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Sam Hirsch is a partner at Jenner and Block, a law firm that often works for Democratic clients. He is also the former deputy associate attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice during the Obama administration. Hirsch was active in redistricting and election law throughout the country
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Pamela Smith is a left-of-center election law activist known for her opposition to electronic voting. 1 She works as president and CEO of
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The Strategic Victory Fund is a political action committee started by the left-of-center Democracy Alliance in 2020 in an effort to defeat President Donald Trump.
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Accountable Tech is a left-of-center advocate for restrictions on free speech on online platforms. The group was created as a fiscally sponsored project of the North Fund, which is part of the advocacy nonprofit network managed by Arabella Advisors.
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Not to be confused with Omidyar Network (Nonprofit) The Omidyar Nexus describes a collection of nonprofit and for-profit organizations associated with and funded by Pierre Omidyar, a billionaire donor to center-left political causes and founder of eBay. Information about each member of the nexus is compiled below; for
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1VoteCloser is a left-leaning ostensibly nonpartisan organization that works to increase voter turnout in elections. Its main focus is to provide education on the issues through a series of short videos explaining left-of-center issue stances that are uploaded to the organization’s website by its users. During the 2020 elections, the
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Jennifer Pritzker is a member of the Pritzker family of billionaires and Democratic politicians. Pritzker was born in 1950 as James Pritzker, a nephew of the founders of the Hyatt Hotel chain. In 2013, Pritzker changed his name from James to Jennifer,
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For-profit
NGP VAN is a Democratic Party-aligned get-out-the-vote (GOTV) software company that has been described as “nearly every Democratic campaign’s primary tool for voter engagement.”
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Non-profit
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) is a membership organization that pushes left-of-center talking points on issues such as education, health, infrastructure, voting rights, and immigration. The organization created the NALEO Educational Fund, the charitable arm of the NALEO, to focus on funding initiatives that promote
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Aileen Adams is chair of the board of the Weingart Foundation, a left-of-center California grantmaking institution. She was appointed to high-ranking positions in the administrations of former President Bill Clinton, former California Governor Gray Davis (D), and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D). She has
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Susan Packard Orr is the daughter of David and Lucile Packard and former chair of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Packard Foundation), having sat on the board since 1967 and still sitting in an honorary capacity since her retirement in early 2022. She also runs a software company
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Miriam Krinsky is the founder and executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), a group focused on organizing, training, and promoting elected prosecutors, including state and district attorneys, who adopt lenient, left-progressive approaches to criminal justice.
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Francisco G. Cigarroa, an American transplant surgeon and former chancellor of the University of Texas System, is the chairman of the left-of-center Ford Foundation. Background After receiving a medical degree in 1983, Cigarroa was chief resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, the teaching hospital of Harvard University’s Medical School,
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Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker is an American billionaire, Democratic politician, left-of-center philanthropist, co-founder of the Pritzker Group, and co-director of the Pritzker Family Foundation. In 2018, he was elected the 43rd governor of Illinois, taking office in January 2019. Background Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker is a member of the wealthy
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Emily Kaiser is a left-leaning journalist currently working on initiatives to help fellow journalists. Through her position at the Aspen Institute and Global Press Institute, Kaiser oversees journalism education programs in media, advocacy, and editorial training. She is a trustee of her family’s nonprofit, the George Kaiser Family
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David Rockefeller Jr. is a great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., the eldest son of David Rockefeller, Sr., and one of “the cousins” in the Rockefeller family. He has had major roles in the Rockefeller family’s organizations including the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Family Fund, Rockefeller Capital Management,
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Other Group
The Illumination Fund is a grantmaking organization founded in 2007 by philanthropist Laurie Tisch. 1 The Illumination Fund supports various social and
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Person
Regan Pritzker is a member of the wealthy and politically involved Pritzker family and a donor to left-leaning political causes and candidates. Pritzker is on the board of directors of the left-of-center nonprofits Libra Foundation and Kataly Foundation.
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Alicia Wittink is vice president of the left-of-center Park Foundation and the daughter of Adelaide Park Gomer, heiress to the Duncan Hines fortune and president of the Park Foundation. 1 In
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Leondra Kruger is a justice of the California state Supreme Court. She previously worked for the United States Solicitor General’s office and the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel under the Obama administration, as well as in private practice and academia. According to SCOTUSblog, a leading legal
