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Good Jobs First (GJF) is an advocacy organization supporting left-of-center economic policy heavily funded by labor unions and left-wing institutional foundations. Left-wing activist Greg LeRoy founded GJF in 1998.1 GJF
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UltraViolet Action is the lobbying arm of UltraViolet, a left-progressive advocacy organization, which generates campaigns on LGBT-interest and social-liberal women’s issues, typically involving petitions, social media engagement, and small protests. Background UltraViolet, UltraViolet Action’s parent organization, was founded in February 2012 with funding from the Citizen Engagement
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UltraViolet (formally UltraViolet Education Fund) is a social-progressive nonprofit that advocates for LGBT and expanded abortion access, usually using social media campaigns, petitions, and small protests, oftentimes alongside or in conjunction with other left-of-center groups. UltraViolet Action is the organization’s lobbying arm. High-profile figures against whom the organization has
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The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
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William McNary is an Illinois-based left-progressive activist and organizer who currently works as the co-executive director of Citizen Action Illinois, the state-based affiliate of the national left-wing advocacy organization People’s Action. McNary previously worked as president of USAction, the national organization of state level citizen action groups
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The “Fight for $15” is a corporate campaign principally orchestrated and funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which seeks to unionize the quick-service franchise restaurant industry and raise the federal minimum wage by more than double to $15 per hour, using the slogan “$15 and a union.”
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Also see The Nation (for-profit) TYPE Media Center, until 2019 known as The Nation Institute, is a 501(c)(3) “nonprofit media center”205 that uses a variety of different programs to promote “progressive values across as
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Patrick Gaspard is a distinguished senior fellow and the former president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP) from 2021 through 2024. Gaspard previously worked as president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the principal philanthropic entities of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, from 2017 until late
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Laurie David is an environmental activist and film producer who advocates for electric vehicle adoption, stronger emission laws, and a switch to weather-dependent energy. She was previously married to writer and actor Larry David. She has written multiple environmentalist books and was a producer for the documentary An Inconvenient Truth
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Tom Perriello is a former Democratic Congressman from Virginia who ran unsuccessfully for the party’s 2017 gubernatorial nomination. From 2018 to July 2023, Perriello served as executive director for U.S. programs at the Open Society Foundations, the private philanthropic network of George Soros.
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Nick Penniman is the founder and CEO of Issue One. Before that, he co-founded the Huffington Post and founded the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.324
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Sara Horowitz is an American attorney and left-of-center non-profit executive currently working as the CEO of Trupo, a for-profit company that provides health, dental, and unemployment insurance to freelancers. Horowitz previously founded and worked as the executive director for Freelancers Union, a left-of-center advocacy organization which advocates for left-progressive
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James Rucker is a left-of-center political activist who co-founded the left-of-center advocacy and activist groups Color of Change and Citizen Engagement Lab. He is considered a pioneer of contemporary left-of-center “Netroots Nation”-style digital activism, especially on racial issues. Background Rucker was born and raised in Seaside, a town in Monterey
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Richard Painter is an American lawyer, law professor, and political pundit. Painter served as chief ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush, and is the vice chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington as well as a founding board member of Take Back Our Republic. Painter’s
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Change.org is a website that hosts petitions generally related to politics or public policy. Any individual can create a petition on the website, though specific petitions can be promoted based on paid sponsorship or staff discretion. Change.org claims to be the “world’s largest nonprofit-owned platform for social change.”
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Faithful America is a left-of-center activist group which protests center-right policies and runs campaigns related to various social issues.389 From 2013 to 2018, Faithful America had operated as a project of the Citizen Engagement Lab
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The New Republic (TNR) is a left-of-center opinion journal founded in 1914 and originally intended as a platform to promote the ideas of its first managing editor, Herb Croly, who advocated for a more powerful federal government, wealth redistribution, much more powerful labor unions, increased regulation on business, and higher taxes.
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Salon.com is a liberal blog known in recent years for sensational clickbait headlines, questionable content, and low journalistic standards.447 Salon has adopted an increasingly
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Erica Payne is a left-of-center political operative who started a number of organizations aimed at influencing the news and public policy through media campaigns featuring influential liberal donors and activists and publicity stunts. She began her career in politics working for former U.S. Senator Terry Sanford (D-NC) and later worked
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Sidney Blumenthal is an author and political consultant and has long been a controversial confidant and defender of both former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
