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Maryland United for Peace and Justice is a left-of-center state-level advocacy organization that functions as an advocacy and education network that works on various issues such as environmentalism, left-progressive social policy, and pacificism. The organization runs and sponsors numerous events and groups including conferences, fundraisers, businesses and other advocacy organizations.
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Carlos P. Odio is a left-of-center political operative working as of 2021 as head of EquisLabs. Odio worked on the 2008 Obama presidential campaign as the deputy Latino vote director before joining the White House Office of Political Affairs. He subsequently worked for the New Organizing Institute, a
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Stephanie Schriock is a career political strategist and nonprofit executive who has worked for numerous Democratic Party campaigns and left-of-center activist causes. Schriock was the president of EMILY’s List, which together with its subordinate groups has spent more than $90 million to help win elections for Democratic candidates, specifically,
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Deirdre Schifeling is a left-of-center political operative, pro-abortion activist, and former executive director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. In 2019, Schifeling founded Democracy for All 2021 Action to help generate a wave of left-progressive legislation should then-President Donald Trump lose the 2020 election. Schifeling was also the leader
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Felicia Wong is the chief executive officer and president of the Roosevelt Institute. Previously she worked at Democracy Alliance and held a White House Fellowship in the Office of the Attorney General.
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Suzanne Hess is a graduate of UCLA and a retired former supervising librarian at the San Diego County Library. She is a major donor to primarily left-of-center Democratic Party candidates and causes.46 In 2016,
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The Victory 2021 Plan is a financial strategy organized by left-of-center Democracy Alliance-connected organizations Issue One and the Piper Fund to reduce the influence of political donations by 2021. 56 Established in
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The Tioga Fund is a left-leaning lobbying and advocacy organization that engages on climate change, left-progressive women’s issues, electoral process issues, and civil liberties. It has been identified as working with the Democracy Alliance
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2020 Vision Ventures is a financial initiative that aims to promote investments in digital and technological innovations for left-of-center causes. The initiative is led by Democratic operative Nick Chedli Carter, who also manages the associated Resilient Democracy Fund.
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Fix the System is an ostensibly cross-partisan coalition of eight advocacy groups dedicated to increasing democratic participation and enacting broadly left-progressive electoral administration changes. The coalition was launched on March 24, 2020, in response to the pandemic novel coronavirus and its effect on American election administration.
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Not to be confused with Tides Network, a related nonprofit in the nexus The Tides Nexus is a collection of related left-of-center grantmaking, fiscal sponsorship, and advocacy nonprofits headquartered in San Francisco, California. The system originated in 1976 when liberal political activist Drummond Pike joined with Jane Lehman, heiress
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The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations
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New Georgia Project is a left-of-center voting and redistricting oriented organization formerly headed by then-Georgia State House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams. The organization was previously a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, a non-profit grantmaking entity that supports a number of left-of-center and liberal causes. The organization advocates
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Flippable is a liberal electoral advocacy group founded by former campaigners for Hillary Clinton shortly after the 2016 election victory of President Donald Trump. Its targets Republican-held seats in state legislatures.
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Safety Net Defense Fund (SNDF) is a project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund that supports continued and increased funding of federal welfare and poor-assistance programs, including food stamps (known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)), Obamacare, and Medicaid.
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The Soros Network (also called the Open Society Network) is a system of private grantmaking foundations and nonprofits that comprise one of the largest funders of center-left and far-left activism and advocacy in the world. At the center of the network is George Soros, a Hungarian-born financier and liberal
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Barbara Simons is a computer scientist who serves on the board of Verified Voting, a nonprofit that advocates against electronic voting. Simons is an outspoken supporter of paper ballots, serving on the Board of Advisors to the United States Election Assistance Commission. In addition to her work on election administration,
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Lauren Embrey is a left-leaning advocacy philanthropist and the president of the Embrey Family Foundation. As of early 2020, she sits on the board of the liberal donor convening Democracy Alliance. 322 Embrey has
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is a think tank concerned with the impact of technology on privacy and free speech. The organization was founded in 1994 by the Fund for Constitutional Government and the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
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Ellen Spencer Susman is a career journalist married to Stephen Susman, one of the most successful trial lawyers in America. Together the Susmans have founded, support, and participate in multiple left-of-center organizations and are top fund raisers for Democratic Party causes and candidates. Personal Background Born in 1950, Ellen
