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Eddie Vale is a political communications consultant who works on a variety of left-of-center causes. While currently a partner at the New Paradigm Strategy communications and consulting firm, Vale was previously the vice-president at the American Bridge 21st Century Foundation and a member of its board.
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Jessica Mackler is a Democratic political operative working as the vice president of federal and gubernatorial campaigns at Emily’s List. She previously ran the independent expenditure operations for the Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Before that, she was the president of
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Caroline Ciccone is a Democratic political consultant and activist and the president of Accountable.US, a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit and a former project of the “dark money” funder New Venture Fund. Beforehand she served as the group’s executive director.
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Restore Public Trust (RPT) is an advocacy organization launched in November 2018 to assist the efforts of organizations within what has been called a “constellation of progressive-oriented accountability groups that have launched in response to Donald Trump’s presidency.”
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Faiz Shakir is a Democratic political operative and left-progressive organizer who is the founder and executive director of More Perfect Union and the interim executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project as of August 2023. He was campaign manager for the 2020 Presidential Campaign of U.S. Senator
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Ronald A. “Ron” Klain is a lawyer, former lobbyist, 1 and Democratic Party operative who was White House Chief of Staff during the
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Anne Harkavy is the executive director of Democracy Forward and the Democracy Forward Foundation, left-leaning litigation and advocacy organizations created in 2016 to attack the Trump administration. She has a history as an attorney and operative in the Democratic Party. Harkavy is married to David W. Ogden,
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Democracy Forward (DF) is a center-left litigation and advocacy nonprofit created in early 2017 by high-level Democratic Party operatives. The organization has been aggressive in targeting the Trump administration.1 Examples include an ethics complaint against
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The Atlas Project is a Washington, D.C.-based campaign consulting firm that provides assistance to left-of-center political organizations. Since 2008 it has been paid more than $2.8 million for work done on behalf of clients such as the Democratic National Committee, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the America
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STG Results (also called Smoot Tewes Consulting) is a Democratic Party-aligned public affairs and political strategy firm. It was founded in 2013 as Smoot Tewes Group by two former Obama for America senior staffers, Julianna Smoot and Paul Tewes.
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Vanessa Wruble is a left-progressive activist and co-founder of the Women’s March. Shortly after the first march in January 2017, Wruble left the Women’s March organization due to what she alleges were anti-Semitic statements by fellow senior March leadership.
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Teresa Anne Shook is a retired lawyer, from Maui, Hawaii1 who has received credit for first proposing the “Women’s March
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Republic Affairs (formerly known as the Defending Democracy Together Institute 1) is a right-leaning
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The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (often shortened to By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN) is a radical left-wing coalition linked with the Trotskyist Revolutionary Workers League created in 1995 in Berkeley, California.
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Scott Goodstein is a left-of-center advocacy organizer who runs the consulting firms Revolution Messaging and Catalyst Campaigns. He has been involved in launching several major political activist movements in the United States, including the Rock Against Bush campaign opposing the George W. Bush administration and several activism projects
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For additional information, see the Campion Foundation. The Campion Advocacy Fund the political lobbying and activism arm of the Campion Foundation, a private foundation created in 2005 and funded by Tom and Sonya Campion. 1
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The Center for Tax and Budget Accountability is a left-leaning Illinois think tank that promotes higher taxes on businesses and high-income individuals, increased government spending, and policies that broadly benefit public-sector unions. While the CTBA describes itself as “bipartisan,” its leadership and staff are heavily connected to the Democratic Party
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Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 2015 is a Los Angeles-based local union of the SEIU, representing long-term care workers. Representing over 400,000 home care and nursing home workers throughout California, it is the largest union in the state and the largest long-term care worker union in the United States.
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SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is a left-of center California-based health care workers union that is an affiliate of the Service Employees international Union (SEIU), a prominent and left-of-center national labor union. SEIU-UHW is also identified as SEIU Local 2005 and was formed in 2004 as a result
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Julianne Malveaux is a left-of-center labor economist; professor; author; 1 dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Los Angeles; and the president and founder of the left-of-center Economic Education Institute.
