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Political Party/527
The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a minor left-wing political party in the United States that was created in 1921 as the result of a forced merger between two rival communist factions, each founded in 1919. As of 2014 it reported only a few
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Non-profit
Code Pink (or CODEPINK) is a left-wing advocacy group founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin. It was created to oppose the 2003 Iraq War but also focuses on “social justice” by using “feminist principals [sic].”
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Non-profit
Advocates for Youth (AFY) is a left-of-center advocacy group that focus on topics such as youth sexual health, youth reproductive health, sexual violence, racial issues, and LGBT issues in both the United States and the “Global South,” a term referring to less economically developed nations.
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Person
Rob McKay is former chairman of the left-of-center donor convening Democracy Alliance. 99 A venture capitalist, he is the son of former Taco Bell CEO Rob McKay, Sr.
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Person
Patricia “Pat” Stryker is a billionaire heiress from Colorado. 137 In recent years Stryker has been one of the nation’s top political donors, giving more than $11 million to Democratic political candidates
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Person
Mary Kay Henry serves as the international president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Henry worked for the union almost continuously since 1979, 189 holding 18 different
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Person
Anna Burger spent a nearly 40-year career working for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).243 Labeled as the “Queen of Labor,”
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Non-profit
The International Policy Network US, which does business as the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon that promotes the use of law and economics methodologies to inform public policy debates. ICLE works with academic affiliates and research centers around
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Non-profit
The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is an advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., that conducts research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets. It sprang from a predecessor group called the Institute for Humane Studies of Texas, which was established in 1984.
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Non-profit
Association of Global Automakers (Global Automakers) was a trade association that represented overseas-headquartered automobile manufactures, original equipment suppliers, value chain partners, mobility councils, and other automotive-related trade associations in the United States.
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Non-profit
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is a major private grantmaking foundation based in Milwaukee. The foundation’s reported net assets totaled approximately $893 million as of December 31, 2017, and it approved a net of about $33.5 million in grant contributions for charitable purposes that year.
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For-profit
BerlinRosen (also styled Berlin Rosen) is a for-profit public relations and campaign communications consulting firm headquartered in New York City that works for Democratic campaigns, progressive nonprofit organizations, and labor unions, with a focus on New York. Founded in 2005 by former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
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Labor Union
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal worker union with over 300,000 members.474 Affiliated with the AFL-CIO union federation since its founding, AFGE collectively bargains
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Non-profit
Rock the Vote Action Fund is the lobbying affiliate of Rock the Vote, a progressive-aligned organization in the United States which seeks to to engage and “build the political power of young people.” 508
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Non-profit
The Media Matters Action Network (MMAN) is a research organization which targets right-of-center publications, institutions, and public figures to discredit them. The organization also provides resources to left-wing activists for them to conduct their own targeting campaigns. MMAN is a partner project of Media Matters for America (MMFA), a
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Non-profit
Free Press Action Fund was founded in 2003 as the campaign and lobbying arm of the left-of-center media advocacy organization Free Press, which advocates for censorship by technology companies, including social media companies and payment processors, based on what it determines to be hateful or so-called misinformation. Free Press’s criteria
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Non-profit
Cut50 is an initiative to “cut the prison population and crime in[sic] 50 percent in the next 10 years” by advancing left-leaning criminal justice policies.561 It
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Non-profit
For the 501(c)(4), see Color of Change (Nonprofit) The ColorOfChange.org Education Fund (CoCEF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Oakland, California. The CoCEF is a partner organization of ColorOfChange.org (Color of Change), a prominent, left-wing lobbying group for African-American interests. Since the Anthony “Van” Jones and James
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Non-profit
Also see 350.org (Nonprofit) 350 Action is the 501(c)(4) “social welfare” advocacy affiliate of 350.org, an organization which seeks to radically reduce carbon emissions by eliminating the use of fossil fuels. 624 350 Action
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Other Group
Wonkette is an online publication featuring political reporting and D.C. gossip, started in 2004 by progressive blogger Ana Marie Cox and now-defunct online media company Gawker Media. The publication takes a liberal standpoint and a sarcastic tone laced with personal attacks and sexualized insults. The site achieved infamy in 2011,
