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Non-profit
The Arab American Institute Foundation (AAIF) is an advocacy organization that claims to represent and promote the interests of Americans of Arab ancestry. The foundation is associated with the Arab American Institute (AAI) which established it as its civic engagement arm in 1995. In practice, the AAIF promotes a
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Other Group
Rebellion Defense is a software development firm that specializes in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the U.S. national defense. Former Google CEO and left-of-center philanthropist Eric Schmidt sits on its board.
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Non-profit
In Our Own Voice National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda is a pro-abortion activist organization that asserts that there are “systems of oppression that target black women.” It is a partnership of eight Black women’s activist organizations, is a member of left-leaning coalition Declaration for American Democracy and is
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Non-profit
America’s Frontier Fund is a nonprofit venture capital fund that aims to help incentivize microchip manufacturing in the United States. It was founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and right-of-center PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The organization has described itself as “the nation’s first deep-tech fund that
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Non-profit
SisterSong Inc., based in Atlanta, advocates for legal and state-supported abortion. 1 SisterSong is a party in a lawsuit seeking to block Georgia’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
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Person
James “Jim” Baker is an attorney formerly employed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Twitter. He has also been a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Baker became the Twitter deputy general counsel in June 2020 and held
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Labor Union
The International Association of Sheet Metal Air, Rail, and Transportation (SMART) Workers is a North American labor organization that coordinates the activities of 700 different local unions consisting of 203,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
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Non-profit
First Draft News was a collective of left-wing media organizations that pushed for news publications to implement guidelines for sourcing and presenting information to combat so-called “misinformation.” Founded in 2015, the collective included tech giant Google and the foreign-affairs publication Bellingcat. First Draft shut down in 2022 and handed
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For-profit
Clarity Campaign Labs (CCL) is a for-profit data analytics and polling company that serves Democratic clients. As of January 2023, FiveThirtyEight gave Clarity Campaign Labs a “B/C” rating using data from 2012 to 2018s. FiveThirtyEight found that publicly released CCL polling tended to favor Democrats in its predictions compared
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Movement
In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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Person
Eric Braverman is an American businessman with an extensive track record in the left-of-center philanthropic industry. He is the chief executive officer of Schmidt Futures, a grantmaking project of Eric Schmidt, the former executive chairman of the tech giant Google and its parent company Alphabet. Braverman is
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Person
David Donnelly is a left-of-center “political operative who is the executive director of the Pro-Democracy Center and Campaign and the director of the Democratic-aligned consultancy Of By For.
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Political Party/527
Steve Scalise Leadership Fund (SLF) is the joint fundraising committee for House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA). 1 Established in September 2014, the fund has more than 100,000 donors nationally. Most
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Other Group
Indivisible OC 45 (IOC45) was formed to turn out Democratic voters and advance Democratic political priorities within California’s 45th Congressional district. It is one of approximately 6,000 left-of-center Indivisible Project local organizations formed to resist President Donald Trump’s agenda.
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Other Group
Florida Organizing Together 2020 was a Democratic Party-aligned campaigning organization. The organization was intended to provide a head start on building a campaign structure for the eventual Democratic Party presidential nominee in 2020 in the important battleground state of Florida in 2020. Once the presidential nominee had been decided by
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Non-profit
Women’s Funding Network (WFN) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports local and regional advocacy groups and public policy programs. The organization focuses on left-of-center gender issues such as abortion and coordinates lobbying and advocacy efforts among local women’s foundations. WFN receives funding from many large national left-of-center funders such
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Person
Yael Eisenstat works as the head of the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center for Technology and Society. She advocates for social media platforms to censor alleged misinformation and hateful speech.
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Political Party/527
Puro Political Pari (PPP) is a left-of-center activist organization that was founded in 2019 to “take out the Republican Party” by organizing “Hispanics, Latinos, and Latinx voters” in states including Arizona, Texas, and Florida.
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Political Party/527
Restoration PAC is a political action committee (PAC) that campaigns against Democratic candidates and in support of Republican candidates. During the 2020 general election, it spent more than $19.7 million to support President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful reelection campaign.
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Non-profit
Emgage Action is a left-of-center Muslim-American advocacy and voter mobilization group that functions as the voter mobilization and political advocacy arm of the Emgage Foundation. The network of Emgage groups also operates Emgage PAC, a political action committee that raises money for and endorses candidates for Congress and state
