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1VoteCloser is a left-leaning ostensibly nonpartisan organization that works to increase voter turnout in elections. Its main focus is to provide education on the issues through a series of short videos explaining left-of-center issue stances that are uploaded to the organization’s website by its users. During the 2020 elections, the
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Women’s Alliance for Democracy and Justice is a left-of-center advocacy organization based in Montgomery County, Maryland. It was formed after the election of President Donald Trump in 2016. The organization may be defunct as of April 2022. A website that was given for the organization no longer works, and the
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New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization located in New York City, to which it directs all of its grants. The foundation is focused on economic and social issues affecting women and transgendered people, with an emphasis on left-of-center conceptions of “social justice” and “structural racism.”
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Make the Road Pennsylvania is a left-of-center advocacy and community organizing group that focuses on immigration issues and organizes protests, community services and political advocacy efforts among left-leaning immigrant communities in Pennsylvania. The group is a project of Make the Road States, an advocacy group that also hosts chapters in
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Southern Elections Fund (SEF) is a left-progressive organization which seeks to mobilize Black voters and elect left-progressive candidates for office in the South. 1 SEF was originally
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The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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Not to be confused with the New Venture Fund project Election Integrity Fund, a left-leaning fundraising group Election Integrity Fund is a 501(c)(4) right-leaning election integrity watchdog group. It was formed ahead of the 2020 election to help prevent fraudulent voting.
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The National Task Force on Election Crises is a left-of-center group that advises state and national officials on securing elections against natural disasters, cyberattacks, and pandemics. While the group is ostensibly non-partisan, most of its members are Democrats and its proposed reforms are generally opposed by Republicans. About The National
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ElectionMail.org is a website that collects reports of alleged problems affecting absentee and mail-in ballots during elections. The website also aims to be a resource for state and local election administrators, providing guidance on how to recognize issues with election mail. The website forwards the reports and data it collects
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Ballot Scout is a service that allows absentee or mail-in voters to track their ballot’s progress through the postal service and see whether it reached an election office. According to its website, Ballot Scout was developed with input from election officers and in partnership with the United States Postal Service
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Laura Williamson, a left-of-center activist, is the associate director for policy and research in the area of democracy reform for Demos, a think tank with close ties to the self-described “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party. Background Prior to joining Demos, Williamson participated in voting rights-related advocacy, organizing,
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Chiraag Bains is Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council for Racial Justice and Equity at the White House as of March 2022. Bains previously was a Special Assistant to the President for Criminal Justice and Guns Policy from January 2021 to March
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Dana Paikowsky is a left-of-center lawyer who focuses on voting issues. She is most notable for her work in trying to allow felons and the incarcerated the right to vote in elections. In 2021, she joined the U.S. Department of Justice in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights
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Eboné Bishop is a diversity, inclusion, and equity consultant and former corporate attorney. Bishop is known for being the founder and CEO of Evolv, an advisory firm that helps client organizations with financial strategy and with internal organizational culture with an emphasis on diversity and equity.
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Peter Thiel is a technology investor and a mega-donor to Republican Party candidates. 1 Thiel co-founded PayPal in 1998 and in 2004 was the first outside investor in Facebook. He was on the Facebook
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Blair Bowie is a lawyer and career left-of-center activist. She works for the Campaign Legal Center, which promotes campaign finance laws and electoral district boundary-drawing that favors left-of-center politicians. Previously, Bowie worked at Free Speech for People, another campaign finance advocacy group, as well as the environmentalist organization
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For more information on the 2020 election, see Center for Technology & Civic Life (Nonprofit) The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is a coalition of left-of-center election reform nonprofits created in 2022 as an initiative of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to bolster election security
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Governing for Impact (GFI) is a secretive left-of-center regulatory policy think tank created in 2019 to “prepare a new administration for transformative governance” by writing left-leaning regulatory recommendations for federal bureaucratic agencies.
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Battle Born Collective is a Democratic pollical strategy firm that works to help push left-of-center legislation and streamline political maneuvers of like-minded politicians and groups. Founded in 2021 by Rebecca Kirszner Katz and Adam Jentleson, aides to the late U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), this group has been at
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Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan (EJAM) is a Detroit-based left-of-center economic and racial issue advocacy organization. EJAM has focused advocacy on economic issues such as raising minimum wage and race-related issues. The organization and its leaders have close ties to the Democratic Party and its supported issues. Lacy Dawson, the
