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Progress Arizona is a left-of-center advocacy and lobbying organization that promotes a variety of state- and federal-level left-of-center policy priorities in Arizona. The organization is heavily involved in efforts to pressure Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to support elimination of the filibuster in the U.S. Senate to pass Democratic-led election
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National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a left-of-center immigration activist organization that supports legal status for all illegal immigrants in the United States.
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The Ethan Allen Institute (EAI) is a non-partisan, free-market think tank based in Vermont. EAI produces research and education aimed to influence public policy that supports free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty. 1 It is
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Florida Rising Together is a left-of-center advocacy group headquartered in Miami, Florida, that advocates for a variety of left-of-center economic and social policy stances with an emphasis on criminal justice and environmental policy. The group conducts voter registration drives and training for community organizers. Florida Rising Together is the charitable
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The Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF) is a right-of-center advocacy organization affiliated with the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA). The organization promotes right-of-center legal policy and provides a forum for collaboration between Republican state attorneys general.
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Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a state-run voter monitoring system in which states periodically submit their voter rolls for review to identify incorrect and outdated voter information. Its membership consists of state-level election officials from 31 states and Washington, D.C.
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20/20 Vision is a Democratic-aligned consulting firm that provides fiscal and economic policy consulting services to corporate and nonprofit clients as well as lawmakers. The firm was founded by Dana Chasin, who worked as a fiscal policy advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential campaign and has seven employees who
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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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Tea Party Patriots Action (TPP Action or TPP) is a right-of-center advocacy organization aligned with the “Tea Party” movement. The organization is affiliated with the Tea Party Patriots Foundation, a charitable organization, and the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, a super PAC.
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Ground Game LA is a left-of-center voter mobilization group which originated from Jessica Salans’s unsuccessful 2017 campaign for Los Angeles City Council as a member of the Green Party. After the election, the campaign formed Ground Game LA as the lobbying and electoral sister-group to People Organized for
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is one of America’s largest, most controversial, and most politically involved labor unions. The SEIU, which represents building services employees, nurses, other healthcare workers, and public employees, is noted for its close ties to the broader left-of-center movement, perhaps most notably the controversial
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Central American Resource Center Los Angeles (CARECEN-LA, also known as CARECEN of California) is a left-leaning immigrant advocacy group. CARECEN-LA has sister groups in Washington, D.C., New York, and San Francisco. 1
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Robert Smith is a billionaire American businessman, financier, and philanthropist who amassed his fortune as the founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. As of April 2021, Smith was the wealthiest Black American, with a net worth of $6 billion.
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Fund II Foundation is the grantmaking foundation associated with Robert F. Smith, the billionaire founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners who has become the wealthiest African American in the country. The foundation’s mandate is to fund organizations that preserve African-American culture, combat human rights violations, promote outdoor education,
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EcoHealth Alliance is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that focuses on understanding the emergence and spread of infectious diseases around the world. Initially a nonprofit organization that focused on wildlife conservation, it re-branded in 2010 to study infectious disease.
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The Center for Michigan is a public policy nonprofit that operates two news sites: Bridge Michigan, which covers the state, and BridgeDetroit, which focuses on Detroit. Media Bias/Fact Check has rated Bridge Michigan as having a “left-center bias,” which includes taking editorial positions that favor left-of-center perspectives.
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Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is a libertarian public interest law firm founded in 1973 that represents clients at no charge. 1 PLF’s founders believed public interest law had drifted into supporting, rather than challenging, government
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Michigan United is a left-of-center advocacy group in Michigan that focuses on expanding protections for illegal immigrants, in addition to promoting left-of-center policy on criminal justice, the environment, and health care.
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The Reform LA Jails project promotes left-of-center criminal justice and corrections policies in Los Angeles County, California. It sponsored a successful 2020 county-level ballot initiative to give the Los Angeles County Civilian Oversight Commission subpoena power to investigate alleged misconduct by sheriff’s deputies in county jails and require the
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Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist best known for founding LinkedIn. Hoffman was relatively apolitical prior until 2016, when he became an outspoken critic of then-Republican candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Following the election, Hoffman called President Trump “worse than useless as
