Search results for ‘Democracy Alliance’


  • Non-profit

    Nebraska Civic Engagement Table

    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.
  • Hub

    Teachers Unions

    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
  • Non-profit

    Verified Voting Foundation

    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
  • Non-profit

    Fix the Senate Now

    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,
  • Person

    Anat Shenker-Osorio

    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.
  • Non-profit

    The Fulcrum

    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
  • Person

    Daaiyah Bilal-Threats

    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.
  • Non-profit

    Stand Together

    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
  • Person

    Deborah Sagner Buurma

    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.
  • Non-profit

    StoryCorps

    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.
  • Other Group

    Count Every Vote

    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.
  • Person

    Zach Wamp

    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
  • Person

    Amber McReynolds

    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.
  • Other Group

    Progressive State Leaders Committee

    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. 193 The organization is closely
  • Person

    Steven Olikara

    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
  • Person

    Nick Chedli Carter

    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
  • Government Agency

    Biden-Harris Transition

    The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
  • Non-profit

    AFSCME Training and Education Institute

    AFSCME Training and Education Institute (ATEI) is a non-profit affiliated with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
  • Non-profit

    Maryland United for Peace and Justice

    Maryland United for Peace and Justice is a left-of-center state-level advocacy organization that functions as an advocacy and education network that works on various issues such as environmentalism, left-progressive social policy, and pacificism. The organization runs and sponsors numerous events and groups including conferences, fundraisers, businesses and other advocacy organizations.
  • Person

    Carlos P. Odio

    Carlos P. Odio is a left-of-center political operative working as of 2021 as head of EquisLabs. Odio worked on the 2008 Obama presidential campaign as the deputy Latino vote director before joining the White House Office of Political Affairs. He subsequently worked for the New Organizing Institute, a