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Person
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to advocacy and electioneering. Alinsky pioneered “community organizing,” a form of coalition-building centered on aligning the common goals of multiple interest groups too small or electorally
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Person
Saule Omarova is a Soviet Union-born lawyer and academic specializing in banking regulations. Her views on financial reform have been characterized as far-left, including proposals to nationalize much of the private banking system. Omarova is a law professor at Cornell Law School. In November 2021, President Joe Biden announced
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Person
Amy Kurtz is the president of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a “dark money” fund responsible for funneling over $400 million to Democratic and left-of-center causes in 2020.
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Non-profit
Bolder Giving was founded as a project of the Zing Foundation in 2007 by Anne and Christopher Ellinger to promote charitable giving among wealthy left-progressive activists. In 2016, the left-of-center National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) bought Bolder Giving’s assets and announced plans to use the initiative to advance
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at independent agencies of the United States government. Nominations and Appointments AmeriCorps Michael D. Smith is Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service). He most recently served as Executive Director of the My Brother’s
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For-profit
The Elias Law Group is the law firm of Marc Elias, the former long-standing leader of the political law practice at Perkins Coie, a major law firm that serves Democratic politicians. In August 2021, Elias left Perkins Coie with ten partners and three counsels to establish the Elias
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Non-profit
People’s Action, the lobbying arm of the left-wing People’s Action Institute, was created when USAction, Community Organizations in Action, National People’s Action Campaign, and Campaign for America’s Future merged in 2016. 1 The
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Non-profit
Medicare for All Now (sometimes stylized Medicare for all NOW) is a left-wing organization which supports the implementation of government-controlled, single-payer healthcare in the United States. Founded in 2019 by far-left health care activist Wendell Potter, the organization was active in opposing pro-market health care policy during the 2020 election
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Non-profit
LeftNet is a digital activism organization that produces left-of-center petitions and letters. The organization circulates petitions for signatures with assistance from the Action Network, an online tool created by Brian Young, former digital director for U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry during his time as a U.S.
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Non-profit
Healthcare-NOW is a left-of-center activist organization that promotes the adoption of single-payer healthcare at the national level in the United States. The group is active in supporting so-called “Medicare for All” government-run health care legislation in Congress and promotes the websites for its state level chapters giving the small
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Person
Whitney Tymas is a left-leaning lawyer and political activist who advocates for radical criminal justice reforms. 1
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Non-profit
The Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research is a non-partisan, public policy think tank that advocates for individual freedom, limited government, and free markets, especially as it regards tax, health care, and entitlement policy.
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Political Party/527
Democracy for America is a left-of-center political action committee that claims to have more than 1 million members, to have raised more than $70 million for progressive candidates, and been responsible for 1,091 left-progressive candidates being elected to office across the United States.
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Non-profit
The New Mexico Civic Engagement Table (NMCET) is a left-leaning voter mobilization group that aims to coordinate the efforts of other left-leaning activist groups in New Mexico. The organization is the Nebraska branch of State Voices, a nationwide coalition of left-leaning nonprofits that has created a voter mobilization infrastructure for
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Non-profit
The Bia-Echo Foundation is a left-leaning foundation run by Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Russian-American billionaire and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with the Michigan-based Election Integrity Fund, a right-leaning election reform group The Election Integrity Fund is an organization formed in 2020 for the purpose of collecting “last minute” donations from high-dollar donors concerned about the integrity of the 2020 election. The organization’s exact structure is unclear,
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Political Party/527
Texas Justice & Public Safety PAC is a left-of-center PAC that was created in 2018 to fund the campaigns of several progressive Democratic candidates for various District Attorney offices in Texas’s biggest cities. The organization is the Texas branch of the vast “Safety and Justice” network, a project of left-leaning
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Political Party/527
The Law & Justice PAC is a left-of-center PAC that primarily supported Democrat Max Wall’s unsuccessful 2018 campaign for Washington County, Oregon’s District Attorney Office.
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Political Party/527
Mississippi Justice & Public Safety PAC is a left-of-center PAC that was created in 2019 to fund the campaign of Jody Owens, the Democratic candidate for Hinds County District Attorney. The organization is the Mississippi branch of the vast “Safety and Justice” network, a project of left-leaning billionaire George Soros that used
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Non-profit
Americans For Immigrant Justice, Inc. (AIJ), formerly known as the Florida Immigration Advocacy Center, is an immigration expansionist advocacy law firm founded in 1996. 1 AIJ provides legal support to immigrants in detention
