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Person
Dan Garon is a left-of-center attorney and activist who currently works as chief of staff for Marc Pincus, founder of the left-progressive organization Win the Future (WTF). 1 Prior to working for Pincus, Garon worked for a number of
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Political Party/527
Brand New Congress is a far-left 527 political action committee (PAC) founded in 2017 by former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign staffers Saikat Chakrabarti, Alexandra Rojas, and Zack Exley to elect radical “progressive” candidates.
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Person
Erin Hill is the executive director of the left-of-center ActBlue PAC and is also the CEO of the advocacy nonprofit ActBlue Civics. Hill also works for ActBlue LLC and the ActBlue charitable arm ActBlue Charities. ActBlue was launched in 2004 as a fundraising platform for left-wing
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Person
Marc Laitin is on the board of directors of ActBlue (PAC), ActBlue LLC, ActBlue Charities, and ActBlue Civics. ActBlue was launched in 2004 as a fundraising platform for left-wing organizations and candidates.
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Person
Benjamin Rahn is a technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and former president of ActBlue, a pass-through outlet for Democratic politicians and organizations which, as of March 2021, has facilitated $8.4 billion in donations to left-of-center candidates and causes since its creation.
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Person
Matthew (Matt) DeBergalis is the co-founder, president, and chairman of the board of directors of ActBlue PAC, ActBlue LLC, ActBlue Charities, and ActBlue Civics. DeBergalis and Ben Rahn launched the ActBlue website in 2004 as a fundraising platform for left-of-center organizations and political candidates. The ActBlue website is a way for
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Non-profit
Get America Covered is a left-of-center healthcare advocacy organization founded by former Obama administration officials Lori Lodes and Joshua Peck. Alongside Protect Our Care, the group lobbies to preserve the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. According to an October 2017 document (available here), the national
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Political Party/527
Courage to Change is a Democratic political action committee (PAC) started by U.S. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and a former campaign organizer for democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) in the 2016 Democratic primary. Ocasio-Cortez has
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Political Party/527
Mobilize America is a Democratic Party-aligned political action committee (PAC) that operates as a volunteer management platform and network that connects left-wing organizations, campaigns, and activists. The PAC acts as a tool for cross-networking collaboration and event management. It makes it easier for Democratic groups to recruit, track, and organize
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Person
Ronald A. “Ron” Klain is a lawyer, former lobbyist, 1 and Democratic Party operative who has been the White House Chief of Staff
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Person
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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For-profit
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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Person
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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Non-profit
Freedom for Immigrants is a left-of-center immigration advocacy organization. The organization and its founders have close ties to numerous left-wing funding entities and advocacy networks for illegal immigrants. While the majority of the organization’s advocacy is focused on legal and policy work pushing an expansionist immigration agenda, it has also
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Political Party/527
Vote Forward (sometimes stylized Vote FWD or VoteFWD) is a Democratic-aligned voter registration and mobilization PAC (political action committee).1 The PAC provides template letters for individuals to complete, sign, and send urging voter participation from unlikely registered voters
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Person
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.
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Non-profit
The Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI) is a left-of-center nonprofit organization which supports the implementation of left-of-center fiscal policy in Colorado. Most of CFI’s advocacy has supported the repeal of the taxpayer bill of rights (TABOR), a provision of the Colorado constitution that requires that legislators get voter approval before implementing
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Non-profit
The Aaron and Martha Schecter Private Foundation (also known as SHIFT) makes grants to left-of-center organizations. The Foundation founded in June 1982 in Hollywood, Florida by the family of Aaron Schecter, a Florida property developer with left-of-center political leanings.
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Political Party/527
Progressive Turnout Project is a left-of-center political action committee based in Chicago, Illinois that supports Democratic Party candidates for public office. The main goal of the organization is to increase voter turnout for Democratic candidates. The organization appeals to what they claim are “key Democratic constituencies: young people, minorities and
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Political Party/527
Voices for Progress PAC is a political action committee and coordination group for left-of-center donors. It is affiliated with Voices for Progress, an advocacy project of the Tides Foundation-affiliated Advocacy Fund, and the Voices for Progress Education Fund, a nonprofit project of the Tides Center. Voices for Progress PAC makes donations
