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Other Group
State Wide Indivisible Michigan (SWIM) is a coalition of roughly 26 local affiliates of the left-of-center organizing and activism Indivisible Project network. 1
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Non-profit
I Am a Voter is an ostensibly nonpartisan nonprofit which campaigns to increase voter turnout and registration. 1 Fashion industry figure, immigrant, and activist Mandana Dayani co-founded the group after she learned that tens of
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Non-profit
The Rural Victory Fund is a left-of-center political advocacy group that comprises one half of the Rural Democracy Initiative along with the Heartland Fund. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center fiscal sponsor, funder, and dark-money group operated by the left-of-center consulting
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Non-profit
The Good Information Foundation is a left-of-center nonprofit organization funded by multiple left-of-center donors and organizations formed in 2021 to combat “disinformation” and promote “fact-based reporting.” The group is the nonprofit foundation arm of Good Information Inc., which was launched in 2021 by Democratic political consultant Tara McGowan. Critics
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Other Group
Fight Back Table is a left-of-center coalition organization that was founded by a variety of left-wing groups. While originally formed to coordinate “resistance” against the Trump administration, the coalition become known for preparing and training to facilitate mass public unrest out of fear of a contested presidential election in
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Political Party/527
Black Voters Matter Action PAC was formed in the fall of 2020 and was very active in the 2020 U.S. Senate races in Georgia. Most of the organization’s money came from Democracy PAC, one of a constellation of groups funded by billionaire George Soros.
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Non-profit
Red Wine and Blue (RWB) is a left-of-center Democratic advocacy and activist training group consisting primarily of “white, college-educated and affluent” suburban mothers.
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Other Group
Onward Toward Progress is a left-of-center organization that formed after the 2016 presidential election. Its focus is primarily on voter registration and canvassing efforts in California, Nevada, and Michigan. Onward Toward Progress partners with Field Team 6, a left-of-center voter mobilization organization, to host fundraisers and events. About Onward
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Non-profit
Reclaim Our Vote is a project of the left-of-center get-out-the-vote-focused Center for Common Ground. It is focused on driving up minority voting rates in states that the organization claims are responsible for voter suppression. It engages in the mass mailing of postcards, making phone calls, and sending text messages and
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Non-profit
Asian American Advocacy Fund (AAAF) is an advocacy group that pushes a left-of-center agenda centered around Asian identity. Its stated goal is to create a “politically-conscious, engaged, and progressive Asian American base” in the state of Georgia.
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Other Group
Democracy R&D (sometimes written as Democracy Research and Development) funds and organizes local conferences to discuss means of improving democracy and informing the public. Democracy R&D has 95 individual and organizational members throughout the world.
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Political Party/527
Seed the Vote is a left-leaning Berkeley, California-based organization that assists left-of-center candidates and was formed to defeat President Donald Trump. While focusing on campaign efforts in swing states, over 80 percent of its volunteers come from California and New York. Seed the Vote partners with left-leaning organizations to
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Person
Ryan Macias is an election technology and cybersecurity expert and former election technology specialist with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and California Secretary of State’s office. Macias has worked with various states on election technology and observed ballot recounts. Macias was an observer for the Secretary of State in the
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Political Party/527
Michigan Action is a now-defunct Political Action Committee (PAC) that was formed in August 2020 as part of the Detroit Action group of activist entities. During its short existence, it raised over $1 million to oppose then-President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and to support Democratic candidates in Michigan and Georgia.
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Non-profit
New American Voters (NAV) is a left-of-center activist group which pushes for granting citizenship to the 9 million or more non-citizen immigrants in the United States, claiming that they are eligible for naturalization, and for registering new citizens to vote. NAV connects immigrants to legal services and organizes activism campaigns
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Other Group
Code Blue Washington is a left-of-center get-out-the-vote-organization based in Seattle, Washington. It is a chapter of the organization Code Blue. The organization was founded in 2017 in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The organization works to elect Democrats across
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Political Party/527
Grassroots Law PAC is a left-of-center hybrid PAC/Super PAC 1 that was originally founded by political activist Lee Merritt and Black Lives Matter movement activist
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Political Party/527
Everyday People PAC is a left-of-center political action committee based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded with the purpose of defeating then-President Donald Trump in the 2020 election and has continued with the goal of defeating the right and building the left. Seed the Vote is the
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Political Party/527
The Southern Progress Fund works to elect left-of-center statewide and state legislative candidates in the South. The Southern Progress Fund initially had support of the Democracy Alliance and was chaired by former Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove (D). After involvement in some races in the South in 2013-2014, the
