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Non-profit
The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations
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Non-profit
With Honor Action is a left-leaning “social welfare” lobbying and advocacy group which seeks to increase veteran participation in political leadership and increase government benefits to veterans. 134 With Honor
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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. 149 He donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and their causes ranging from
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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. 173 It has earned at least $50 million
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Flippable is a liberal electoral advocacy group founded by former campaigners for Hillary Clinton shortly after the 2016 election victory of President Donald Trump. Its targets Republican-held seats in state legislatures.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine who in 2019 created and directed of the magazine’s “1619 Project.” Her lead essay for the 100-page journalistic endeavor asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved
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The Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE) is a left-leaning worker organizing and advocacy organization. Focused on Arizona’s Latino immigrant communities, its priorities include immigration, health care, income equality, and public education. The group is a sister organization to Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), a worker center and
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Other Group
The Soros Network (also called the Open Society Network) is a system of private grantmaking foundations and nonprofits that comprise one of the largest funders of center-left and far-left activism and advocacy in the world. At the center of the network is George Soros, a Hungarian-born financier and liberal
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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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Jason Leopold is an American reporter who currently works as a senior investigator for Buzzfeed News. He has previously worked for numerous other left-of-center media outlets, including Al Jazeera America,323 Vice News,
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Person
Rahna Epting has made a career as an activist for the left-leaning progressive movement. In the fall of 2019, she became the executive director of the liberal organizations MoveOn Political Action and MoveOn Civic Action after previous positions within the organization, first as leading strategic partnerships, then as
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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. 350
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Unite America (UA) is a political organization based in Denver, Colorado that supports moderate-left candidates for elective office and advocates for changes in laws affecting the election process that UA claims will benefit centrist candidates but that are also supported by left-of-center and radical-left interests. Unite America is a “hybrid
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Movement
The 1619 Project is an artistic and journalistic project of the New York Times Magazine that asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619 and not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or the drafting of
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The Laughing Gull Foundation is a left-leaning private foundation that makes grants in the areas of LGBT interests, higher education in prison, and environmentalism. The Durham, North Carolina – based foundation was founded in 2012 and focuses its mission in America’s southern region.
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Person
Tracy Sturdivant is president of The League, an organizing collective that grew out of the Make it Work Campaign, which she also co-founded. Sturdivant is a veteran organizer for left-of-center causes and a self-professed “one woman coalition.”
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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
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Non-profit
When We All Vote is a self-described non-partisan voter outreach and registration organization and was started as an initiative of Civic Nation, an advocacy-based nonprofit group, in 2018. 539 The organization was
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Non-profit
The International Planned Parenthood Federation is a group based in London that organizes member and affiliate groups worldwide that perform abortions and engage in abortion advocacy, in addition to providing women’s health care services and educational programs. The Federation’s U.S. member organization is Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA),
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Non-profit
Take Back Our Republic is a nominally right-leaning organization that supports campaign speech restriction. 568 Former Republican political operative John Pudner founded the organization.
