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Person
Barre Seid is a Chicago industrialist and former owner of Tripp Lite, which makes surge protectors. In 2021, Tripp Lite was acquired by Eaton for $1.65 billion in a transaction that involved transferring control of Tripp Lite to the Marble Freedom Trust, a social welfare organization which then sold the
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Other Group
Freedom to Marry Global is a pressure group which pushes for the normalization and legalization of homosexuality in foreign countries. The initiative is a successor to the Freedom to Marry (FTM) project in the United States and aims to build on the success of the same-sex marriage campaign, which
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Non-profit
The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) is a left-of-center advocacy group critical of free-market economic systems and privatization. The group advocates for a larger government role in the economy to redistribute wealth.
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Other Group
Democracy R&D (sometimes written as Democracy Research and Development) funds and organizes local conferences to discuss means of improving democracy and informing the public. Democracy R&D has 95 individual and organizational members throughout the world.
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Political Party/527
The Southern Progress Fund works to elect left-of-center statewide and state legislative candidates in the South. The Southern Progress Fund initially had support of the Democracy Alliance and was chaired by former Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove (D). After involvement in some races in the South in 2013-2014, the
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Non-profit
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a nonprofit research center operating under Syracuse University’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. TRAC uses the Freedom of Information Act to access information from the federal government to serve as a watchdog over federal law enforcement, immigration policy, and judicial affairs. TRAC
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Non-profit
Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF) funds the legal defense for law enforcement agents who are prosecuted or fired for actions taken while in the line of duty. The group also works to educate the public on the challenges faced by law enforcement officers and to improve public perception of
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Other Group
Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice is a joint initiative of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
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Person
Larry Krasner is an American lawyer and the current district attorney of Philadelphia. Born in 1961 in St. Louis, he moved to a suburb outside of Philadelphia when he was 8 years old. He attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate degree, and he later attended Stanford Law School,
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Other Group
The Prosecutors Alliance of California (PAC) is an advocacy organization that promotes left-progressive reforms to criminal justice policies within the state of California and a project of Tides Advocacy.1 The group was formed in
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Person
Nina Jankowicz is a left-leaning writer and commentator on international affairs, technology, and alleged disinformation who held a brief appointment as the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, before stepping down amid controversy over her past partisan social media posts and the existence of
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Political Party/527
Way to Lead PAC is a left-progressive political action committee founded in 2018 to put progressive candidates in office. 1 A hybrid of federal and state political action committees, the organization targets battleground states in campaigns
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Non-profit
The Carter Center, founded by former U.S. President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, promotes democratic institutions, global development, and serves as an election observer around the world. It has worked as a watchdog for 113 elections in 39 countries through its “Democracy Program,” and announced in August 2020 that it
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Person
Paul Smith is a left-of-center lawyer who has argued 21 cases before the Supreme Court. 1 He has advocated against traditional marriage, religious liberty, and voter ID laws.
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Political Party/527
The Future Now Fund (also called PAC for America’s Future) is a partisan super PAC/PAC hybrid (Carey Committee) based in Washington, D.C. The group spends heavily in support of Democrats running for state legislative races in battleground states, with funding from liberal donors such as George Soros‘ Democracy
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Political Party/527
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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Person
Yochai Benkler is an law professor specializing in analyzing the role of the internet in information production. He is a board member of U.S. Programs at Open Society Foundations, a grantmaking organization created by left-of-center billionaire George Soros. Career On his website, Yochai Benkler lists his first job
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Political Party/527
Vote Rev is a Democratic-aligned political action committee (PAC) focused on increasing voter turnout among Democratic-leaning constituencies. 1 Vote Rev lists MoveOn
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Non-profit
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund is a non-profit organization that focuses on funding initiatives that promote Latino political engagement. It also promotes left-of-center talking points on immigration, voting rights, the Census, and election administration. NALEO Educational Fund receives most of its revenue from
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Non-profit
The Predistribution Initiative (PDI) pressures investors and financial institutions to comply with left-of-center policy and social objectives, particularly those related to environmentalism and race and class. Founded by a team of career investors and financial managers in 2019, the initiative highlights corporate practices that do not sufficiently support environmental,
