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Person
Max Blumenthal is a journalist, author, and documentarian highly critical of Israel who currently works as the editor-in-chief of the Grayzone. He is the son of Sidney Blumenthal, who worked as a journalist until becoming a communications strategist for the Clinton administration.
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Non-profit
ThinkProgress is a left-of-center online media outlet published by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. It began as a blog in 2005, but later began covering news from a liberal perspective with a staff of reporters and editors. In September 2019, its publisher laid off staff and closed
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Non-profit
Peace Action is a left-of-center advocacy organization that advocates left-of-center foreign, economic, and environmental policies. 1 Peace Action advocates ending wars, reducing U.S. military spending, and promoting “diplomacy” with countries such as
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Other Group
National Priorities Project (NPP) is a project of the left-of-center Institute for Policy Studies
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For-profit
Bully Pulpit Interactive is a communications consultancy that has served a number of left-of-center nonprofits and political candidates. Based in Washington, the company has offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. It was founded by Andrew Bleeker, a former Obama campaign staffer. The company led the digital strategy
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For-profit
Democracy Partners (DP) is a political consulting firm founded in 2011 by Robert Creamer, a longtime liberal campaign operative married to U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) who was convicted in 2005 of bank fraud; and Mike Lux, a former Clinton White House aide.
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Person
Robert Creamer has been a left-leaning political operative since 1970 and is a co-founder of Democracy Partners (DP), a liberal political consulting firm that supports Democratic Party political campaigns and issue campaigns promoting left-of-center policies.
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Person
William “Bill” Ackman is a Democratic political donor, investor, and hedge fund manager. Ackman has shorted stocks betting they would fall in value while pushing negative media stories about those companies. Ackman is also an “activist” investor who has pushed for policy and leadership changes at companies in which he
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Non-profit
Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) is a left-of-center voter turnout organization that receives financial support from leading left-of-center grant makers like the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and NEO Philanthropy.
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Non-profit
URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity is a left-of-center pro-abortion and gender-activist organization. It has chapters at colleges and universities in Alabama, California, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, and Texas. 1
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Non-profit
UltraViolet (formally UltraViolet Education Fund) is a social-progressive nonprofit that advocates for LGBT and expanded abortion access, usually using social media campaigns, petitions, and small protests, oftentimes alongside or in conjunction with other left-of-center groups. UltraViolet Action is the organization’s lobbying arm. High-profile figures against whom the organization has
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Person
Lily Eskelsen Garcia is a teachers union activist and the former president of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States. Eskelsen Garcia was considered a top contender for the Education Secretary in the administration of President-elect Joe Biden. Eskelsen Garcia began
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Political Party/527
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is a Democratic political committee supporting the campaigns and election of Democrats to state and territorial governorships. As of October 2023, DGA represents 24 state governors and the Mayor of Washington D.C.
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Person
Linda Sarsour is a controversial Palestinian-American activist1 who promotes intersectional left-wing activism to address a wide-array of left-wing issues.
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Non-profit
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a center-left think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2002 by Jason Grumet, BCP was originally known as the National Commission on Energy Policy and focused on promoting left-leaning energy policy.
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Person
Janet Murguia is the president and CEO of UnidosUS, a left-of-center Hispanic activist group formerly known as National Council of La Raza (NCLR), or simply “La Raza.” Murguia worked as a deputy assistant to the President in the Clinton administration before becoming deputy director of legislative affairs and
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Non-profit
The Indivisible Project (or Indivisible) is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., and created in late 2016 as a response to the election of President Donald Trump. The Indivisible Project was established to provide liberals a practical guide for “Resisting the Trump Agenda.”
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Political Party/527
314 Action is a political action committee recruiting professional scientists to run for public office. As of early 2018, the group has exclusively supported Democratic candidates.
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For-profit
Fusion GPS is an opposition research firm created by former Wall Street Journal reporters in 2011. The firm gained public notoriety after the 2016 election cycle. During the election, Fusion GPS controversially worked for persons associated with the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to
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Labor Union
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) is an international labor union with more than 200,000 members across the transportation sector. Its members include bus drivers, light rail operators, maintenance workers, and baggage handlers. It operates 252 chapters in the U.S. and Canada, including operations in 44 states and Washington, D.C., and is
