, most notably in drug policy, criminal justice, and election administration policy, in
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MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.
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The Hispanic Federation (HF) is a left-of-center New York-based membership organization that works with Hispanic communities across the United States, with its member groups primarily on the East Coast. The HF works in areas of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, civic engagement, and the environment, with advocacy targeted and specific
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Medicare-for-all (often styled “Medicare for All” or “Medicare for all”) is a proposed policy to create a government-run “single-payer” socialist healthcare system in the United States by expanding the existing Medicare program from covering primarily older individuals to covering all citizens. While proposals for government-sponsored healthcare date back to the
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The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) is a center-left interfaith nonprofit that advocates for expanded abortion access as well as a host of center-left policies, including LGBTQ issues, illegal immigration, environmentalism, and “economic justice.” RCRC typically lobbies against state and federal bans on public funding of abortions, legislation and ballot
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Tom Daschle is a Democratic Party politician who represented South Dakota as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator, rising to become Senate Democratic Leader in both the majority and minority.
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Arise Chicago is a left-of-center, faith-based worker center which organizes among primarily non-unionized workers in the Chicago area. The organization promotes unionization and left-of-center labor policy, leading demonstrations supporting policies including increased labor regulations, a $15 minimum wage, and increased “wage theft” protections.
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The Piper Action Fund is a donor advocacy collaborative hosted by the 501(c)(4) advocacy nonprofit Proteus Action League. It is affiliated with the Piper Fund, a donor collaborative hosted by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Proteus Fund. Both the Piper Action Fund and Piper Fund advocate for center-left campaign finance reform
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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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Border Angels (“Angeles de la Frontera”) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that advocates for left-leaning immigration policies. The nonprofit was formed in San Diego, California in 2003 by activist Enrique Morones and provides water and supplies to migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
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For more information, see Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Judith Butler is professor of comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley, and founder of the theory of “gender performativity,” which is considered highly influential in the evolving societal and legal normalization of transgender persons.
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Sergey Brin is a Russian-American billionaire and the world’s seventh-richest person as of early 2021. Brin is best known as the co-founder of Google and its parent company Alphabet. Brin founded Google in the late 1990s with Larry Page, a friend and fellow classmate in the Stanford
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The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (often shortened to By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN) is a radical left-wing coalition linked with the Trotskyist Revolutionary Workers League created in 1995 in Berkeley, California.
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Robert Kuttner is a left-of-center journalist and academic who is the co-founder and co-editor of the American Prospect, a political magazine. He also co-founded the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank funded by unions and the organized labor movement, and teaches at Brandeis University. Kuttner has long been
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Bruce Raynor is a labor organizer and union official who worked as the former head of UNITE, Unite Here, and Workers United. He is best known for his involvement in the merger of UNITE and HERE into Unite Here and its later dissolution. Raynor spent over twenty
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Fix the Court (FTC) is a left-of-center judicial policy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a former project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and major funding organization for left-wing organizations characterized as a “dark money outfit”
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The Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF) was a secretive left-of-center advocacy group created by the Atlantic Advocacy Fund in December 2014 with a multi-million dollar endowment. The Atlantic Advocacy fund is one of several 501(c)(4) nonprofits created by Atlantic Philanthropies, a principally offshore left-of-center grantmaking foundation associated with
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In operation since 1968, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a non-profit corporation funded by the U.S. government that is the main support for the nation’s network of public television and radio stations.
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The Climate Leadership Council (CLC) is an organization of former government officials, intellectuals, and businessmen who advocate for a carbon tax. The organization was founded in 2017 by the late Ted Halstead, an environmentalist activist and founder of the center-left think tank New America Foundation.
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The Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, formerly known as the Matan B’Seter Foundation, was created in 2001 as part of an elaborate and secretive network of grantmaking organizations funded by three hedge fund billionaires: Andrew Shechtel, David Gelbaum and C. Frederick Taylor.
