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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.1 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.1 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.
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Neera Tanden is a long-time confidante of the Clinton political family and a former Obama administration aide who served as president and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a left-of-center think tank cofounded by Democratic Party fixer John Podesta, from 2011 t0 2021. Neera Tanden was
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Cecile Richards is a social liberal activist who worked as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 2006 through 2018.1 As president
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Andy Stern is the former president of the Service Employees International Union. A longtime union official, Stern rose to the presidency1
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Bill McKibben is an influential environmentalist author and activist. A former journalist who wrote a seminal book in the anthropogenic global warming movement, McKibben founded the environmentalist organization 350.org and has been involved in the People’s Climate Marches movement. McKibben’s first book, The End of Nature, has been
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CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Assets) is a cell-phone company that explicitly uses its profits to support left-wing causes. Through doing business with CREDO its customers “fund progressive causes and power social activism.” 1 Left-of-center groups
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James P. Hoffa is the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, commonly known as the Teamsters Union. He is the son of James R. “Jimmy” Hoffa, the mid-20th century leader of the same union who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. In February 2020, Hoffa announced that he
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Jesse Jackson is a left-wing activist, preacher, former associate of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Democratic Party politician. Jackson was born in 1941 and ordained a Baptist minister in 1968. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1984 and
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Lisa Graves is a left-of-center activist who previously served as executive director at the Center For Media and Democracy (CMD) from 2009-2017, where she continues as a senior research fellow.1 Graves
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DeSmog, formerly known as DeSmogBlog, is a Canadian-based website that is critical of people and organizations that question man-made climate change and alleges climate change skeptics are part of a misinformation campaign. It was co-founded in January 2006 by James “Jim” Hoggan, the founder of the Hoggan and Associates public
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Also see Clinton 2016 Presidential Campaign Hillary Clinton is a former First Lady of the United States, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State. She is the wife of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and has run for President twice, losing in the Democratic primaries in 2008 and
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FitzGibbon Media was a high-powered left-of-center PR firm working for major liberal clients like MoveOn.org and Planned Parenthood founded by Trevor FitzGibbon. Trevor FitzGibbon was a former state-level communications director for President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.
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Campus Pride (CP) is a Charlotte-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization1 that organizes, trains, and funds LGBTQ students and their “allies” to be LGBTQ social policy activists on college campuses across the country.