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For-profit
Alper Strategies and Media is a Democratic consulting firm created in 2017 by longtime Democratic strategist Jill Alper, with headquarters in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. 1 Alper Strategies was involved in a 2020 election
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Person
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to advocacy and electioneering. Alinsky pioneered “community organizing,” a form of coalition-building centered on aligning the common goals of multiple interest groups too small or electorally
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Person
Frances Haugen is a data scientist and former Facebook employee who leaked thousands of Facebook’s internal documents to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall Street Journal, and famously came forward as a whistleblower on 60 Minutes in October 2021, leading to Haugen testifying before the Senate sub-committee on
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Non-profit
Founded in 2018, Secure Democracy, now known as Secure Democracy USA, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that bills itself as a nonpartisan organization, but has deep ties to left-leaning activists, PACs, and law firms. The organization works exclusively on election policy advocacy, and supports expanding early voting, further use of mail-in
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Non-profit
The American Independent Foundation (AIF) supports liberal investigative journalism that creates “increased public awareness of progressive issues.” 1 AIF is part of a network of left-of-center media outlets that frequently attack Republicans and conservatives
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at independent agencies of the United States government. Nominations and Appointments AmeriCorps Michael D. Smith is Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service). He most recently served as Executive Director of the My Brother’s
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the Executive Office of the President. Nominations and Appointments Jen O’Malley Dillon is White House Deputy Chief of Staff. She was Campaign Manger for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, and prior to that for Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign. She was a
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of State. Nominations and Appointments Yohannes Abraham is Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, having previously been Chief of Staff at the U.S. National Security Council.
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Nominations and Appointments Xavier Becerra is Secretary of Health and Human Services. He formerly served as the 33rd Attorney General of California, and before that served twelve terms in the
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Energy. Nominations and Appointments Shalanda H. Baker is Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she had previously served as Deputy Director for Energy Justice. Prior
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Person
Dan Gilbert is an American billionaire investor and businessman. He is the founder of Quicken Loans, now called Rocket Companies, which is the largest home mortgage lending firm in the United States. He is also the majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. As of August 2021, Gilbert had
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Defense. Nominations and Appointments Gen. Lloyd Austin is the Secretary of Defense. He is a retired four-star general in the United States Army, formerly serving as the 12th Commander of United States Central Command, as
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For-profit
The Elias Law Group is the law firm of Marc Elias, the former long-standing leader of the political law practice at Perkins Coie, a major law firm that serves Democratic politicians. In August 2021, Elias left Perkins Coie with ten partners and three counsels to establish the Elias
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For-profit
Occupy Democrats is a left-progressive media outlet and activist organization which describes itself as an “online counterbalance to the Republican Tea Party” and claims to be “the largest and most active community of Democratic voters in the world.”
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Person
Gina Glantz is a Democratic political strategist who has been active for more than six decades. 1 Glantz further sits on the boards of directors for numerous left-of-center and liberal organizations
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Non-profit
Accountable.US Action is the advocacy and political arm of Accountable.US, an environmentalist advocacy group that focuses on climate change, alleged “right-wing corruption,” and economic mobility in the United States. Accountable.US Action is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center pass-through and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the consulting
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Person
Walter E. Hussman, Jr. is the publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and was chairman of WEHCO Media, a privately owned communications company that owns 10 daily newspapers, including the Democrat-Gazette and the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times-Free Press, seven weekly newspapers, and seven cable TV systems, from 1981 until 2016.
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Person
Cari Sacks is a major Democratic donor living in Chicago. She is married to Michael Sacks, a hedge fund manager. Sacks and her husband are major players in Chicago politics, supporting leading Democrats in the city with donations. They were major supporters of former Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D)
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Other Group
Better Internet Initiative is a project of the left-of-center Hopewell Fund launched in 2020 to create a collaborative fellowship for left-leaning influencers and content creators on social media sites like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. According to the organization’s website, the initiative offered a 2020 Fellowship, which worked with
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Person
Barbara A. Stiefel is the heiress of the Stiefel Medicinal Soap Co. fortune, a major donor to left-of-center politicians and organizations,1 and
